Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 172, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 November 1932 — Page 12

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SLOP? NO! 2.75 BREW IS GOOD, CLAIMS EXPERT Veteran City Master of Kegs Says Home Liquor ‘Kick’ MerelV ‘Gas Jag.’ BY ARCH STEINEL ‘ And so they call it ‘slop.’ It’s not. It's Just a good mild beer. One thing it'll do. if legalized, is to get rid of a lot of these gas jags that the citizens of Indianapolis have been afflicted with under prohibition home brew." That’s the lowdown cn 2.75 per cent beer and an answer to Indiana's senator, Jim Watson, for his "slop'' charge. It comes straight from the barley sacks and the hops vats in the words of John J. Giesen, biewmaster, and owner of the Giesen Products Company, 1330 Madison avenue. When Giesen says 2.75 beer by weight isn’t ‘‘slop,’’ he knows what he's talking about, for he’s been close to brewing since he was 10 years old. Beer Won Gold Medals He brewed the old Dussdldorfer beer of the Indianapolis Brewing Company that won the gold medal at world's fairs ih Paris and St. Louis. Giesen's attack at critics of 2.75 beer isn't halted at that, for he turns on the home brewer—and declares that since prohibition the home brewer has been on ‘‘gas jags.” ‘They think they’re intoxicated when, in truth, they've been drinking beer with probably less alcoholic content than 2.75 per cent. They’re just kidding themselves. It’s the gas in the yeast that’s still in the beer that does it. It goes to their head, and they get a firstclass 'gas jag’ on,” Giesen said. “The beer proposed for congress to act on will be a mild beer. It will be non-intoxicating, in fact, and be minus the gas jag of the hom&. brewer. Stronger Brew Sours “The fellow wfco makes his own will tell you his beer that runs 6. 8 and 14 per cent alcohol. That’s in their head. Do you know that beer of more than 5 per cent alcohol, by volume, will sour, and no one will drink it? "Just to give you an idea of brewing in the days before state prohi-bition-beer had to be fermented for fourteen days, and generally stayed in storage for two to three months in after-fermentation before it was placed on the market. “Now do you think," he added, "that the man w'ho makes home brew lets his beer stand that long to gain alcoholic content and flavor? No! He bottles it almost as quick as he makes it.” Giesen pointed out that 2.75 per cent beer, by weight—the same beer made during wartime—was 3.45 per cent alcohol, by volume.' 4.81 by Volume From a list of beer analysis made back in 1917, he drew' out one report to a brewery he headed, which showed the old-time schooner held lager of 4.81 per cent, by volume, and 3.77 per cent by weight. "The average Ameriacn beer was around 4.80 per cent by volume before the eighteenth amendment was a part of the Constitution,” he said. Giesen doesn’t believe the racketeers can have a "look-in” in attempts to “muscle-in" on the legitimate brewing industry if congress makes 2.75 beer legal. He declares that a fair tax for ber would be $4 a barrel and that any tax that exceeds that would merely result in less consumption and tax to the government. At a $4 barrel tax he says beer could be sold at 10 cents a pint, 5 cents a glass, and $1.50 a case, and still make a fair profit for the brewer. Giesen has handled soft drinks and near beers since prohibition, and he speaks w'ith authority and knowledge when he forecasts that the return of beer will not lessen the sales in soft drinks. HISTORICAL SOCIETY TO CONVENE DEC. 9 General Sessions of State Body to Be Held at Claypool, General sessions of the fourteenth annual meeting of the Indiana Historical Society will be held at the Claypool Dec. 9 and 10, it was announced today by Dr. C. B. Coleman, secretary. The meetings of the Society of Indiana Pioneers also will be held at that time, and the annual dinner of the pioneers will close the affair. Speakers at the two meetings will include: Evans Woollen, president of the historical society: Mrs. Charles B Kern, Lafayette: Luther M. Feeger. Richmond; Howard R. Burnett, Vincennes: Joe L. Norris, Chicago; Glenn A. Black. Indianapolis; the Rev. Thomas T. McAvoy. Notre Dame university; Mrs. Grace Julian Clarke, Indianapolis; J. R. H. Moore. Indianapolis, and Paul L. Haworth, Indianapolis. BIRD EXHIBIT TO OPEN 1,000 Fanciers and Visitors to Attend Second Annual Show Here. Second annual show of the Indiana Caged Bird Association will be held Dec. 14 to 17 in the Denison, it was announced today by Henry T. Davis, Indianapolis convention and publicity bureau secretary-manager. Nearly 1,000 bird fanciers and visitors are expected to attend. The association, membership of which includes many prominent clubwomen and others, is affiliated with the American Caged Bird Association. Mrs. A. Smith Wesner, 838 South Rybolt street, is president, while J. Cortez, 306 North Holmes avenue, is secretary-treasurer.

