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...home-brew non-intoxicating in fact is another question but clearly the making of home-made light wines and ciders is not prohibited. . . . Perhaps the act needs clarification on the question of homebrew, although nobody has ever been convicted for making it for home use. ... To those who want beer and light wines, I suggest they be content with what they make...
...wishing newsmen retired from their gallery to type out circumstantial stories identifying President Hoover with Congressman Fort's opinion on light wines and beer. Hastily Mr. Fort denied that he spoke for the White House. The Hoover secretariat issued a formal statement repudiating the notion that the President had been consulted on the Fort speech...
...they make their own clothing or raise their own food. . . . Let's talk about the essential violator of Prohibition, the person who uses alcoholic beverages. . . . There are millions of him throughout the land. Whether he serves wine to his dinner guests, whether he brews and drinks a makeshift beer, whether he keeps a jug of corn or apple in his oat bin or hayloft, he instinctively feels he is within his personal and private rights and it's nobody's business. . . . Drop shams and subterfuges and declare the user of alcoholic beverages the criminal and turn loose...
...national political party, the Liberal Party, to fight prohibition and other attacks on political and social liberty. Along side this dispatch, an account of a bill introduced in the New York State Legislature to give the state the right to buy and sell light wines and beer. On the next page, the story of Coast Guardsmen who, drunk on captured evidence, placed a "huge railroad switch tie on the tracks" just for a prank. On either side of this last bit of news, the protest of a New Jersey State Commission against the Volstead Act the demands of the Prohibition...
White Rock Mineral Springs Co. ("White Rock" water, gingerale, root beer, sarsaparilla, also "Still Rock" and "Kentucky Nip"): $1,229,000 as against...