New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-07
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ING NO PATENT MEDICINE
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simple enough proposition on the tace OF
il. but here is State Board of Health, the
creature OF the Democratic state administra-
ton. urging the public to boycott the psrtys
foremost journal in the state, and the personal
organ Of Honorable Josephus Daniels Secre-
tsry OF the United States Navy, and pet OF
President Wilson. For The Raleigh News
and Observer" continues to print patent medi-
cine advertising, in calV disregard OF this brave
and life-saving campaign.
Furthermore, North Carolina is dry state
Extra dry. and XXX! And the Honorable
Josephus Daniels is the prophet OF its partcu-
lar brand Of drouth Secretary Daniels is the
fearless foe Of the 3 per cent beer, but his
water wagon has plenty Of room for stronger
stuff he is helping day in and day out to fill
the systems Of the poor whites and negroes
with Dr. Kmer's Swamp Root, which is as
we'll loaded with alcohol as a great deal OF
the champagne which he attacks with his hol-
low fanfaronade. The Swamp Root contains
10 per cent OF alcohol.
Speaking editoriay OF the men behind the
prohibition movement, The News and Obser
yer" said the other day: I'm the great work
which they are pressing forward they are en-
titled to the full cooperation of all who would
see North Carolina attain to the very best in
the life of this great country
HONORABLE JOSEPHUS AND RELIC
IOUS PERIODICALS ARE IN HARMONY.
Well, the sort of cooperation the State
Board Of Health is getting from the extra dry
prohibitonst of The News and Observer" is,
as l happen to know, not in the least to its
liking.
What has the Honorable Josephus to say for
himself?
The gloomiest and most delicate problem Of
all, perhaps, that the Board has to encounter
is the attitude of the religious periodicals Of
the state. Here. as elsewhere. the church pa
pers have a struggle for existence, and every
dollars worth Of advertising helps There are
patent medicines which are innocuous so far
as their effect on the body is concerned and
the churchy editor, no doubt. sheds the GEN.
sorship of the advertisements upon his more
practical and worldly business partner. A no
torious and dsgraceful fact in the publishing
trade throughout the United States is the
weakness of certain religious papers before
this sort Of temptation. What would the Man
who scourged the money changers out Of the
temple think about them? The Honorable
Josephus Daniels, no doubt feels himself in
good company SO long as the pious ones lend
their sanction to 10 per cent booze in the dis
guise of medicine.
CHARITY AND CHILDREN" BREAKS
AWAY.
Let US hasten to give credit to an excellent
religious paper published at Townsville, en-
titled Charity and Children" It's managers,
without waiting for men in high places to set
the example or to be approached by the State
Board, have adopted a no-patent-med
policy. The largest religious paper in the state,
The Biblical Recorder" of Raleigh, is said to
be experiencing qualms Of conscience since the
Charity and Children" cleanup. Let US hope
The Biblical Recorder" will reform, followed
by ali its contemporaries, without waiting for
the State Board of Health to apply the vacuum
cleaner.
What ammunition, principally does the
North Carolina State Board OF Health use in
its warfare upon patent medicines? The big
gest bullet probably, is The Bulletin" issued
monthly to $4,000 Gree subscribers. There are
numerous leaflets and circulars dealing with
variety of health problems, the patent medicine
evil among them, and the board sends out each
week to the newspapers from one to six ar
ticles for the education Of the general reader.
Then there are lectures, accompanied by
stereopticon slides and delivered in churches
schoolhouses and halls. Should the current
session of the Legislature prove generous.
North Carolina will match Louisiana and GER
tain other states in the possession Of motion