Muskogee Cimeter

That segregation ordinance introduced in the City Council recently is without cause or reason and is the devil's broth served by the most prejudiced unpatriotic minion of that ever disgraced a public office. We say there is no cause for the ordinance because Negroes cannot now purchase property in white neighborhoods. (Unless they are minors.) The originators of the proposed law are playing a game of cheap politics and making a grand-stand play at the expense of the Negro. Real big, aggressive and progressive white men are proud of the efforts the Negro is making to improve his condition and will not place a single obstacle in his path, but always gives him a helping hand. It is the cowardly slacker in the body politic that wears a white skin, but has a heart as black as hell and a dagger in his hand to stab the Negro. The slacker is not a real belongs to that class of immoral lepers who join in the mobbing of Negro males Dante in his description of hell had this kind of monstrosity in view, because is so full of them that their pedal extremities stick out of the window. While our boys are rushing to join the colors and offering their lives to protect the flag, placing their lives on the altar for the country's good, these cowardly slackers are passing laws to impose upon, degrade and steal the liberty of the fathers and mothers of the brave, gallant and patriotic soldier boys. We don't believe that the better element of the white people of our city approve of this attempt to confiscate property, but whether they do or not it is a duty of the Negro to proceed along safe and sane lines, prepare and fight. Our boys at the front will harlots until hell freezes over and continue the battle on the Okmulgee, Okla., May 31, 1917. To the Stockholders of the Ad- Without taking any part in the Manuel controversy we desire to go on record as saying that Judge Enloe Vernor, our County Judge, has the confidence and respect of the citizenship of this County regardless of political leanings. He is a splendid official and all who have business in his court get a square deal no matter what their race, color or creed may be. The Negro lawyer gets the same courtesy in this court as other lawyers. The colored people of the County have the greatest confidence in Judge Vernor because he always gave them a square deal. We have known the Judge for many years and knew him long before he went upon the bench and we know he has always been fair with our people, many of whom were his clients in U. S. days. W. Scott Brown, W. H. Twine, Jr., Prof. S. E. Williams, C. Byard, Eddie Isby, Herman Austin and Prof. Dade, all of Muskogee, passed examination at Fort Sill and will go to the officers' training camp at Des Moines, Iowa. Muskogee will watch these yuong men and will be proud of the record they make, because we know they will make good and wherever fortune sends them they will have the prayer and good wishes of the citizenship of their home town. Negroes who failed to register are very few, but there are some under the advice of broken-down political hacks and preachers, failed to do their duty and when they are arrested as slackers the cusses responsible should and will be arrested with them and we will take pleasure in seeing to it that the real curs in dev- The Muskogee Cimeter. MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA. SATURDAY JUNE. 16 1917. ams Oil, Gas and Development Co. : Notice is hereby given that, by virtue of authority vested in me as President of The Adams Oil, Gas & Development Company, a special meeting of the stockholders of said company is hereby called to assemble at Washington, D. C., (Street and number to be designated upon applying to the Secretary or President at N. 1113 You St., N. W. Washington, D. C.), on Thursday evening, June 14, 1917 at 8:30 p. m., for transacting the following business: 1. To amend Par. three (3) of the Articles of Incorporation of said Company as to re-establish a main office of said Company in Oklahoma, and to abolish Washington, D. C., as a branch office altogether. 2. To change the present fiscal year of the Company to the calendar year beginning Jan. 1st and ending Dec. 31st of each year. To consider and act upon the matter of holding an Annual Meeting of the stockholders of said Company immediately following an adjournment of the special meeting called herein, for the purpose of electing Directors of said Company to serve until Dec. 31, 1917, should the fiscal year be changed to the calendar year, beginning Jan. 1st 4. For considering and acting and ending Dec. 31st of ecah year, upon such other matters as are deemed timely and of special interest to the said Company. Do you get up at night? Sanol is surely the best for all kidney or bladderdroughtles. Sanol gives relief in 24 hours from all backache and bladder troubles. Sanol is a guaranteed remedy. 35c and $1.00 a bottle at the drug gstore. Indian minors should invest in the Liberty Loan. There are many colored minors whose guardian would be doing a patriotic act to make such investment. iltrry and hellishness get their just dues. People whose sons have registered are not going to stand idly by and let these slackers escape service. It is a duty we owe to ourselves and our country to inform the U. Sfl marshal who the slackers are that they may be dealt with according to law. Many young men not quite 30 who jumped to 32 and those who were 21 and backed up to 19 are slackers that need strict attention. We admire the boys who though not quite 21 got in the ranks and got their certificates; they are patriotic and if they stretched things a little will be forgiven and the recording angel when she writes it down will drop a tear on it and blot it out forever, but the slacker will catch liquid hell in big doses now and hereafter and deserves all he gets. The City and County officers should clean up the thieving, murderous elementnt, both white and black, that infests our city. The loafers, thieves, thugs and bums of all descriptions should be made to know that their room is better than their company. A Negro who murders a white man for money will murder a Negro for the same and the same is true of the white follow. Every time there has been a near-lynching in this city the cause has been traced to a worthless Negro, a thug or a thief who has committed crime and who would commit the same crime against the Negro. These thugs, white and black, have no color line, they commit murder indiscriminately. Our position is, that the country ought to berid of these parasites, but do it lawfully and not by the mob route. Our people should notify the officers of the dens where these black thieves hide and help rid the city of the undesirable. It's a duty we owe ourselves and the community. The preachers and other race leaders should help in a general clean-up campaign; this would be far better than advising our boys to be slackers, as we understand some worthless preachers did. After reading the address of the Farmers' Congress which appears in this paper, we conclude