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TONS OF SOUVENIRS.

GERMAN HELMETS FROM U.S. SOLDIERS

WHE

Washington, March 22-Sinoe the American troops overseas have stopped fighting they have taken to letter writing and remembering friends at home 'with souvenirs from the battle-

Foldin France. This indicated to-day by a Post Office Department. announcement that the amount of mail from the American Expeditionary Force had increased more than twenty per cent since cessation of hostilites.

The volume of souvenirs sent back to the United States by parcels post may be measured by the tou the department

asserted, and they consist of all manner of odds and ends. Curios sent most by the soldiers are shell cases, parts of rifles and revolvers, bayonets, uniform but- tons, and small fragments of demolished airplanes. Captured German helmets,..however, are the most prized token. Nearly 500,000 of these have

gone through the mail since the war began. Postal requirements have been relaxed so that they how can be sent unwrapped with only A shipping tag for the address.

Soldiers who cannot obtain souvenirs to send to friends at. home content themselves with | writing letters. During Novein- ber nearly 18,000,000 letters were dispatched from Bordeaux and many millions more from Brest. Since then the mail shipments have been increasing steadily, and in February nearly 22,000,000 letters were sent from Bordeaux slone. Frequently twelve fifteen letters a day, have been sent by a soldier, and one private established a record by writing -thirty in a single day.

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- Postal officials said to-day there was not much prospect of the home bound mail becoming less, even though thousands of soldiers are returning daily to this coun- Try. As the number coming home increases, they declared, the impulse to wrife becomes stronger among those who re main

Mail from this country to the troops, overseas is now being de- livered with few delaya, the officials said, since addresses öf soldiers are not changed as often as before the armistice. Improper addressing of the mail is now the only source of trouble, it was stated.

SOCIAL CHANGES.

LORD ESHER'S VIEWS.

Viscount Esher, G.C.B. writing in the Weekly Dispatch on the social upheaval, saya :---

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Rolled Ox Tongues in tins

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French Sardines in Oil

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The enforcement of prohibition legislation in the United States and the litigation which has come up in connection therewith. has brought forth considerable dispute Intoxicating liquor has been with regard to what is defined in Arkansas, Alabama, really "intoxicating liquor," Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Michi with much diversity of opinion gan, Montana. Nebraska, New! thereon on the part of the courts Hampshire. South Dakota, Utah, and the legal talent interested Virgins. West Virgina, Washing- It took over thirty years therein on both sides. of the ton, and Oregon. The definition: that is to say, from 1815 to 1848 question.

10 Oregon is exceptionally to resettle England after the

FEDERAL LEGISLATION. or an executive order, on Septem- The attorney for the Anti-specific, reading -- great war with France. We Saloon League gives a summary

The Federal prohibition legisla-ber 2, 1917, in which he authoris The words should have had an earlier settle in part as follows-

intoxicating tion, anticipated by the test suits ed the Treasury Department to liquors shall be construed to that have been brought in New carry into effect the regulations ment had it not been that during Whether beer will come under embrace all spirituous. malt, vin- York, represents a rather confus-of August 18, directing that the

he transition period political the, War Prohibition Act does ous, fermented or other intoxicat- power was still exercised by men not necessarily depend upon the ing liquors, and all matures ing interplay of bills presented as details should be worked out by of limited intelligence and react-Commissioner of Internal Re-

war-time emergencies, in the the Commissioner of Internal or preparations reasonably form of riders to agricultural Revenue and the Division of ionary ideas.

venue to define what is beer, said likely or intended to be used as a bills, and the President's prohibi-Customs. These authorities made It is obvious that after the the League's counsel, Wayne B. beverage which shall contain intion proclamation made under two

reductions in the con- present war, when peace is Enal. Wheeler. "The War Prohibition excess of one-half of one per the permissive features of the stituency of beer. Normal beer ly proclaimed, the country will Act, provides that after May 10, centura of alcohol by volume, shall sections of the law pertaining to contained from 3 to 5 per cent. pass through another period of no grains food products, etc. shall be deemed to be embraced with the liquor subject. Just what alcobol. The first cut was to 3 transition. during which the new be used in manufacturing beer, such term, independent of any the forces of democracy will have to wine, or other intoxicating, malt, other test of their intoxicating specifies to-day and its relation were for ap alcoholic contents of prohibition legislation per cent.; later the regulations. assert themselves. These new or vinous liquors for beverage character: and all mixtures, forces, reflected as they are in purposes, and, after June 30. 1919, compounds

national prohibition 234 per cent, which is being man- preparations, the awakening of the vast masses No beer, wine, or other intoxicat-whether liquid or not, which are Wheeler as follows:-

amendment were outlined by Mr.ufactured at present. The maxi- mum in mahy prohibition States of what are called the lowering malt or vinous liquors shall intended when mixed with water classes, are a far greater dynamic be sold except for export."

