SUCH YOURE NOT / ] | | | By Charles Sughroe Consumption Is Not a Half That of Pre-Dry Era. Washington.—Either the American thirst for liquor is not what it used to be or the bootlegger is doing a better business than his legal competitor, Whatever the cause, it now appears that the consumption of legal liquor In the first year of repeal will be consld- erably less than half the amount con- sumed in a normal year of the pre Volstead era, The legal liquor industry that sprang up almost over night after 13 years of drydom, is finding its dream of quick profits only a dream, and heavy losses are threatening to close down distilleries and retall establishments throughout the country. Imported wines and liquors are lying In ware houses and there is more than ample lHquor now on hand to satisfy even an unprecedented demand, In short, figures issued by the Treas ury department and by the au- thority for the distilling industry in dicate a surprising fallure on the part code amount of liquor it had been expected to consume on the basis of past per formances. Blame Bootieggers. Spokesmen for both the government and the distilling Industry were In- clined to attribute this failure to the continued competition of illicit liquor, rather than to any loss of appetite on the part of drinking Americans. They lamed the high price of legal lquor A I ——— Sets World Record It has been officially announced that Bergt. A. M. Stanwix ef Troop G, New York state troopers, made a new world's pistol record at Albany by scoring 45 bullseyes out of 45 shots, firing the army dismounted course with a 38 caliber revolver. Careful inves tigation showed this perfect score was without precedent. ¥ and representatives of the industry went further to blame the high prices on high taxes. What with federal taxes of $2 a gal lon, state taxes ranging even higher In some places, and heavy licensing fees In nearly every locality, members of the Industry argue, prices of legal liquor cannot be low enough to com- pete with the prices of illegal liquor on which no tax is pald at all, Moreover, according to the indus try’'s spokesmen, repeal did not com- pletely change the drinking habits de- veloped during the thirteen years reign of the bootlegger. The illicit dealer Is still highly patronized, they declare, and In one quarter it was estl- mated that for every gallon of legal, tax pald liquor consumed, two gallons of Illicit, untax paid liquor has been distributed, During prohibition, it Is estimated, 100.000000 gallons of bootleg liquor were consumed each year, and the legal liquor industry argues that of high prices, which they on high taxes, much of this huge lilicit traffic still exists, Dr. James M. Doran, chairman Dristilled Spirits institute, distil authority, estimates that than 36,000,000 gallons of legal some because blame of he ers’ code he basis of consumption up to June This, he pointed out, is just the amount of liquor consumed In even the leanest pre-prohibition years. An nual normal consumption pri dry era, according to was about 84,000,000 gallons a year. Imports Are Down. While the domestic industry Is con fronting a serious problem due to the unexpectedly low demand for legal spirits, the foreign producer and Im- porter is likewise faring badly In the American market, figures compiled by the ‘Treasury department authorities show, Since in repeal became a reality on December 5, the treasury disclosed, Im- ports of liquor have totaled 8.204227 gallons. Prior to that date, some 40, 111 gallons were on hand in bonded warehouses, bringing the total supplies of foreign liquor in this country up to June 30 to 8.304.338 gallons. Only 3.743818 have withdrawn, however, leaving gallons of imported whiskies and spir its still unused in the warehouses, Allowing for present stocks on retall shelves, the treasury’s figures would indicate that than 3.700000 gal longs of foreign liquor have been con- sumed In this country in the eight months since prohibition ended At the same time of gallons heen less the lack de- foreign liquor to American short of the amount of they expected to bring shores after prohibition ended. Im- ports have amounted to only two fifths of the quotas allowed by the control board for the period between December 5 and April 30. Only about one-fifth of the December-April quota, moreover, has moved into consump tive channels. ING A TRIBUTE TO MARIE CURIE By LEONARD A. BARRETT No discovery has contributed more to alleviate human suffering than the research work - of Mme, Curie in the fleld of radiom What Paderewskl does for music, Mme. Curle accom- plished for science, Both were born In the little country of Poland. The same spirit of per- severance permeat. both of these Polish subjects, and the altruistic passion motivated their tireless work. continues to interpret to the finest In musie, while the work of Mme, Curle to an end in her recent death at the