Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-10-12

ed as a campaign rally day In favor
OF that legislation: to hold a great
meeting at Washington every second
Sunday in December; to continue OPP
position to the use of alcohol in the
army and navy: to use sample ballots
in educating the temperance vote: to
make all possible use Of young people
in political campaigns. She recon-
mended state legislation for an annu-
al temperance day in the public schools
and q wider observance Of Flag day.
She urged that publicity be given the
Harrison Narcotic law. and directed
attention to the campaign against al
coholic medicines. s<- ~
"5anish. John earIeyeorn"
Declaring that 1.-THE world will ban
ish John Barleycorn,'' Miss Gordon
said:
THE extraordinary gain for prohibi-
ton In Russia, France, Germany, Eng
land, Italy and in all the vast areas in
yolved in the European war, is unpre-
cedented. BY one Official edict,
Nicholas II, Gar Of Russia, emanci-
pated that nation from the thralldom
OF vodka. Later, even the use Of wine
was prescribed. Russia thus lost an
annual vodka revenue Of many mil
lion dollars, but she gained a larger
revenue through the morality and the
efficiency Of her people.
THE comptroller of the treasury.
kharitonoff, affirmed: Russia without
vodka and with the war is better on
than Russia with vodka without the
war; There is reason to believe that
the Car, on the re-establishment IT
peace, will continue his prohibition pol
icy. @@ .f.'-- -<E-}
las Russia interdicts vodka, so
france, as a: war measure. has prohibit
ed the manufacture and sale of alb.
sinthe General Joffre, convinced that
drinking soldiers endangered the safety
OF the country. has forbidden the sale
within the war zone OF all alcoholic IL
quors. lii. :g fp..s. -
I'm Switzerland Holland and Belri-
UNI the sale of -absinthe has been inter-
olcted. In Germany army recruits are
warned by the government against the
use OF beer, because 1t is injurious and
causes nearly all army excuses and dis
Another inatfons in the throes Of q
struggle against alcoholic drink, declar
ed by eminent men and women to he
the country g. sbitterest enemy. is tbe
kingdom Of GfeattBritain. In our west.
ern hemisphere we have welcomed th.
glad tidings from Alberta and Saskatch-
evan provinces in Canada that have
driven out the liquor traffic. and as low
al Pan-Americans we long to HELM the
drinking millions in South America.
Last January Iceland outlawed tho
drink traffic. The Roumanian govern
ment has cut down the number OF sa.
looms in its country nearly fifty per cent.
The parliament Of Italy has passed an
act forbidding the sale, except within
very narrow limits and rigid conditions,
of all liquors. -
In Holland the number Of saloons
has been reduced nearly one-half. and
campaigns for nationwide prohibition
are now being urged in Sweden and
Norway. Australia and New Zealand
South Africa's white ribboners are ran
idly gaining total abstinence ground by
their heroic endeavors.
'Tn forty countries Of the world tie
Woman's Christian Temperance Union
has its representatives or organizations
through which it is creating sentiment
which will help nightly to fuifilment
OF the prediction. "A saloonless World
in $780,"