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toll of soldiers killed on the battlefields, but the 

 number of people saved thru the abolition of alcohol 

 will be much greater. 



" The change for the better in the Russian people 

 is manifested in many ways. For instance, the 

 stress of war usually causes an increase in the 

 number of insanity cases. War and absolute pro- 

 hibition started about the same time in Russia, but 

 the number of insanity cases has actually diminished 

 since that time. 



" Economically the change has worked wonders. 

 This is forcibly demonstrated by the fact that since 

 the beginning of the war the working classes have 

 deposited a billion dollars in the savings banks of 

 Russia. In the old days it was common for the 

 workmen in factories to get drunk on Sunday or on 

 any other of Russia's numerous holidays and waste 

 a couple or three days recovering from the effects 

 of strong drink. Now he is steady, works the en- 

 tire week, and takes his wages home to his family. 

 Both he and his family have more money than they 

 ever had before, and so it is not surprising that the 

 savings banks report many new depositors. Natur- 

 ally the wealth of the country is increased by this 

 great gain in the amount of work done. 



" With brains cleared from the clouding caused 

 by constant alcoholism, a decided mental develop- 

 ment will occur in the peasant class. A logical 

 result of this mental awakening will be a desire for 

 greater knowledge. If the education of these people 

 is conducted along sound lines, I do not think that 

 the much-talked-of revolution will occur." 



In view of the above, is it not stransre 

 that the United States of America does not 

 seem to catch on and follow suit? May 

 God be praised for what Russia has done 

 for the whole wide woi'ld in the way of an 

 object-lesson. 



" READING BETWEEN THE LINES." 



The Associated Prohibition Press Bureau 

 sends out a sheet from which we clip the 

 following: 



United States Public Health Service has ,iust 

 issued a most commendable series of timely and 

 seasonable suggestions to the citizens of America. 

 They are issued under the general notation " Do 

 You Know That — ?" 



We reproduce the text of this Bulletin below, 

 with a brief suggestion as to the relation of its 

 recommendations to the most important problem of 

 health in our land today: 



" no YOU KNOW THAT 



1. " Sags in roof gutters may act as mosquito- 

 breeding places? " 



True; and sags in civic conscience and civic 

 government may and do act as breeding-places for 

 the mosquitos of graft and the gnats of political 

 corruption. 



2. "America's most valuable crop is babies?" 



Is that so? Then why vote longer for any party 

 that protects the greatest baby-killer in the world's 

 history ? 



3. "The public cigar-cutter is a health menace?" 

 And that public life-cutter — par excellence — the 



saloon, is tlie place where the cigar-cutter is usually 

 found. 



4. " The United States Public Health Service 

 maintains a loan library of stereopticon slides?" 



. The slides ought to include a series showing the 

 government partnership with the liquor traiific which 

 is still destroying the health and besliming the en- 

 vironment of millions which this bureau is trying 

 to help. 



5. "The typhoid rate measures accurately the 

 community intelligence?" 



And the per-capita liquor consumption rate is a 

 perfect thermometer of the public moral intelligence. 



6. " Whooping cough annually kills over 10,000 

 Americans ? " __ 



Meanwhile 200,000 liquor saloons are making ten 

 times 10,000 victims " cough up " daily until the 

 most of them end by going on a " whooping " drunk. 

 But that's no cause for excitement, of course. 



7. " Bad housing produces bad health?" 



And bad liquor (which is any kind of alcoholic 

 poison) keeps millions badly housed. 



8. " Rockv Mountain fever is spread bv a wood- 

 tick?" 



But the whisky fever is spreading a thousand 

 times faster than that with every clock-tick. 



I wish to call attention to No. 4 in the 

 above. Our nation's partnership with the 

 liquor-traffic ought to be held up before our 

 people and talked about and commented on 

 until the head or heads of our nation get so 

 wearied with our importunity that they will 

 speedily wake up and do something. The 

 expression, " besliming the environment of 

 millions," hits the point exactly. 



We clip the following from the Methodist 

 Episcopal Chnrch Temperance Bulletin : 



BOOZE FOR boys! THE HOLLISTER DISTILLING 



COMPANY OF ST. PAUL CALLS FOR LISTS OF LADS. 



The Hollister Distilling Company, at 129 East 

 Third Street, St. Paul, Minnesota, wants the names 

 of the little fellows in your town. If you will sup- 

 ply this list they will give you a quart of whisky. 



The Martin County (Fairmont, Minnesota) Senti- 

 nel says that a rural mail carrier of that city has 

 received a letter from the Hollister Distilling Com- 

 pany which says: 



" I want the names of the boys in your town and 



on the rural routes I want as complete a 



list as possible, and a good list. If you will send 

 me such a list I will send you your choice of a 

 quart of old 1881 brand whisky or a quart of tine 

 old imported Spanish Port wine. Get the postmas- 

 ter to help you, also the bank cashier and the ex- 

 press agent." 



The letter was signed by Elmer J. Jacobs, Mana- 

 ger. 



When they say that " Prohibinon doesn't prohib- 

 it," what do they mean? They mean that the 

 American people do not have it within them to dom- 

 inate the liquor evil. "Drink," they say, "is great- 

 er than your laws, greater than your constitutions, 

 greater than YOU." Little do they know the exal- 

 tation, hot resolve, and burning determination of 

 Columbia's heart this day. 



Ts it possible that there is no department 

 of our government at Washington that can 

 take up and punish an institution that sends 

 out a circular like the above? May God 

 help us when things come to such a pass 

 that a distilling company is actually laying 

 traps for our innocent boys. 



A KIND WORD AFTER READING A SINGLE COPY. 



I have read a copy of Gleanings, and it appeals 

 to me as a first-class paper. I especially like Our 

 Homes. Keep up the fight against the liquor traf- 

 fic, as we need every bit of ammunition we can get 

 hold of. The sooner we put this rotten business out 

 of business the more God will prosper us. Billy 

 Sunday has been down here preaching to Syracusans 

 to give up " booze " and turn to Christianity. We 

 luive a much cleaner city by the work of thi.s won- 

 derful man. May God bless him and further him in 

 his great work. 



Syracuse, N. Y., April 1. Prank M. White. 



