RETURN OF BEER

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21469, 18 April 1933, Page 9

RETURN OF BEER

DRUNKENNESS DECREASES POSITION IN WASHINGTON WASHINGTON, April 1G Actual arrests for drunkenness in the city of Washington have decreased by 30 per cent since the reappearance of beer on open sale. More drinkers are satisfied with the milder alcoholic beverage who formerly drank throat-searing concoctions called "gin and Scotch." The curious fact emerges, however, that younger drinkers are least appreciative of beer. They represent a generation bred in the United States since prohibition began and have never known the taste of genuine legal beer. REPORTS FROM STATES SUPPLIES SHARPLY TAXED NEW YORK. April 11 Reports from the newly-"wet" States indicate that the beer flood carried with it the largest expenditure of cash since the 1929 stock crash. Brewers are worried because there is not enough barley in America to meet malting demands. The existence of thousands.of "speakeasies" is threatened. The first rush taxed supplies so sharply that five cents a glass became a myth to-day and 10 cents (sd) for an Boz. glass was the most common charge.