The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1937-08-12

viously crazy to get the job. Cal
vim Coolidge was not exactly un-
stinting in the aid he gave Herbert
c. Hoover. The last case of Pres
ident's forcing the nomination OF his
successor was Theodore Roosevelt,
when he not only picked William H.
Taft but imposed his will to an ex-
traordinary degree to obtain Taft's
nomination. But this proves MOTH
ing, for Taft was desperately anx-
ious not to get the job. He wanted
the job he got long later. chief JUS
tice of the Supreme court.
So in way Theodore Roosevelt
had the very normal human thrill of
forcing somebody else to make a
sacrifice for the sake of the public
good. Public good naturally mean
ing as Theodore Roosevelt saw It'll
Called Bad Blunder
But whether or not Earle's STRAIT
egg was wise up to the time OF the
Lehman episode, most observers
here think he made bad blundel
in giving to the press his blisterinR
attack on the New York governor.
In the first place, he was attack
ing somebody who was not threat
| ening, in the remotest degree, his
own ambitions. Lehman has not
given thought to the presidency.
He wants to get out Of politics. One
might even suspect that Lehman
was playing a shrewd game in APP
pealing to the penchant Of leaders
to get somebody else to make sac
rifice. But certainly Earle did moi
figure 1t that way. has never fig
uTed that particular bit of psychol
ogy, or his course to date would
have been very different.
The fact remains that nobody, and
certainly not Governor Earle, thinks
that Lehman is candidate for the
presidential nomination. or will be
considered by the convention. So
why hit him7 Especially on an is
sue of very dubious popularity?
There is also the fact that Gov
ernor Lehman is tremendously
strong in a state that will have a
very large block of delegates at the
Democratic national convention,
and whose delegates are never
bound by the unit rule! Men have
come mighty close to the nomina-
ton, and for that matter to cleo
ton, as President of the United
States, and then been beaten by q
mere handful OF friends OF some
popular figure whom the candidate
had sighted.
It just SO happened that the Ros-
coe Conkling episode happened in
Governor Lehman's state, and is
generally credited by political his
torians with having changed pres
idential election.
Such Headaches
mot headache in barrel was
the slogan of famous whisky
maker in the good old days before
prohibition. But there have been
plenty of headaches In regulating
the whisky industry since repeal
and right now the federal alcohol
administration believes it needs
more aspirin than ever before.
The problem is whether to put Of
fetal sanction on the claim that
whisky can be aged just as salts
factorily, both as to flavor and
aroma and as to the curtailing OF
injurious effects on the drinker, by
aging it in used charred barrels as
in new charred barrels.
Not long ago the administration
decided the question, temporarily.
II held that whisky aged in second
hand barrels, or more accurately,
barrels which had already been
used for the aging OF whisky, must
be labeled less than one month
old"--even If the liquor had been
in the used barrels for a couple of
years.
This brought loud protests from
certain distillers, particularly from
one who had been operating for
years in Canada, where the law
permits the use of charred barrels
for aging which had already done
service for a previous batch OF
whisky.
The contention of this distiller is
that two very different types of
whisky are produced from the same
fermented mash by aging in new
and old barrels. The new barrel
produces a heavy-bodied, dark-col-
ored liquor. The used barrel pro-
duces lighter-bodied, and lighter
colored whisky. Some drinkers pre-
fer one, some the other.
Chemists Worried
Rut-contended this distiller,z who
had several supporters--drinkers
have been educated up to think that
age is the most important thing, and
hence the prospective purchasers of
whisky set great store by labels.
The customer who might prefer a
light bodied and colored whisky
would feel terribly cheated If he
read on the label of a bottle he
had paid fair amount for, that it
was ''less than one month DID,"
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