AUGUST 15, 1912 



room with doors and windows shut, even in 

 Slimmer. Mrs. Root called my attention to 

 the fact that a great many children or 

 young' i;eople — young girls who need ])ure 

 air, perhaps, more than they need any thing- 

 else — persist in shutting every door and 



window of their sleeping-room. Talk and 

 remonstrance do not seem to do any good. 

 They seem to think it an invasion of their 

 rights if the suggestion is made that, dur- 

 ing sleep, one needs the best air, and all the 

 air there is outdoors. 



Temperance 



A DRUNKEN ENGINEER, ON THE MORNING OF 



JULY 4, CAUSED THE DEATH 



OF 41 PERSONS. 



The Cleveland Press says : 



SAYS ENGINEER WAS SERVED GIN ; BARTENDER DE- 

 CLARES SCHROEDER DRANK BEFORE WRECK. 



Engineer Schroeder, who was in the cab of the 

 express train that smashed into the Buffalo limited 

 on the Lackawanna railroad near here early Fourth 

 of July morning, causing the death of 41 persons, 

 will take the stand in his own defense next Monday 

 afternoon. 



The coroner's inquest was adjourned Thursday 

 until that time, on the assurance that Schroeder 

 will then be sufficiently recovered from his attack of 

 nervous prostration to tell his side of the case. 



One witness has flatly sworn that Schroeder was 

 drunk less than four hours before he took his train 

 out. Three other witnesses, called late Wednesday, 

 declared this false. 



Other witnesses swore that they saw Schroeder 

 assisting an intoxicated neighbor home four hours 

 before he left on his run. Two saloonkeepers testi- 

 fied that Schroeder drank only water. 



Charles Sharp, a bartender, testified he sold gin to 

 Schroeder the night before the wreck. Schroeder 

 had at least two drinks of gin. Sharp testified. 



That Schroeder was called twice to go out on the 

 run was made a part of the records. 



Of course an effort was made or is being- 

 made to prove that the man was not drunk. 

 You may be sure the brewers and liquor 

 men will be on hand and ward off this ter- 

 lible blow at this business if possible. The 

 above clipping- intimates as much. Now, 

 right away after this comes a decision by 

 *^he Pennsylvania road to drop liquor, a'^ 

 will be seen by reference to the item below. 



THE GREAT RAILWAYS AND THE WAY THEY 

 ARE COMING TO OUR RESCUE. 



Here is a clipping from the National 

 Stockman that not only pleases me but sug- 

 gests something I had not thought of. 

 Read it : 



LIQUOR ON TRAINS. 



The Pennsylvania Railroad announces that the 

 sale of intoxicants will be discontinued on all its 

 trains east of Pittsburg, and that the same rule 

 will be extended to all roads in the great Pennsyl- 

 vania System. We believe the public should express 

 its approval of this policy, and hereby record ours. 

 The railroad is bound to be the recipient of a large 

 assortment of knocks and kicks from those who 

 want intoxicants served on trains, hence it should 

 have the moral support of those who believe its pol- 

 icy to be right. Railroads forbid their employees to 

 use intoxicating liquors, and are inconsistent to the 

 last degree when they sell them and compel some 

 employees to handle them. 



I confess it had not occurred to me, the 

 awful inconsistency of demanding that em- 

 ployees should neither drink nor be found 

 in a saloon, whether on duty or off, and at 

 the same time sell liquors and ask employ- 

 ees to act as bar-tenders for the millionaires 



who may happen to ride in their Pullman 

 cars. 



How long is it going to take the rest of 

 the world, say manufacturers, for instance, 

 to come out in the open, and declare war on 

 the liquor traffic"? 



Later. — The following, from the Plain 

 Dealer, corroborates what I have just been 

 saying: 



Employees of the Delaware, Lackawanna & West- 

 ern Railroad must not drink, either on or off duty. 

 Neither are they allowed to play poker during 

 hours of idleness. All of this appears in the new 

 order amending Rule G., of the transportation de- 

 partment of the line. A part of this amendment 

 reads : 



"The use of intoxicants while on or off duty, or 

 the visiting of saloons or places where liquor is sold, 

 incapacitates men for railroad service, and is abso- 

 lutely prohibited. Any violation of this rule by em- 

 ployees will be sufficient cause for dismissal." 



Investigation of the recent disastrous wreck at 

 Corning, N. Y., led to the issuance of this order. 



So it seems that prohibition does jiro- 

 hibit — at times. 



We clip the following from the Union 

 Signal, under the heading "Era of Prosper- 

 ity in North Carolina." 



EX-GOVERNOR GLEN*!, OF NORTH CAROLINA, TESTI- 

 FIES TO IMPROVED CONDITIONS 

 IN HIS STATE. 



At the recent meeting in Louisville, Ky., of the 

 General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church, Ex- 

 governor Glenn told of the advance in his State 

 since it abolished the liquor business: 



"I come from a State where we have driven 

 liquor out, and there is no grass growing in the 

 streets of any of our cities and towns. Whereas 

 North Carolina was noted — and shamefully so — only 

 for her tar, pitch, and turpentine — now the State 

 is entering upon an era of prosperity the like of 

 which she has never known. She is gaining by 

 leaps and bounds and this is attributed to state-wide 

 prohibition. Crime has diminished fifty per cent, as 

 is shovra by the fact that forty prisons in the State 

 are empty and idle. Formerly mothers were asham- 

 ed to allow their children to go to school because 

 the fathers had taken the clothes from their backs 

 that strong drink might be purchased. Since 1907. 

 when the State went dry, the school attendance has 

 doubled. There has been an increase of one-half in 

 the attendance at the Baptist, Methodist, and 

 Pre.sbyterian churches, and a great wave of spiritu- 

 ality has swept over the State. 



With the above report in view, and a 

 number of similar ones from prohibition 

 States, how can the people of any State 

 continue to vote wet? 



WET AND DRY IN OHIO. 



Somebody has remarked that great re- 

 forms go by waves, and that every big wave 

 for righteousness has a lull following, or 

 perhaps a receding. When so many Ohio 

 counties voted dry all at once, a good many 