that they, too, are opposed to the retention of Marquess as president of Langston University. He is a huge joke and deserves his walking papers instanter. His retention would mean that the great body of people on the east side of the State as well as those on the west side will send their children elsewhere and Langston will remain at the tail end of the procession until some time in the distant future. We, the members of the State Farmers' and Educational Congress in convention assembled at the Flipper-Key-Davis University, Tullahassee, Oklahoma, May 30, 1917, do issue the following address to our people and the country: We believe in and are working for the preparedness of Negroes for universal service, and we hereby call upon our people and our friends to bend every possible effort toward this great end. We realize our importance to our country in this particular crisis, and we take this opportunity to re-affirm our faith in ourselves, in our possibilities, and in those who believe in us. We call upon our government to recognize the Negro soldiers' past records and achievements. Such service, typified by unexemplified loyalty from Boston, common to Carrizal, points the source of a part of America's best soldiery. It will be the part of simple if belated justice to call to the colors such potential heroes, officered by men of Negro blood. No Negro has ever run from service, none have harpored treason in their hearts, and although our enemies would seem to suspect that we feel, we have just reason for disloyalty, we recognize no condition in loyalty at this supreme hour of need. We call uopn our men to answer the call t othe colors, or report to God the reason why. We believe, with all our hearts, in thoroughness of preparation for the tasks which we are to assume and in developing every resource, physical, mental, and spiritual, for rthe accomplishing of these great and necessary objects in human service. We believe in physical preparation. Whether our people live in city or country, it is our solemn duty to struggle for sound minds in sound bodies. In the cities we need organization for sanitation, that we may better use the Negro doctor, the Negro nurse, the Negro preacher, the Negro lawyer and the Negro teacher, not so much for curing disease as for preventing it. It is the sacred duty of all trained Negroe sto aid in conserving racial physical disability, as we need every item of manhood and womanhood to fight our battles. Pure air, clean houses, good food, exercise and unnecessary worry should be persistently and consistently fought for by our trained men and women. True education presupposes a willingness to assume responsibility. In the open country we deem it our duty to fight for better health conditions, better conveniences for women, and better attractions for hloding the interest of younger people to the advantages of farm life. Now that our country calls loudly for the assistance of all, not only in a military, but in an industrial way, we are called upon to furnish physical stamina not only for a time of peace, but a time of war. We must stress temper- ance in all things, in eating in drinking, in spending. We must use every physical means, personal and real, for the production of more and better food, for its proper saving, preparation and use, in order that our bodies may neither be underfed nor overfed. We call upon our people for mental preparation for the struggles and duties to which we are heirs. We need all sorts of education, and especially do we need competent in spirit, mind, and body to train our people in the trades and the professions, including the teaching profession, to prepare our people to answer the great industrial call made to them from the North and the South, as well as to serve ourselves and the South in construction, agriculture, and other services of the common professions. Especially do we call for men and women with trained hearts, men and women who can feel what all of us feel, recognize the justice and injustice of demands made upon us, and stand with all the powers of their beings for what we know is necessary to sound and lasting racial development. We see keenly the need of "men whom the lusts of office cannot buy; men whom the spoils of office cannot kill." We depreciate with all our souls the truckling, hat-in-hand policy of some Negro leaders who would barter for a more mess of potage the birthrights of generations yet unborn. When "diplomacy" resolves itself into skillful, polite lying, we call loudly for stamping out the so-called diplomat, and substitute for him a man of sturdy simplicity. We call for men who believe in working together, but we would warn our people that cooperation means a giving up of some of our personal preferences, especially when those preferences mean a stubborn reaching out for a personal following for personal gain in any way whatever. The worst sin from which we suffer is the sin of selfishness, which substitutes men pull for men of true power, places men with political power in the place of men with proper pedagogical principles, substitutes financial force for Christian courage, and fools the youth of our race into believing they know how to swim educatively, whereas they have merely been playing around the edges of the stream of power. Co-operation means service in season and out of season, long hours and short pay, with often nothing in sight but the "well done" of the appreciative few who have prophetic vision enough to look into the future and see the benefits to accrue to those who shall yet rise up and call us blessed for the suprmee sacrifices we have made. O. R. Tucker, Chairman; H. S. Murphy, Secretary; C. E. Smith, W. L. Haywood, M. D., J. H. A. Bressleton, J. T. A. West, J. E. Toombs, W. E. Day, Rev. G. T. Sims, Rev. T. H. Wiseman, L. E. Nelson, M. W. Austin, Mrs. L. S. Forte, Mrs. M. L. Brookins, S. T. Wiggins, P. M. D. Lancey, E. D. Jefferson, R. J. Patton, Rev. T. W. Kidd. While Atlanta, Ga., was being destroyed by fire and property worth millions going up in smoke the people near Memphis, Penn., were having a lynching at the stake. Of course he was bee and burning a human being a Negro and while his piteous cries were ascending heavenward the barbarians shouted in great gless. 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Remember if it says Sanol it is all right. 35c and 1.00 at the drug store. NEGRO TRAINING CAMP. Washington, May 23.—A training camp for Negro officers will be established at Fort Des Moines, Ia., where 1200 candidates for commissions in Negro regiments of the new army will PRICE $1.00 A YEAR Tobacco Habit BANISHED in 48 to 72 Hours e Results or fine cut or use snuff Tobacco Redeemer will positively remove all craving for tobacco in any form in from 48 to 72 hours. Your tobacco craving will begin to decrease after the very first dose—there's no waiting for results. 