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"Fuss-Making Church Members" Gov. STANLEY THANKS Iowa Man For Letter Vol. 18 No. 6 "Fuss-Ma Church I There appears to be a class of Church members in every church and in every community who could be rightly styled as the above caption. "Fuss Making Church members." You can always depend on presence when they anticipate a rough and tumble "fuss" in their churches. But if a spirit of peace and contentment prevail they can not be found with a United States Detective. Because they are looking for things high upon their ho. The "Fuss making Church members" are very careless and forgetful about the growth and development of their churches. They promised to obey the rules and regulations prescribed by their churches. Also to contribute to their support of a faithful evangelical ministry and bring up their children religiously educate and train them up in the way they should go. The growth and usefulness of the churches depend upon their presence and support of the members. Gov. S THA Iowa Man The following is a copy of a letter received by William H. Gray, of Council Bluff, Iowa, from Governor Stanley, in reply to a letter commending him from preventing the lynching of a colored man: OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR. Frankfort, Ky., Jan. 20, 1917. Mr. W. H. Gray, 1322 Ave. A, Co. Bluff, Ia. My Dear Sir: Your kind and generous words of commendation and approval came duly to hand. I regret my inability to express my profound appreciation. As I see it, it is the prime duty of a Chief Executive to maintain the law in its majesty and to enforce it without fear or favor. A lawless mob, defiantly attempting to overthrow courts and to take into its own bloody hands the administration of alleged justice, is not guilty merely of a murder in which hundreds participate without provocation or excuse it is a kind of treason and insurrection against constituted authority—an effort to demolish those WHICH ARE YOU? There are two kinds of people on earth today, Just two kinds of people, no more, I say. Not the sinner and saint, for 'tis well understood, That the good are half bad and the bad are half good. Not the rich and the poor, for to count a man's wealth The Muskogee Cimeter. MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA. SATURDAY FEB. 10 1917. If they neglect it, then it is impossible to expect or to induce the world to accept Christ. If they neglect the public worship habitually how can they consistently commend the Lord to the world? Members who do not attend their churches regularly. Always are grieved about some supposed slight remark that was made in the pulpits. Especially, alleged to have been made by pastors; and they are very much hurt over them in fact, their feeling is spread over a large territory, all the way from their home churches and all over them. The members who run from church to church have little backbone or stability, and eventually discover their weakness as well as their meanness. Such people are somewhat like the young wasp, biggest when first hatched. Always growling, but never growing, if they do, they never become full-grown. The Cadiz Informer. TANLEY NKS For Letter sacred and established insitutions upon which civilization itself is based. It is, however, verv gratifying to know that my good and generous friends are so hearty in their approval of what to my mind, was the simple discharge of a plain duty. Most sincerely yours. A, O, Stanle. —Ex. DeLaancy Undertaking Compa- ny, has just received a beautiful line of Caskets of all kind. It is to our ability to furnish you the very best reasonable prices owing to systematical an up-to-date embalming. We are at your service, for and near. P. M. DeLaancy, President, J. M. DeLancy, Mgr. E. E. Lewis, Sec'y. Not the happy and sad, for the swift flying years Bring each man his laugh and each man his tears. No; the two kinds of people on earth that I mean Are the people who lift and the people who lean Wherever you go you find the world masses Are always divided in just these two classes And, oddly enough, you will find, too, I ween There is only one lifter twenty who lean In which class are you? Are you easing the load Of overtaxed lifters who toil down the road His Honor Judge Otto Rosalsky "While the white man sits today in judgement on the black man, tomorrow the black man will sit in judgment on the white man" Said Judge Rosalsky on Tuesday of last week in the Court of General Sessions in answer to Juror Magee's statement. He continued by saying that any man with Magee's idea should be disqualified from serving on jury. Also, "I shall order that your name be stricken from the list. I think that no man should sit in judgement on a human being in a case involving life and property who has a prejudice against a race. Such a man is not fit to serve as a juror. In this instance a jury was being paneled to pass judgment upon a colored man's life. Magee, as a citizen and a college-bred man, declared his prejudice in the most unwonted manner. Judge Rosalsky, true and tried, just and righteously declared him with equal force and vehemence unfit for jury duty and for recent citizenship. Few men are so declarative as was Magee, few judges as determined to enforce the law in equal justice upon all men alike as Judge Rosalsky., The Judge's sense of duty has an appealing force upon his career now as heretofore and his sense of equal rights before the law, has never been denied. His rebuke of Magee an others was an open exposure to the guilty and a revelation of the true characters of those summoned to fulfill the highest functions of American citizens. Only a judge of Rosalsky's kind, animated with a high sense of duty, patriotism and with due appreciation for law and American customs, would have so boldly and courageously relegated men like Magee and his kind. Is it not true that Magee is an educated jackass, subdued only by the mind of such men in judicial positions as Judge Otto Rosalsky. Amsterdam News. Or are you a leaner who lets others bear Your portion of labor and worry and care? Dr. J. E. Hart, Surgeon Descase of women and Children a specialty. 228 1-2 N. 2nd St. Phone 410 Physician and Surgeon Deseases of women and children a specialty. Residence 904 Denver, Office 200 1-2 S.). Second Phones Resident 462 Office 461 There is a place in society for nearly all classes of men, but there is, and as it should be, no sphere in well ordered society for the mendacious expressions and activities of the hypocrite. The real diplomatist and pacifist are most certainly necessities in any kind of institution in which men of variant temperaments, ideas and ideals, create the sentiment of that institution. But when the diplomatist or the pacifist purchases peace and harmony with the price of rights and privileges to which the people are in all equity entitled, immediately that diplomatist or that pacifist becomes a cringing coward, and his place in the general scheme aimed at justice, equality and symmetry in society, is as if by one stroke, wiped out by the infamy and knavery generated by the transition from the real to the spurious. In whatever line of endeavor the weak-kneed opportunist is found,—the man who reaches conclusions out of fear that he may lose favor in the sight of those who have the power or