Evening star., 1931-06-10
Representative Dyer Bases
Estimate on Statement of
Treasury Official.
SEES 100000 WORKERS
HIRED ANEW TO BREW
Late Joseph S. Mccoy, Actuary Of
U. S., Cited in Forecast of
Benefits on Return.
BY J. RUSSELL YOUNG.

President Hoover was told today by
Representative Dyer of Missouri that
the restoration of the manufacture and
sale of beer would add 81 600, 900 900 a
year to the income of the United States
and would go long way toward reliev-
ing the unemployment situation.
Mr.. Dyer, a member of the House
Judiciary Committee, based his state
ment upon the testimony Of the late
Actuary Joseph S. Mccoy of the Treas
ury Department before the Ways and
Means Committee of the House of Rep
resentatives. He reminded the President
that there was no better authority than
Mr.. Mccoy. He also reminded the Pres
ident that of this 81 900 900 900 in rev.
enue, about a fourth would go to the
Federal Treasury and the balance to
the States and counties and munici-
palities.
Held Jobless Aid.
Mr. Dyer declared that the unem-
ployment situation not only would be
relieved but confidence throughout the
country would be restored regarding
the eighteenth amendment.
Il told the President" Mr.. Dyer said,
that not only would the restoration
of beer do all this but that beer prop
erly brewed would take the place OF
home brew now being made in mil
lions of homes and which is under
mining the health and the morals Of
the people. 1 said that legally-made
beer would very greatly minimize the
IF alcoholic stiff ~
cluding poisonous beverages.
Prohibition was passed" Mr.. Dyer
continued, evidently to protect the
drunkards and weaklings. 1t has failed
in this respect because it Is easy to get
all kinds of concoctions that are worse
for those who drink them than the So
called intoxicating liquors obtainable
before prohibition.
Brewers Employed 77.s64 Men.
Before the Volstead law, we had
revenue for the Federal Government,
the States and municipalities from the
manufacture and sale of beer, but now
this money goes to the bootlegger and
his associates In 1914 there were
manufactured some 66,000,000 barrels
OF beer.
At present more than this amount is
consumed in the United States, count
ing the home brew and illegally made
and imported beverages In that year
there was invested in the brewing in
dustry about $500, 600, 600. besides SAT-
900 900 in the mailing industry. These
industries employed at that time 1884
men, and paid them in wages more
than S83 .000. 900 annually.
The beer industry, If restored. would
give employment not only to men en-
ployed in the breweries and the mailing
industry, but to thousands of others
in the railroads, the coal industry and
manufacturers of brewers materials
and machinery A splendid market
would be made for the farmers grain
automobiles, cooperage. building ma
terials and for promotion of real es-
tate. believe that the moment beer
is authorized to be manufactured and
sold the effect will be felt upon the
unemployment situation. 1t would
mean the immediate employment of
more than 100000 persons
Holds Dry Law Failure.
The Missouri Representative said
afterward that he also pointed out TO
the President some of the more glaring
features regarding what he referred to
as the failure of prohibition He said
he told the President that every pos
sible and reasonable effort has been
made to enforce it and that there IS no
evidence of any success. He pointed
out that millions of dollars of the tax
payers money has been wasted. He
said that in his opinion the eighteenth
amendment and the VolStead act have
had more than fair trial. and that the
people of this country tan now pass
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