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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1925.

GREEN CRUSADER.

VIOLET "SCOTCH.”

WHAT AMERICA IS DRINKING. NEW INTERNATIONAL MOVEMENT.

It is the domestle "bootlegger" of Tho Cafe Imperial, in Vienna, America and not the foreign smug- is a queer hole. Visitors who gler who is to blame for the pai- take their breakfast coffes on the sonous nature of some of the drinks terrace of the cafe are surely un-being secretly sold in the United jaware that inside they can find States. This is the statement the strangest motley crowd recently made by Dr. W, G. Knight, Balkan diplomats, ex-ministers, chemist in charge of the federal revolu- customs laboratory at New York. active, Macedonian tionarlos, Austrian bookmakers, Dr. Knight and his staff analyse Hungarian jockeys, Italian probably wider variety of sub- merchants. While Turkish coffee stances than any, chemist in the is consumed, conspiracies are country-in fact every sort of made: After all, one cannot

material imported from the enda start gambling in the early morn of the earth and passing under the ing, they say, so their morning eyes of Appraiser Frederick J. H. game is conspiring.

And they analyse all Kracke.

But among the crowd of idlers In spite of all the information is always one guest whose liquor seized by customs officials,

"Virtually all liquor taken before that has been disseminated by activity and energy set him apart health agencies during the past 25 from the others. Wore ho less it touches land is green and fresh years, there are many people who shabbily drossed, were his gray from the distillery, but scarcely take the opportunity at the first beard more decently combed, he any of it has been diluted or pol breath of cold weather to close would create the impression of zoned," says Dr. Knight. "As soon their houses and seal themselves up being an earnest, hard working as our bootleggers get it, they cut for the winter. In many cases, the German professor. Buton closer, it to make it go farther."

A beautifulsylulet colour is the show less discretion than the study his face betrays his Eastern

The egg-shaped head laboratory danger signal of wood animals, for. the animals seem to origin. appreciate more than some human with the heavy jaw suggest, alcohol.

Courtian parentage.

Dr. Knight pours out a swallow being the value of ventilation.

This is the Green Crusader.of "liquor, accurately measured. It can be safely stated that no He is the promoter of the Green which looks, smells and is labelled | matter how high or how low the International movement, which like good Scotch. To this he adds price of this essential fuel is, thou-seeks to unite the peasants of water and distils it. After deter- sands of householders are wasting Contral and Eastern Europe! an unusual amount of coal in an into an internationale which mining the percentage of alcohol present, he tests for wood alcohol,, counteract the pro- attempt to render living quarters should

First he adds to a portion of the comfortable,

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distillate a small amount of sul His name is Alexander yon An overheated house is unfavour-Blaskovitch.

phuric acid and some potassium able to good health, and at present,!

a few For many years his efforts permanganate, and after when coal is a costly commodity, it were the laughing stock of minutes decolorizes the solution is poor economy indeed to use diplomats and politicians. The with oxalic acid. without judgment and without strange Hungarian was coneider- securing the greatest amount of fuelled an exotic dreamer. But now, vaine in an intelligent way. The since Moscow, with more or less temperature of your house should success, has tried to utilize the never be above 68 or 70 degrees unrest and dissatisfaction of the Fahrenheit at the most.

"If there is any wood alcohol present, this treatment will tarn it into formaldehyde," he explains. Into another tube he pours acid magenta, which is the violet- peasants in many sections of coloured coal tar product, fuchsine. Contral and Enst Europe. To this he adds sodium sulphite In order that the atmosphere in-Blaskovitch's efforts are bogia- and it becomes colourless. doors may bu comfortable and

aing to receive attention. He is healthful, a certain amount of

in idealist and a fanatic. - moisture should always be present. The relative humidity or moisture

He has sacrificed all his means in the movement. He looks like

"The magonta"is still there; you just can't see it," he says. "For- maldehyde will bring it back. And it we started with wood, alcohol,

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heated. On very cold days, the ten-to one of the richer Hungarian dency is to add more coal to the feudal families.. The Blaskovitch After adding Un additional fire. The hotter the fire, the more estates were so great that a mail amount of sulphuric acid to the 3646 the air is heated and the greedier coach took a day to traverse selution in the first tube, he empties

The Blaskovitch stables it is for water. Such an atmos- them.

one tube into the other. The phere soon becomes an uncomfor- were famous and their colours

violet returns.

3593 table one in which to live. Dry victorious in many international

"Pretty colour," remarks the Young Alexander in his: air in the room causes an increased races.

"Notice how deep the from evaporation

youth lived a gay and rather chemist. bodies,

colour is. That means lots of wood 3585 irritates the nose and throat, and riotous life,

The latter part of his history is alcohol. Nice drink for suicide." probably is one of the main causes

short. One day, after many There are other tests, including of the usual catarrhal conditions so riotous wooks in Paris and Monte that by a telescope-like instrument 3623 DON'T PUT THE BLAME ON ME common during the winter months. Carlo, the young nobleman dis-called an immersion refractometer, You should bear in mind that the covered that his fortune was gone. in which a tell-tale number may be power of air to absorb and retain Ha began to busy himself in read off on a scale. The best test heat depends in great measure upon politics. He returned to Hung- to find the age of whisky is said toj the amount of moisture or water ury, stood for Parliament and be the simple expedient of tasting vapor which it contains.

was elected. No longer a great it. But taste is no way to hunt If the air in your home lacks the landowner himself, he began for wood alcohol.

