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Kentucl,y's Victories

kcntucky's Victories
The Kentucky house of representa-
tives by vote of 50 TO 32. on March
-. passed a bill providing for the sub
miSsion 10 the voter at an election IN
1873 of constitutional amendment
providing for stat swide prohibit en-.
The bill now will go TO the senate,
where IL is expected its opponents Will
h"ht it. All but twenty-one counties
in the state are dry" Tho wet"
:. un.ies contain the larger cities and
the big distileries
Both houses on tn, legislature have
als'' ',s',d a bill pc"yIdinS that
~ enty-five er cent ~ the population
OF dry county may call a local rp-
ton election. 1t is said that this bill
vii cause ~ election !: 1v-'v count
" in The r,At few months. 1t is
pected that Governor Nc -r-.Y viii
>;,n the u.
The Kentucky whiSlScy market
seems TO be almost entirely at
stand-still. Some of the largest dis
tributors tell us that there is scarcely
any demand at all.
How Brewers Fortunes Are Made
Hon. Frank S. Regans, in an address
THE Fool Tax Payers" delivered in
Ottawa, ILL.,, recently made the state
ment that according to information
furnished him by a chemist in Mil
waukee brewery, the actual cost of
making a barrel of beer which retails
for about $500 is but 70 cents, and
that the cost of producing a gallon OF
whiskey which retails for 81, is but
25 cents.
! At a bonfire to celebrate a recent
dry victory at Red Bluff, Calf, the
first bar used in any saloon in that
town will be consumed. The bar was
brought from San Francisco in 1857.
and was considered "a handsome piece
of furniture at hiatt time.
Making The Map White
Election returns from Massachu-
sets shows three victories for no.
license, Upton, Leominster. and Mil
ford. The last named town voted no.
license for the first time in twenty
years.
At the Vermont town meetings on
March 3, 22S OF the 246 towns and
cities voted no-license. Six of the
fourteen counties of the state voted
no-license, and one other is practi-
cally dry having a yes vote in only
one town where ii is expected that no
license will be issued.
In the March election which, by
majority of 462 votes, added Muncie
to the territory already dry in Indiana,
the women served luncheon and hot
coffee at the polls. After ninety days,
Muncie will be the largest saloonless
city in the state.
Ten States i'm Line
The following states are planning
for statewide prohibition campaigns
for 1914: Arizona, California, Wash
ington, Oregon, Utah, Idaho, Montana,
Colorado, Texas and Virginia.
Declaring that the liquor traffic is
the bulwark of all that is evil in
American life, the 900 teachers at
tending the county teachers institute
at Washington, Pennsylvania, at the
closing session adopted resolutions in
dorsing the program of educational
Anti-Saloon League and commencing
the efforts of the committee of one
thousand of that league to have passed
a constitutional prohibition amend
ment.
Barring Rum Lessons Car Accidents
"Workmen who frequent drinking
places coming TO or going from their
work will be replaced by non-drinking
men as rapidly as possible"
THAT notice, posted in the American .
Car and Foundry Company's plant at
Berwick, Pa, has resulted in a mark
ed decrease in accidents among the +
5000 men employed there" reports the .
North American, of Philadelphia.
I'VE did not until the last three .
months recognize that the drinking .
habit was responsible for a lot Of our .
accidents" said w. S. Johnson, gener-
al superintendent. I'VE had a gener
al awakening in this town through the
efforts Of the evangelist, DR.. Slough.
Since the beginning Of his campaign
against booze the accidents in our
plant have been reduced over thirty
per cent"
Big Prohibition Cities
Massachusetts holds the record as
being the only state in the union
which has four cities of more than