Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 183, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 August 1917 — Beer Alcoholic Content. To Be Cut By Hoover. [ARTICLE]

Beer Alcoholic Content. To Be Cut By Hoover.

Reduction of 2 per cent* or half, of the alcoholic contents of beer is expected to be Herbert C. Hoover’s next grain conservation step. Following his order to stop distillation of spirits after 11 p. m. Sept. 8, Hoover is said to have decided beer strength must be reduced from its present 3% to 4 per cent alcohol to save 35,000,000 bushels of grain. Such action would not mean a revenue loss to the government, but should it be found necessary to re--duce the alcoholic contents further, a loss of 1170,000,000 would result. England has been forced to reduce beer strength. Though the 2 per cent alcoholic mexamum will not remove the new $3 a barrel beer tex, it will remove most-of the exhilatory features. The reduction will place the country on a so-called “near-beer” basis.