GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



My g-ood friend, wlieii I got to the end of 

 your very valuable letter and saw ''not pub- 

 lish," 1 Avas vexed, and I have taken the 



liberty of disobeying, omitting your name. 

 God grant the troubles with Mexico may be 

 ])eaeeablv ended. 



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TEMPERANCE 



reform (?) literature sent out by the 

 brewers' association. 

 We clip the following from Christian 

 Work: 



The U. S. Brewers' Association is very active 

 nowadays in distii'ibuting: literature. " Beer Good 

 for Ball-players," and other leaflets of similar cali- 

 ber. Among the rest is a flyer entitled " Saloon 

 Closer to Christ than Churches," which describes 

 an alleged debate under the superintendency of Mr, 

 E. J. Ward, a former Presbyterian minister, now 

 employed by the University of Wisconsin, to awaken 

 interest in community centers. At this debate it 

 was decided by a vote of ten to five that " the saloon 

 of today follows the general ideas of .Tesus Christ 

 better than the church." It wa« suggested that the 

 good-fellow«hip of the saloon must be combined with 

 the spiritual ideas of the church, if the latter is to 

 fulfill its mission, and wound up with " Were Jesus 

 to come back to earth, the church would be his first 

 object of attack and not the saloon!" 



We are told that drowning men grasp 

 at straws, and the above seems to be a 

 pretty good illustration of it; but when 

 they try to make out that beer is good for 

 baseball players it seems they have got hold 

 of a very flimsy bit of straw. While we 

 have no particular desire to see the brewers 

 of the United States sutfer death literally, 

 we are very glad indeed to see indications 

 that their entire business ?.s fast going to 

 the bottom of the sea. 



KANSAS AND PROHIBITION; STILL MORE 

 ABOI'T IT. 



So long as the "wets" keep scattering 

 their misleading and false statements we 

 propose to keep on giving the truth. We 

 clip below from the Christian Herald: 



PROSPER IX PROHIBITION KANSAS. 



Despite the expression of deep distress upon the 

 part of the liquor dealers at the failure of prohibi- 

 tion in Kansas to prohibit, it does prohibit marvel- 

 ously well, according t6 the most reliable testimony. 

 The attention of the whole nation was attracted by 

 the report for 191.5 of a mortality of only 9.8 to 

 the 1000 of population, being the lowest of any state 

 in the Union. Samuel L. Rogers, director of the 

 United States Bureau of the Census, wrote to W. .1. 

 Deacon. Registrar of Kansas Vital Statistics, asking 

 why the death rate was so low. Mr. Deacon in his 

 reply gave prohibition credit for a full share of the 

 public health in these words: " Kansas is a prohibi- 

 tion state, and in Kansas prohibition really prohib- 

 its." He said also that there was general education, 

 the people had money enough to make them comfort- 

 able, and were wise enough to avoid the things that 

 impair health and shorten life. Kansas began the 

 new year without a dollar of indebtedness, having 

 burned up the last mortgage for $159,000. and 

 claiming the enviable notoriety of being about the 



only state in the Union free of debt. Prohibition 

 Kansas holds in one hand the cleanest bill of health, 

 in the other the conipletest financial exhibit, while 

 in the mind it has truth and in its heart love. The 

 violent denunciations of the failure of prohibition in 

 Kansas by those whose pockets have been affected 

 by it, and by those who have been deceived by their 

 false statements concerning it, do not change the 

 fact that prohibition in that state does prohibit, 

 bringing with it the reward of health, intelligence, 

 thrift, and virtue. Kansas with eighteen sister 

 states is by its law saying: Look not thoti iipon the 

 irine whrn if is red, when it rjireth its color in the 

 cvp, irhen it moveth itself aripht. At the last it 

 Liteth like a serpent and stingeth like an adder." 



SAVING THE COST OF DOCTOR'S BILLS. 



If you are not already taking Farm and 

 Fireside, you had better send for the issue 

 of April 8 and read the article entitled 

 "How a Kansas County Decreases its Num- 

 ber of Death.«. a Third." It may be worth 

 a good many dollars to you. T clip from it 

 a>; follows: 



The death rate to the thousand for Kansas is 9.8, 

 which, according to a recent federal census state- 

 ment, is the lowest death rate of any state that is 

 conducting a state-wide health work. 



Such a record as Riley County has made is possi- 

 l)le only because the work has been in charge of a 

 competent, progressive, and efficient man. Dr. .1. C. 

 Montgomery has been the county health officer, and 

 has directed the health work of the county since it 

 was started six years ago. He has taken the public- 

 school children and their parents into his confidence. 

 Now after six years" work the school children as well 

 as their parent* are well informed about disease. 

 They know the causes of disease and how to prevent 

 sickness. 



Since the health work was started the death rate 

 for the county has not only been decreased greatly, 

 hut the people have been saved thousands of dollars 

 in doctor and medicine bills, and every one has been 

 able to do better and more work because they have 

 been en,ioying health. 



The cost of conducting the health work a year has 

 been slightly more than 6V2 cents a person. And 

 this isn't really an expense: it is an investment, 

 because the saving in death losses, doctor and medi- 

 cine bills alone is many times more than the actual 

 money spent. 



Many persons wlio some time ago ridiculed the 

 health department and complained bitterly every 

 time a few dollars of the public money was used to 

 prevent disease now indicate not only a willingness 

 liut a keen desire to cooperate with the department. 



I did not find any mention in the article 

 in regard to i)rohibition in Kansas; but the 

 fact that Kansasr- stands almost if not quite 

 at the head of our nation as a healthy place 

 to live is doubtless largely owing to the 

 absence of saloons. 



