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...Just Pull the Bung") for urban vintners (TIME, Nov. 24). A client is supplied with a keg of nonalcoholic concentrate which Vine-Glo agents put down in his cellar. They dilute it, tend it for 60 days. By then it becomes wine of about 15% alcoholic content. Prohibition Director Woodcock explained again & again that he could prosecute only if an intent to violate the law was shown and intent was very hard to prove...
Last week Amos Walter Wright Woodcock, far-traveling Director of Prohibition, returned to New York from a four-day inspection trip to Porto Rico. Before he went to a reserve officers' camp for a fortnight's training, Col. Woodcock declared: "Porto Rico is pretty wet; our effort there has been rather weak. But the natives are a temperate lot. Porto Rico is so situated that bootleggers from Santo Domingo and Martinique have little difficulty in smuggling in their wares. In addition there are many small stills in operation. We have only three Federal agents on the island...
...Pennsylvania Game Commission vouched for this story: On the track ahead of his engine, Engineer John Staplcton of the Philadelphia & Reading R. R. saw something fluttering, flopping. He stopped the train, climbed out, perceived it was a hen woodcock broken-winging to save her chicks who were between the rails...
Came then 90 of The Groups, invited by the Louisville Council of Churches. Month before they had left Asheville, where also many a bank had failed. For ten days they worked. Welcomed at their first meeting by Bishop Charles Edward Woodcock of Kentucky, they attracted 2,500 their last evening. Their expenses were not guaranteed; no collections were taken, but at the end there was no deficit. They prayed (at "Quiet Time") for money and their prayers were answered?unsolicited checks in their mail from total strangers in far cities...
There have been various attempts to arrive at some conclusion as to the relative merits of prohibition, but all for one reason or an other have failed to produce results which could be crystallized in material benefits. Mr. Woodcock, the present Prohibition Director, has recently forwarded a new plan of attack. He has asked various college professors to help him in his attempt to offer an effective answer to the question, with Professor Cabot of the Social Ethics department as Chairman of the committee. In attacking Prohibition from its sociologic aspects the committee hopes to find its effect upon...