The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1914-01-27

tons TO limit the use of alcoholic
liquors among their number is even
more noticeable. The Woodwork
er's Union, of Bielefeld, seems es-
pecially successful in this respect. The
use of spirits among them has prac-
tically ceased; beer drinking, espee-
ialy during pauses in work, is grow
ing less and less. Milk is taking the
place of beer
The building trades, the railway
national insurance societies, and GER
tain departments of the government
have begun an active campaign a.
gainst alcohol in Germany. There
is no drawer and no more earnest
body of men and women in the world
than the German prohibitionists.
The various temperance organiza-
tons in Germany are enjoying
steady and large increase in member
ship. In March of this year was
held, in Berlin, the first German con-
gress for the rearing of children as
total abstainers. A resolution was
adopted expressing the hope that
1.-The mothers of Germany would
recognize the fact that the first step
German women must take toward
combating drunkenness was to bring
up their own children in complete
abstinence from the use of alcohol
is liquors." and the belief that this
would form the best means for in
surfing the acceptance of laws a
gainst alcohol by the coming gener-
alton.
In Austria the various temper
ance societies have united in a nat
is making notable progress in ex-
posing the terrors of drink. In Hun
gary temperance organizations and
temperance principles are steadily
spreading. In 1912 a small but dis
tinguished group of Hungarian wo-
men issued an appeal to their sis
ters throughout Hungary to join in
the fight against alcoholism, an APP
peal that should be published in ev-
cry language and in every country
on the globe; an appeal that con-
dictments of the liquor traffic that
has yet been uttered. AS an addit-
ional evidence of the world feeling
on this subject l want to quote a few
sentences from this appeal. They
are as follows:
Come to our help, Hungarian wo-
men. Come from all parts of the
| land-poor, rich, happy and unhap-
| Ply women, women of station and f
humble position, you whom alcohol
has made to weep, you who know
and feel your obligations to religion,
to God, to your country, and to hui
! mainly yet unborn. We wish to up
lift the coming generations which,
not knowing alcohol, will belong to
morally purer and more warm
| hearted world. We seek the aid of
all for this task. We trust that
,an woman who will not harken W
us. None shall be so humble in our
eyes that we will not be grateful to
see them join us; none too high to
have a right to look down on the
fork to which we invite you. We af-
| fectionately beg you to suggest
everywhere the idea of fighting al
cohol, Make sentiment for it in high
and low circles, for the odor of alco-
hol is found in both-in drawing
room and cottage. Our social organ
ism is sick. Our physical, moral and
economic forces are on the way to
destruction.
Oh may this cry from the women
of Hungary reach the women OF
every other land, and may the moth
ers of the world unite to destroy a
traffic that has become the chief enc
my of woman's happiness, the chief
cause of woman's tears.
In the Netherlands the sentiment
against alcohol is constantly growing
and an unofficial test poll of $4,000
voters has shown 62 per cent. for
probably more alcohol is consumed
meetings of the Netherlands Associa.
ton for the Abolition of Alcoholic
liquors are helping wonderfully to