Foreign News: Leggers Glorified

French brandy distillers of whom the greatest is Cognac’s dignified, art collecting Senator James (“***”) Hennessy have hoped that on the repeal of the 18th Amendment they can drop their distastefuldealings with U. S. bootleggers. Last week their trade paper, Le Capital, urged them not to break off profitable clandestine relations in a hurry, warned that “an American tax of $6.40 per gallon on alcohol is provided and must become effective automatically when Prohibition is abolished. Furthermore, the Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act provides an additional tax of $5 per gallon on imported liquors. “There still are some days left for the bootleggers and gangsters, who will continue to ignore licenses, taxes and import tariffs. In these circumstances, it would seem that our cognac producers should continue, as they have done in the past, to deal with the more honorable members of a profession condemned by law but long since glorified in the movies.”