The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-12-10
.CHAFIN PRINCIPAL SPEAKER TODAY FOR
 FLYING SQUADRON
Former Prohibition Candi- date for President Assails
 Use of Alcoholic Liquors
Other Noted Persons Take Part In Twice-a-Day Pro
 grams of Movement Here

Eugene Chain. former Prohibition candidate for president of the United States, was the principal speaker at the meeting conducted by ''The Flying Squadron in the First Methodist church in Fairfield avenue this after noon Clinton N. Howard also spoke. Last night there was a banquet in the First Baptist church for Daniel A. Polling of The Squadron given by the Christian Endeavor society and g. similar affair was held in the base ment of the First Methodist church for Rev. Dr. Wilbur F. Sheridan Of Chicago This banquet was given by the members of the Epworth League.
 One of the most enthusiastic meet ings of the campaign was held last evening in the First Methodist church. Mayor wilson presided. Rev. Dr. Sheridan said in part:
 ..There is only one good saloon and that is 3. dead one It is proved that at least 10 per cent. of the deaths. 20 per cent of the disease. 20 per cent. of the idiocy. and more than 50 per cent of the insanity. comes from strong drink.
 .srhe trainers of athletes, and the coaches of ball teams are insisting on the elimination of all liquors. Such great medical leaders as pr. Brothers of Hartford and pr. J. H. Kellogg of
  entirely from their practice Of uledi- cine on the ground that it is a poison, and that it has no medical value in any case that cannot be rendered by another and less dangerous drug. The railways are forbidding the use of liquors by their employees. The great industrial plants of the nation are do-. ing likewise. Such big mercantile houses as Marshall .ETeld of Chicago will not employ a. man that they know to be a user of intozlcants.
 ssWe have already seen that 6o,000 girls are led astray. Seventy7hve thousand men go doyzn to drunkards deaths each year; 10o, ,00o are either born idiots or become insane as the result Of liquor; 100. 900 boys and men become criminals every year as the result Of drink; 250,000 become tramps or paupers annually as the re- suit of strong drink. 2
 Dr. Charles M Sheldon, author of .sIn His Steps told Of the working of absolute prohibition in Kansas He said in part
 ssIt saves thirty millions of dollars every year from the national drink bill, which is thirty five million of dollars for each licensed state The drink bill Of Kansas is five millions of dollars for personal use The per cap ita expenditure for liquor in Kansas is $8.04s the average for the liquor states is $21,
 Kansas has only $50 paupers; TIA inmates in the penitentiary. only 152 of whom are Kansas born men, The tax rate for Kansas, compared with other states, is: A1innesota, 4 2 mills. Washington 38 mills; Oregon, "A mills; Kansas, 10 mills.
 'sWithout a cent of revenue from lbrewerfea Kansas has more people living in it who own their own homes than any other state in the Union. It sends. 40 ,oOO boys and girls to high school and 21. 900 to universities and colleges. With a great foreign popu- lation from Europe and Asia, 1t is the second state in the Union for Iiteracy.
 Its death rate this year is 10 7-10. Sixty four people out of 100000. in Kansas die of tuberculosis every year, as compared with s14e in the liquor states. Eighty-two out of 100. 900 die Of heart disease in Kansas as against 142 in the liquor states. Fewer peo- pie die from murder and accident in Kansas than any other state in the Union.
 s'Liquor is going out of use as medi- cine; the best physicians do not pre- scribe it for any diseases. Drug stores are not allowed to handle it by law. z