OCTOBER 1. 1915 



■"vith the storming of trenches where men lock them- 

 selves together an.1 clench their teeth and jab with 

 tlie bayonets until they drop or there are no more 

 uio\ing bodies to jab, requires stimulants. Men must 

 be robbed of iheir reason for a time to get them to 

 butf-hcr human beings at the ends of their gun- 

 barrels. Such is the rating of booze. 



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431 MILES OF BREAD. 



The value represented in the above head- 

 ing is what the saloons must take in for 

 heer in one county in Ohio in order to get 

 back the money that they pay the state for 

 the privilege of carrying on the saloons for 

 one year. The Akron Press for Sept. 4 

 prints a copy of a banner that Miss Minnie 

 Kllet is painting by hand to put up at 

 county fairs and wherever they will do the 

 most good. Below is their statement in 

 legard to the matter. 



TKMPKRAXCE WOKKtR P.\INTS BAKXS TO T.AKt; 

 WHACK AT JOHN B.^^RLEYCORX. 



Old John Barleycorn had better take to the woods. 



Miss Minnie Ellet, of Springfield, is on his trail 

 again. 



Miss Ellet, who has taken many a solid w-hack at 

 .Tolin, is out with a pictorial argument which she 

 thinks is a staggering blow. 



The reading below is painted on a huge banner 

 with her ow-n hands. And she is getting ready to 

 di.splay it where she believes it will do the most good. 



Mis.»i Ellet has lettered 19 banners, and they are 

 to be presented to as many divisions of the W. C. T. 

 U. in Summit Co. 



" ^Vhere am I going to put the banners? " echoed 

 iliss Ellett Thursday. "'Why, I"in going to put tiiera 

 over the brewers' signs — hang them right over the 

 signs of -John Barleycorn." 



An^ below is a copy of the " banner." 



SV.MMIT county's LICENSE BILL. 



"206 equals number of saloons in county. 



|5 equals application fee of each saloon. 



$100 equals reiristralion fee of each saloon. 



1^1000 equals license fee of each saloon. 



$1105 equals total fees of each saloon. 



$227,630 equals total fees of 206 saloons. 



4,552,600 equals schooners of beer the 206 sa- 

 loons must sell to pay just license fees. 



Who pajs this bill? 



One schooner of beer equals one loaf of bread. 



4,552,600 schooners equals 431 miles of bread. 



To pay just license in Ohio's 43 old wet counties, 

 3 1,209 miles of bread must be sacrificed. 



Bread or beer f 



For which will you vote? 



The reason why Summit Co. has such a 

 large number of saloons is because Akron, 

 -vith a population of 115,000, largely for- 

 eigners, is its county-seat. But even that 

 rounty, with its 206 saloons, voleri dry a 

 year ago. 



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 OUR RE( ENT OHIO STATE FAIR. 



It is ref resiling to note that the Ohio 

 Farmer feels very much as I do about the 

 improvements recently inaugurated in re- 

 card to the Ohio State Fair. See the fol- 

 lowing, clipped from the Farmer: 



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Espositions are the registers of progress. The 

 State Fair of this year presented strong contrasts 

 ^^ilil that of ten years aso. Automobiles, farm tract- 

 ors, road-buildiii:; machinery, silos and silo-filling 

 machinerj-, and hmestone-crushers and uiilkins-ma" 

 chines are now very prominent. Then the activities 

 of the state itself, the experiment station, the agri- 

 cultural college, the industrial commission, the State 

 Board of Health, the fish and game, and the dairy 

 and food departments, the livestock and orchard in- 

 spection bureaus, made up a very large part of the 

 exposition. This, together with the absence of side 

 shows, gave the fair far more of the educational 

 aspect. The only thing that seemed entirely out of 

 harmony with the education idea was the fireworks. 

 It is hard to understand why " attractions " should 

 be employed at the fair any more than at the agri- 

 cultural college to draw patronage. It is hard, t°oo, 

 to connect the race track with agricultural promo- 

 tion or better citizenship. But it may he too ideal- 

 istic to think of running a fair without a horse 

 race. I hope to live long enough, however, to see 

 it done. 



The italics in the above I put in myself. 



Amen to the closing sentence! 



The Ohio State Fair did not take in as 

 much money as in former years; but what 

 they lacked in money at the gate was made 

 up in " treasure laid up in heaven " in the 

 siiape of thousands of boys and girls who 

 vere not demoralized by low-lived side- 

 shows. 



It seems but a few years ago when I saw 

 on the gi-ounds of the Ohio State Fair a 

 long row of beer-kegs with gi-eat blocks of 

 ice resting on them. Ice-cold beer was be- 

 ing dispensed alike to old and young, clear 

 thiough from the beginning to the end of 

 the fair. May the Lord be praised that not 

 only are the kegs of beer a thing of the 

 past, but that the fake beer literature of 

 the " Ohio Temperance Union (?)" has also 

 been put down and out. 



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XAI'IONAL APPLE DAY, TUESDAY, OCT. 19, AXD 

 THE WAR. 



For years past T have been hoping and 

 praying that something might occur to side- 

 track and divert the attention of those 

 engaged in the wicked war in Europe, and 

 that the belligerents would come to their 

 senses and realize the folly of their under- 

 taking: and as, with God's guidance, a 

 pebble from the brook, in the hands of 

 David, slew the giant Goliah, is it not 

 possible that just an apple (or a great 

 shipload of apples) may. through God's 

 guidance, do like service in regard to the 

 war " giant " across the great waters. 



'S\r. R. J. Coyne, chairman of the Pub- 

 licity Committee of the United States, sends 

 us the following: 



APPLES FOR SOLniFRS IN EUROPE. 



" Last year they let several cargoes of toys and 

 (./thcr similar articles go through to difTerent coun- 

 tries, and I think these apples ought to be consider- 



