THE HONGKONG
TELEGRAP1.
THURSDAY, APRIL 21, 1921.
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Where Prohibition Has Dis
Dominion Lines to be Greatest appointed Both Sides.
of State-Owned Roads. The first year of Federal pro- In nothing is the British publicį The Canadian Government will hibition in the United States has being swindled so outrageously own the largest railway system in its ro ults disappointed both at the prosent moment ne in the in the world when the amalgama- sides, according to a survey that matter of wine, such as is being tion of the Canadian National, the Literary Digest, New York, cold by the cheap restaurant the Grand Trunk and the Grand makes of the situation.
and the loss reputable wine Trunk Pacific lines has been The friends of probibition, says merchant, writes a correspond-completed in the next few months. the journal, admit that whils itent in the London Morning As a result of the merger the Can- has virtually abolished this open Post.
adian National Railways will saloon, it has not yot nude the The writer recently made a control 22.000 miles of railway, nation bone dry," at least for conscientious inspection of employ 70,000 persons, operate those persons who want strong certain cheap Soho restaurants. 2,000 modern locomotives. 1,800 drink badly enough to pay the He was unfortunate enough to Passenger cars and 70,000 freight current prices for it and to take make acquaintance with so called care with a carrying capacity of the current chances on its "Medoo" and "Macon," sold at 600,000 tons. quality.
2s. 6d., 39, and 3s. 3d. the half Stretching from Sydney, N.S.,
They admit that the moon-bottle. The labels were imposing, to Victoria, B.C., a distance of shiner, the homebrewer, the but the contents of the bottles 4,230 miles across the continent, whisky-runner, and the bootlegger were at the worst not wine at all the system will operate 1,(38 miles flourish in the land as they never and at the best new ordinary in Nova Scotia, 279 miles in did before. They concede, in fact, wines of inferior quality, which Prince Edward Island, 1,107 miles that the reform for which they had no more connection within New Brunswick, 2,496 miles in waged so long and arduous a fight] Fordeaux or Burgundy, their Quebec, 6,352 miles in Ontario, has not yot ushered in the supposed places of origin, than 2,320 miles in Manitoba, 3,576, millennium.
they had with Japan or the miles in Saskatchewan, 2,090 North Pole.
miles in Alberta, 1,227 miles in British Columbia and 1,881 miles in the United States."
But, on the other hand, they marshal figures to prove that the nation's alcoholic thirst is "taper-
ATROCIOUS CONCOCTIONS, ing off," and they confidently Army drank all the cheaper wine ships sailing from Atlantic and
During the war the German
The merger carries with it 32 predict that the enforcement in the country, and the ingenious Pacific ports. The government machinery of this yoar-old law Boche chemist came forward at programine calls for construction will continue to function with once with a wine substitute, some of an additional 30 freighters, ever-increasing efficiency, and nameless that public opinion will ultimately flavoured with a minimum of real of the fleet to 360,000 dead-weight. chemical compound which will bring the total capacity rally behind it oven in those com-wine and liberally doctored with tons. Sixteen ships will sail out munities that are now defiantly alcohol.
wet" in sentiment.
of Vancouver to China, India, After the Hindenburg rotreat in Japan, Hawaii, East Indies and Prohibition's enemies, on the the beginning of 1917 the writer, Australasian other hand, viewing the results of out of curiosity, glanced through remainder will sail from Quebec, porta and the. the first 12 months of the new several hundred empty bottles Montreal and Halifax to Europe, aridity, have to admit that neither which were the only things that South America and the West] the pretjeted nation-wid. revolt of the labourer deprived of his boor, unbroken in the sitting room of a
a Boche Divisional Staff liad left Indies. nor the wholesale exodus of for-private house used at their head-j eign-born workers from America's quarters. dry she, nor even the automatic stoppage f immigration from wine and beer-drinking countries, has yet materialised.
FLOUTING THE LAW.
Every hottie, with the oxception
of a single Benedictine flagon, was lalelled "Esaatz Wein," and the meaning of that description
DOUBLE-ACTING DIESEL ENGINES.
in all its atrocity was only Reducing Cost of Machinery. They point, however, to what appreciated by the palate after One of the main problems they call the "farcical situation the Armistice, when such con- which now confronts the Diesel in regard to enforcement, to its coctions were offered to the engine manufacturer is that of unequal bearing upon the rich and victorious troops in the occupied reducing the initial cost of the the poor, and they warn us that territory. the widespread flouting of this law in sections where it lacks the support of public opinion tends breed disrespect for
to laws.
WINE FROM "OTHER COUNTRIES."
machinery, so that it may com- pare favourably with the price of corresponding steam plant. At present, in most cases the capital
It is to be feared that something expenditure required for the similar to that wine-substituto machinery of a motor ship is At the end of its first year and its vendors have the audacity than steam engines and boilers has found its way into England, between 20 and 25 per cent, more prohibition is neither & success to label it "Medoc," "Macon," of the same power.
