The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-06-10


Stewart by British lis
teners from
Berlin broadcast, the authors of
which evidently didn't realize the
rejoicing 1t would inspire in the
worlds democratic countries.
This isn't a mere josh, either,
It's the consensus Of plenty Of
good Judgment, by no means jocu-
lar in its nature, that the Germans
must be in pretty desperate die
tary straits any time they cut out
beer.
II they simply were putting
themselves on rations it wouldn't
attract so much attention. But TO
swear off completely ?-oh, gee!
According to DR.. Howard D.
Fishburn, a medical attache Of the
United States embassy in Herr Hit
ler's capital when Nazi-American
hostilities started, the Teutonic
folk ARE hungry all the time" as
he puts it. The doc himself, though,
admits II never had occurred TO
him that they were sufficiently
Administrator to suspend beer
production 100 per cent. How much
they've got stashed away, in bottles
and tanks, 10 last them, he doesn't
know, but he surmises that they'll
need an ocean Of il TO keep them
fabricated, up to their kind Of re-
quirements, for very long.
No Shortage Here
To be sure. it's planned here, In
the u. S. A, TO end the distillation
OF hard drinks" for the rest Of the
duration" soon. in order to con-
centrate on our alcoholic output for
industrial purposes. impossible for
human consumption.
However, we've got on hand an
adequate quantity to keep us go
ing for a matter Of some years be-
fore American bars have to close.
American soft drinks" are
scarcer than hard ones right now.
Our last siege of prohibition was
lesson to Yankee distillers. They
distilled and distilled up to maxi
mum following that experience.
Today. they say, we're In no imme-
date danger Of a shortage.
There also is a threat OF an
American dearth Of bottled beer.
That, though. isn't predicated
upon its military undesiraoility as
beer, for itself alone. It's because
caps on the bottles have been too
exclusively metallic, and the metal
is demanded for military purposes.
Maybe the brewers will hit on
some substitute, such as doctored
paper. Or. at the worst, the stuff
will be available out Of the "kag."
AS might have been expected,
there's a renewal in our own midst
Of prohibition talk.
Yet It isn't overly energetic thus
far.
| suppose the "drys' were con-
siderably dampened by their prevl-
Gus attempt at prohibition.
Prohibitions Flop
I very we'll know DR.. J. M.
Doran, their last national enforce
ment officer. Over a dram, the doc
has told me repeatedly that it's an
impossible form Of regulation,
though he did his best to make 1t
stick while on the Job.
So prohibition. being so recent
and fully remembered, is middling
hard to reinstall this soon.
True, there's bit Of agitation in
prohibitions favor in the neighbor-
hood Of Army and Navy posts.
Senator Theodore C. Bilbo Of Mis-
slssippi is plugging for it vigorous
ly, and he has some support. Even
Bilbo. though, doesn't ask for it on
an about basis. He says he's pro-
prohibition nationally, but not just
now. He thinks he can make 1t
stick limitedly-but that's about
all.
Army and Navy ofhcers don't
generally agree with him.
Their theory Is that it'll make
our troopers and sailors sore, to be
Disseminated against, in a way-if
that is discrimination.
That is how they think the in
duetees will feel, and they don't be-
hsvs 1t VIII be good for morale