The Washington times., 1933-04-15
GILBERT sEIDEs


cuprpr sr,Drs yet renounced its cousinship to the
fatal mixture known near beer Experts insist that
cts all matter of aging and other experts say that the
beer sale has been aged long as any beer IN
likely to be- My private opinion is that in other
modtes there good and less good BEERS that some
people know how to make beer and do not and that
some will put better ingredients in, content with s'"ler
profit and looking forward to repeat orders
Taste in Eating, Too
The benefit which will come to when begin to
taste beers instead of guzzng them gesture of
tempt should be felt in other connections The number
of dishes to which beer is proper accompaniment is
limited but at least begin to eat kidney pies and
steaks and other sound foods with little dscrmi
nation. We abandon the corrupt notion that any
food is good enough provided it isn't actually poisonous
And training in the selection of beer will long way
to prepare for the delicate and important
selection of wines and whiskies when they arrive.
In all the promises of the vets never to 60 back to
unregulated drinking and to permit the return of
the saoon) nothing has been said about refining the
American habits of drinking. 1t isn't thing you can
accomplish by law but few months after the Eighteenth
Amendment is repealed might bring forth the
heretcal idea that since drinking of wines is legal
might make the best of it instead of the worst hate
to admit it, but some wines are hardly worth drnklng'
It is now left to the counties of New York to deter
mine whether the sitting drinker is less of social
menace than the standing drinker. The whole argu-
ment is academic, since only beer is in question.
Eternal Prejudice sess..a...>:. l..
The Scottsboro decision appears to Northerners the
first reasserton of prejudice after hope had rse per
haps ogicaly that prejudice had been defeated The
trial for Tom Mooney seemed to fall in with the lib
eral social attitude of the Administration and the
universal condemnation of the antisemitsm of the Hit
leres made people feel that in America at least preju
dice of and of class being slowly thrown back
We can still feel that Alabama does not faithfully repre-
sent America; but it is hard to be sefrgheous in
reproaches to Germany.
The shock of the verdict In the first
the jurors had to choose between the testimony of two
and that of nine men; in the second of
the two accused herself and the other of
perjury. This is still far from absolute proof that the
innocent-but the law in America does not
qure such proof 1t requires the proof
of guilt The thought that not of the IL jurors found
the fantes doubt in his mind is at this distance ncon
ceivabe
Everything Tried
The jurors not only invited to upset conviction
which obviously met with the approval of their fellow
citizens but given the chance to cast overheard v
tuaIy all the other prejudces they carried: against
strangers from the North against radicals against Jews
The prosecution emphasized all these points, the defense
didn't let the jurors off anything It perhaps too
noble an opportunity for the men of Decatur, Ala.
But people who think the verdict outrage may still
wonder whether the defense not going little too
far-f the object actually to the lives of the
guilty Negroes. What communism has to- do with their
plight has been made cear why their way to free
dom should involve many extraneous preudices is still
mysterious A trial is wanted; but trial of the
men, an examination of the facts and not trial of the
Negro race of Southern ideals, of communism any
thing else.