"Criminal negligence and not| proper amount of moisture, the tem.studying the land question and perature must be maintained at a became convinced, aa a fow other malice probably is responsible for higher degree in order to give the Hungarian aristocrats have been, the wood alcohol," says Dr. Knight. that the land question could not "Bootleggers are supposed to get same sensation of warmth and combe avoided, and that sooner or their alcohol with which they dilute fort to your body that is required later the landed olasses would real whisky by re-distilling dena- when the air contains a normal have to make sacrifices amount of moisture.

revolution was to be overted.

if tired alcohol. If it has been dena- tured by adding wood alcohol, re- distilling is useless. The poison goes right through the still."

The ordinary Thermometer is an) In Vionan, some ten years bo inexpensive article, and should form fore the war, he founded a roview, a part of the necessary equipment called The New Europe, which

A large closet in the laboratory of every home. The thermometer he edited jointly with Baron von

is one of the most complete should always be your guide in de Aorenthal, who later became termining the amount of heat re-Foreign Minister of the Austro. museums of bottles that ever lured quired. The addition of moisture Hungarian monarchy. When the the eye of a drinking man. There war came, he went to Switzer- are a few tins of opium also. to the atmosphere can be accom-land, and as early as 1915 predict. Mostly the bottles are whisky and plished more easily by maintaining ed the radical revolution which champagne, but also there are a proper system of ventilation.

would come from the East and cognac, gin, liqueurs, wine and ale.

As a matter of fact, the most swoop over Europe. As a coun- Each is tagged as evidence, and the efficient heating system would be ter-movement to the Red revolu- chemist knows about each quite as one which combines with a systeration of the prolalariat ho preached much as the man who coneceted it of ventilation, one which adds as early as 1916 the liberation of and ten times as much as those moisture to the dry air. People who the peasants and their organiza- who might have swallowed it. are afraid to have their windows tion into an international move-

open in the winter frequently resort to another method in an attempt to supply sufficient moisture.

For the most part his ment preachings fell on deaf ears, but he won the support of Prof. Laour,

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One bottle bears a Baltimore bel... It seems elther to have been taken out and returned to America or else to have been made abroad the leader of the Swies agrarian to catch the old America clientele. They make use of pans of water associations.

A. "non-refillable bottle shows, at in the heated room and as long as After the war he began travel glass plug in the bottom through there is water remaining in the pan ing all over Europe. In Paris he which it could have been filled they rest content, belleving that the won the interest of Marquis de air in the rooms is sufficiently moist Vogue, leader of the French again. A queer, squat, juglike bot- tle covered with Chinese lettering

"This contains of medicine one This method of placing pans fill-supporter in Don Sturzo, the bears a label in English which says:

leader of the Catholie Party and ed with water about the room, while

an opponent of Mussolini. He pint. For lassitudo, fatigue and) not to be condemned, has not negotiated with the World Agri- mental langour take a teaspoonful proved sufficiently effective to pro-cultural Society in Massach- diluted in water at bedtime." duce the desired amount of com-usetts, the Irish Farmers' Union "A Chinese native wine," says

"I'm told they dis-; fort and case. The best method of and Scandinavian organizations. Dr. Knight, adding moisture to heated air is Blaskovitch has slowly built up solve deerhorns and other queer that of proper and sufficient ventila-an organization which the Soviet ingredients to make it. Anyhow, tion.

recognizes AA ♫ dangerous it is 43 per cent alcohol." Keep the air of your house and enemy, and which, bit by bit office this fall and during the winter throughout Eastern Europe, is months ahead as it has been during gaining in power. the summer, when the heat forced; you to throw the windows open.

Don't be afraid of a breath of fresh air.

strongost in the country. In Whether his organization, as Hungary, the government of an international movement, is Count Bethlen rests upon the over built up in the form which small landholder, not the foudal tho Groon Crusader desires, baroni In Jugo-Slavia the coali- Blaskovitch proved his political tion of the parties of Pachich and perspicacity when he saw in the Radich unites the peasants of If you watch your thermometer peasant the man of the future in Serbia and Croatia. and the ventilation of your home, East Europe. Before the war And in the Cafe Imperial a pic- you will need to pay far less atten- despised and politicially power-turesque figure, a crusader and a tlon to your coal bills and your logs, the peasant to-day holds the pioneer, reads the proofs of the doctor.

reins of government in most of next issue of his new review, the new East European states... The Green Internationale, bo "Let the air and sunshine in" was The Premier of Czecho- fore It goes to print in many for distribution not written for the summer months Slovakia, Svohla, was a peasant, languages alone.

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