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A draft of 250 men will be taken from the colored regiments of the regular army, selected from the non-commissioned officers and privates who have shown qualifications fitting them for command and assigned to the new camp. The remainder will come from Negro regiments of the national guard and from grades of the various educational institutions for Negroes. When you have Backache the liver or kidneys are sure to be out of gear. Try Sanol, it does wonders for the liver, kidneys and bladder. A trial 35c bottle will convince you. Get it at the drug store. In the District Court in and for Muskogee County, State of Oklahoma. Frank L. Brown, Plaintiff, vs. No. 5774. Annie B. Brown, Defendant. NOTICE BY PUBLICATION. Said Defendant, Annie B. Brown, will take notice that she has been sued in the above named Court by the above named plaintiff, for an absolute divorce from her, the said defendant, upon the grounds of abandonment; that she must answer the Petition by plaintiff filed therein on or before the 2nd day of July, 1917, or said Petition will be taken as true and a judgment for said plaintiff will be rendered accordingly. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand as Clerk of said Court and affixed the seal thereof, this 13th day of June, 1917. J. H. GAINES, (SEAL) County Clerk. By CHAS. E. HART. Deputy. A. G. W. SANGO, Attorney for Plaintiff. The best trained troops the world has ever saw are going to Europe with General Pershing and that means that the Black Battalions of the Republic, the 9th and 10th Cavalry and 24th and 25th Infantry will be with him. A Negro mechanic has invented a device that will destroy submarines and thus you see that the Negro is using his brains as well as his brawn to help out Uncle Sam. All of which shows he is entitled to all the rights of a citizen, including the right to vote and be selected as a juror in Oklahoma and elsewhere. CE EEEEEEEEEIISS'’SS ~~~ ae THE AUSLOGES GiuEDER W. H. Teine..............Editor RR ee ey Editer $ Dd — meager asociate Editor if £ Lion ager . M. ee angen CONSCLOR Be I emis MEMBER 1 NATIONAL NEGRO PHcoS ASBOCIATION | (ete ee ar ‘The Cimeter is the only Republican gr ‘the City of Muskogee. The Hebert i sometimes’ Republi = ‘and sometimes independent but at eee time it claims to be inde. such a changing is not wort! Rrhoope in bowel te any political and ‘yet Bixby, its editor, got ‘at the Republican pie counter. base ingratitude. he It is always casy to find where the Cimetor stands on any subject. We always make our fight in the open and whole sometimes we may be wrong, yet you always known which way our musket is pointed. Some fellows are cussing us about our stand tm the Langston matter but {t is plain ‘we have not given any one the double- Rey, U. 8. Mingo, Is a great revival- fet and is now making a tour of the state of Louisiana and other south- ern states represonting the Muskogee Cimetor the best newspaper in the Southw.st, Whatever information fs desired about Oklahoma and her Negro towns can be gained by inter- view with Rev. Mingo. He will be through your town and community and he will tell you the truth about Oklahoma, about farms and city prop- erty. See him {f you are interested ta Oklahoma, NOTICE BY PUBLICATION. In tho District Court in and for Muskogee County, State of Oklahoma. Nettle Crawford, Plaintiff, va. No. 5761. Bagat Crawford, Defendant. defendant, Edgar Crawford, will take notice that he has been sued tn the above named court by the above named plaintiff, upon the groynd of abandonment and that ho must answer the petition of plaintiff filed therein on or before the 14th day of July, 1917, oF sald petition will Baytaken ta true and a judgment for sal laintit, will be rendered accordingly. : In Witness Whereof, I have hereun- to set my hand as Court Clork of Mus. kogee County, State of Oklahoiia, and affixed the sea! thereof, thisist day. of dune, 1917. ’ J. H. GAINES, (Seal) Court Clerk. By JOHN ZUFALL, Deputy. A. G, W. SANGO, Attorney for Plaintiff. NOTICE BY PUBLICATION. In the District Court in and for Mus: eee. County, State of Oklahoma, B. M. Dennis, Plaintiff, vs, No, 5760. Mamle Dennis, Defendant. Eald defendant, Mamie Dennis, will take notice that she has been sued in the above nemed court by the above named plaintiff, upon the ground of abandonment; and that she must an- ewer the petition of plaintiff filed therein on or before the 14th day of July, 1917, oF said petition will be taken as true and a judgment for satd plaintift will bo rendered accordingly. In Witness Whereof, I have hereun: to set my hand as Court Clerk of Mus. kogee County, State of Oklahoma, and aMfixed the seal thereof this Ist day of June, 1917, J, H. GAINES, (Beal) = Court Clerk. By JOHN ZUFALL, Deputy. A. G, W. SANGO, Attorney for Plaintiff. * To Prevent Blood Poisoning serch see rosettes Do Searels ee Genie Nautiner cso ars Marcle NOTICE, Okmulgee, Okla., May 31, 1917. ‘To the Stockholders of the Ad- lee Oil, Gas and Development 30.2 Notice is hereby given that, by virtue of authority vested in me as President of The Adams Oil, Gas & Development Com- pany, a special meeting of the stockholders of said company is aes called to. assemble at Washington, D. C, (Street and number to be designated upon applying to the Secretary or President at No. 1216 You St., N. W., Washington, D. C.), on Thursday aes June 14, 1917, at 8: wn, for transact- ing the following business : 1, To so amend Par, three (3) of the Articles of incorporation of said Company as to re-estab- lish a main office of said Com- Bes in Oklahoma, and to abol- Washington, D. C.,, as a branch office altogether. 2. To change the present fiscal year of the Company to the cal- endar year beginning Jan. Ist and ending Dec. 31st of each year. 8. To consider and act upon the matter of HOO AD Annual Meeting of the stockholders of said Company immediately fol- lowing an adjournment of the apace meeting called herein, for the purpose of electing Di- rectors of said Company to serve until Dec, 31, 1917, should the fiscal year be changed to the cal- andar year, peinhlng Jan. Ist 4. For considering and acting and ending Dec, 81st of ecrh upon euch other matters as are deemed timely and of special in- terest to the said Company. SPENCKR ADAMS, oe President. WINE RATIONS NECESSARY TO MILITARY .EFFICIENCY Allied Governments Take Every Precaution to Supply Liquor i VSREOO HYSTERIA HOLDS UP PREPARATIONS FOR WAR BLAMES IT ON PROFESSIONAL “‘ORYS” The Inading doctors of France and Italy Insist on wine for the soldiers in the trenches. The government fur- nishes about a pint of claret a day to every French and Italian soldier; wine being regarded by the greatest mili- tary and medical authorities of Bu: rope to be just as necessary as food to the health of fighting men and for increasing their efficiency. ‘The war ministry. of France requis!