the influence to divest him of position or place; the man who would for the sake of title or position, attempt to thwart and subvert truth in its broad and uncerring sweep of all the universe, and who leans to the side of profit and wrong as against the side of personal loss and right, when he knows that by so leaning human hopes, ambitions and aspirations will be materially impaired, is at once the most selfish and most of men. Indeed, such a man is "unit to live, and Gods know, unfit to die." Very frequently during recent years, many men of our race have striven hard and long to convince the fathers and mothers of the Race that the colored youth stands in desperate need of an educational training different from that which is essential to the success of the white youth. These efforts to convince, in most instances, are created in the hearts of these men by purely personal pecuniary lusts. They seldom find lodgment there because the man really believes in the doctrine that he praaches, instead, they are head-made and head-conceived principles designed for the purpose of springing the heralds of such doctrines and principles into prominence, in the judgment of that propaganda of white men, who for more reasons than one, are just now very enthusiastic in their support of this peculiar kind of school-training for Negro boys and girls. The men of the Race who are so strenuous in their advocacy of this peculiar education for the Negro live almost entirely in that section of the country known as "the South." It should be readily understood just why the seed of this peculiar training for our boys and girls grows such a healthy plant in this section. Here, it is easily cultivated and developed, and while the seed will grow in the Northern section of the United States when planted and carefully cultivated by an expert sent from the South for that purpose, yet the very soil and the very atmosphere of the South contribute to the nurture, growth and development of seed and plant. The outgrowth of the seed is a hardy plant in the South, easily cared for, and when matured nets enormous profits. This, no doubt, accounts for so many hands that stand ready to engage in its cultivation. The doctrine of this peculiar kind of education, "Industrial Education," so-called, is for the most part urged by our "educators." They run up and down and through the country as fast as their willowy legs can carry that much personified buncombe, singing its virtues to any and all kinds of Negro gatherings, apparently unmindful of the fact that their very presence at such gatherings, is in most cases painfully distressing to their auditors. These "educators" are usually found at the head of "State Schools," where they perform the same kind of services that the wooden circus dolls "Punch and Judy," perform for the humorous and burlesque ventriloquist. Recently, our Oklahoma State School, Langston Agricultural and Normal University, has in some way acquired, or has been acquired by, an advocate and a champion of this doctrine who from this distance, and to our vision, bears a very marked resemblance in every way to "Punch" and "Judy." Since a certain article appeared in an Oklahoma City paper dealing with the ideas of the president of "Langston" concerning this single track education, we find it impossible for us to think of the man without at the same time drawing mental pictures of the little putty dog so commonly seen in display windows of music stores, listening through the horn of a graphophone to "His Master's Voice." The article to which we refer appeared in the Daily Oklahoma of January 7th. It purports to have been written by a "staff correspondent" of that paper, but bears every ear-mark of having been inspired by President Marquess. The correspondent was informed that when Marquess took charge of the school, he soon found that pupils and teachers were puzzling their brains too much over Greek and Latin roots, and not enough over cotton roots. The article then goes on to say that Marquess The Editor at Oklahoma City Condition of Langston Mr. Dungee, Speaks of deplorable condition led the correspondent, who was supposed to be visiting the school at the instance of his paper, into a room that had been used as a chemist's laboratory and remarked to the correspondent: "Imagine a Negro boy, with no certain means of earning a living, beginning the study of chemistry, and spending several years puzzling his brains in an effort to master a subject that cannot be mastered by one white pupil in a thousand and the white pupil has at least thirty centuries of civilization behind him. This room has not been used since I have been here, and I don't know who used it last." Now Marquess knows full well that nobody has or will try, to "master chemistry" in Langton. What he really meant by that statement was that the Negro boy should not study any chemistry at all. Marquess is specializing in cotton roots and should know, as he most certainly does, that some understanding of this science is essential in the making of a finished and thorough agriculturist. Might as well deprive the surgeon of a knowledge of anatomy, or the mariner of a knowledge of the use of the compass. With the soil composed of varied elements, some of which will grow certain plants and vegetation, and some of which will grow others, this latter day professor has of his own volition suffered the laboratory at "Langton" to go un-used. And for the only reason that instruction in chemical formulas and equations, composition and decomposition, for Negro boys and girls there, would extract from his maudlain ambition for prestige among a class of whites of the State, and lessen his chances to profit at the cost of the very soul of the Race. Think of a Negro president of a school for Negroes not only admitting the inferiority, in point of mentality, of the Negro boy and girl to the white boy and girl, but really attempting to prove it. He virtually says that the Negro student cannot learn chemistry because it is hard for the white student to learn. We do not believe that this android professor believes this, but we do believe that he would, if he could, by his hypocrisy, lead the Oklahoma Negro into flames of destruction. "Woe unto you, ye blind guildes, which say, Whosoever shall swear by the temple it is nothing, but whosoever shall swear by the gold of the temple, he is a debtor." Marquess may succeed in endearing himself to the element of whites whom he is striving so hard to please, but we want to say to him here and now that if he believes for one minute that his doctrine is looked upon with favor by the Negroes of this State, he has greatly misjudged us. The Negroes of the State of Oklahoma want equal facilities and equal opportunities in the schools of the State whether they get them or not. They believe that progress, development and expansion in every legitimate direction, is the very language of creation. Nor will we permit Marquess to tether our children as he would a drove of mules. Does not Marquess know that the perspective of the Negro The Editor of this paper was in Oklahoma City the first three days of the week and to our surprise we met number of leaders from over the state, and quite a number of the newspaper men, Dungee, of the Black Dispatch, Smitherman of the Tulsa Star, the editor of the