WHAT THE SOLDIERS DRINK.
A London dispatch of April 10 to
New York papers announces that the
long sought nonalcoholic beer has
been found. “The official liquor con
trol board," says the dispatch, “is so
pleased with tests that it has received
to push the sale of the beverage in
the officially controlled public houses
in the unitions areas. The board has
invited the makers to send a supply
to the House of Commons to enable
the members of Parliament to try it.”
A member ot the liquor control board
said that the new brew smells, looks
and tastes like beer; the only differ
ence is in the effect. A workman
who drank 20 pint bottles of it ad
mitted feeling rather "full,” but was
not the least intoxicated.
In this country a similar brew is
now produced. Plel Brothers, whose
long established reputation as brew
ers entitles their statements to accep
tance, announce in another column
that "after two years of ceaseless,
tiresome scientific effort” they have
succeeded inaobtaining a brew which
has all the agreeable qualities of the
best light beer with so low a percen
tage of alcohol (1.9 by weight) as to
bring it within post exchange regu
lations. Iceland, which has adopted
the principle of total prohibition, ad
mits the sale of beverage containing
not more than 2Vi per cent of alcohol,
and this amount or more is often to
be found in even what are known as
soft drinks. The most serious ob
jection made to the use of distilled
liquors do not, in our judgment, ap
ply to fermented brews, and former
ly, when the sale of liquors was per
mitted at the post exchange, the regu
lations wisely restricted the sale of
liquors to light wines and beer. The
stringent requirements of the law
passed in 1901 went beyond what
many both in the service and out con
sidered reasonable, and prohibited the
sale of any liquor that could be called
intoxicating. Hut Piel Brothers have
opened the way to the use of a non
intoxicating brew, the small amount
of alcohol in their "Service Brew” be
ing less, for example, than the per
centage which renders a beer sub
ject to the revenue tax.
The Germans do not appear to have
suffered in the matter of efficiency by
the universal use of beer. The use
of light wine and beer is permitted
to the German soldiers in the field.
The German beer has 3.5 per cent of
ajcohol, and of this, as the Britisli
Medicinal Journal tells us, the Ger
man soldier is allowed 1,793 grams,
stud 20 drams of brandy a day. Ac
cording to the same authority, to*.
- ...non or (lie Flench soldier has
been increased and lie receives daily
50 grams of rum containing 20 grams
of alcohol. The Austrian soldiers re
ceive each day 0.5 liters of wine,
equivalent to 40 grams of alcohol.
The Britsh soldier receives a mini
mum! of five ounces a week and a
maximum of 17 1-2 ounces, according
to the weather. It hits always been
the custom of the British government
to contract for beer supplies for its
canteens. Such grave results have
followed the prohibition of vodka in
Itussia that the minister of commerce
lias recommended ttie sale of beer
and wine having a low percentage of
alcohol.
These foreign examples, however,
interesting and Instructive, do not
concern our service, as it is neces
sary for the army to conform to the
law of this country. It would be well
if possible, however, to restore one
of the social features of post ex
change life without offending temper
ance centimont, and olllcers in this
country, as in England, have express
ed approval of the effort to find a
drink that will appeal to the soldier
more than does the average soft
drink and yet not be an intoxicant.
T Army and Navy Journal.
-PI OHIBITION CAN’T
BE ENFORCED,” SAYS
CARDINAL GIBBONS
Makes Hypocrites, Leads to Illicit
Whiskey and Robs the Government,
Declares Cardinal.
New Orleans, March 7, 1914.—"I’ro
hil lion will never tie enforced in a
Christian country,” said James, Car
dinal Gibbons, in a statement made
public here today. Cardinal Gibbons,
is paying his annual visit to his
brother, John T. Gibolms, of this city.
“While I am an ardent advocate of
temperance, 1 am intuitively persuad
ed that prohibition cannot be en
forced in this country,” continued
Cardinal Gibbons. "It is calculated
to make hypocrites and lead to the
manufacture of illicit whiskey, re
placing the good material with the
bad, while at the stltne time robbing
the government of the legitimate tax."
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