PROHIBITION: Cows, Horses, Goats

Representative James A. Gallivan of Massachusetts is Irish, Democratic and Wet. In his youth he was a hard-hitting baseball player for Harvard. But more important than that, he is the most popular funnyman in the House. Well do Congressmen remember when he strolled up the aisle to deliver his annual "message" (TIME, Dec. 20).

Being a man of impulses,* he recently began to look into certain publications of the Department of Agriculture. He found that a recipe prescribing whiskey, milk and eggs for cows' and horses' ailments, which was advised by the...

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