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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (March 30, 1916)
* staff, and the results have been of the * best” i - Hearst For Prohibition. When the owner of the Hearst news papers, which circulated widely among the classes most seriously affected by the drink evil, takes a stand in favor of prohibition it must be looked upon as an incident of deep significence. His views recently displayed on the first page of the Chicago Examiner follows: I note in a recent issue of The American an advertisement of a whis key masquerading as a medicine. I wish all of our papers to reject all whiskey advertising of whatever kind and all advertising of any ardent iquors and all advertising of any medicinal preparations containing alcohol or opiates in habit-forming quantities. Furthermore, I do not think that passive opposition to such great evils as the drink habit and the drug habit is sufficient for forces as powerful and as vital in the community as our news papers. I think our papers have more active duties and more positive responsi bilities. I think they should cam paign for a system of sumptuary laws. First—To prohibit the sale of in jurious and habit-forming drugs ex cept by the state and upon the pre scription of regular physicians. Second—To prevent the sale of alcoholic beverages except where the proportion of alcohol is fixed at some definite and acknowledged innocuous proportion. Third—To make the taking or ad ministering or prescribing of alcohol or opiates in habit-forming quantities a criminal offense, from the penalties of which regular physicians shall in no way be exempt. The campaign against the drink evil and the drug evil is a matter of public health, of public morals and of public righteousness which it is the duty of our papers actively and aggressively to promote. Flower Mission. Mrs. Lydia J. Bradbury. May we not plan for flower mission offerings when we make our gardens this year? The beautiful, fragrant blossoms carry so much cheer to those who are excluded from the activities of life, and are such wonderful ex pressions of,love, Divine and human, they appeal to most people, and we should be ready to promote this work at all times. Give abundently of your flowers, fruit or any offering love sug gests to you, to all who for any reason are in sorrow or affliction, using our text cards and the white ribbon. I ask you to make a special effort to interest the boys and girls in growing flowers for their own use in minister :ng to others. The preparation of soil, proper planting seeds, protection from blight and pests, protection from nox :ous weeds, etc., are all so interesting hey will feel repaid. Will you not remember the unfortu ate children who have no refining in luence around them by giving of your abundance seeds, plants and shrubs structing them in the proper care cf ’’em and by personal supervision e urage them to be perseveri ough to grow flowers for thor lives? An occasional visit with | 3w suggestive talks with these litt nes may be of untold benefit to them Alcohol Not A Medicine. One of the officials of the rrrc anitarium at Battle Creek, Mich.. | lares that while they treat 80< I patients a day they have never use n ounce of alcohol during the 4, ears of the history of the institutin rTe says: “Forty per cent of our arterio sc’' -"-is is produced by alcohol ar 1 't curable. Sixty-two per cert right’s disease is produced by ale ol and incurable. Ninety-two per ent of cancer of the stomach is due o alcohol. “You think a man pays for his glass if beer when he passes his nickle over he bar. He does not. His baby pays ’he law of inheritance is inexorable ’he baby is what his father was. If man destroys his brain by alcohol, f his body wastes and degenerates hrough drink, his children and his hildren’s children will have dwarfed ninds and degenerate bodies. Kill he saloon and save the babies.” Missionary Rally. A special service will be held in the Episcopal Church on Sunday next, March 27, at 7:30 p. m. The sermon will be preached by The Rev. Dr. C. j C. Rollitt representing the “Board of ' Missions” in New York. j < Special music will be furnished by f the Choir of the Presbyterian Church. A very cordial invitation is extended * to all to attend this service, the pastor ( of the Presbyterian Church has an nounced that there will be no services 1 in their church and has invited his • congregation to attend this Missionary Rally. On Monday morning, March 27,there will be a Choral Eucharist and another ' sermon by Dr. Rollitt. 1 Claude R. Parkersoh, Pastor. _ i Inman Items. Mr. and Mrs. Boniface and children Ihigh license VERSUS NO-LICENSE Nebraska a “High license” State for 25 Years Kansas a “No-license” State for 35 Years __mmm,_____———I f . . I' ' ' ' I' ■■■ | II. IN, ■ Up the enactment of a drastic laic and the failure to enforce it. there is injected into the public mind the idea that laics are to he observed or violated according to the will of those affected. I need not sap how altogether pernicious such a loose theory is. * • * The constant violation or neglect of any law leads to a demoralized view of all laws.” (Excerpt from ex-President Taft’s work on "Four Aspects of Civic Duty.”) Before deciding to embark on a policy of “No-license,” which in Nebraska > means doing away with the High License Law, the citizens of Nebraska are asking whether it is possible to enforce a “No-license” statewide policy. Information on this point is contained in the following dispatch from Topeka, Kansas, which appeared in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch of January 30, 1916: CAN’T GET TRUTH FROM CUSTOMERS OK ItOOTLEGGKRS Kansas Governor Says Otherwise Good Cit izens Will Protect Tramp Liquor Sellers They Lie About Acts Deny Purchase, With Bottle in Pocket—Plan to Remedy Condition is Wanted (Special to the Post-Dispatch.) TOPEKA, KAN., Jan. 29.