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Only 2 per cent of the population is illiterate. 



William Allen White recently stated that Kansas 

 had more college students per 1000 population than 

 any other state, though a rival writer dug up statis- 

 tics to show that Iowa, a neighboring state, and one 

 that has rapidly " dried up " the past ten years, has 

 this honor. 



See what prohibition has done to Kansas! 



A Cleveland daily of last week informs 

 us that Kansas is the richest state in the 

 Union in proportion to its population. 



TEMPERANCE CAUSE A NATIONAL DEMAND. 



The temperance cause is not and cannot be nar- 

 rowed down to any party, but is a national demand 

 that overrides committees, politicians, and platforms- 

 and looks only to the individual invested with gov- 

 ernment. Hence we need now a healthy sentiment 

 created that refuses to allow any party to try to 

 monopolize our voters, but insists on every party 

 affirming that " any alliance or combination with 

 crime or criminals is repugnant to good government, 

 and must be suppressed wherever found to exist." 

 There is no standing still. We must move forward 

 or retreat. Retreat? Never I We are listening for 

 the clarion call of a new advance. 



Bladen, Ohio. C. H. Cargo. 



ALCOHOL IN hospitals; £23,000,000 for 



DEFENSE AND £180,000,000 FOR ALCO- 

 HOLIC DRINK. 



Our long-time friend Herbert J. Rumsey, 

 of New South Wales, sends us the clipping 

 below from the Daily Telegraph: 

 A "dry" hospital; drink and defense; alcohol 



NOT a valuable MEDICINE. 



Only £19 2s 6d was spent by Royal Prince Alfred 

 Hospital in drink during 1914 on its 7237 in-pa- 

 tients admitted during that period. This works out 

 at just over iy2d, or less than l%.d, per patient. 



These figures were quoted with pride by Sir 

 Thomas Anderson Stuart yesterday, who added that 

 this satisfactory state of things was no rare phenom- 

 enon, being only the last of a similar series of 

 years. There being 40 medical men on the staff 

 entitled to prescribe alcoholic stimulants when they 

 consider them necessary, it was clear that their low 

 rate of consumption was not due to the fads or 

 opinions of certain members of the staff, but must 

 be the outcome of the practice of the medical men 

 generally. The rate of expenditure was: 1884, 7s 

 9d per patient; 1894, is Is 4d per patient; 1904, 7d 

 per patient; 1914, iVzd per patient. 



This led Sir Thomas to remind his listeners at the 

 annual meeting that there had been a growing con- 

 viction that alcohol was not the valuable medicine 

 it used to be considered. In 1884, with 140 beds, 

 the cost of stimulants was £715. In 1914, with 

 three times the number of beds, it was only £49. 

 And was not their mortality rate this year the small- 

 est on record? Nor must they forget this, that 

 l^/^d worth was the average. Some patients who 

 were very weak, such as recoveries from typhoid, 

 had champagne — the majority of their patients never 

 got a drop of alcohol in any form. He took the first 

 hundred patients in the list. Of these 7 got alcohol 

 93 got none. 



"Alcohol," proceeded Professor Anderson Stuart, 

 " is a drug. In our hospital accounts it is included 

 under the head of ' drugs and surgical appliances.' 

 It is always as a drug that we should think of it. 

 Speaking entirely personally, I might be permitted to 

 counsel earnestly all who value individual ana na- 

 tional efficiency to avoid the use of alcohol in any 

 form, and in even the smallest quantities, except on 



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the written prescription of their medical attendant; 

 for, as the events of the day in connection with the 

 great war prove, it is the most soul-destroying, body- 

 destroying, nation-destroying substance ever known. 

 And yet since the inauguration of the Commonwealth 

 in 1901, while we have spent 23 millions on defense 

 we have spent 180 millions on alcoholic drink. 



In regard to the standing of the physi- 

 cian who furnished the above statement, 

 friend Rumsey writes as follows: 



Dear Mr. Root: — Sir Thomas Anderson Stuart is 

 not a teetotal crank, as some folks are apt to call 

 us. He is a thoughtful man who considers every 

 word before he speaks, and his opinion goes a long 

 way here. He is Dean of the University, and the 

 head of all medical-education matters in this state. 

 Herbert J. Rumsey. 



Dundas, N. S. W., April 19. 



The reader will remember the figures 

 above are in pounds and not dollars, and 

 hence should be multiplied by five. 



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