The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-02-29
PROHIBITION FORCES WILL
FIGHT WITH ENERGY
Shift R~csnnnsihiliix.
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Shift Responsibilities.
That people are too prone to shift
the burden of responsibility from their
own shoulders to Tho schol WAS the
belief of w. l.. S~tockwcll. set forth in
his address today on the subject. ''How
Can We Bring the Subject of Total
Abstinence Before the Pupils of The
Public Schools"
The question prcsupposcs The fact
that what you want impressed upon
the children az his state and nation.
must be presented through the agency
OF the public school," he said. THUS
we incidentally and unconSciously pay
a tribute to the general efficiency of
our schools. We admit also that as
parents. fathers and mothers, we fail
in giving to II children fundamental
moral and physical facts. / cannot
help the feeling that We are zoo prone
nowadays to shift the burden of par
entail responsibility to the school. We
demand not only intellectual training
for our children in our schools. but
there is a clamor fur physical, vocal
tionAl and moral training as we'll.
have serious doubts about the cfli-
cheney of any moral training done in
II schools which is not endorsed,
III ~ 'it'
home. Yet 1 readily grant that unless
This training is given in the schools
MANY a child will never have his at
tention called to the great ethical and
moral principles which underlie true
character and furnish tho basis of
good citizenship. But we digress.
Best Citizens Bad Examples.
"Our laws provide for the teaching
of physiology and hygiene. With spc-
cial reference to the effects of mar
cotics and alcoholic liquors upon the
human system. We have some knowl-
edge of the effect of this law. and have
used in the past every reasonable CT
forts to have this provision observed
in the spirit if not in the letter, and
Yet we have serious m~isaivings as to
the results. Example is much more
potent than precept. Every boy in
this state knows hat many of our best
citizens are Incorporate in the use of
tobacco and frequently use alcoholic
liquors. Many of our best school men,
unfortunately for the influence exert
cd, are addicted to the use of tobacco.
l say then that the problems of pre-
senting this subject and its related
subject of total abstinence is no easy
one for solution. Yet his fact is no
reason for failure to do what is un-'
doubleday our duty; i. G., to make an
honest effort.
Use Economic and Moral Effect.
My early experiences with the
teaching of temperance have left an
unpleasant picture upon my memory,
yet am happy to think that the
teaching of scientific temperance has
progressed far in the last thirty years.
1t is not necessary to dwell upon hide
u physiological effects. While the
nnnp fh., hnn1fl, I1,.I;1,- ,.l
nervous) are serious. the thing which
to me to hold the key tn our
appeal to the rising generation is the
and moral effect of intern
perance. and the consequent Increase:
Importance of abstinence.
THE habitlal user of alcoholic Ii
Guor In n capacity Whatsoever gives
to his vocation or profession reduced
efficiency. No longer do the heads of
great corporations knowingly permit
the employment OF Incorporate men.
or thirty years ago it was
Il matter of common knowledge that
of II railway employees were
not SO TO-DAY. The man
who drives the Oriental Limited to-
night out of this city must have a
brain and Il keen eve, so must
man in charge of that train. Ga
to our factories. when The test of Of.
NoAhA'S's 'hV uStIS OIL
liquor arc apt to be among the first
&C. and SO it gOe in every voca-
tion or profession. Few of us want
"a surgeons knife in the hands of a
whose nerves arc shattered from
the use of liquor.
Worse Than Wasted.
The economic waste resulting from
expenditure of money for the stuff.
IL Q appeal to the clement of thrift,
which should be cultivated in every
child. are important considerations. 1t
Ices not occur to me that there ever
such Il persistent appeal to save as
now. Every dollar spent for alcohol
IS a dollar worse than wasted. While
is now some question as to the
Of intemperancc upon pow
trtN, still no n for Il moment thinks
intemperance is not q large con-
Lributory factor.
The moral considerations are, in
l. measure, dependent upon the econ
1mic. Much of our crime is incident
10 poverty, much Of our poverty is in
emperance The statistics of our jails
md prisoSn speak eloquently in favor
temperance and total abstinence.
Wants Total Abstinence.
However, to present for your con-
Il concrete method OF get
-lng this subject of total abstinence
before the children of this state.
beg to submit the following. Let this
organization ask the governor, the
superintendent of public instruction to
'et a day early in the school year upon
which the value of total abstinence
nay be presented in every school in
his state. Let this presentation come
n h form of an outline or simple
ADDRESS. prepared by a committee of
his body, acting in conjunction with
educational leaders of this state.
'mphasizing not SO much the unpleas-