Justice vs. Corruption "Taking PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY to uphold what is pure, right, and true"     JUSTICE - A One-Minute Testimonial Announcement Faith Committee, Character Council of Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky Contributed from Encyclopedia of 15,000 Illustrations PRESIDENT AND WIFE "LEMONADE LUCY" President Rutherford B. Hayes, soon after taking office in 1877, declared the White House alcohol-free. Hayes’ administration had followed the scandal-ridden, whiskey soaked White House years of Ulysses S. Grant. One Washington wit said that “water flowed like champagne at the White House,” and among thirsty dignitaries, Mrs. Hayes became known as Lemonade Lucy. The White House staff, however found a way around the prohibition. The chef created a regular course, Roman Punch, served midway through dinner. It was a hollowed–out, frozen orange filled with a sherbet-like concoction into which, according to one thankful senator, “as much rum was crowded as it could contain without being altogether liquid.” The president had the last laugh, although no one knew it until after he died. “The joke of the Roman Punch oranges was not on us,” read an entry in his diary, “but on the drinking people. My orders were to flavor them rather strongly with the same flavor that is found in Jamaica rum”. There was not a drop of spirits in them! —Reader’s Digest [Reproduced with permission from Encylopedia of 15,000 Illustrations, by Paul Lee Tan, Communications, Inc., Dallas, TX, 1998, #114]     This material is published by the Faith Committee of the Character Council of Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky. Reproduction and Adaptation is encouraged.