GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



pel free as heretofore; or, if it please God, more so 

 than ever. 



I would like to mention that I am interested in 

 poultry, and have an incubator standing not more 

 than twelve feet from me here in my little printing- 

 shop, and the chicks are hatching right now. They 

 peep and make quite a fuss. I also have a few 

 stands of hees ; have an observatory hive standing 



in the rear end of my printing-shop, and am much 

 pleased in watching the busy little creatures doing 

 what God created them for. I wish mankind were 

 as busy trying to fulfill their purpose of creation. 



I am glad to hear from you at any time. Many 

 thanks for your kindness in extending our subscrip- 

 tion gratuitously for another year. 



Woodburn, Ore., July 23. S. E. ROTH. 



TEMPERANCE 



OUR CHURCHES, OR THE LIQUOR PARTY— 

 WHICH SHALL RULE? 



From a column article in the Youngstown 

 Telegram 1 clip the opening and closing 

 paragraphs as below : 



THE EAST SIDE CTjEAN-UP. 



The East Side has banished the saloons. Because 

 the work has been carried on without noise or blare 

 of trumpets, the significance of this action is prob- 

 ably not understood by the city at large. It is one 

 of the most advanced steps ever taken by the people 

 of a section of Youngstown to improve their own 

 neighborhood, and, incidentally, to benefit all Youngs- 

 town. 



In the clean-up movement the pastors and mem- 

 bers of the Immaculate Conception, Grace Methodist 

 Episcopal, Second United Presbyterian, and Himrod 

 Avenue Baptist churches, the St. James' Episcopal 

 eh,Tppl and Emn-a Street mission participated. 

 There were non-church goers as well who gave as- 

 sistance; but by general consent the honor of being 

 the commanding general in this great movement 

 belongs to Rev. J. R. Kenny, pastor of the Immacu- 

 late Conception church. It was Father Kenny who 

 first raised the protest against objectionable saloon 

 conditions and undertook the leadership of what 

 would have been looked upon twenty-four hours be- 

 fore as a forlorn hope. It was his summons to East 

 Siders to "clean off their own doorsteps" that awak- 

 ened them to a realization that they were submitting 

 to an unnecessary handicap to the progreg* of the 

 East Side. The fact that ninety-two per cent of 

 the men of voting age in his own congregation sign- 

 ed the ouster petitions, and pastors and members of 

 other congregations willingly took up his rallying 

 cry emphasizes the progressiveness. 



The above demonstrates most emphatical- 

 ly what has long been said, that if the 

 churches of any average town or commu- 

 nity, or even the large cities, would Avork 

 together, tlie saloons would have to go. My 

 impression is that East Side, Youngstown, 

 had been for years past under the dominion 

 of the liquor party that had trampled every 

 laAv under foot, and by action, if not by 

 word, said to the good people of East Side, 

 "Help yourselves if you can;" and the 

 above tells how they could and did " help 

 themselves.'' 



Later. — The clipping below from The 

 American Issue tells what happens when the 

 churches pull together. 



WHY THE DRYS WON; AND WHY TWO BIG CITIES 

 KNOCKED OUT THE SALOONS. 



What was the big factor in the voting dry of 

 Duhith, Minn., a city of 100,000 population? Why 

 did the nearby city of Superior, Wis., with 40,000 

 population, vote dry? 



Well, the drys in both places had good organiza- 

 tions, and the churches pulled together for the over- 

 throw of their greatest enemy, but that was not all. 

 The heads of the great iron mines and steel works 

 near these cities threw their influence on the side of 

 the drys, and thousands of their employees enthu- 

 siastically boosted the dry ca\ise. When capital and 

 labor \inhe with the church they form an invincible 

 combination. 



Farming Business gives us a little more 

 information in regard to the outcome of 

 making a city dry. 



One proof that prohibition will keep the jail free 

 of drunks is found in a news report from Superior, 

 Wis. On Saturday, .Tuly 1, the town went dry ; on 

 Saturday, July 8, the city jail was empty in spite 

 of the fact that it is a town with close to 50,000 

 population. It is the first day " in the memory of 

 the oldest veteran policeman " that the jail was 

 empty. 



This is but the common experience of communities 

 which have changed from wet to dry. There is a 

 big reduction in jail and court expenses, and this 

 means a corresponding increase in the economic 

 welfare of the community. 



PROHIBITION AND ITS DEPLORABLE " RE- 

 SULTS. 



Very likely our readers have seen state- 

 ments in the papers to the effect that pro- 

 hibition in Des Moines, Towa, had been 

 " disastrous," etc. Tor their authority they 

 quoted a Congregational minister. Of 

 course the statement was marked " adver- 

 tisement," but many people may not have / 

 noticed it. Well, as Dr. Kirbye was for 

 several years pastor of our own chiireh 

 here in Medina, I sent him the clipping 

 and wrote him as follows: 



DR. J. EDWARD KIRBYE, PLYMOUTH CHURCH, DES 

 MOINES, IOWA. 



My good friend Dr. Kirbye: — The enclosed ex- 

 plains itself. I presume likely you have seen the 

 thing many times already, and have probably made 

 some reply to it. Could you kindly send me some- 

 thing in print, or briefly otherwise, telling me how 

 you came to furnish " ammunition " to the liquor 

 people in the way that the}' have put it ? I am sure 

 there is some explanation, as is usually the case in 

 the " facts " they present. Of course it is a paid 

 advertisement. If it will save you time and trou- 

 ble, you might reply briefly on the enclosed postal. 



A. T. Root. 



Very promptly came the following, pen- 

 ciled on a postal card: 



It is a lie of the liquor interests. I said that the 

 new chief of police was not enforcing law as well 

 as the former, and more drunkenness was the re- 

 sult. I am the sworn enemy of the American sa- 



