Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-05-24

having liquor stores or in those which
have voted or are expected to vote for
liquor stores. The board is convinc-
ed that conditions are much better in
the counties having liquor stores than
in those having the wide-open bootleg
ging system, and believes tat condi-
tons will become even better and boot
Logging become more difficult under
the new and more stringent rules and
regulations it is putting into effect.
The main trouble is going to come,
as at present, from the neighboring
! dry counties where little or no at
tempt is made to interfere with the
; bootleggers and where some of the
ibootleggers maintain day and night
; delivery service to homes, apartments
and hotel rooms at prices only slight
ly higher than those charged in the
! legal stores. A good many filling sta
tons, barbecue stands, road houses
and nip joints" are now serving mix
ed drinks cocktails and highballs--in
addition to straight" drinks at prices
!: ranging from 10 cents a drink to so
cents each for cocktails and highwalls.
The serving of drinks or highballs is
strictly forbidden in all the "wet"
counties having liquor stores.
1--WE are not saying, of course, that
bootlegging and liquor selling is ram
pant in all of the dry counties, since
there are some where the law is en-
forced and where there is virtually no
bootlegging," Chairman Guitar Moore,
of the State liquor control board, said
today in discussing conditions in gen.
eral. But too many of the dry
counties conditions are almost wide
open as far as bootlegging is concern
ed and liquor, either government tax
ed or sugar head blockade corn, may
be obtained almost anywhere. while
more and more of the places which
sell bootleg liquor are now going in
for mixed drinks
For instance, the other morning
while driving up here from my home
in Lumberton, I stopped at filling
station to get some gasoline, got out
and bought a coca-cola. While 1 was
drinking it, man came in and asked
for a Tom Collins "a gin highball,
made of gin, lemon juice, cracked ice
and carbonated water or ginger ale).
Without asking any questions, one OF
ting in big jigger of gin. Before I
had left, another man had come by
and ordered another Tom Collins I
am reliably informed that this expert
ence can be duplicated in hundreds,
if not thousands, of other filling sta
tons, lunch stands, road houses and
even in some rputable hotels in So
called dry counties that do not have
legal liquo" stores, but where liquor
and highballs are bootlegged freely to
any who want to buy
But this filling station was in a
dry county and as yet not under the
Jurisdiction Of the State liquor control
board, or at least not as the law is
now being interpreted, And as yet we
do not have sufficient funds for en-
forcement to extend our activities out
side the counties having LIQUOR stores
which come under the liquor control
act. So for the time being these fill
ing station and other places which
have become little more than roadside
saloons can continue to sell gi nand
whisky highballs as long as the local
law enforcement officers do not in
terfere with them"
1t is known fact, however, that the
members Of the state liquor control
board are carefully studying the law
to see if the board does not have au-
thority to enforce the law against
oootlegging and liquor selling i'm the
so-called dry counties as well as in
those having liquor stores.