- tloned 182,000,000 gallons of \ne for tho use of its troops last year and has already requisitioned 290,000,000 gal- lons of this year's wine, besides 40,000,000 gallons of the Algerian crop for the Kame purpose. Italy has taken similar precautions. Necessary for Efficiency. @ Commenting on the wisdom of this course, the London Times says: “Dr. Landouzy, Dr. Armand Gautler, Dr. E. Vidal and others—-the most emt: nent In their profession—publicly kn: nounced that the use of wine fs not only fa desirable food for the troops, bat “Hysterical Legtslation” Is the way tho Cinetanati Enquirer editorially. de- vibes the lawmaking now going on st Wachingten, The Enquirer continues: The surest way to drive this coun- ¥ on the rocks, to Imperll 1ts very Xistence aud to undermine Ite eco- om!> otrength I to strangle {ts com- morela) sotivity. Hysteria has swept out {4 feet, and legislation vapenty at Washington that, if en- ed ‘nto law, will wreck prosperity, uin private business and prolong the *. Rediam has supplanted reason hd deliveration, Emotion and sent ont have stepped Into the places of oot Judgment and right Business In Danger. ‘Vonaiization of business, confisen- fon of personal property, destruction f employment in the holy cause of sising War revenue can have but oa oviable ond, and that strangulation, ante, veseniment, rebellion against \ tyranny that savors far too greatly Mf the amwooratlc Fovernment this na: Hon Js plodged to dethrone, Ti no one thing was congressional Mozle more clearly disclosed-—~the evl dence of emotional hysteria more plainly shown than fn the proposed smeydment to the espionage bill pro: hiblting the manufacture of distilled or fermented Liquors from cereal grains Garing the progress of the war in order to conserve the food supply of the nation, Happily and unexpect- edly this atroctous amendment was trlcken from the bill by the Senate, here if originated, “Oitlelal reports show that there was grown in the United States in 1916 697,657,009 bushels of wheat, the great food staple, and of this amount but »,78 bushels were used for distitlation, Dat of @ total of 4,794,083,000 bushels of coreal gram grown tn this country in 1916, including corn, rye, wheat, barley and oats 86,000,000 bushels necessary to secure efficiency. The addition of a pint of wine to the daily rations 1s, therefore, regarded as in- dispensable for soldiers who are called upon to undergo tho excessive phy: sical strain which {s inevitable in the fighting lines. After mh experience which {s not exe-'led by any phyvictan fn France, Dr. Landouzy makes the following emphatic declaration: ‘I ro fuse as a physiologist, as a medical man, as a dentist, the taboo of wine! Dr. Rexis, Professor at the Faculty of Medicine, Paris, states that the pro- hibition of wine under present efrcum- stances would be ‘almost @ crime ‘against the nation from the economic point of view, and a heresy from the hygtente point of view.’ Puro wine is found to be especially suited to those who derive Insufficient nourishment from thelr ordinary daily food, as well as to the adult who works hard and oats badly; to the convalescent who fs recuperating, to the aged who are fall ing in strength, to the sailor and to others who are exposed to cold and trying conditions of woather, it is ® generous and a precious tonic.” | were used in the manufacture of dis- tilled Uquors and leer, or about 1 8-10 per cent of the toval, When It ts re- culled that 85 per cent of the refuse or by-product from Wistiling is weed for food for cattle, begs and horses, it becomes apparent that the actual amount of grain used in making alco- hol ts diminished to about 14,009,000 bushels, x “That Fine Itatian Hand.” “It was not the amount of grain used In making alcohol that frightened and stampeded the Sonate Into its earlier action, but the skiil of the eold, calm, calculating professional prokiviviontat, who sefzed the opportamty to sweop Congress off its fet on the pretext ‘of threatened fe.nine, Legislators ‘geom to have lost sight of the Zact that An raising $1.809,000,000 war revenue the poople must pay, and that thotr capacity to pay depends upon thelr ability and opportunity to earn. ‘Throwing away ap estimajed revenue OF $600,000,000 from the liquor industry it follows, as the night the day, that ‘that tremendous #um would have to be saddled on other business and every private pocketbook in the land, In ‘ertla in this Industry means a million Idle men, whose loss of wage increases ‘by Juet that much the burden of the remainder of the nation, | ‘An Un-American Polley. “Adoption of the defeated amend- ments would have been confiscatory and destructive, un-American and um: democratic. ‘The subject ts ono of suf: feient importance, however, to engage the undivided attention 6; the nation when ft Is considered. {f the people of the United States arrive at the be- Met that prohibition shall obtain, then let the decision and the logislation be strictly on the merit of the question. We're at war now, and tho endeavor ‘of Congress should be succosstully to ‘prosecute that war with least injury ‘and injustice to all the people.” ON THE GOOD SHIP “BONE DRY” =i apenas DS i cae hee a SSS SS artis Foe [Pare b. He siacli™ = SY Swe ea Maas es =[Rwee «Ss ee us Sco zs Wes 2am ey STRIPPING Vee a = DoS AY ous oF ‘ee =O. ww ¥ 7 owe Ga. = | if» Re eee SS STC i Nay {Saas a Aa ire =BY ZZ ZEN oe ua aa > J i ee. Es ia San § Hae, 3 ZG ne a EE ot Se A 4 = IoD (NM OD TTL RAS ZAM pas 09 ao a / AOS = ACY soe rg NY gy A bs hy ah bu HN aR (| ET C es rs TEU SS =—=ail . \ pee SN) i 3) i Le wt MD) D Cee SIF Weary ¢ 4 Ag << <= “S82 30% T » es . 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Dangerous Compounds, Says Waiddoy Graham, in North American Review In the North Amerlean Review, Whidden Graham axks, and answers the question, “After Natlonal Probtbi- tlon—What?” National proibition, he says, would merely destroy a great in- dustry and revert the manufacture of liquor back to the days of individual production when every home containe! fa still, After calling attention to the many centuries through which- men have been using Uquor, and the ease with which it cau be made the Write @ontinues: What would happen under national prohibition would be exactly what has happened under state prok b!tory laws With the tncreaso in the number o! states that have adopted prontbition there has heen a marked growth in the number of flicit distilleries tisgayeres and destroyed by the internal revenve officers, particularly in the southerr prohibition states, Tho annual repor' of the commissioner of Internal ro venue shows that no loss than 3,87 Megal stills were seized during th past fecal year; 2,720, or more thor three-fourths of the total, being lo cated in five prohibition states, and { 4s admitted that these are only a smal percentage of the thousends operate without detection, In the same repor Attention 1s called to the great in crease in the number of ileal seller of liquor, commonly called “bootleg gers,” In tho prohibitton states—a con ition due, it is stated by the commis stoner, to the failure of tho state au thorities to enforve the law. @ @ Would Bring Bootlegue.i. Under national prohibition tho de mand for liquor would no longer b met by the present man facturers an dealers, inctuding hotels, roetaurant and stores selling bottled oods only Dut would attract the lowest