Muskogee Cimeter' and others. There being so many newspaper men there an extra-ordinary session of the Press Association was called instanter and many things of benefit to the race was discussed. Among the matter talked over was the condition of affaire at Langston University and all agreed that things were in a bad shape there. Mr. Dungee, had been out to Langston and made investigation stated that the pupils were in rebellion and that the president had stated to him that the curriculum at Langston was inferior to that of the colored high school at Kansas City Kansas where he formerly taught. Mr. Dungee, stated that things were in deplorable condition at the school. Mr. Smitherman of the Tulsa Star had also made a visit to Langston University and he is not at all enthusiastic over the progress of the PRICE $1.00 A YEAR fathers and mothers of Oklahoma on the horizon of achievement and attainment even for themselves, is no narrower than that horizon itslet? How great then must be their prayerful and earnest solicitude for their children in this regard. We do not wish it understood that we are opposed to vocational training, so-called, for Negro boys and girls. We favor it when given without hampering and injurious designs upon the Race. We favor it when given in a genuinely democratic way. We are opposed to it when it is used as something to hide behind in stabbing and slashing the curricula of our high schools and colleges. And we sincerely believe that this is being done in the majority of cases. If this is not true, then why not make it possible for the Negro boy and girl to learn something more than how to cook, make calico aprons, launder clothes, drive a nail and till the soil. As it is being applied to the Negro youth in most cases, it is fastening upon him a caste nagrant and galling. About two years ago a member of the board of trustees of the Muskogee City Schools in making an address at the Hinton theater on the occasion of the graduation of a class from Manual Training High School for colored children, expressed great surprise at his discovery of the fact that so many more white pupils than Negroes, in proportion to numbers, were taking advantage of vocational training in the Muskogee schools. But the member of that board did not tell his audience that in Central High (white), grouped under the head of vocational training, the white pupil had the privilege of taking art, mechanical training, drawing, electrical engineering, business course, stenography, etc., while in "Manual Training High," and the Manual part of the name is indeed appropriate, a little wood-work, cooking and sewing are taught. Just a few days ago the school board purchased for the use and training of the pupils in "Central High," a large number of new typewriters. There is not one typewriter in either of the colored schools, furnished by the board. Is there any wonder that the white pupils take these courses? But back to "Langston" and Marquess: If we are to exchange or pawn our Godgiven and constitutional rights, as well as our common decency and self-respect for brick and mortar, sewer system, fences and improvements, at "Langston," then let "Langston" go where all matter and substance will melt, with the probable exception of asbestos. We will run our hands into our pockets and send our boys and girls to institutions of learning presided over by instructors who believe in the high theories of our Government; who teach that accomplishment, competency and efficiency coupled with a high moral standard, should have no master to restrain or to punish, and where they can look their instructors in the face without a despicable and humiliating consciousness that those instructors believe them to be basely inferior to "white folks." school in fact he think the reverse is true. It came out that one fellow by the name of Page had been circulating libelous matter about one of the girls who is attending school and that a young man who is courting the girl heard of it and went to the cuss and compelled him to admit that he had lied. Were are informed that the president knew of this and yet the fellow has been kept on the pay roll, and we ask why? It may be that the fellow who makes a scurlious attack on a unprotected girl maybe a past master in cotton roots, and other roots, which will excuse any crime he may commit when the president is judge. In our opinion things are much worse now at Langston than they were under president Page, and probably it would have been better. "To bear the ills we have than fly to other we know not of." It seems now that we have the Helava of a fellow at the head of the institution. We will finish this article next week as it is time to go to press, and we have just arrived at home. The continuation will be rich rare and racy. 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Smith and points beyond.....6:30 p. m. No. 6 From Pawhuska and Tulsa.....10:40 a. m. No. 2 Wichita, Ark. City, and Tulsa.....6.15 p. m. WESTBOUND No. 1 For Tulsa, Ark City and Wichita.....8:00 a. m No. 5 For Tulsa and Pawhuska.....5:10 p. m. No. 7 From Ft. Smith and points beyond.....11:45 p. m. No. (Motor Tra n) From Ft. Smith and points beyond.....7:30 p. m. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION Phone PBX 4260 Muskogee, Oklahoma. Comment is unnecessary regarding this story from the Kalamazoo Advocate: In an advertisement appearing in the Sunday Free Press just before the election, S. S. Kresge, proprietor of a chain of five and ten cent stores in Michigan, including the one in Kalamazoo, stated that in case Michigan went "dry" that it would add 25 per cent to the efficiency of his employees. Well, the state is dry. The Advocate now suggests that the pay of said employees be raised 25 per cent. That, as The Advocate, understands it, would mean an increase for the girl workers from $5 to $6.25 per week. This would help Kalamazoo and surely the man who was so keen to turn over THE FUNNY SIDE OF PROHIBITION [St. Louis Globe-Democrat.] But Mr. Bryan cannot defend his resignation except on the ground that it was he and not the President who "kept the country out of war." [Philadelphia Enquirer.] Each man in Virginia is permitted to import one gallon of whisky each month. And that's prohibition! We are candid enough to admit that Bryan's prediction of a Democratic victory is a little disquieting. [Luke McLuke, Cincinnati Enquirer.] King Cole lives at Selma, Ala.; but he dassen't call for his bowl. If he did, the authorities would pinch him for advertising Hicker, by Hek. Woman—"Perhaps you would like a little whisky?" Tramp—"Ah, mum—you remind me of my good old mother—in Maine!" his home to Billy Sunday while the individual was in Detroit, would no hostitate in raising salaries, particularly now that the girls have added so much to their efficiency. Kalamazoo people will be very glad to learn that the salaries have been increased and hopes that there will be no unnecessary delay. It must be hard work to stand behind a counter in the five and ten all day until 9 o'clock on Saturday night and surely the added salary will be greatly appreciated by the girls employed there. The next legislature will be asked to consider an act fixing a minimum living wage for women. Eight dollars would be a safe, fair and sane amount according to local labor