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limit the bill to 3.2 per cent
beer, which he said is "a good
wholesome drink"
Yale Experts View
Four per cent beer is non-
Intoxicating and should be
claSsed as a temperance drink,
testified Yandell Henderson, pro-
fesSor of applied physiology at
Yale University.
Appearing as an expert on
what constitutes an intoxicating
beer, Henderson said a light beer
is no more intoxicating than
coffee. ,
He urged the legaliation of
wines on the ground it would
lead people away from hard
LIQUOR. Whisky and other hard
LIQUORS should be controlled as
the Government controls mar
cotics, he said.
Urges 4 Per Cent
Summing up his testimony,
Henderson said:
'Beer of less than per cent
alcohol Is not palatable. Beer
Of per cent or more alcohol
may be distinctly intoxicating
If drunk In large amounts. Beer
of about 4 per cent is not ap-
preciably more intoxicating
than an equal volume of
coffee.
"The dilutiOn of the alcohol
IN q per cent beer is such
As virtually to prevent the
drinking of q sufficient amount
to induce q condition that can
property be defined as intOxi-
cation.
wine is drunk so little in
this country that it is not very
important how it is treated by
law.
Wine Virtue Cited
although q man could get
Intoxicated on wine of 10 per
cent alcohol by volume or 8
per cent by weight, wine Of this
strength is so much less intOxi-
! eating than cocktails, whisky,
or other forms Of distilled
spirits that it would be wise
policy after repeal of the Eight
2eenth Amendment to class nat
ural wines with beer as virtually
Misunderstanding"
He said that if a man drank
. uart or tw Quarts of beer
early in the morning there is
scientific evidence that his speed
of reaction and his mental and
physical activity during the morn
ing would be appreciably di-
MiniShed"
= For Tired Man
:. On the other hand, he said, a
tired man who drinks the same
amount of beer after his dinner
is mot appreciably impaired for
anything that man ordinarily
has to do in the evening"
Henderson said that, in his
opinion, the saloon will come back
unless the Government makes a
distinction between hard liquor
and beer and unless the Federal
Government controls hard liquor
as it now controls narcotics.
IS Tax Asked
Stafford urged a SIS barrel tax
hnnFs which ic 1IYNHnTs tho
wartime tax. He said this would
make possible the return of "a
good scent glass of beer" He
added:
"In the good old days in Mil
waukee, when I campaigned in
the saloons, 1 could drink beer
all day and not get drunk"
Representative Dyer (R.O of
Missouri asserted the Supreme
Court would approve 80 per cent
beer. He argued the recent elec-
tion was a mandate for a change
in the prohibition laws. He con-
tinued:
eff you will read the hearings
before the Judiciary Committee
q few years ago, you win be con-
vinced that per cent beer is
nOn-intOxicating."
Dyer asserted that the defini-
tion Of intoxication in the Vol
stead act-any drink with more
than " of per cent alcohol-iS
dishonest.
Rap At Congress
s Dyer took a slap at the House
for its failure to submit the pro-
anibition amendment for repeal. He
protested against too high a tax,
saying:
I "We want to bet beer out of
the hands Of the bOOtlegger.
Representative BoIand CD of
pennsylvania told the committee
pennsylvania miners and steel
workers, subjected to terrific
heat, need beer.
! The drys may attack the beer
bill because it is being handled
sby the Ways and Means Com
1nittee instead of the Judiciary
Committee, Representative Tread
way (R0 of Massachusetts
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