type o irresponsible traffickers, who hay made the names “bootlesgers" ani “pind pigs” synonymous with th Maine and Kansas tillelt liquor setiers Tuatend of pure liquors manufacture under the strict supervision of th foderal government, all Kinds of ity pure and dangerous compounds woul be supplied through back-alley sources ‘TEMPERANCE GROWS APACE DESPITE PRORIBITION LAWS Mankind Is Bocoming More Moderate in Its Use of Both Food and Pi: geet ty be ed Mankind {s and for centuries has been becoming more temperate, ‘This has been, not on account of, but in spite of, the Inw. ‘The alcoholic appelite 1s not pro- gressing. One of the fayerite statements by which the ontldrink fanatica try to scare the veople inio obteining from alcoholic drink is that t has an in- herent tendoney to create a growing appetite, and tals leads to excess, Really, nothing is further from the truth. The charge is made on the theory that alcohol is exclusively a drug, and, litte other drrga, tends to croate a habit, wilh the habit goos Increare! tolerance, calling for ever increasing Joves and finally wrecking body and mind. But alcohol has, in small quantities and in proper diluttons and mixtures, only a slight drug action which it shares with inany other foods, condi ments and relishes, and the progres: sive appetite rarely if ever shows It self except in defective constitutions, and there only as a symptom, not a cause. . Would Use Substitute. _ If in such cases there were no for mented drinks to be used, the chances ore that something much worse than excessive drinkiug would be taken up | Many foods also exercise a drug ac: tion, some stronger, some weaker. And #0 does aleottol. So do the hops ‘in beer, Coffee 15 all drug, nothing ‘size; 80 1s toa, Meat has @ oifmulat fing nection, bevides tts food value. And these drug actions are neces nary to wholesome living. ; Modern physlology recognizes the ‘tact that the enjoyment of food and EGGS OF GOLD Ciravd, in bis “Topics of the Town,” n the Philadelphia Public Ledger, isos to remark: “1 said the other day that various rains with the human food equivalent sf 70,000,000 biishets of wheat annually o into American ilguor, That would eed about 14,000,000 persons for a your. “But of all the grain consumed in he United States, the barley, rye and orn converted Into ale, beer and whis- <y are much the most profitable tor Uncle Sam, ° “Do you realize that last year your ederal government got in taxes three dollars and a half out of every one of hose 70,000,000 bushels? ‘The liquor ndustry paid to internal revenue col- ectors $247,000,000, “Looked at simply as a revenue pro- lucor for our government, Uncle” Sam sould afford to buy grain at prevent orices and give It to the browers ai! tistillere Just to collect the taxes upoa holy product. eS “Tobacco is another goose that lays solden eggs for Uncle Sam—$88,000,- 100 worth of them last year im tho shape of taxes.” f its other actions than mere building of tissue or producing of energy are tully as important as the bare supply- ing of certain chemical constituents to replace thoge used up or to be burat up in the body, If use of alcoholic relishes had @ tendeney to create a progressive ap- petite, where would the white raco bo today? As loag as we know anything about ite members, they have bees ‘using alcoholic relishes, If the appetite had been growing the race would today be extinct or consist of cripples and idtots, instead of ruling the world and developing & ‘constantly improving elvilization, ‘The fact 1, the appetite has been dtm ishing. Race Here Moderate, © ; Compared to the drinking habits of two generations ago, the white race Is very temperato, indeed, at the prow ent time, and if we go further baek into the middle ages, and still furth« back into the days of Graeco Tor culture and Teutonie twilight, we find! an enoymons improvement in the: drinking habits, . Most peonle become more temperate, fn eating and drinking as they grow) etd, und using alcoholic relishes all their ves, naturally and withont at |fort, of.en perhaps unconsciously, [tall their ure with advancing age. The appetite diminishes instead of progs, reseing. { Hf alcoholic relishes really possessed an inhorent tendency to croate a gi ing appetite, the effects must manttest themselves in a majority of Put; as @ matter of fact, no such ef- fects are discernibie except in the occastonal defective, WINCHESTER’S JAIL FULL. Was Empty Short Time Ago, But Prohiuition Made Change. Winch ster, Vii—After being ax- ploited over the country for a long time as being without prisoners In its jail, Winchester’s record hae been droken, and the balance was tipped over to the exact opposite day or two ago. The local prison Je now full; in fact, it to overcrowde ed, and yesterday officlals Inspected the jail and outlined alterations vihich will offord more room, Several days ago Jailer Armel was compelicd to double up hie Prigonors, owing to lack of sceom- modations. Some of tho prisoners complained of too much crowding and of being deprived of tholp rights to have a room each man to himesif, hut they are gradually hee coinine used to thelr surroundings. The suddon Intlux found tha Jailer unprepared to come extent, Most of tho tin plates which prisoners use fer their food had become rusty, fo maw ones had to ke mada by ths tinner, Ruch orders were gent out for foot, the furnace war ehunked up, and by evening things were running emoothly, Most of the prisoners aro awaiting trial for liquor law violations —Bale timore Sun, INDIANA PAPER WANTS MORE PATRIOTISM AND LESS PROHIBITION CLOGS LEGISLATION "First and Foremost," Says Newspaper, "Theorists and Sentimentalists Should Keep Their Impudent Fingers Out of the Army and Navy—Insult to Think That American Soldiers Won't Live Up to American Traditions While President Wilson is admonishing the people to prepare for the war which is upon us, he likewise should lay a restraining hand on the regiment of theorists and sentimentalists now attempting to graft their particular whims and fancies upon the American system. The excitement and emergencies of war have brought these pests into the limelight in great numbers. First and tomost, just now, they should be given to understand that they must keep their impudent fingers out of the army and navy. If the military branches of the government in this crisis are to be operated effectively, their management must be trusted to the officers of the army and navy, whose training and knowledge have given to them an understanding of the requirements of war and whose inventive genius qualifies them above all others for devising regulations to preserve the morals and assure the confidence, comfort and mental pulse of their commands. The army and the navy must be free from the impertinence of chautauqua lecturers seeking cheap advertising and politicians in quest of publicity to satisfy the importunities of emotionalists. Self-Governing Americans. These persons in congress and out who are harrassing the government with their whims and foibles appear to think the young