unionists. AMERICAN ISSUE GUILTY OF LIBELING ATTORNEY The following account from the St. Louis (Mo.) Star brings to mind the moss-grown saying about people in glass houses, and reminds our readers that there are various kinds of law breakers: The recent verdict of $8,583 as libel damages against the American issue, a prohibition publication and official organ of the Anti-Saloon League, and in favor of Thomas L. Sloan, an attorney of Pender, Neb., calls to mind a similar verdict for damages handed down in 1910. Three assistants of Rev. P. A. Baker, at that time general superintendent of the Anti-Saloon League of America, were convicted of libel in 1910 and the jury assessed a verdict of $4,500 against them and their associates. It was charged they libeled Lleut. E. M. Reeve of the United States Army. The American issue is the organ of the Anti-Saloon League. It is printed at Westerville, Ohio. Sloan obtained his verdict in the United States District Court of Columbus. Ohio, September 29. He alleged the paper had made damaging statements against him—St. Louis (Mo.) Star. W. H. Twine.....Editor P. R. Price.....Associate Editor R. D. Nickens.....Associate Editor W. H. Twine, Jr.....Manager R. H. Twine.....Collector THE N. A. C. W. MEMBER NATIONAL NEGRO PRESS ASSOCIATION The Cimeter is the only Republican paper in the City of Muskogee. The daily Phoenix is sometimes Republican and sometimes independent but at the present time it claims to be in- dependent, such a changing is not worth three whoops in h... to any political party and yet Bixby, its editor, got rich at the Republican pie counter. What base ingratiate. NOTICE BY PUBLICATION In the District Count of Muskogee County, State of Oklahoma: Viola Brown, Plaintiff. vs. No. 5504 Harry Brown Defendant Harry Brown, Defendant The defentant Harry Brown, will take notice that he has been sued in the above named Court by the plaintiff, Viola Brown, for Divorce for Desertion and that unless he answer the partition of the plaintiff, Viola Brown, on or before the 12th day of March, 1917 the allegations set forth in said petition will be taken as confessed and judgment rendered accordingly In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said District Court this the 23rd day of January, 1917. C. H. Shaffer, Court Clerk, By Tom L. Fuller, Deputy, Clerk, By Tom L. Fuller, Deputy, Clerk, Geo. W. Parker, Attorney for Plaintiff. NOTICE BY PUBLICATION. In the District Court of Muskogee County, State of Oklahoma: No. 5498 H. Foutch Plaintiff, Vs. Neter Foutch Defendant. The defendant Netter Foutch, will take NOTICE that she has been sued in the above named Court by the plaintiff, H Foutch, for Divorce, by reason of Desertion and that unless she answer the petition of the plaintiff, H Foutch on or before the 5 day of March, 1917, the allegations set forth in said petition will be taken as confessed and judgment rendered accordingly. In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of sald District Court this the 19 day of January, 1917 C. H. Shaffer, Court Clerk, By Tom L. Fuller Deputy Clerk Geo. W. Parker, Attorney-for Plaintiff. NOTICE BY PUBLICATION. In the Superior Court yf Muskogee County, Oklahoma. No. 6540. Lula Washington. Vs. Phillip Washington Defendant. The defendant, Phillip Washington will take notice that he has been sued in the above named Court by the Plaintiff, Lula Washington for Divorce, and that unless he answer the petition filed by the Plaintiff alleging accersoin and gross neglect of duty on or before the 23rd day of March 1917 the allegations contained in said petition will be taken as true and confessed and judgement rendered accordingly. In Witness Whereof, I have set my hand as Clerk of said Court and affixed the seal thereof, this the 3rd day of February 1917. C. H. Shaffer, Court Clerk By E. A. Hill, B. M. Hatton, Attoney—for Plaintiff. IT'S EASY SAILING! MINISTER OF THE GOSPEL ASSAILS "BILLY" SUNDAY CONFISCATION WITHOUT COMPENSATION JUSTICE PUBLIC OPINION 1,600,000 EMPLOYEES OUT OF JOBS CONFISCATION OF $800,000,000 OF LAWFUL PROPERTY WITHOUT COMPENSATION 325,000,000 REVENUE ANNUALLY George Detrick In the New York American appeared the following account of Rev. Joseph McMahon's attack upon the methods of Billy Sunday, Prohibition circus performer: "I honestly doubt the sincerity of Billy Sunday's motives. I question the worth of his conversions. The fact that he conducts the business of the Lord on a strictly business basis is, of course, his own affair. But no one can call his mob psychology, or his hypnotic influence over vast crowds—real religion." Before a fashionable audience of women, with a scattering of clergy, the Rev. Joseph H. McMahon, pastor of Our Lady of Lourdes, Roman Catholic Church, yesterday gave his opinion of Billy Sunday and his work in no uncertain terms. The ballroom at Delmonico's was crowded with attentive listeners. The occasion of the address was one of the mid-winter meetings conducted by the Catholic Library Association. Dr. McMahon sketched one of the revivalist's meetings, and said: "Nothing can stop the stream of converts from hitting the sawdust trail under these circumstances. Fifteen hundred trained ushers are watching their faces, waiting for 'favorable symptoms.' So the mystery of conversion is accomplished." Dr. McMahon explained that the unusual and grotesque, as Billy Sunday emphasized them, were in large part the methods of great revivalists of the Church in past ages. THE FUNNY SIDE OF PROHIBITION Some day the Honorable Senate will wake up and discover that that district prohibition law applies to booze in the Senate Office Building! Billy Sunday is booked solid for three years, say the newspapers. Billy and Charlie Chaplin are easily the leaders of the amusement world. That a boom for Bryan for President in 1920 has been started may not be surprising, but it is astonishing to have him put forward as a "logical candidate." Sour Grape Notes. See that Mr. Eryan has sounded a lot of new keynotes for the guidance of the Democratic party. Don't sound good. Better have them yodled. CONFISCATION Sunday Lives in Luxury. Father McMahon referred to St. Vincent Ferror, a revivalist of the Franciscan Order, who in 1399 wandered through Europe with an organization similar to Sunday's preaching and making converts for the Church. He then continued: "There is the contrast of the luxurious home which Sunday always establishes for himself in every city he visits as compared to the bleak austerity of the middle age monasteries. Sunday takes his own cook with him, his valet and a masseur to rub him after his sermon is finished. He spends his leisure at baseball games and in his automobile. "St. Vincent Ferrer did not have trained ushers to take up his collections. He had no financial status in the credits of his day that totaled close to $800,000, the present Dun and Bradstreet rating of Billy Sunday. I tell you it is not absurd to question the motives of a religion which seems to hold nothing more tangible than the mere gathering of money. "We can not quarrel with Billy Sunday over the perfection of his machine. Our objections are much deeper than that. I maintain that the Gospel of Sunday is not the Gospel of Christ. He destroys without bullying up. Those who are fed on his highly spiced brand of religion, can not content themselves with the ordinary commonplace services of their church after he has gone." FIGURES FOR DRYS In 1916 the United States internal revenues from the tax on spirits and fermented liquors amounted to $147,453,542. This little item, in the present and prospective condition of the Treasury, should be of considerable interest to the statesmen in Congress, be they sincere believers in prohibition or merely keen-eyed watchers of the jumping of the cat, who favor national prohibition. Desperately searching for new sources of revenue, the Government is in no position to throw away this old and not offensive one.