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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.
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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.
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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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