men the nation is asking to put on the uniform, for the glory of the flag, the assurance of its prestige and the world-wide extension of freer government, should be herded and treated like defectives wanting in the power of resistance and devoid of the quality of assertive young manhood. These young men should be held up for what they are, self-confident, self-governing young Americans, proud of their heritage of freedom of initiative, jealous of their liberties and serenely conscious of their superiority and their ability to take care of themselves. It will not induce the young men to enlist to picture to them the prospect of a convict camp existence following their response to the call to colors. That they will conduct themselves in a manner consistent with the best of American traditions is certain. It is equally true that they will require no restrictions other than those imposed by the directing influences of the army and the navy, and it is an insult to them to assume that anything else is necessary. Discipline Protects Soldiers. Discipline Protects Soldiers. The notion that young men in the army are subject to more insidious and dangerous temptations than men out of the army is stuff and nonsense. In fact, they are better protected. They are taught discipline and self-restraint. Their characters are strengthened and developed instead of injured. We are not too far away from the American civil war to find in the study of the men who fought out that war a concrete refutation of the ridiculous assertion that war debases the soldier or unifies him for the pursuits of peace. Many of the soldiers of the Union army were under the age of eighteen. More than fifty per cent of the army consisted of youths of eighteen years. These boys passed through the bitter campaigns, with their hardships and temptations, and returned to private citizenship just as little sullied in morals as those who stayed at home. Those who were weak fell, just as those who are weak fall in times of peace. It depends entirely upon the fibre of the youth. Calls It Civil Prussianism. So, while we are helping to eradicate military Prussianism in order that civil freedom may not perish from the earth, let us be careful that civil Prussianism does not obtain a foothold here. There is no danger in the republic from militarism, but it is not safe from civil Prussianism. There are many men in this country who are preaching the doctrines that would sacrifice individual liberty to a false efficiency. They are not Germans, either, who are propagating this dogma, although Germany is held up as an example of what may be accomplished through the operation of a system wherein the government is the sole directing force in industry, where individual initiative is destroyed and the people are but puppets, shifted and countershifted in inexorable precision by an odious paternalism.—Washington (Ind.) Herald. Contemplate Law Against "Snake Bites" Legislator Consults Lieutenant Governor Regarding Plan For Solons To Have Liquor in Homes; For Many Thirst. In the following story the Chicago Tribune calls attention to conditions in Kansas, the "star" prohibition state: Topeka, Kan.—(Special.)—Kansas has had a real "bone-dry" law in effect for a month now. The thing is so new that Kansas is having a lot of fun out of it. While most folks in the state are accustomed to a drought in the way of intoxicating liquors, there are a few who still want a drink and they do not want to make a trip to Missouri to get it. So, of course, there is some business for the bootleger, who is willing to take a chance on a long time in jail for a little profit. Real whisky is worth $7 a quart in interior Kansas now. That is the price one chap said he collected last week for ten quarts he had smuggled into the state. He was sent to jail for three months. It is unlawful to have liquor in one's possession in Kansas. A few days ago, just after the Santa Fe "plug," a popular train, left Kansas City, a man suddenly appeared at the front end of the smoking car. He yelled to the brakeman to close the rear door and let no one escape. "Gentlemen," he said. "I am the sheriff of Johnson county. I have been informed that the liquor laws are being violated on this train. It, therefore, is necessary for me to investigate. Each man will set his grip out in the alley and open it and I will see if there is any contraband." Smash! Three windows of the car were broken at one time as three grips were thrown through them. Then the alleged sheriff laughed. He was only a traveling man having fun. The three men really did have grips full of liquor they were taking home and they thought the man was a real sheriff. The Great Trunk Mystery. A large and entirely new trunk was dumped off a train at Hulchbinson one day. The baggageman was careless and let the trunk fall with a thump. Then a policeman noticed that the trunk was leaking. He confiscated it. The trunk was filled with forty-eight quarts of whisky. A man had purchased the goods and a new trunk and then checked it as baggage. But for the carless baggageman he might have secured the liquor. At Nilea two greasy, dirty barrels were rolled off a freight train. They were billed as kerosene, but to a man who had never used that much kerosene in his life. The town constable, who meets all trains in all small Kansas towns, noticed that the grease did not appear to be just an accumulation of dirt, such as would ordinarily appear on a barrel of coal oil. He decided on an examination, so he hored a small hole through the bung and found that both barrels contained only whisky. At Pittsburg the other day the police noticed an unusually well dressed man driving a load of hay through town. He had none of the appearances of a farmer. His hands were no white and soft and there was no sign of tan on his face. The police became suspicious and "pinched" the load of hay. They found forty eight pints of whisky, two barrels or bottled beer, two kegs of beer, and a bottle of gin in the middle of the load of hay. Getting Worried. Shortly after the law went into effect a member of the legislature sought a state official "Is it true," he asked, "that members of the legislature are immune from arrest for ordinary offenses while the legislature is in session?" "Yes." "Would there be any objection to the legislature taking a recess for six months?" "I suppose not. But why?" "I suppose not. But why?" "We couldn't be arrested then for having a little liquor in our house, could we?" W. Y. Morgan, lieutenant governor, received a letter from a man in western Kansas, asking about the "honeydry" law and whether it prohibited a person having liquor for personal use. "This is true," said the letter, "what on earth are we going to do in case of a snake bite?" "I guess you are up against it," Morgan wrote in reply. "However, if it will help any, I will have introduced a law prohibiting snake bites, and I think it will be passed."