—New York Times. "Prohibition Prohibits." Minneapolis Labor Record ] Johnny Whipple used to sell good Rye Until the County voted dry; And now the people come to buy Some booze that tastes like Lewis lyc. "Prohibition Prohibits." They pay two dollars for a quart That makes them fight and makes the snort, And makes them sleep to wake in court; But John should care he's never short. "Prohibition Prohibits." Since he quit selling good old ale, His busy raking in the kale And all his patrons go to jail; Yet still the boob reformers wall, "Prohibition Prohibits." WINE FOR THE FRENCH ARMY This is just a part of the immense amount of wine consumed by French soldiers at the front. Wine forms an important part of the French soldiers' daily rations. Has it impaired his efficiency? It has not! TAKES BATH IN BEER IN MAINE To prove how "wet," Maine, the original "dry" state, is, read this account from Portland, to the New York American: "I'd heard of folk taking a bath in liquor, but I never saw it done before," said Deputy Sheriff Hunt, when he returned from a liquor seizing expedition with the Deputy Mayor, after taking a keg of beer from the home of Michael Serenio of Hampshire street. The water had frozen in the pipes at the Serenio home and Mrs. Serenio was busily engaged in bathing the children in a pail of beer. The deputies seized the impromptu bath tub, its contents and a keg besides. This is one of the freak developments of the State-wide enforcement of Maine's liquor law. MORE DRINKING IN "DRY" DES MOINES Drunkenness Arrests Increase After Iowa Capital Turns Prohibition A dispatch from "dry" Des Molines, Ia., to the Chicago Trunk resistor. Police department statified made public today revealed that there were more arrests during 1915 for intoxication than during 1915. Total arrests for drunkenness in 1916 were announced by the department. LIPS THAT TOUCH CHOCOLATE SHALL NOT TOUCH MINE Careful, Girls: New York Scientist Says the Brown-Candy is a Mild Intoxicant and If You Eat Enough You May Get "Lit" Some time ago, a citizen made the startling discovery that the alcohol produced by folder fermenting in a cow's stomach produces a thirst for liquid among "bottle babies." And now comes a more startling find—that all who eat chocolate candy to excess are incipient drunkards. But let the Terre Haute Star tell it in this story, dated New York City: Are you a chocolate cater? Have you ever felt you could "just live on chocolates"? Have you ever had a mad craving for them? Are you the type of person who can't pass a window of freshly-made caramels without coming out of the store with a little box tucked securely under your arm? That Taste for Chocolates. Have you ever stopped to consider that the thing that prompts you to buy the little box of caramels may be the same thing that causes a man to stop for an alcoholic stimulant? This is the suggestion of Dr. Louis E. Bisch, the medical psychologist, who started the new psychological laboratory connected to the New York Police Department. whose work brings him in contact with many of the most unusual creatures that the city produces, declares that there is rather strong intoxicant E FRENCH ARMY Photo Comr. righted by American P. This is just a part of the immense army French soldiers at the front. Wine forms soldier's daily rations. Has it impaired THE FUNNY SIDE OF PROHIBITION And on the other hand there are some Montana newspapers with such "dry" tendencies that it is a wonder they do not suffer spontaneous combustion. The Prohibitionist candidate for President, J. Frank Hanly, prophesies for himself a vote of more than 1,000, 000. This is dry humor, always calyx lated to whet the appetite for more. [Blinghampton Press.] Bryan can sympathize with Brooklyn. He's taken part in three world series, and he always got the little end of the purse. AN OFFICIAL STEW Tennessee has been officially dry for several years, but since that time Tennessee has been officially and actually drunk. BELL-RINGERS GETTING PARTICULAR? [Los Angeles Times.] We no longer hear the name of Colonel Bryan coupled with the bellringers of the Chautauqua Circuit. A MODEL YOUTH He never drinks a drop, they say, He is a model lad. He throws a cigarette away, He has no habits bad. He never swears, he never chews, He couldn't e'en say dam. He doesn't care to hit the booze, He is his mamma's lamb. He never quaffs a thing but milk, Nor straws from out the fold, His morals are as fine as silk— He's only one year old. —Harry V. Martin, in "The Lamb," New York City. in chocolate. His theory is that the carbohydrates in chocolate oxidize quickly in the process of digestion and form a certain amount of alcohol. So in this way, though, of course, to a milder degree, chocolate, if eaten in sufficiently large quantities, will bring on a state of intoxication analogous to that of whisky. Ahhah! Here's Why! It is for this reason that so many men take to eating chocolates after they have given up heavy drinking. For the intoxicant in the chocolate really supplies to their nervous system the alcohol that they have been accustomed to and enables them to do without their stimulant. The proprietor of one of New York's largest candy stores recently went so far as to say that he believed the men in that city ate just as much candy as the women, but it was difficult to speak with certainty since they were less frank about it. Nevertheless, he insisted he could usually "spot the masculine candy enter" as the man who came into the store rather sheepshish and in a subdued whisper bought a small bag of candy, insisting that it was for his wife, mother or sister. And just as the man who drinks alone is the worst drunkard of them all, so the man who eats candy in secret is the worst "candy drunk" of them all. Count of wine consumed be an important part of the French and his efficiency? It has not! DRUGGED WHISKEY KILLS BRAKEMAN "Dry" Des Moines Bootleg LIQUOR Results In Speedy The dire effect of "bootleg" wuskey sold in prohibition territory is evident from the following story taken from the Des Moines Register and Leader: Dr. W. H. McCartney received a call from a house at Thirtieth and Walnut streets just before 9 o'clock last night that a man was ill there. When he arrived he found Chauncey Lowry, 25 years old, a brakeman for the Fort Dodge, Des Moines & Southern railroad living at Boone, blue in the face and apparently suffering from lack of respiration. Lowry was placed in the ambulance and rushed to the Methodist hospital, but died before reaching there. A stomach pump was used to remove the contents of his stomach which revealed a large quantity of intoxicants, but Dr. McCartney declared that the man had died from some kind of drug. Coroner Claude Koons, who was