AUGUST 15, 1916 



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loon, and have been fightinsj it in Des Moines as 

 when ,in Medina. Pi-ohibition is a success in Des 

 Moines, when we have decent officials to enforce the 

 taw. Tliey misrepresent me. 



Frankfort, Mich., Aug. 4. J. E. Kikbye. 



The above is only a sample of the way 

 thfse liquor stories turn out when they are 

 traced down. There is a pretty big moral 

 prominently brought out in the above — the 

 folly of having a chief of i^olice in sympa- 

 thy with tlie wets after you have voted for 

 prohibition. 



SALOONS HELP BUSINESS. 



The liquor people urge, as you may know, 

 that saloons help the business of a town; 

 and we shall have to admit, I suppose, that 

 some kinds of business are helped by sa- 

 loons; and one of these lines of business is 

 the jail business. See the following, which 

 I clip from the Amcfican Issue in regard 

 to two counties in Ohio : 



Belmont County is wet and HancO'Ck County is 

 dry. An item in one of the Belmont County papers 

 last week says there were 70 persons in the county 

 .iaii. The same week Hancock County papers report- 

 ed the jail in that county empty. Saloons boost jail 

 business. 



PROHIBITION DOES NOT PROHIBIT (?) 



Some good friend has mailed us the clip- 

 ping below, but he does not tell us what 

 paper he took it from. 



$12,000 IN GOOD WHISKY COMES TO BAD END ON 

 DUMP. 



Denver's city dump at Thirty-first and Platte 

 streets enjoyed a spree yesterday. 



Last night it was " saturated." Whisky worth 

 $12,000, good whisky, and bad and indifferent, was 

 poured into the ground. 



The whisky came from five railroad depots. It 



had all been consigned to G. D. Phillips, who un- 

 til Monday had a " store " at 1704 Sixteenth Street. 

 Phillips was fined $150 in the county court Monday 

 for violating the prohibition law, and the whisky 

 "poured" at the dump tea party yesterday was his 

 goods. The spilling was directed by police and 

 sheriffs 



It occurs to me that, after a few doses of 

 medicine like the above, the guilty one will 

 '' sit up and take notice " that prohibition 

 does prohibit. 



NO PLACE FOR BOOZE IN THE GREAT FACTORIES 

 OF OUR LAND. 



The following, from the Methodist Tem- 

 perance Board, explains itself: 



THIS POSTER WAS TAKEN FROM THE SHOPS 



OF THE GIER PRESSED STEEL CO., 



LANSING, MICHIGAN. 



Covered with machine grease, and mutilated by the 



tacks which held it to the wall, the original is 



in the office of the Board of Temperance 



of the Methodist Episcopal Church. 



YOU CAN'T DRINK AND MAKE GOOD. 



MODERN BUSINESS SETS PACE TOO FAST FOE 



DRINKING man's MIND TO KEEP UP HE 



IS NOT IN THE RUNNING. 



Science Proves by Delicate Instruments of Pre- 

 cision that He Thinks, Sees, Hears, and 

 Acts More Slowly than the Man 

 Who Doesn't Drink. 

 Nothing will destroy the usefulness of a 

 strong brain as quickly as alcohol. It is just 

 as disastrous to man's delicate mental machin- 

 ery as a handful of sand to the mechanism of 

 a watch. 



Bright business ideas, ambition, energy, and 

 execution fade under the influence of alcohol 

 like a dream, to be replaced by air castles, 

 "large talk," laziness, sluggishness, and neg- 

 lect. 



HEALTH NOTES 



SAVING THE BABIES; " GOD'S KINGDOM COM- 

 ING.-"^ 



Just now the whole wide world is, if I 

 am connect, giving more attention toward 

 protecting and saving the babies than ever 

 before. Infantile paralysis is {perhaps 

 providentially) directing attention to the 

 matter; and our best and ablest physicians 

 as well as our professors and scientific men 

 are giving it their best attention. Will they 

 succeed in combating this terrible scourge? 

 I take, courage when I think how quickly 

 the foot and mouth disease among our do- 

 mestic animals was stamped out when our 

 nation realized the damage the disease was 

 likely to do. The way in which it had got 

 started before our stockmen knew what the 

 trouble was made it seem almost incredible 

 that it .=;]iould be so soon headed off. Well, 



now, here is something of terrible signifi- 

 cance that I copy from the Ohio Messenger : 



Women have voted in New Zealand for twenty 

 years. The lowest death rate for babies in the world 

 is in New Zealand. 



Women vote in Norway, Australia, Sweden, Den- 

 mark, and Finland. The next lowest death rates are 

 in these countries. 



What would become of this world of ours 

 if it were not for the mothers'? and has the 

 world ever given them credit for what they 

 have done and for what they are doing? 

 Now, I am imjjressed in reading the above 

 of two things. First, that the babies of this 

 world are of infinitely more importance 

 than all the domestic animals on the face of 

 the earth; but I am afraid that even our 

 United States of America have not in times 

 past given them the thought and care that 