—Chicago Tritue. U. S. Senate Passed Amendment To Army Bill Making It Criminal Offense For Allies 'To Give Yankee Warriors Drink, But Finally Modified Prussian-Like Decree Under the title of "Prohibition or Nothing," the Louisville Courier Journal exclams: "It had been assumed, for a while apparently with good ground, that the great war on which the United States has entered had wiped out all party lines and factional divisions in Congress on all matters relating to that war; that for the time and the work falling to it we had a Congress not of Democrats and Republicans, Progressives, Prohibitionists, Socialists, but of straight Americans. "But it was not to last. The one smallest and most tenacious of fiasas was unequal to the test. The fanaticism of prohibitionism has proved stronger in those whom it obsesses than all other considerations. And in this it has simply proved true to its nature and its history. The prohibitionist is distinctively a man of one all-dominating idea. Held Up Bill. "Thus they hold up the Army Bill, which should have been put through with unhalting expedition and without whose passage the country is absolutely helpless in the struggle which is upon us, determined that it shall not become law unless it carries a provision making it a misdemeanor to sell, furnish or give away any intoxicating liquor, including beer, ale or wine to any officer or member of the military forces while in uniform, also making it unlawful to have these liquors in camps or military posts. "This provision was passed and insisted on by the Senate and it was only after protracted conference with the House representatives that it was finally agreed to modify it by striking out the ban against furnishing or giving Liquor to men in uniform. Thus, in a crisis when it is essential that we shall organize an army as expeditiously as possible, the prohibitionists of Congress tell us that we shall not have an army at all unless the sale of Liquor to it shall be forbidden. It is more important, they say in effect, that the sale of Liquor to army men shall be prohibited than that we shall have an army to defend the country in the most fearful war mankind has ever known." "The prohibition provision of the bill as passed by the Senate went to the ridiculous extreme of making it a criminal offense for a French soldier, to whom light wine is served by his Government, to give an American soldier a drink of wine; for an English soldier, to whom ale is served as part of his regular ration, to share a glass with the American soldier by his side; for one in a land where water is frequently unobtainable, to give an American soldier a drink stronger than water; for anyone to give a stimulant to an American soldier lying wounded on the field of battle without first stripping from him his uniform. "So preposterous was this proposition, so ridiculous would it have made us appear in the eyes of the world, that the confections finally consented to the elimination of this feature of the provision, and the bill at last agreed upon in conference carried the prohibition of the sale, but not of the gift, of alcoholic drinks to soldiers. "Take that, the prohibition patriots say, or get no army bill at all. "It would be incredible if anything were incredible of the prohibitionion in the practice of his trade or under the virus of his craze. The bill whose acceptance by the confections he has finally forced will place this nation in the astonishing attitude of going into the war of democracy against autocracy, the avowed champion of liberty against kaiserism, yet undertaking to fight that war with an army of men to whom it denies absolutely the rights of personal liberty." BLAMES DRY LAW Charleston, W. Va.—Attorney Goo, I. Neal, representing the Ohio Valley Electric Railway connecting Huntington, W. Va., with Catlettsburg and Ashland, Ky., told the Board of Public Works today, during a hearing on the valuation of public utilities, that the revenues of interurban line were $2,000 lower during the first week of May than during the same week of May, 1916, due to operation of new law against importation of intoxicants.—Cincinnati Enquirer. TOM DEAN PROHIBITION INTERNAL REVENUE ONE THIRD OF TOTAL REVENUE To raise money necessary for military defense, a war tax of $30 will be placed on each American citizen. National prohibition would cut off $232,000,000 a year or one-third of the entire Federal revenue, and would result in the personal tax being increased. BAY RUM POPULAR IN "DRY" KANSAS Young Boys Purchase Lemon Extract-- Groceries Do Rushing Business Daniel F. Bannop, after a trip through Kansas, wrote as follows to the editor of the St. Louis Post Dispatch: I just came from Kansas. I have traveled the State from end to end. I have been out in the little country towns there. What I relate about conditions in Kansas are facts that I have seen. I am talking from experience. Mr. Bryan and his followers draw their knowledge from anti-saloon publications. I have seen more "drunks" in one day on the streets of Iola, Kan., than I have seen in the city of St. Louis during the three weeks I've been here. In the small country towns of Kansas I have seen young boys, 14 years of age, loading themselves up with lemon extract, a drink that in its intoxicating effect is far more deadly than the rottenest kind of whiskey. A groceryman in Kincaid, Kan., told me that in one week he sold one gross of lemon extract, mostly to young men. I have seen men in Kansas purchase the bay rum in the barber shop and get dangerously drunk on it. In the small town of Neosho Falls a crowd of drunks under the influence of "lemon extract" raised pandemonium on the streets one evening. A traveling man from Wichita, a member of the Presbyterian Church, said to me, "I have to laugh when I read what Billy Sunday says about there being no saloons in this state. Look at that bunch of kids! Their condition is the result of prohibition in the state. When we had saloons here such scenes as this one were unknown." From my vast experience in Kansas, I can truly say that Mr. Bryan is talking through his hat. I am not an intemperate man in drink. I could not tell the difference between whiskey and brandy. I am not advocating "booze," but I do say that prohibition in Kansas is doing a fine business for the grocery stores that handle lemon extract and the like. "NEW SCOURGE" MENACES THE VILLAGES OF RUSSIA Drunkenness Increases As Home-Made Concoctions of the Peasants Take the Place of Their Prohibited Vodka—Nearly Every Town Has Its Distillery According to "T" news dispatches from Russia, the prohibition problem is proving a very grave one. Home-made drinks, used as soon as made and entirely removed from all regulation, control, proper ageing, etc., are a new menace now facing the republic. An Associated Press dispatch from Petrograd says: are engaged in buying the small stocks remaining in such towns for sale to secret distilleries of vodka at fancy prices, sometimes paying as high as 14 cents a pound. Many New Distilleries. "This communication," continues Ryetch, "is confirmed by the Silbering Prohibition of traffic in vodka, which went into effect at the beginning