The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1913-10-16
TELLS STORY OF KANSAS LAWS
Refutes Story of Brewers That Prohi-
bition Has Killed State and Declares
Kansas to be the Most Prosperous of
the Union-O Offers Many Remedies.

Dir. Charles M. Sheldon lectured to a
well filed auditorium at the Congrega-
tional church last evening on the theme
"The Main Things in Life. DR..
Sheldon introduced his thought by tell
ing how reception committees often
met him and invited him to "see the
city They then showed him build
ings-nail factories, courthouses, fine
dwellings, etc. But that was not see
ing the city. He hoped some day com
mittee would show him the people of
the town, police matron of whom they
were proud, the children of the schools,
the average men and women, leading
happy, useful lives, who had never got
ten into the divorce courts or the news
papers Humanity, and not buildings,
is the greatest thing in the world. How
can we make better world, centering
our efforts around people?
The speaker pointed out four ways.
First by uniting Christendom. One of
the fine signs of the times is that the
churches are getting together. Ii a
man S barn burns down neighbors of
any and every denomination will rush
out to help him save it, and work to-
gethei'. Shall they not do as we'll in
the fires Of sin and peril in city that
need to be put out Second, we should
do all in our power to rub drink and
lust off the map. These are the two
great destructive forces in society Two
billion, seven hundred million dollars
is spent in one year in America for
drink and tobacco DIR. Sheldon had
seen through the window of one OF our
Kenosha saloons the motto on the wall,
from the Bible, "Let us eat, drink and
be merry but the saloonkeeper had
forgotten to add the true conclusion Of
the proverb, Z" for tomorrow we die.
Dr. Sheldon then compared Wisconsin
with Kansas, his own state, in the mat
ter Of drink In Kansas the prohibition
laws are enforced. AS result Kansas
has the smallest per cent of paupers
of any state in the Union. 1t has also
the highest per capita wealth of any
state in the Union. In fifty-seven coun-
ties the jails are empty; in sixty there
are no paupers. Kansas heads the list
of states for people owning their own
homes, After the law went into effect
one savings bank had its deposits in
creased 100000 in six months. Brew
ers say in their official organ that
liquor consumption in Kansas is one and
a half gallons per capita per year; in
Wisconsin it is more than 60 gallons
He brought Illustrations from other
states also Of the trend of things Bat
tie Creek has moved all it's saloons off
its main streets onto side streets; they
are no longer considered respectable
business institutions. There are forty
four million people in dry territory to-
day. The drink evil will not last very
long.
The lecturer then spoke of the lust
evil. He bespoke frankness in treat
ing it. Hundreds of boys in universities
had testified to him that 10 one in their
homes, schools or churches had ever
spoken to them on matters of sex; they
had had to learn all they knew from
the vile talk Of the streets. But now
the silence Of the centuries is being
broken. And people are saying of the
social evil, it is not necessary. Social
surveys have led to the conclusion that
vice is not to be regulated or segregat
ed but stamped out.
The third way to make a better world
is by great brotherhood of mankind.
We must rub out race prejudice. Illus
trations were given from Cosmopoli-
tan club in a university. Every race
excells in something. The negroes, for
example, excel the whites in oratory,
painting and music. There is only one
solution of the race problem; we must
learn to love them. A Christian, said
DR.. Sheldon, is a man who loves people
he doesn t like. If We expect to sing
III that great chorus above, in which
there will be jews and Italians and ne
groes and Russians and Esquimaux and
all the rest, many of whom are better
sinears than ourselves. ne had better