Increased
nor a failure," aversa Washington or any other name that please standardisation will help towards correspondent, and a number of
their fancy. papers agree that it is a successi
the reduction of costs, but it is where it is supported by local!
It is certain that thousands of the opinion of many engineers sentiment, but a failure where it gallons of nondescript wing im-that builders will ultimately be is not.
ported from the vague vineyards forced to. the construction of But the New York American official returns as other coun-ery instead of the present single- eloquently described in the double-acting two-cycle machin- points out that, since near 88 per tries" are masquerading as the acting type. Such plant should cent. of the total area of the United States, containing about
produce of France,
be much cheaper to build, but it
0
of engine.
61 per cent. of the total popula After the war there was has yet to prove equal in reliabi- tion, had gone "dry" by popular great demand for wines; storksity to the more familiar classes vote before the Federal Auiend- were depleted, and thousands of
In this connection, the recent ment was enacted, the situation gallons wore sold by anction to contains more comfort for the purchasers who cared nothing for acquisition of the motor ship! prohibitionists than for the anti-quality so long as they could Assyrian by the Ellerman Lines prohibitionists.
matter obtain something which they a
of exceptional
prohibition in the flesh, at least
could label Bordeaux, Burgundy. interes". She is the only moves the New York (Hobe to The resul: was that inferior wine acting
A survey of the available data Graves, Chablis, and the like ship afloat in which double- Fiesel engines have remark that "taken all in all, poured into the country. Fortugal been installed, and for several was the first offender; its imports months past, until she was as we have it now, is not the more than trebled, and it unload.bought by the Ellerman Lines, niopian affair it used to be painted in England hundreds of thou-she has been operated by the ed by temperance orators of the sands of gallons, which could Glen Line, being one of the ships he disguised at the purchasere handed over to Great Britain by Germany under the terms of This year "other countries"
peace, According to the reports which have been received, the so described have leapt up nearly satisfaction from the point of are the chief offenders; importe machinery has given complete seven-fold since 1910, and over view of reliability of service, but two million gallons of this there is no question that the con- somewhere 4313 the sumption of both lubricating oil and fuel is a good deal heavier
latter nineteenth century."
Prohibition's friends and ebam- wilt. pione however, see no cause for pessimism in the record of the twelve months from January 16, 1920 to January 16, 1921. "In our first year we have seen the private stocks absorbed like lakes stuff are in the desert," remarks Prohihi- tion Commissioner Kramer, who
poses,
market.
informs the Washington corres. And withaf those nausouus than in vessels of the same size! pondents that during this perio products are not cheap. They equipped with four-cycle or two- only about forty or forty-three are being sold at about the same cycle single-acting machinery. million gallons of distilled spirts price as would give the retailer Moreover, the general design were withdrawn, taxpaid, froin reasonable profit if he bought and does not appeal greatly to British bonned warehouses, and this sold sound French wine, The engineers, on account of its ex avowedly for non-beverage pur-cheap restaurant keeper presumes cossive complication, for it is
on the uneducated palates of a considered that one of the advan great part of the wine-drinking | tages of the double-acting engine THE ELUSVE MOONSHINER. public.
should be simplicity instead of For comparison, it is interesting:
the reverse. This complication to note that the withdrawals
is brought about partly by the dming the fiscal year ending been "satisfactory" reports Wil- at the top and bottom of the employment of scavenging valves June 30, 1919, amounted to Blliam M. Williams, Commissioner cylinders, whereas the use of a 600,000 gallons. Mr. Kramor of internal Revenue; and he predicte that the appetite" of predicts that it will be more probably have been more effective. port scavenging design would YOU CANNOT AFFORD TO BE WITHOUT THEM. and that with it will go the effective in the future. To quote These valves have necessitated occupation of the bootlegger. In
the employment of no fewer than a few years, he says, prohibition "From the reports received three camshafts, with all the] itselt into a simple problem of out the country it appears that There are, moreover, two fuel enforcement will have resolved from the bureau's agents through-accessory cams and valve gear. vigilance, a guarding against the there is a constantly growing valves at the bottoms of each production of moonshine, and the sentiment on the part of the cylinder, whereas by a different patrolling of the border and coasts people for a strict enforcement of system it should be possible to
law. The courts, it is believed, utilize against smuggling,
only one valve-an The smuggling problem, says prison sentences for violating the adopted in a two-cycle double- are beginning to realise that only arrangement which has been the Commissioner, is most acute law will be sufficient. The bureau acting engine of Briësh design in the Great Lakes area and is now receiving better co-opera- which will along the St Lawrence River tion from State and local officials, shortly.
probably be built section of the Canadian border.
The engines in the
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by the Congress, depends upon low powers the double-acting at all comparable as regards owners will have 00-operation on the part of the principle does not show to economy, and Zellability with closely into the The work of pohibition.enforse State, local, and municipal such ment during the first year has offipare."
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