Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-10-18
FAIR
ENOUGH
BY Westbrook
PegIer


THE prospect that the War
Il Production Board will for
bid the manufacture of liquor
until the war is over is dis
quieting. TO be sure. but should~
not discourage a people who
still include many resourceful
survivors of the long rebellion
against the hated amendment.
Bootleggers, turned 10 union
eering. field in which they are
beginning 10 feel some heat.
would be welcomed back in
their old role of public SER
wants and. while their product
doubtless would be crude at
first, still, with their old ex-
perience. they should be able
TO provide from the very start.
much better draining than
those with which the veterans
of the early '20's offended their
interiors and refuted some OF
the most venerable medical
theories.
The early hooches and the
ports and sherries were hur-
riedly improvised by green and
cropping hands and some of them
contained too much creosote
and burnt sugar and pepper
and paint in poor proportions.
TIME, experiment and expert
L ence served, however. 10
produce improved recipes so
that when repeal came with
virtuous liquors. bedight with
authentic revenue stamps and
labels, the customers at first
found them slightly insipid
1t should not be thought,
either. that all the old boot
leggers, are dead, in prison or
busy in the defense of labor's
gains. for the members of one
fine old house of smugglers who
ran down liquor from Canada
and cut II up for wide circula-
ten ia4heLJHitea- States,-4tare-
remained and grown in the
legalized liquor trade and could
and doubtless would. give theirs
fellowmen the benefit of their
old wizardry.
They would require, of course.
some of the raw materials which
are on the prescribed list or
otherwise hard 10 get, such as
radiator fluid. sugar, varniSh
and I've, hut men Of the type
who outwitted Wa ne Wheeler
and Icy and Moe would be
equal 10 any new problems
which would be, after all, only
variations Of their old ones.
4 PPLEJACK, now almost for
"A gotten. had become a gra-
cious beverage by 1882 and even
now. in a time OF war, shortage
and rationing, vast tonnage of
apples is rotting beneath wild
and neglected trees. wanted only
10 be gathered, pressed and fur
Their processed by the method
which by 1896 had given the
rebels Jersey lightning 10 suS-
tain them in their fight
The MexicanS make several
kinds Of high-octane drinks out
OF various types Of cacti which
also abound in Arizona. New
Mexico and Texas and wc have
also peanuts. berries. dandelIons.
potatoes. primes and parSnlps
from which the people OF other
lands have distilled more or
less nutritious and eXhilaratlng
drinks down through the ages
TIVE cactus liquor may be a
Il little trying at first for
Americans. who like theirs with
plenty of power. and tourists on
the yonder side Of the border
have been known 10 yell fire
and dive out the windows at
their first experience with such.
But any people who could get
used TO the mango cures and
shoe polish that the Americans
learned to relish under the rule
of Bishop Cannon would soon
adjust themselves.
After all. our people drink
chablis made with syrup and
sulphuric acid. We developed
our resistance 10 point at
which we would not refuse a
consignment if the chemists
report said there were mere
evidences" Of the presence OF
lead or steel filings, and no wife
was really a good housekeeper
who could not go out in the
kitchen and whip up batch OF
gin when company came.