called to take charge of the body, ordered it removed to Newlin's undertaking establishment and hopes to be able to ascertain the nature of the drug which caused his death in an autopsy which he will conduct today. The coroner and Dr. McCartney were told at the house where the dying man was found that he had been brought there by two Negroes early in the afternoon. They had said that the man was drunk and should be put to bed. They disclaimed any knowledge of the men who brought Lowry to the house. The dead man was the son of E. H. Lowry, of Boone. Mr. Lowry was notified of his son's death and came to Des Moines at 9 o'clock last night. It was learned that young Lowry came to Des Moines about 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon. Observing the success of the Billy Sunday methods in the matter of conversation, Puck arises to suggest that the attempt be made to apply the same methods to other church ceremonies and activities, proposing the following formulas: Pastor (christening infant): "What do you want to call this hunk of excess baggage, Bo?" Presiding Parson: "What miserable mutt giveth this skirt to be married to this gink?" The Bride's Father: "I'm the guy." Industrious Usher: "Slide you ice carts! Slidet!" Passing the Plate: "Come across with the iron men, you low-life tightwads!" Sunday-school Superintendent: "All of you little divers that want to swat Satan stand on one leg." YOST LAW IS BIG FAILURE WEST VIRGINIA SOLONS TO CONSIDER ITS AMENDMENT LIQUOR APLENTY All Parties Admit "Dry" Statute Does Not Prohibit and Many Revisions Are Suggested. Including Policy to Permit Shipment by Express West Virginia is beginning to realize the failure of the Yost Prohibition Law, and during the present legislative session an effort will be made to make "dry" West Virginia less "wet." Despite the drastic provisions of the Yost law, great quantities of liquor have poured into the state. The Huntington (W. Vn.) Advertiser says: It is beginning to be apparent that the session of the West Virginia legislature which began early in January will give considerable attention to the proposed amendment of the Yost prohibition law. In fact, many people believe that prohibition legislation will rank second in importance only to the consideration of the Virginia debt. It is pretty generally conceded that the existing law has failed well nigh completely of its purpose. The immense proportions of the suitcase brigade to and from Kentucky and Ohio oases for two weeks before Christmas, and its quite respectable proportions at other periods at the year have convinced even the friends of the Yost law that a change of some sort must be made in the law. A conservative estimate is that forty thousand gallons of intoxicants practically all whiskey, was carried out of Carlettsburg alone into West Virginia during the two weeks before Christmas. Practically all of this was brought into West Virginia by citizens of the state who had gone to the Kentucky town for the purpose of obtaining the license. Prove Annovance. In fact, the presence of the salt cases and other containers upon trains and cars has proven an annoyance of serious proportions to other travelers than those in search of intoxicants. The Cheosapakee & Ohio railroad, even before the holiday season, found # advisable to institute a "hoose Special" from the Kentucky coast to Cabin Creek, to relieve their other main line trains of the nuisance. One of the leading and most active "dry" workers in Huntington remarked that, if the present condition was to continue, for his own part, he would prefer the open saloon in the state, and declared the law in need of drastic revision. There is another large element that would remove the barrier against shipments of intoxicants from "west" states into West Virginia, and permit booze to be shipped in by express or freight under certain limitations, or without limitations. Argue for Shipments. This class points out that the law against shipments has not prevented liquor coming into the state, and points to the "Boone Special" and the outrage brigades as corollary. They contend that, were even unlawful shipments allowed, no more whiskey would be brought into the state than is at present the case, although they admit the importation of beer and wines might increase. In view of the generally expressed opinion that the present law has failed of its purpose, and the general belief that it must be changed, and the wide difference of opinion as to the respects in which it should be changed, it is entirely likely that prohibition will outage much of the time of the coming legislative session. THOU SHALT NOT EAT, DRINK, SMOKE, READ, CHEW, ENJOY. SMILE, LAUGH, WRITE, CREATE; THOU SHALT DO ONLY THAT WHICH IS PRESCRIBED BY LAW. GOOD BYE, CRUEL WORLD IM NO GOOD THE WAY I AM. I MAY AS WELL BE DEAD. PROHIBITION FOR OTHERS AS A WOMAN SEES IT Rheta Childe Dorr. Writing in the New York Evening Mail, Declare Men Who Vote "Dry" Do Not Want Law To Apply To Themselves A woman writer for the New York Evening Mail, Rheta Childe Dorr, sums up the entire history of prohibition, in a few words. She writes: Nationwide prohibition, we are told, will be resolved in the United States within ten years. State after state has "gone dry," until nearly half the country is within the prohibition ranks. Whether a federal prohibition amendment is passed or not, it is said, the saloon will be put out of every one of the states before long. West Virginia went dry this year and around Christmas time, according to press dispatches, the express companies doing business in the state were so swamped with packages of alcoholic drinks that all other traffic for a time was held up. As for Kansas, which has been dry for years, it adds importantly to the revenues of the neighborhood state of Missouri by a steady patronage of liquor exporting establishments. Comment on the "dry" state of Georgia, the voters of it works (1) well. "How do you like precaution?" a citizen of Seattle (was asked. "Splendidly," was the reply. "The law allows us to import a definite amount each month. So much whisky, so much wine, so much beer; a generous amount as far as ordinary drinkers are concerned." THE FUNNY SIDE OF PROHISITION Ain't It the Truth? [Morning Telegraph, N. Y. City.] No reformer is recognized as a great "success" until his annual revenue exceeds $3,000. But there are a lot of real decent preachers of the Gospel who can't collect $500 a year. Calling His Bluff. The Webb-Kenyon law, which prohibits the shipping of beer, wines and liquors into prohibition states has been uphold by the United States Supreme Court. Good for the Supreme Court. The "dry" hypocrite who preaches prohibition and has a decaparate on the rideboard and a case in the cellar, will have to be honest. He will have to quit talking and wooing "dry" or do without his stimulants. If Bryan's advocacy had the same effect on moral issues that it had on political issues all the evangelists in the country will be needed for uphill work? If people will vote as they drink there will not be such a hate and cry for prohibition. They May Yet (Luke M. Minka, Chathamian Enquirer) If some of the Volunteers had their way there would be a law compulsions as to come into the world fully clothed. The Original Dry State Maine isn't interested in the Webb-Kennon