early nage of sixty-six, "With pernicious anemia sapping her vitality, the little Polish woman did not have sufficient strength to overcome," 80 read the press dis patches: but, from the French scien tists come the words, “A long accumu lation of radiations during ber career as a scientist was a contributing fac tor to her death” ed same ‘aderewskl the world cRine tussian Poland In 1867. Although the “Absolute Leader” before investi- Hubert Schnuch, the congressional gating un-American activities, de seribed as “absolute leader” of the Friends of New Germany in the United States, a pro-Nazi organization. He was elected to the post at a na tional convention held in New York on July 1, he revealed. testifying Commitice himself wife of a celebrated French chemist, Plerre Curie, she won distinction In her own name. Among the most no table honors conferred npon her was the Nobel prize, which was given to her on two occasions, the only person who was ever thus favored. After the death of her distinguished husband she continued her research work at the Sorbonne in France It is very frequently argued that a career for a woman Is incompatible with the responsibility of being a wife and mother, Not so with Mme. Curle. Between her hushind and herself there was a bond of great love and admira- tion, She was her husband's helpmate in his professional work as well as the mistress of his home and mother of his child, for Mme. Curie did have a child, a daughter, who married a scien tist. Rumor has it that the daughter and her husband will now continue the work of her celebrated parents, The disease which has baffled the skill of physicians has been cancer, With the discovery of radium an im portant advance ins been made in ef. fecting a cure. When this dreaded disease 1s finally conquered, humanity will owe much to the name of Curle, Simplicity Is characteristic of genius. The request of Mme, Curie was that no display take place at her funeral Observing this request her frail body was laid to rest in a little cemetery in ever let the world forget its great debt to the discoverer of radium. ©. Western Newspaper Union. (Ue sehol LAITED plaids are novel. They form attractive ornamentations for useful and fancy articles and for frocks. The plaids are open showing the tion material as a background. They are of the simplest construction, They require either a very accurate eye—or a ruler. The latter is advised, as with it the work is made very easy. Rule the lines straight with a pencil. They terial sewed over them. This material may be very narrow folds of a contrasting textile, of rick- rack braid, of ribbon, fancy braids, ete, Rickrack is a favorite medium for making these piaited plaids color alone may be used or two other, dium ready to trimming braids Textiles can be made into narrow strips for plaiting by cutting strips from % to 1 inch wide and seaming the lengthwise edges together. This can be done without basting If edges are even and are pinned together at Intervals tun a small safety pin through one end of a strip and shut it securely. use, and so also are be turned right side out and all raw edges be concealed Ruling the Lines. material to be ornamented. Cross extending over the first ones at right angles. Allow plenty of lines. Just what this distance shall be is determined by the width of the brald, ribbon, or textile strands. When pring rickrack it must be reckoned as wide as the distance between tips The braid while narrow ih aving line spreads to three width of the braid. The braid textile strands, when basted foundation must weave alternately over and under the crossing strands, leaving the openwork spacing Narrow strands can be stitched by machine through the lengthwise center. Rickrack is gen. erally so sewed on. When strands are wide enough to curl when sewed down so, have each edge stitched down, The trimming is delightfully effec- tive in corners of sofa cushions and table covers with two or three of the middie strands running straight and uncrossed between the corner pleces, Or the plaiting can be In triangular form across opposite ends of a square sofa cushion cover, with an untrimmed diagonal section through the center. A row of plaited plaid makes a smart finish or border around the lower part of a blouse, down shoulder seams and for cuffs €. Bell By on one edge and the other is undulating. in itsel two or times the actual or to ete. the dicate —WNU Service Hay Fever Caused by Russian Thistle Salt Lake City, Utah —The Rus sian thistle is the greatest single source of hay fever in America, Dr. Ray M. Balyeat of the Univer- gity of Oklahoma told physicians from western states gathered here in their annual convention. The female cottonwood tree, also a pro- lifie source of the allment, should be banned by law, he declared Cedars and elms likewise spread irritating pollen, he said. 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