GliEAJJINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



saloon was put down and out in just two 

 weeks; and it would have been put down 

 and out in one week if it had not been for 

 a wet council. Now, here are two impor- 

 tant morals pointed out by the above straw. 

 First, here in Ohio, at least, when we find 

 we have made a bad bargain, let us undo 

 that bargain as soon as possible. Second, 

 if we find we have been so stupid as to 

 permit a wet council to rule the town, let us 

 got busy at once and elect dry men for such 

 an important office. 



Here is another straw floating in the 

 right direction, which we clip from the 

 American Issue: 



AKHTABULA DRV AND WET. 



Durin? April, 1914, the city of Ashtabula was with- 

 out saloons. That month there were 28 arrests for 

 drunkenness. April, 1915, was the first month of 

 the Home Kule saloons in Ashtabula, and there were 

 115 arrests for drunkenness. 



When Ashtatula was without saloons the man who 

 was visibly intoxicated was arrested. Now scores of 

 such men are not arrested. The Ashtabula papers 

 say it would be impossible for the police to arrest all 

 the drunken men who are on the streets Saturday 

 evenines. 



One Ashtabula merchant says his business has 

 fallen off $10 a day since saloons are back. 



I>oes it pay ? 



Still another straw. This one comes from 

 the New York Evening Journal for Sept. 

 27. 



This journal claims to be "America's 

 gi-eatest evening newspaper;'' and I hope it 

 is true, because of the stand that this daily 

 takes. 'First they have a picture of a 

 criminal in his cell wearing the stripes, and 

 a bottle of whisky just over his head; and. 

 under the picture Ave find the following: 



This picture is published to fix your attentiion once 

 more on the whisky question as it affects the entire 

 nation, not merely the inhabitiants of the prisons. 



Why are men allowed to manufacture and sell a 

 drink that every doctor and every sane man recog- 

 nizes as a poison? 



Why is it any more le?al to sell whisky to a 

 drunken man than to sell a knife to a maniac or 

 cooaine to a drug fiend? 



Wliisky has done and is doing a thousand times 

 as much harm as all the drugs put together. 



The man who sells a drug to another is put in 

 jail promptly as a criminal, whereas any man can 

 cnrry on openly, licensed and protected by the state, 

 the V>usiness of selling the whisky that mnnufartures 

 criminals. 



P>y the way, we have one or more daily 

 papers in the city of Chicago that have 

 rejected liquor advertisements and have 

 come out square and bold against the traffic. 

 The aboA-e reveals, also, the fact that we 

 have one (God grant that there may be 

 more) in the great city of New York that 

 defies the rum demon. Now. is it not high 

 time that in the great city of Cleveland we 

 have at least one daily on the dry side'? 

 When any of our readers find it, will they 

 kindly let me know? It would be too much, 



l^erhaps, to expect that Cincinnati should 

 follow suit very soon. 



THE NEW DAVIS I/AW IN FLORIDA TAKING 

 EFFECT OCT. 1. 



Section 4 of this new law reads as fol- 

 lows : 



That it shall be unlawful for any person keeping 

 or carrying on, either by himself or another, a place 

 where intoxicating liquors, wines, or beers are sold 

 by retail or wholesale, to employ a minor or a fe- 

 ;nale in his place of business. 



We see by the New Bepuhlic that on 

 Sept. 25 a delegation of 250 girls and wom- 

 en, emploj^ed in the liquor business in 

 Jacksonville, called on Superintendent 

 Crooke, of the Anti-saloon League, to see 

 if he could help them. Mr. Crooke called a 

 meeting of the Christian and temperance 

 people of Jacksonville, and made arrange- 

 ments for a " free employment bureau," to 

 make it their business to find jjlaces for 

 the women and girls thrown out of employ- 

 ment by the new law. This was certainly 

 a fine illustration of practical Christianity. 



We are told that these women and girls 

 were employed in the wholesale liquor- 

 houses in JacksonAdlle. 



Below is a letter just received from the 

 superintendent of the Florida Anti-saloon 

 League : 



Tifr. Root: — I am very much pleased to receive a 

 copy of your paper. Though I have never had any 

 dealings with bees, your paper is interesting, and I 

 have been glad to read a number of the editorials 

 ■\\Titlen by yourself. 



I hope you will soon be in Florida to enjoy the 

 delightful sunshine of our fall and winter months. 



I enclose a copy of the Davis law which has just 

 closed wp about 200 saloons in Florida; and if the 

 law proves to be constitutional, these saloons will 

 remain closed, leaving only about 75 in Florida. 



C. W. Crooke, State Supt. Anti-saloon lieague. 



Jacksonville, Fla., Oct. 5. 



I think I told you that after we failed 

 last Avinter in getting statewide prohibition 

 the Davis bill was presented and carried as 

 a means of " regulation." Below I give you 

 just one clause of said regulation: 



Sep. .S. That no gates, doors, windows, or open- 

 ings of .nny kind shall connect the place of business 

 of any dealer in intoxicating liquors, wines, or beer 

 witli any house or lot so as to permit ingress or 

 ogress out of such house or lot from or into such 

 place or business; that no blinds or screens, chairs, 

 settees, benches, or tables shall be set up or used in 

 such place of business ; that no musical, vaudeville, 

 or other attractions shall be permitted in such place 

 of business; that no game or games shall be per- 

 mitted to be carried on in such place of business, 

 nor shall any loitering be allowed therein; that no 

 obscene or sensuous pictures or statuary shall be 

 displayed in any such place of business; that 

 tliroughout the night « light or lights shall be ke;>t 

 burning in such place of business, and no doors, 

 blinds, curtaii'S, shades, screens, or other things 

 shall be allowed to prevent persons on the outside of 

 such place of business from seeing inside thereof at 

 all hours of the day and night, and it bhall be the 