bill, having discovered how to be probation and still get plenty of drink without sending out alter it. West Virginia went dry this year, and around Christmas time, according to press dispatches, the express companies doing business in the state were so swamped with packages of alcoholic drinks that all other traffic for a time, was held up. As for Kansas, which has been dry for years, it adds importantly to the revenues of the neighboring state of Missouri by a steady patronage of honor exporting establishments. Comment on the "dry" state of Georgia, the voters of which demand prohibition for the District of Columbia, is superfluous. There are so many open saloons in that state that no one even pretends that the law is enforced. What is one to think except that the men who vote for prohibition really want it for every one except them-selves! "SAVE THE GIRL" IN DRY PORTLAND Women's Prohibition Club Says Stenographers Are Sent For Liquor The Portland Oregonian tells how Prohibition works in "dry" Oregon: The Women's Prohibition Club recently opened hostilities on business men who allow their young women employees to go to the express office to get the employer's monthly shipments of liquor, and a worse war will be waged on those who use their stenographer's name to get more than their legal share. Stenographers who appear for packages may be watched. "I have reason to believe," said Mrs. Ada Unch, who presided, "that many of the young women are asked by their employers for the use of their names. Of course, the man pays for it, but we should take some action." It was inculcated that many girls who would not think of getting liquor for themselves are frightened into it by the danger of the loss of their positions. District Attorney Evans will be notified of the club's action and consulted as to how the women may host act. Another thing to be investigated will be the American Temperature Association, which Mrs. Ursuth was but a part of "the members of the liquor interests" not throughout the country. They will require why, for how much and for what sort of work the courthand branch has advertised for women employed in the "female help wanted" columns of the local newspaper. SOLONS WILL HESITATE BEFORE ADOPTING PROHIBITION NEEDS THE CASH Government Can Ill Afford To Lose Money From Liquor Sources As It Is In Poor Financial Condition. According To Congressman Fitzgerald Congress will consider long before indorsing prohibition, declares Arthur W. Dunn, Washington correspondent of the Memphis (Tenn.) Herald. The present financial condition of the federal treasury gives added importance to the quarter-billion dollar internal revenue derived each year from the liquor industry. A Financial Question. The following opinion was expressed in the dispatch: Even if it were possible to pass nation-wide prohibition laws at the present time and enforce them it is doubtful whether the financial condition of the government might not cause men in control to hesitate about taking such a sien. The condition of the federal finances, according to Chairman Fitzgerald of the house appropriation committee, is such as might prevent any hesitation which will cut off the revenue, although it has no effect whatever upon the demand of congress for additional appropriations, nor has it in any way stopped the onward sweep of extravagance in government expenditures. The two hundred and fifty millions received from liquor taxes and licenses can be spared from the government revenues at the present time. SAYS SIN LIES ONLY IN EXCESS Bishop Daniel Tuttle Is Against Prohibition and Loc- cal Option The following dispatch is from St. Louis (Mo.) to the Cincinnati Times- Star: Hisham Daniel S. Tuttle of the Episcopal Diocese of St. Louis, in a message to the people on the occasion of his eighth birthday, said: "Twooth-fifth, as I understand it, dreams a sain to make Liquor or to sell Liquor. It does not seem to me that a sain lies THE FUNNY SIDE OF PROHIBITION Wanna Drive All To Drink? New York v. Virginia. I prohibitable to get enough men to work the coal mines Mr. Bryan might go down there and lend a hand. We Give it Up. Why is it that when a man receives a good wallop and is turned down when he seeks a nomination, he sutches discovers that the Liquor Traf. is an evil Thing and goes over to the Prohibition ranks? No Wonder He Wants New Deal. Indianapolis star. I nomic problems and will turn his attention to moral issues. Not have settled any economic problem to switch his effects. Another reform move has taken hold The Louisville Courier-Journal has of Decatur. This time it is the cigarette and the Ministerial Association is backing a paid reformer in starting an Internal Revenue agent who is more trouble by making an effort to assigned to duty in Georgia says that take another personal right away it is impossible to catch moonshiners from the citizens of this city. The Ministerial Association might better let the paid cigarette reformer go his way. They would accomplish more by Federal agents, but on the contrary an effort to learn what conditions to protect the makers of whisky. In such list in Decatur that cause a mother to counties moonshine stills are running solecit men for a fourteen-year-old night and day. Federal officers must avoid county officers if they would nourish a hope of detecting proprietor The Ministerial Association is initors of illicit stills. print every few weeks as backing some reform move brought to us by some reformer who is paid for the work. They are ready at all times to is called, can not be abolished by leg- proach sermons on fanatic reform relative enactment, as the large li- movements, but there isn't one of them who will go out among the poor, illi- tle people of this city to study con- ditions and find a remedy to better them morally or financially. If the ministers of this city were sincere in this work. If instead of promoting "forced reform" on the community as a whole, they would visit the needy and the illiterate and The situation is familiar in other States. The local "still house," as it work. They are ready at all times to is called, can not be abolished by leg- proach sermons on fanatic reform relative enactment, as the large li- movements, but there isn't one of them who will go out among the poor, illi- tle people of this city to study con- ditions and find a remedy to better them morally or financially. If the ministers of this city were sincere in this work. If instead of promoting "forced reform" on the community as a whole, they would visit the needy and the illiterate and make an honest effort to help them, they might consider themselves worth while. If the ministers indulged in this kind of Christian work, it might have been possible for them to save the little fourteen-year-old girl from the ravages of eighteen or twenty men in two days. It might have been possible for them to show the mother and the aunt of that little girl that right way to live. And if they had, the city of Decatur would be saved a stain second to none in Illinois and the little girl, and the mother, and the aunt probably would be good citizens, lying a virtuous life instead of on the way to the penitentiary. Copy "Billy" Sunday. But the ministers of Decatur don't practical work. They preach sensational, reform sermons of the Billy Sunday style, so