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dark Irish face lit it up. He wore new overalls, and there was a swagger about him that had been missing when I met him in New York. "Welcome to our city! When did you get in?” "Last night. I came in on the highway. I expect to connect with a job tomorrow.” Brady and I had met earlier In the summer, when we both stood listening to a speaker in Columbus Circle. We had agreed on the same things. He then had been out of work for six months. "Did you eat?” Brady’s eyes already had taken in my appearance. I nodded. "Over at one of Governor Emmerson’s hotels on South Green street. I stopped there last night. But I still have a quarter.” “Well, let’s get a cup of decent coffee, anyway. We can sit down and talk.” We entered a restaurant. "Get something besides coffee, Terry, I’ve got a buck.” I ordered doughnuts and coffee, and Brady and I talked. He was much different from the fellow I had known in New York. Then I had looked on him as a bright fellow with no great depth of thought. Listening to him over the table. I found him a man with a philosophy. B B B "WHEN you saw me in New York City I was on the bum. I felt like I was on the bum for life. It was like being in prison, but you New Yorkers don't feel it,” he told me. "You think the city is the greatest in the world. Everybody that lives outside of it is a hoosier, a sap. You think that the pleasures of Paradise are to be found in your city. Then you get your entertainment in a neighborhood motion picture house. "See this street outside?” Brady pointed toward the sign-plastered plate glass window, "West Madison, the skidrow of Chicago. More bums are familiar with it than any other street in the world. They come back to it every year, or find it, and never leave it. Why? Chicago is not hypocritical. It doesn’t hide its prostitution and its bums like New York. It admits it when it gets some mud on its pants. “Look at me, now, Terry. I haven’t got any more than I had when I was in New York. Almost the same clothes. Yet when I walk down West Madison street in my overalls and blue shirt people say ’hello’ to me and I hang around corners and no one notices how I am dressed. "Chicago doesn't give a damn. This city’s natural. New York City's a phoney, wearing a suit it hasn't paid for. “Let's go out. I’m going to show you the sights. By the way, where are you going to flop tonight?” I shrugged my shoulders. "Well, I think Jack Macßeth will put you up at the Hobo college. That’s where I'm stopping. You’ll get a bang out of Jack.” B B B FOR five hours Brady walked me around Chicago. He pointed out places with a local pride. He led me to two jungles in the heart of town. One was In an empty lot. The huts, ten or twelve of them, were built of cobblestones. The other one was hidden behind a fence and was entered through an alley and then a ladder—down under the fence.

