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of the greatest nation on eartli sliuuld not lie marrort 

 by siuh social cancers and festering sores. It is 

 not in keeping M-itli the highest order of Christian 

 civilization. 



IT I'AiS TO 13K DRY AND "DECENT." 



When I was fourteen years old I attend- 

 ed high school in Wellsville, Ohio, one 

 -winter. It was during this Avinter that I 

 made my first experiments in electricity, 

 and at the same time I succeeded in explod- 

 ing a mixture of air and gas by means of 

 an electric spark. Little did I think at 

 that time my cheap, rude, boyish apparatus 

 was going to be the forerunner of the auto- 

 mobile that is now, I might almost say, 

 turning the world upside down. For the 

 above reason I was interested in the clip- 

 ping below, which I take from the Ameri- 

 can Issue: 



NO SALOONS, LESS CRIME; JAILER MORGAN TELLS 

 OF CHANGE IN CHARLESTON, W. VA. ; IT PAYS TO 

 BE DRY; IF Y'OU DOUBT IT, ASK THE CITY OF 

 WELLSVILLE. 



There is little wonder that Lisbon, Columbiana 

 Co., voted dry recently. The voters had only to look 

 across the county to the city of Wellsville to see the 

 benefits of a saloonless town. In fact, they had the 

 benefits right at home, but quite often do not appre- 

 ciate them as much as when seen from a distance. 



Wellsville, a dry city of 8000 population, has 

 nearly $60,000 on deposit in the Postal Savings 

 Bank. Besides this amount, she has $30,000 of 

 postal-savings deposits invested in United States 

 bonds. 



In the same county is the wet city of East Liver- 

 pool with a population over three times as large as 

 that of dry Wellsville, and yet the deposits in her 

 Postal Savings Bank amount to only $16,000. 



Furthermore, in two years in dry Wellsville the 

 city has reduced the bonded indebtedness by $50,- 

 000, and this year will pay off $30,000 more of its 

 indebtedness. The past two years dry Wellsville has 

 spent $140,000 in building new churches; $95,000 

 has been spent on a new high-school building, and 

 $15,000 on a public-library building. 



Tlie above tells why in a pecuniary sense 

 it pays to be dry ; and the next clipping 

 from the same paper shows how it pays to 

 be dry and decent. 



BAD BUSINESS; INSURANCE COMPANY DOES NOT 

 WANT SALOONKEEPERS FOR PATRONS. 



An agent of one of the big New York life-insur- 

 ance companies took the application of a saloon- 

 keeper for an endowment policy. The company re- 

 jected the application. The agent wi-ote to the home 

 office and registered a kick because the application 

 was not accepted. In reply the company wrote 

 the agent in part as follows: ■ 



" So far as we are concerned we do not believe 

 risks of this class will contribute to a satisfactory 

 mortality in the first place, and in the second place 

 we do not care to write our business among that 

 class in the community. We think it would do the 

 company harm rather than good, even if it got a 

 few hundred thousand dollars of seemingly good 

 business on the endowment plan every year, if the 

 holders of these policies were saloonkeepers. We 

 do not want the name of being a saloonkeepers' 

 company and of taking the grade of risks which are 

 refused by the leading and conservatively managed 

 companies of the country. 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



" Life-insurance companies are engaged in en- 

 couraging thrift, ijrotecting homes, and in promoting 

 tlic welfare of the individual, the community, and 

 the state. Saloonkeepers — all of them — are engaged 

 in discouraging thrift, destroying homes, and in 

 injuring the individual, the community, and the 

 state. There is nothing in common between us, and 

 we do not even care for business relations with 

 them." 



I am glad to know that now even insur- 

 ance companies do not care to take money 

 that is gotten by selling " booze." 



THE ANTI-CIGARETTE LEAGUE OP AMERICA. 



This is located at 1119 Woman's Temple, 

 Chicago. There are something like forty 

 or fifty different officers, including an ad- 

 visory council. This is headed by P. P. 

 Claxton, U. S. Commissioner of Education, 

 as Honorary President. By the way, is it 

 not remarkably appropriate and fitting that 

 the Commissioner of Education for the 

 United States should be president of this 

 much-needed organization"? In the advisory 

 council we notice the names of Judge Ben 

 B. Lindsey, of Colorado; Thomas A. Edi- 

 son, Wilbur F. Crafts, J. H. Kellogg, M. 

 D. ; Ira Landrith, of Tennessee ; Daniel A. 

 Poling, of Ohio, and a host of good men 

 and Avomen of our nation. Last, but not 

 least, as the superintendent and founder, 

 is the name of Lucy Page Gtaston — just a 

 little woman, but a " live wire," and no 

 mistake. By the way, among the other 

 things that 1 have to thank God for is the 

 fact tliat I have so many good strong 

 friends who are standing away up in the 

 crusade for the betterment of humanity. I 

 am going to let you get a glimpse of a 

 letter just received from Miss Gaston : 



Dear Mr. Boot :■ — I am very glad indeed to know 

 that you keep up your fight on tobacco. The story 

 of your practical work ought to be passed along, and 

 I may find a way to publish it. We have such an 

 abundance of good material, only waiting the finan- 

 cial ability to get it to the world. 



Hoping that we may some time have the oppor- 

 tunity of meeting again, I am 



Yours for clean living, 



Chicago, 111., Aug. 11. Lucv Page Gaston. 



P. S. — I wish you were 20 years younger. My 

 dear mother is in her 84th year, and is as bright as 

 ever. L. P. G. 



When I came to the postscript I had to 

 have a big laugh; and I am still wondering 

 just why she wishes I were " twenty years 

 younger." Please notice just above her 

 signature, " Yours for clean living." Well, 

 now, this clean living is the explanation 

 for her mother being as bright as ever, even 

 up to her 84th year; and I think, also, it is 

 the " clean living " that has enabled me to 

 feel so bright and well this 15th day of 

 August, 1916. 