they can get scarce heads in Decatur's deserved The fact is, we have good laws in discouraged estimate enterprise this state governing the sale of to we shall a hard blow, but the book bacco and cigarettes to boys. See that makers continued to fatten on the faire law is enforced and we will have vor of the police and the folly of the no use for Dr. Dora Martin and he biker in gambling places which posted fake Anti-Cigarette League. The local odds on races all the way from Winnipeg ministers can better utilise their time to Kingston. looking into the moral and physical Where the abstinence of distressing conditions of the illiterate people off's contemplated the question for the this city. Let the parents take care thence adroicate of the utilit to con- of their cigarette smoking boys—The slider is not whether distillers and sacatur (ILL) Labor World. local owners can be put out of busi- Rosa Ospola, 30 years old, and her four daughters. The little local "still" house is a three children are married to the dearest. The large and a known quantity in the fendants in a charge of selling big lots. The equation of the seeder for true and contrary to law, filed by Boose Child, universal temperance, or the advocate Ab Day. War On Cigarettes is Latest Editor Tells Them To Go Down and Help the Poor To Rise, If They Want To Do Good Another reform move has taken hold of Decatur. This time it is the cigarette, and the Ministerial Association is backing a paid reformer in starting more trouble by making an effort to take another personal right away from the citizens of this city. The Ministerial Association might better let the paid cigarette reformer go her way. They would accomplish more by an effort to learn what conditions exist in Decatur that cause a mother to solicit men for a fourteen-year-old teacher. This is Coaking "Em. The Ministerial Association is in print every few weeks as backing some reform more brought to us by some reformer who is paid for the work. They are ready at all times to preach sermons on fanatic reform movements, but there isn't one of them who will go out among the poor, illiterate people of this city to study conditions and find a remedy to better them morally or financially. If the ministers of this city were sincere in this work, if instead of promoting "forced reform" on the community as a whole, they would visit the needy and the illiterate and make an honest effort to help them they might consider themselves worth while. If the ministers indulged in this kind of Christian work, it might have been possible for them to save the little fourteen-year-old girl from the ravages of eighteen or twenty men in two days. It might have been possible for them to show the mother and the aunt of that little girl that right way to live. And if they had, the city of Decatur would be saved a stain second to none in Illinois and the little girl, and the mother, and the aunt, probably would be good citizens, living a virtuous life instead of on the way to the penitentiary. Copy "Billy" Sunday. Put the ministers of Decatur don't want practical work. They preach sensational, reform sermons of the Dilly Sunday style, so they can get scare heads in Decatur's delightful daily papers. Now they have taken on the task, to help a paid reformer, of saving the boys from cigarette smoking, and we wish to say, that if a boy's parents can't keep him from smoking cigarettes, the Ministerial Association and Dr. Dora Martin, the paid reformer of the Anti-Cigarette League, stands but little chance of doing much for him. The fac. is, we have good laws in this state governing the sale of tobacco and cigarettes to boys. See that the law is enforced and we will have no use for Dr. Dora Martin and her fake Anti-Cigarette Leagues. The local ministers can better utilize their time looking into the moral and physical conditions of the filiterate people of this city. Let the parents take care of their cigarette smoking boys.—Decatur (Ill.) Labor World. MOTHER AND CHILDREN HELD AS BOOTLEGERS This is from the Des Moines Tribune, in "dry" Iowa: Rosa Copola, 30 years old, and her three children are named as the de- fendants in a charge of selling liquor contrary to law, filed by Boose Chief Ab Day. Internal Revenue Agent Says CountyAuthorities Will Not Cooperate With Federal Sleuths Argument Against National Prohibition in This Story this to say about Dry Georgia: An internal revenue agent who is assigned to duty in Georgia says that it is impossible to catch moonshiners in some of the counties because the county officers will not co-operate with Federal agents, but on the contrary protect the makers of whiskey. In such counties moonshine stills are running night and day. Federal officers must avoid county officers if they would nourish a hope of detecting proprietors of illicit stills. The situation is familiar in other states. The local "still house," as it is called, can not be abolished by legislative enactment, as the large licensed and regulated distilleries might. It can be hidden, behind the brush and behind the contours of sympathetic sheriffs, and must be found before it can be closed or destroyed. It is a simple, cheap outfit which can be replaced and put again into operation when the backs of officers are turned. Confiscation. The reputable distillery, operated under the law, and paying its part toward the expenses of the state and county governments; contributing to the schools, the roads and to occasional enterprises planned for the public benefit, may be put off of the map by the making of a law. It is not going to slink in the woods with the fox, burrow in the ground with the woodchuck, or "fix" the county officers with part of the proceeds of its business. There's an end of distilling as a large business when there is an end of its legalized distillery, but the obscure neighborhood whisky factory may continue. The elements entering into the makeup of whisky are home grown and easily secured. A sympathetic neighborhood, even where the county officers are austere and incorruptible, acts as a network of protective alarm signals for the moonshiner. Where laws have been passed to publish bookmaking at race tracks, and where there has been an effort to enforce the laws, public gambling on races has ended, but the concealed, more deadly down-town, all-the-year room has not been closed. The races were ended in some states. The revenues derived from them were stopped. The breeding of horses was also encouraged. Estimate enterprise was dealt a hard blow, but the bookmakers continued to fatten on the flavor of the police and the folly of the fighter in gambling places which posted odds on races all the way from Winnipeg to Kingston. Where the abolishment of distilling is contemplated the question for the sincere advocate of the unfit to consider is not whether distillers and saloon owners can be not out of bush- ness, but whether the making and selling of intoxicants can be ended by putting the distillers out of business, and securing upon the zilhar of social welfare the substantial revenues which arise from a legalised and regulated wholesale and retail distribution of intoxicants. The little local "still house" is a large and a known quantity in the equation of the soaker for true and universal temperance, or the advocate of universal abstinence.