Bottoms Up:

"Let not the housewife whose husband comes a bit unsteadily home point at him the finger of scorn, for if he has been drinking German wine he has done a patriotic duty and he may well smite his breast and proudly assert the fact." '"Formerly all true Germans were called upon to lay down their lives upon the field of battle, which they gladly did. Today I call upon every patriot to drink more wine!"

Thus, at a mass meeting, last week, in dauntless fighting terms did President Matheus of I falz Province summon sturdy topers to rescue the winelands of the Rhine and Moselle from "the incipient necessity of their being planted with noxious tomatoes and cabbage plants."

Despite the announcement of "National Beer Week" at Berlin, it appears that a state of overproduction exists in the German alcoholic beverage industry. The 600,000 workers who toil to produce and distribute German beer, and the countless peasants who tend German vines, were informed last week through numerous propaganda agencies that only the most determined imbibing can remedy the situation.

In Coblenz alone 97 wine makers were declared to have mortgaged their crops. There a few desperate vintners met to consider the advisability of an appeal to President Coolidge. They were vexed when informed that the President could not suspend the U. S. prohibition laws to rescue the hard pressed German producer. They were outraged when William E. ("Pussyfoot") Johnson,' famed itinerant U. S. dry crusader, arrived at Berlin, last week and predicted: "Within 25 years Germany will have become so dry they will be putting the last steins in museums."