(1.) The act of August 10, 1917, is one-half of one per cent. or otherwise, to produce, by fer- and the rider attached thereto,

AGRICULTURAL BILL RIDER. power than were those of the INCLUDES ALL BEER AND WINE. mentation or otherwise, an in- which was the Agricultural bill,

(3.) The next move was middle-class of a hundred years *This language in other

toxicating liquor. ago. The danger, therefore, of statutes, both Federal and States,

encouraging

production, November 21, 1918, when another In the District of Columbia regulating the supply, and con rider to an agricultural bill was disturbance is more acute. has been construed to mean beer alcoholic liquors have been defin- trolling the distribution of food, passed, which provided for three On the other hand, the Gov-and wine, regardless of intoxicated as "whisky, brandy, rum, gin, providing that foodstuffs should things: (a). That after June 30, crament of the country today is ing qualities. When Congress wine, ale, porter, beer, cordials, not be used in the production of 1919, and until the conclusion of already presided over by one who said that no beer, wine, or other hard or fermented cider, alcoholic distilled spirits for beverage par- the war, and the termination of is the direct representative of the malt or vinous liquors were to be bitters, ethyl alcohol all malt poses. This placed a ban upon demobilisation, it would be un- class in question. If he can free sold for beverage purposes, it liquors, and all other alcoholic the manufacture of whisky and lawful to sell any distilled spirit, himself from the shackles of included all beers and wines. liquors." reactionary surroundings and There never has been a pro-

other distilled spirits after or, to remove them from bond give play to his imaginative con- hibition law enacted that per-

September 10, 1917. The same act for beverage purposes, except seption of the future, from the mitted the sale of beer containing reme Court of Nevada, a State to

The recent decision of the Sup-made it possible for the President for export; (b) that after point of view of the vast majority 33 per cent. alcohol by volume.

commandeer the distilled May 1, 1919, no grain, cereal which voted for prohibition last spirit in bond for redistribution fruit, or other food product of his fellow countrymen, there All recent prohibition laws November, specifies the following to meet the requirements for should

be used in the is hope that we may avoid the prohibit all alcoholic liquore inclusive interpretation: troubles of the first thirty years regardless of the per cent. of

and manufacture or production of Government, industrial, "The word liquors * ́as, used of the last century,

alcohol

beer, wine, or other intoxicating in them, or fix the in this act shall be construed to

scientific purposes. "When George IV.

malt or vinous liquors for bever- WILS a standard at not more than one-embrace all malt, vinone, Or ACTION BY PRESIDENT. young man he wore powder, lace half of one per cent.

age purposes (this is the techni- The spirituous liquors, wine, porter, In this set was the authority cality which is being tested in ruffes, and a sword. This was Supreme Court has repeatedly ale, beer, or any other intoxicating that "Whenever the President New York courts); (c) that after in days before the war. When held that the legislative depart drink, mixture, or preparation of shall find that limitation regula June 30, 1919, no beer, wine, he ascended the throne he worement of government may even like nature; and all malt or tion, or prohibition of the use of for other intoxicating malt or a.frock-cost and a tall hat. This prohibit, non-intoxicating soft brewed drinks, whether intoxicat foods, fruits, food materialsy or vinous liquor shall be gold symbolic change exemplified the drinks because they are used asing or not, shall be deemed malt feeds in the production of malt or for beverage gradual transfer of political a subterfuge for the sale of strong liquors within the meaning of vinous liquors for beverage pur- cept for export; provid power from one clase to another.jdrinks. It is inconceivable that this act; and all liquids, mixtures, poses, or that reduction of the ing also that the-Com- Had he changed his costume a Congress would enect a law to or preparations, whether patented alcoholic contents of and such missioner of Internal Revenue, little sooner, many grave troubles save food and leave in it a pro- or not, which will produce in malt or vinous liquor is essential subject to the approval of the San Miguel's Special Brew; Guaranteed to be might have been avoided.

vision that would permit the toxication, and all beverages...he is authorised to prescribe Secretary of the Treasury, Mr. Lloyd George will have waste of food material by making containing so much as one-half and give public notice to the ex-anth to prescribe rules and

NEVADA'S INTERPRETATION.

the

to face and encourages more beer containing 3.3 per cent of one per centum of alcohol by tent of the limitation regu rapid transformation in the alcohol by volume.

volume shall badeemed spirituous prohibition, or reduction Liquors, and all shall be embraced sitat

costume of his colleagues The The whole trend of legislation

days of evening clothes and and court decisions is against the word hintors a hereafter (4) Paruant to the

A feautention made by the" brey

President issued a proc

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