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There were about forty small shacks below street level. Some of them had rooms built under the pavement. More houses were going up. Men arrived carrying bags loaded down with vegetables. “They get it bumming the markets. A lot of them get their meat hitting the packing houses. “These guys aren’t bums, Terry. They are unemployed. They resent the methods used by charitable institutions and they take care of themselves.” Walking through the side streets again, Brady pointed out the hundreds of men sitting on the curbstones and in the empty lots. Some of the latter were making coffee in cans, “What other city in the world would allow that out in public? Chicago don’t give a damn. The condition exists and it admits it.” Cutside of a hotel which advertised a room with bath and breakfast for 30 cents, Brady and I stopped to watch the hoboes’ clothing exchange. Young men in garments more wrinkled and worn than my own exchanged pieces of clothing and sold shoes, shirts and coats to each other. While we watched, a pair of shoes was sold for 15 cents and two shirts went for a dime. "They’ve been meeting here for years. Hoboes from all over the world. Some guys want a piece of change for a bed; others want it for a smoke. B tt B A S w r e went on, Brady said men were coming into the city from all sides. “You don’t see them sleeping under Wacker drive and eating out of garbage cans in the Loop like you used to do,” Brady added. Three of four of them would “shack up,” that is, get a cheap apartment for' $5 or $lO a month, he explained. Every time one of them got a day’s work he w'ould spend most of the money on groceries. "If a fellow' could get himself a cook,” Brady said, "they played man and wife and got relief from the city. And it’s not bad either. I know a rooming house w'here there’s a gang that hasn't worked in years. "Everybody, including the landlady, have canned goods on hand. They’ve never been so sure of a meal in all their lives.” We passed cheap hotels—the Dawes Hotel, where a cot is 10 cents and a room is 12; the “cake flop,” where 10 cents buys a cot for the night and all the crumb cake and coffee a man can consume. I asked Brady how all the men we saw' loitering along the curbs spent their time during the week. “The principal pastime,” said Brady, "is playing the louse book, betting on horses with nickels and dimes. Every one of them, hopes to run a jit into a hundred bucks.” Brady led me to Dearborn street. We arrived outside of a tall gray, granite building. Heavy bars W’ere on the windows. "Do you know what this is?” Brady asked. "It’s the old Bridewell that they closed W'hen they built the new

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jail,” I said. “I remember years ago when they closed it.” B B B “TT TELL, look down there,” he VV said, pointing to barred windows that were flush with the street. “See all those fellows playing cards? Those are men who sleep in a jail building because they are out of work. “This is one of the many buildings Chicago is using to take care of its bum problem. Wrigley gave another to the Sally, where they are supposed to putup the white-collar mob. It w'as 4 o’clock w'hen Brady and I arrived at the Hobo College at 1118 West Madison street. It proved to be a large meeting hall over a chain grocery store. On the walls w'ere painted, apparently by a billboard artist, pictures of Voltaire, Emerson and Goethe. Macbeth, tall, about 35, with a villainous red mustache, greeted me cordially. He introduced me to five other young men w'ho sat around a flat kitchen coal stove. Stew and coffee cooked on the stove. I had enjoyed the whole day. I had spent my time in a sort of sociological Coney Island with w'ell-equipped guides. Macßeth, over the stew, had proved as monologistic and as enthusiastic as Brady. He talked of the independence of the hobo; of his anarchism. “We’ll never get over the results of this depression. It had ripped dow'n artificial standards and made men aware of the insecurity of life. It has taught men that to ask for food is not a crime or a shameful act.” That night I stretched out on a plank bench W'ith four old overcoats over me. Brady slept at the end of the hall on a table. MacBeth snored from a cot in the'' • college office, a small room partitioned off. Alone again with my thoughts, my fear of the ’morrow crept into my mind. Suppose I did not get the job I was so confident of? I fell asleep assuring myself that I would go to work next day.

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West Madison street—the “skidrow of Chicago,” It was 9 o’clock in the morning when R awakened. Brady and Macßeth still snored away. I washed and dressed and walked downstairs to the street. It was raining heavily. Across the street a restaurant advertised eggs and coffee for 10 cents. I crossed to it. BUB Fortified with food, i found a telephone. I was clinging to the New York custom of making appointments before calling on business men to ask for a job. The cool voice of an office girl answered. I asked for my friend. "I'm sorry. He is no longer with us.” That came like a slap in the face. "Who is in charge of the business now?” I ventured. “The United States court. It’s in bankruptcy.” I hung up. The nickel dropped down into the box. It was my last but two. I walked out into the rain. People hurried by me. Young men and girls, all with a purpose. I wandered past employment agencies. Dishwashers, $2 a week; cooks, experienced, sls. MacBeth’s words of the night before drummed in my head. “I’m not standing in any more breadlines. I won’t be licked here. I won’t go back and admit defeat. I’ll keep moving until ” My lips must have been moving; a man was watching me curiously. At Clark and Madison I handed the conductor my last 10 cents. I was on my way to the Chicago and Alton yards. Next—Donoghue leaps for a freight train.

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