of the war, while reducing to a minimum the percentage of drunkenness in cities throughout the empire, has met with less flattering results in the villages, according to reports recently received. In these rural communities secret distilleries have sprung up and a "new scourge" has taken the place of the vodka of other days. This is especially true of Siberian villages, says Ryetch. A Siberian deputy is quoted to the effect that the peasants, instead of bringing corn to the towns to sell. WHISKEY IN DRY GEORGIA HOMES? Sure, and Atlanta Judge Says Police Won't Disturb it According to the Atlanta Journal there must be lots of whisky in the homes in "bone dry" Georgia. This newspaper says: Recorder George E. Johnson has made it quite clear that there is no disposition on the part of his court or the police department to take advantage of that section of the bone-dry prohibition law which some have construed as permitting officers to raid and search private homes in the quest for liquor "Certainly," said Judge Johnson, "an officer is without authority to search a private home without a search warrant sworn out in due form. However, should officers in entering places where there is disorder discover any liquor it is their duty to arrest those in charge of the place." The statement by Judge Johnson was made in police court Wednesday afternoon during the trial of a man accused of breaking a jug of liquor against a telegraph pole on the street when he saw an officer approaching him. The man's lawyer asserted that thousands of good citizens have liquor in their homes despite the bone-dry law. "This man didn't have the whisky in his home, but on the street," remarked the recorder. "I don't believe the police of the city are going around invading the homes of our good people just to look for whisky. I don't believe they would have the right to do such a thing, and they won't do it. If such are engaged in buying the small stocks remaining in such towns for sale to secret distilleries of vodka at fancy prices, sometimes paying as high as 14 cents a pound. Many New Distilleries. "This communication," continues Ryetch, "is confirmed by the Siberian press. Nearly every village now has its own distillery. Consumption of this home-made product is increasing the number of hooligans in the villages and the latter are suffering in consequence. And this evil is not confined to Siberia. In the middle provinces the same conditions exist. The Tambovsky, Zemsky Vestnik says of these provinces: Home-made vodka is consumed in enormous quantities, in spite of its high cost. The peasants have plenty of money, and with few distractions in the villages, drinking is on the increase." 2,000,000 WORKERS " APPEAL TO PRESIDENT Washington, May 25.—Two million American workmen, belonging to unions, in a petition today appealed to President Wilson to stand against any legislative action which would deprive them of the privilege of a "glass of beer" during or after the war.—Cincinnati Commercial Tribune. HELD AS MOONSHINERS Officers Make Two Arrests and Seize Still Near Jonesboro. Jonesboro, Ark.—R. O. Watt and R. A. Bain were jailed here this afternoon on a charge of owning and operating a still. After a hearing before United States Commissioner E. P. Mathews they were held to await action by the Federal Grand Jury, and in default of bond are confined in the county jail here. The arrests were made by J. P. Burns, Deputy United States Marshal; L. Matthews, special revenue collector, and Constable Longcralg. The officers say that they found a still and all equipment for operating it, including bottles and other evidence that whisky was made on the premises. No whisky was found.—Arkansas Gazette. was done and whisky by chance was found in a home, I would dismiss the case. "Of course," the recorder continued, "if any citizen, white or black, has crowds of people about a blind tiger, it would be the duty of the officers of the law to search the premises for liquor. A man's home is his castle, and it can not be ruthlessly invaded unless the police have good reasons to believe the law is being violated. And then a search must be made in accordance with law." 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Taylor of Buchanan county introduced a concurrent resolution calling upon the Iowa legislature to ask congress to enforce nation wide prohibition during the war. The resolution was voted down by an overwhelming majority on a viva voce vote. At noon Republicans in the senate went into secret caucus as to future procedure with the amended Kimball primary bill, which passed the house yesterday and repeals the nonpartisan judiciary law. Sonator Einger introduced a resolution authorising city and health authorities to concentrate their energies upon young people who are loading and failing to improve their opportunities with a view of spurring the droves into activity. No action was taken. A dispatch from Topeka, Ken., to the Kansas City Star, says: Muskogee, Okla., June 12, 1917. I am using Dudley's Auto and Body Polish on my car and find it to work fine in every way. Every one should use this high-grade Polish. DR. A. T. WARING. We have a large amount of Dudley's Auto Body Polish in our store, and find that every customer is well pleased with the high-class gloss it leaves on all grades of furniture, it should be in ever yhome. WARON TRADING CO. Muskogee, Okla., June 14, 1917. I have tried the famous Dudley's Auto Polish, and must say it does high-class work. I recommend it to every home. old harness look NEW nts to sell Dudly's High ish for Auto: Buggies. to the work or money harness and leather any h paid on delivery. made to order on short mel L. Dudly, Muskogee. Okla. IT'S A "DRY" TOWN MORE RAIDS IN SPOKANE POLICE SEIZ HUNDREDS OF LIQUOR FILLED BOTTLES However, a Visit to Washington State Will Convince the Skepdas Reports of violations of the prohibition law in Washington state keep coming in. Listen to this from the Spokane Spokane County Review. More than 300 pint and guest bottles of whiskey, all bottled in bond, were seized on a search warrant last night in a vacant house at 8000 Nevada street, Lidgorwood, by Petroleum Dan A. Fletcher and William H. Wardell. The officers got a tip three days ago that a wagon load of liquor was cached in that neighborhood, that it had been brought there in gummy sodds early Monday morning, but their informant led them several blocks astray. After Officer Flecher had received a tip that led him to the vasant house he found the liquor in a closet. The front door te the house was standing wide open. Persons attending a church meeting across the street guided the liquor while Flecher went to call Wardell. The liquor, in 10 gunnyacks, loaded down the gate wagon. The police are ennagging to locate the owner of the house and liquor. Arreste, Arreste, Arreste. Fred Carter, age 26. Division hotel, a mechanic, was arrested yesterday at 6 p. m. on the Division hotel by Metorexcle Patrolman Bryce Hirman on a charge of carrying enclosed weapons and of having liquor in his