Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1905-07-06

Chairman Dur7xcet OF New 'Y0rl1sS Sees
Value In New Id<zi-lIdhOr Phil
lips oi CalifUrui., Takes II Gp-A
Prohibition ..Sal nsl witch Man."
Especial Correspondence
Chicago. May 25.-l'rcaching Prohibi-
ton on the billboard poster plan is the
latest feature of the temperance re-
formers. Not content with countless
public meetings. hosts OF field canvas
sers and sowing the country knee
deep in campaign literature, Prohibi-
tionists have invented n new way to
get the public eur and propose to teach
the facts and figures of the liquor
question on the billboards of the coun-
try SO that even he who has no other
time to read may snatch their moral
as he passes by. Prohibition biliboards
are already greeting travellers east and
west California led the way In 1904.
and other states, are rapidly adopting
the idea.
In Los Angeles effective Prohibition
cartoons have bcelrput to use i'll various
parts of that city, and so direct is the
impression made by them that in one
! instance ut lenst liquor men showed
their irritation by baptising the car
toon with several gallons of red paint.
New York Billbonrds.
In New York State Chairman j. III.
Durkee is planning to utilize the idea,
and in an interview with your corre
spondent Mr.. Durkee briefly outlines
| his suggestions for billboards in his
own state Chairman Durkee says:
AS to the matter of billboards, our
| boards are to be eight feet wide and fifty
feet long and erected in conspicuous
| places. We shall letter them with brief
| Prohibition statements which will call
| attention to the Prohibition party When
| these billboards are erected we shall
| have rally. with music and speeches.
| The novelty OF all this will attract large
crowd and enable us TO present Profhbi-
| tion facts and arguments
| 1t is important to have these boards
erected on land owned by Prohihitionists
who will see that they arc kept in place
and protected from injury The cost Of
the board. painted and set up. il purchas-
| ed outright from some Arm dealing in this
kind OF thing. would be about $50 and tho
cost OF the rally about $50 more. but of
course this expense can be greatly re-
| VUCCO ny COIflIlOuLlpIL' Ol WCIh, iLkNl, IL
tho billboard is built by Prohibttionfsts
| living near the place where 1t is to be
erected the cost will be still farther re-
duced. The cost of the rally be les
sened by securing local talent. 80 that no
uniform price can be made on the cost
| Of the board or the cost OF the rally. /
have arranged for the erection Of two of
these biilboards and hope to erect at least
ono more some time during tho summer.
Prohibition posters have been for
many years striking feature of the
landscape in many parts on the coun-
try. Another adaptation of the plan Is
the Prohibition Sandwich man. who
carries Prohibition pointers on his port
able boards. One ingenious IhMhibi-
zionist has carried such q pair Of Pro
htbition boards thousands of mites,
holding open air rallies wherever he
could gather little crowd to hear the
facts and argument he had ready for
them.
English Cnr Signs.
Another form of Prohibition advcrtfs-
ing is now appearing in the trolley cars
throughout the United States English
temperance people have taken up this
idea, and the London United Temper
ance council is devoting considerable
pains to the plan. The newly formed
J health crusade has taken the matter
In hand, and committee of doctors has
drawn up five texts to be displayed
in sixty of the L. c. c. tram cars The
form which they take is that of en-
bossed glass panels, about 20 by Z
inches made of ruby glass, with white
lettering The wording is as follows:
Great Britain spends In one year ETA,
47b, ,270 on Intoxicating drink 1t in
creases the death rate, i'll health, power
ty and crime. No one requires alco-
holic drink either as food or tonic. In
tOxicating drink renders those who
take 1t less able to do good work. Out
Of 100000 nonabstainers, aged thirty,
A,175 live to seventy years of age.
Out of 100000 abstainers, aged thirty,
G5,3S2 live to seventy years of age.
Total abstinence lengthens life. The
use of alcoholic liquor is a most potent
and deadly agent Of physical deteriora-
tion.