The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-03-05
LIQUOR HURTS BUS|-:
NESS AND HEALTH
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were tanked, would buy stock of
goods and then when he got home
would find that it was not what he
really needed at all Of which resulted
in sore customers and ultimately their
complete loss.
Temperance Required.
I'm this age when the travelling
salesman must be always alert to all
forms of competition he finds no
room In his daily duties to visit the
bar room and proceed to get lit up
and then make the rounds to his Gus
toners. He soon finds that his re-
ception at that place is exceedingly
modest.
lone of the leading mercantile men
of this country recently made the
statement that In years travelling
man who hit booze and smoked cigar
cts would find it hard to get posi-
ton with any reputable firm There
is no court of last resort in the bust
ness world because Of strict competi-
ton. The profits must show or the
business is failure.
"The statements that liquor does
not cause crime receives dire set
back especially in speaking of Day
ton In the three weeks of the after
math to the destructive flood when
marshal law prevailed and all the sa-
looms were closed there were an av-
erage of two arrests day. In two
weeks following the restoration of
the municipal government there were
an average of 81 arrests for intoxi-
cation, and disorder One soldier I'M
der the influence Of liquor struck a
superior officer, was arrested and the
courtmartial sentenced him to life i'm
prisonment His sentence, however,
was revoked by Governor Cox.
Booze Bill Expensive.
THE people of the United States
are paying more for booze in one year
than they pay for WOODEN clothes, edn-
cation. bread and boots and shoes
Statistics will show that the amount
of money expended for public educa-
tion was in round numbers, S115,0
600 The public paid for shoes $3.50
100000. A sum agsregating $335OOO.-
600 was expended for boots and shoes
and an amount totaling 100000, 900
was given over for bread. While the
drinking people spent 81 800 900, 900
against the total expenditure of ST.
$50. 900 900 for necessities of life.
Using the total expenditure for
liquors as basis one may compute
that the average family of six people
would be credited with spending $3.50
year for booze. This amount would
give each member of the family a
two weeks summer vacation with eX-
penses paid.
Booze has its demoralizing effects.
Each year about l 100000 men and
women are rendered incapacitated for
work and they are made so by the
use of intoxicating liquor. More and
80
industries of this country demanding
that the employees be of clean whole
some type.
Changed His Mind.
while I was travelling in Indiana
a few years ago | met the mayor Of
Warsaw. That town was engaged in
a local option campaign just like you
people of Richmond. He was fighting
the drys because, as he said he was
under the impression that the city
would be dead one If it went dry.
It went in the dry column. He after
wards told me that he had three
pieces Of property to be rented and
that while the town was dry he re-
ceived more rentals from his property
than when the town was wet.
The railroad companies have de-
clared against booze. The Lackawana
road few months ago had serious
rear end collision near Elmira, n. Y.
in which forty people were killed. An
investigation by a railroad commits
sion showed that the engineer Of the
Inflated train had been drinking in a
saloon just before starting the run
When he was on the train he fell
asleep at the throttle with the result
that he overran a flagman and crash
ed into the rear end Of waiting train
Since that time none of the employees
are permitted to visit a saloon even
when off duty.
"A number of social workers in