—Gov. Arthur Capper of Kansas is looking for a man who can develop some method, psychological, mechanical or otherwise, to extract the truth from ordinarily good citizens who are cus tomers of bootleggers. Gov. Capper recently sent, a letter to all Kansas county attorneys, asking them for suggestions on methods of enforcing the pro hibitory law. Tlie governor wanted to know what legislation was needed or in what way the state could help the local officials in law enforcement. * * * Seeking Truth Extractor "But what Kansas needs most Is someone who wiB evolve some method of extracting the truth from the patron of a bootlegger," said tile governor. “The man who buys booze in Kansas is given to an exaggerated sense of honor. He becomes an entirely different individual. The patron of the boot legger is a Jekyll and Hyde sort of a prop osition. The county attorneys tell me of dozens of men, honest, Industrious citizens, regarded as men of the highest type in their communities, who will do almost anything rather than tell the truth about where they purchased a bottle of beer. “It isn’t a club or lodge proposition, either. There are ties of fraternity that would cause a man to refuse to divulge the sale or dis pensation of liquor in a clubhouse. But there is nothing of tills when the liquor is pur chased from a bootlegger. In this case a man goes out hunting for liquor and finds It in some drug store, or livery stable, or I down on an island, or some other out-of the-way place where a man lias set up a temporary Joint.” I Prosperous Business Conditions in Nebraska ■i _ BUSINESS FAILURES IN A PROHIBITION STATE The claim is often made by advocates of "No license” that the retail merchant stands a better chance of getting his money from his customers where “No license” prevails than he does in cities or states where the "License” policy prevails. Uncle Sam has been collecting some figures which have a direct bearing on this question. Here they are: Commercial Failures, Calendar Years 1912, 1913, 1914 (See page COG of Statistical Abstract of the U. S., 37th Number.) 1912 Number Per Cent of Failures of Failures Kansas. 22N 0.75 Per Cent Nebraska. 153 0.60 Per Cent 1913 Kansas. 214 0.71 Per Cent Nebraska. 122 0.47 Per Cent 1914 Kansas. 203 0.67 Per Cent Nebraska. 109 0.49 Per Cent Rumors have been in circulation for some time that the owners of big eastern mail order houses are favoring the prohibition and “No license” cause, because “No license” helps to kill off the retail merchant in all lines of business. Apparently they are on the right track, for the official U. S. census figures indicate beyond the shadow of a doubt that a much larger percentage of merchants fail in Kansas than in Nebraska. KANSAS ASYLUMS FOR INSANE OVERFLOWING That thirty-two years of "No license” in Kansas have not brought about conditions for the better as ' far as INSANITY in that state is concerned, is evi denced by the following statement which was made J in an official report by the superintendent of the I Osawatomie State Hospital for the Insane. The quo tations are taken from the Biennial Report of the > Kansas State Board of Control, issued from the State Printing Office at Topeka in the year 1912, page 65: 5 “Defective dependents are Increasing out of pro portion to the increase in the general population. Tills fact claims the careful attention of all good citizens. Not much progress will be made in les- j sening this threatening calamity until the people [ awoke to t he fact that marriage of the unfit should 1 be carcfuly restricted.” In a preceding paragraph on the same page, we j find this: “The indications are that before the new hospital at Lamed can accommodate patients our hospitals ut Topeka and Osawatomie will be compelled to j refuse patients for want of room.” THE CRIME PROBLEM in KANSAS Costs the State Nearly $500,000 a Year to Keep Offenders in Houses of Correction An amazing confession respecting the CRIME problem in Kansas is fur nished in an article written by Mr. Charles M. Harger, Chairman State Board of Corrections of Kansas, and which appeared in a publication entitled “The Monthly Magazine Section” for November, 1915. Lack of space forbids the printing of the entire article. Here is a quotation from it: KANSAS’ PROBLEM OF DELINQUENCY By Charles M. Harger, Chairman State Board of Corrections “Three times every day nearly sixteen hundred inmates of the Kansas correctional institutions sit at table at state expense. Every night they are under guard in cells or dormitories. Sixteen hundred persons are to be clothed and over two hundred employees are paid salaries to see that they obey regulations restraining them from liberty. These girls, boys, young men and mature men and women cost the state $450,000 every year, not to mention the loss through their removal from produc tive occupations nor the expense incurred in legal proceedings. « • * The boys and girls sent to our institutions rarely are there for first offenses. Mostly they have been bad boys and girls; the town marshall has reprimanded them; the probate judge has struggled with them; finally running with the ‘gang,’ they do something so inexcusable that they are sentenced.’’ NOTE—The reader’s attention is respectfully called to the fact that this official article was published in the year 1915, exactly thirty-five years after prohibition went into effect in Kansas. (Published and Paid for by the Nebraska Prosperity League) , aft Tuesday morning for Philips, Wis onsin, where they will make their uture home. Miss Dorothy Wilcox was home rom Pilger visiting home folks Satur. lay and Sunday. Misses Hazel and Myrtle Edwards vent to Oakdale last Saturday to visit lome folks, returning Sunday. Gene Smith and daughter of Page vere in Inman Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Grant Davis and hildren of Stanton are here visiting elatives and friends. A surprise party was given at the 3. D. Keyes home last Thursday in lonor of Misses Mildred Keyes and L,ouis Coventry, that being their l(!th birthdays. A large crowd was pres ent and all reported a fine time. A general supper was given at the C. J. Malone home last Friday even ing by the Epworth League of the M. E. church for the purpose of raising money to purchase a street light to be put in front of the church. Rev. Bothwell, District Superin tendent of the M. E. Church, was in In man Saturday holding quarterly con ference, He also preached in the M. E. church Sunday morning. Mrs. Gene Sanford and son, Melvin, of O’Neill, visited at the home of her sister, Mrs. C. J. Enders and family, from Saturday until Tuesday. Ezra Broombaugh is working in Stuart this week. Harry Harte and J. S. Jackson were O’Neill visitors Saturday, returning Sunday. Miss Marie Keifer accompanied by her grandfather, A. Tompkins, went to Norfolk Sunday. Messrs Coney and Mick Colman and Hardin Auspach were O’Neill visitors Sunday. Aid to Villa Treason to U. S. A resolution denouncing as treason the furnishing of supplies or other aid to Villa was introduced in the Senate Friday by Senator Lewis of Illinois. He would have all guilty persons prosecuted as traitors. ILa/wreiHLce Cj^a,p2nn.a,z2L I Attorney-At-Law, O’Neill, Nebraska I Republican Candidate for County Attorney of Holt County. Primaries April 18, 1916. ^ MEYER BRANDVIG 1 Spencer, Neb. I Candidate by Petition for Representative 54 District. PLATFORM Agriculture is the primary and basic industry of Nebraska. Therefor, I am For the farmer—For the wage-earner—For closer co-operation—For equitable taxation—For BETTER RURAL SCHOOLS—For progress, justice and equality to all. Primary April 18. Your vote will be appreciated. f\---. W. C. T. U. COLUMN. ] _ Edited by the Ladies of the Local W. C. T. U. Why a Lord Mayor of London is a Total Abstainer. Sir Vezey Strong, recently Lord Mayor of London, in an article in Pearson’s Weekly, an English period ical, tells why he became a total ab stainer: “I became officially connecetd with the temperance movement at the age of fourteen. “I have been asked why I became a total abstainer ? Well, a boy’s reason ing faculties are not very well de veloped at the age of fourteen, so it would be better to ask why I have re 4 mained an abstainer during the years since that time. “The reason is simply that I have become convinced that wine or beer or spirits, or any other form of alcohol in common use is unnecessary, useless, and in many cases actually harmful. “I do not think I need emphasize its harmfullness; that is only too pitiably known in every corner of the earth. “One has often heard it said that alcohol is of great benefit as a stimu lation, but its lack of benefit is now, I think, beyond doubt. For many years this was the last stronghold of the defenders of alcoholic treatment; that stimulants were necessary to those in ill-health, and that alcohol was, therefore, of great medical value. “This view was so widely accepted that I can remember the time when, in the old hospitals, a patient was asked whether he took stout or ale. Alcoholic liquor was, in fact, regarded as part of the patient’s diet. “Now it seemed to one or two au dacious laymen, myself included, that this theory of the curative value of alcohol was open to grave doubt, and it was decided to institute a careful and strictly scientiffic test as to the possibilities of a general hospital, where all sorts of diseases might be treated, being run on Temperance lines. “With this object in view, a hospital was started in quite a small way. That was nearly forty years ago, and to-day the London Temperance Hospi tal is a well-known and recognized institution. “In all those years, so far as my knowledge goes, not one ounce of brandy or beer or wine of any descrip tion has entered the hospital, either for the use of the patients or of the HOW MUCH OIL DO YOU USE? Don’t buy barrels and half barrels of oil when | you only need Five and Ten gallons. Compare these prices—bring in your cans—get just what yen want, when you want it and at the right prices. Eldorado Castor Machine Oil, 5 gallon lots.19c Standard Red Engine Oil, 5 gallon lots.25c Heavy Graphite Harvester Oil, 5 gallon lots.27c Genuine Polarine Automobile Oil, 5 gallon lots . 45c Hard Oil in Bulk, any quantity you want, per lb. . 8c Standard Hand Separator Oil, one gallon.50c When you buy your oil here you are taking no I chances as to Quality for my personal guarantee covers every sale. NEIL P. BRENNAN.