Honest Red Liquor

Beginning this week anyone may buy all the good red liquor that his physician honestly believes he needs to maintain the patient's health. Before prescribing, the physician must give the patient a "careful physical examination." But if such examination is "impractical," the physician may prescribe "upon the best information obtainable a 3O-day, or in special cases, a 90-day supply."

The liberalized regulations for alcoholic beverages provide for whiskey, brandy, rum, gin, alcohol and other distilled drinks. They also provide for wines fermented from grapes and berries, which are stronger in alcohol than 3.2%, and for drinkable drugstore elixirs, spirits and tinctures.

Continued illegal is the manufacture or sale of strong beer, ale or porter.

Drugstores, under Prohibition, have been legally selling a million gallons of medicinal whiskey a year. U. S. bootleggers sell, according to a casual estimate, at least 100 million gallons. The new Federal regulations will increase drugstore sales to between three and four million gallons, specialists judge. But there are only twelve million gallons of governmentally bonded whiskey in distillery warehouses. Whiskey must be stored at least four years before sale under government seal. Only four and one-half million gallons, little over a year's estimated demand, of such bonded drinks legally exist. But that supply is 16 and more years old. Wholesale prices quoted last week for cases of 24 pint bottles included: WTood-ford Bourbon $27.50, King Cole Bourbon $35, Old Quaker Bourbon $38.50, Old Quaker Rye $42.50, Golden Wedding $43.50, Gibson $45 to $49-50, and $53-50 for Old Overholt, the good red liquor which, with Andrew William Mellon's aid, helped found the fortune of the late Henry Clay Frick.

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