Al'GlST, 1918 



G 1- E A N I N (i S I X 1! 10 K C U I. T U \l K 



potatoes if 1 could rurnisli them. So T 

 hastily dug n\) some about half grown — 

 enough to till liis order; but by the time 

 my half-bushel reached the grocer some 

 enterprising farmer had come into town 

 with a load of nice i)otatoes, much better 

 than mine, that he offered at half the pi-ice, 

 or even less, than I was to get. When ar- 

 ticles of food are steadily advancing, and 

 you have good reason to think they will 

 continue to advance, it may, of course, be 

 jiolicy to buy ahead; but look out when 

 the market is di'opping or is liable to droji. 



Now, tlie moral to all this long story is 

 to plant a few potatoes every sjiring, no 

 n;atter if the weather is not just to your 

 notion. Plant a few at least, in anticipa- 

 tion of the time when no potatoes are to be 

 had at the groceries except those grown 

 (h)wn in Florida and sent all the way up 

 noi-th, as in the instance related above. 

 And I hardly need remind you again that 

 the same or a similar short cut between 

 " produce!' and consumer " can be main- 

 tained by the good ])eo]ile down in Florida. 



TEMPERANCE 



DRY TERRITOKY FOR THE CANTONMENT; 

 DOES IT PAY? 



We cli}) the following from the (^'leve- 

 land Plain Dealer : 



Prof. William J. Hutcliiiis of Olierlin Graduate 

 School of Theolo2;y, religious director for the past 

 year at Camp Sheridan. M'_'nff;o:nery, Ala., told 

 members of First Cong;re2;ational Church yesterday 

 inornine: that the army camps in the southeast are 

 a.s clean as any in the world. 



" There are evils in the camps — man's evils.'' 

 >aid Prof. Hutchins, " liut men who never made 

 victorious lights against vice before entering the 

 army, are doing that today, aided by the e.xceJlent 

 morale and surroundings. 



"For five months I was with 4.50,00(1 enlisted 

 men, and in all that time I saw only one drunken 

 man. That i.s not a tribute to the virtue of the sol- 

 dier so much as it is to the wisdom of the War 

 Department in putting their cantonments in dry 

 territory and to the vigilance of the military police." 



" AND THERE SHALL IN NOWISE ENTER INTO 

 IT ANYTHING THAT DEFILETH,'' ETC. 



The following is clipped from the Rural 

 Xcir Yorker; but the heading above seems 

 to tit Friend t'olling-wood's suggestion to 

 a dot: 



step by step the governmt'ut of this nation is 

 building a barbed-wire fence around a " bone-dry " 

 ))asture and driving the entire lierd of into.xicating 

 lif|uors outside. The state of Idaho enacted a law 

 which prohibited any one from keeping liquors for 

 liis personal use. This law was attacked on the 

 ground that the state has no right to interfere 

 with personal liberty in this way. Now the United 

 States Supreme Court, through .Justice ^IcKeynolds, 

 settles the point. He says: 



" The state has power absdlulcly \i> proliil)it 

 manufacture, gift, purchase, sale, or ti ansjjortati ju 

 of intoxicating li(iuors within its liorders without 

 violating the constitution. We further think it 

 clearly follows from our numerous decisions ii]i 

 holding prohibition legislation- that the right to bold 

 intoxicating li(iuors for personal use is not nnc of 

 I hose fundamental privileges of a citizen of tlie 

 liiited States which no state may al)ridgp. .\ con- 

 tiiuy view would be imcompatible with the undoubt- 

 ed power to prevent mamifacture, gift, sale, pur- 



cliase, or transportation of such articles — the only 

 feasible ways of getting them. An assured right of 

 pos.session would necessarily implv some adequate 

 method to obtain not subject to destruction at the 

 v.ill of the state." 



This may jar some distinguished citizens who 

 have long considered it a " fundamental privilege " 

 to hold liquor in their homes or in thenselvest In 

 New Y'ork state hard cider is now classed as intoxi- 

 ( ating liquor — which it surely is! 



Now, reader, you are prejiared to turn to 

 the last verse of the nex{ to the last ehaptei" 

 of the Bible and read the whole gracious 

 liromise to all who " love righteousness and 

 hate iniquity." 



" AND NOT UNTIL THEN.'' 



We cli}) the following from the Ohio 

 Messenger. As you will notice, it is s!mi)ly 

 an endorsement of what 1 have for so^ie 

 time back been saying over and over again. 



Mr. Hobson. in answer to the ([uestion " Wheii 

 will the war end I" replied: "It will end when we 

 win, and nut until then. We shaH login to win 

 when .Vni'.'rica and the allies go dry. and not until 

 then." 



Fi'om the Cleveland flair Dealer 1 clip 

 the following from Dr. R. H. Bisho]). (Com- 

 missioner of Health of the great city of 

 Cleveland. Pi'obably we have at present 

 no higher authority on the matter of 

 health." 



BURN'I.VC LP IIKALTH. 



.\mericans who smoke bun; up .$1,200,000,000 

 (nciy year. Not only that, but thev burn up their 

 hcaltli as well. Tobacco is a drug (that's why it 

 makes the small boy sick the first time he uscis it) : 

 and altho the human Ijodv can become accujtoTned 

 lo its use. as it does to many other drugs, it suf- 

 fci-s harm in time, 



.Smoke too much — and who can tell wlii'U they 

 arc not smoking too much ,' — and sooner or later 

 von will be troubled with acid (b^i;c|)sin, in-oiinia. 



catarrh, 



ness. 



trouljle with 



licait. and 



blind- 



