Norwich bulletin., 1915-10-04
BALTIC HEARD LECTURE
 ON TEMPERANCE QUESTION
Safety First and Efficiency Are Both.
 Involved, Says Mir. Spooner.

On Friday evening in Sprague hall, Baltic. MT. Spooner gave a lecture on The Road to Success, dealing with the temperance question. In part he said: success comprises great many things. One man thinks he is success fuf if he has good health, another if he possesses riches, and still another if he has. a happy home and enjoys the good things of this life with them Does the saloon point towards, this one more successful? The fact of drinking liquor or yielding temptation to the saloon breaks away from both safety first and efficiency. We might ask what relation has the labor ques- tion to the liquor traffic Statistics snow better goods are made where so- Der men do the work Some will say 1T a town goes no-license the people in said town will go to neighborfng towns for liquor. This is not so. as he will not take the time or spend the money on carfare to get the 1iquor, when he can enjoy the comforts of his own home. and has not the temptation Of the saloon in his town. Tn one city which went dry there was one-quarter Of the arrests which they had a year ago with license. It makes a big dif- ference.
 Some will say you will lose money.
 rms IS not so. In the 1910 census the population of Spraguef was 2,551. tax 20 mills. and today still greater, debt $91,000. This is not anything like good success. Note the. high tax rate. Why not try saving money, or at least not go deeper into debt? Some win say what will we do with thsse places left vacant by the saloonsg It will look as if the place was dead with SO many vacant stores But with the money you are spending for iuuor you can put that into groceries. You can't support saloons and grocery stores. When the saloons are vacant you win need more grocery stores. Where the saloon employs one man. the stores will employ ten in proportion Other stores would be needed to put better goods Tn. Instances are shown where grocery bills are paid where mo- license prevails; whereas bills have peen growing for years: and never win pc paid where the saloons are the temptation to men, A man does not. do justice to his boys and girls by drinking liquor. He deprives them of an education and makes It obligatory for them to go to I completed even their grammar school edueation. We have 27 nationalities
 in the state of Connecticut. Almost 1C l per cent. of our population came in
 last year from 7 different nations speaking different languages, thinking | u1LGI6uI ways ana having different
 modes Sf living The cities of Con necticut. Rhode Island and Massachu. sets are getting more of this class o1 1 people. Where these people meet arr I in our public and parochfal schools
 They do not go to the same church They do not do the same work. Bu' l the children meet in the schools. It fl I the only place where we make then one. as they are taught the same Ian. I glage. So we must make our schooii l better in order to make our boys ant
 girls better. Some people tell us the, can't run a school unless they hay, l saloon money. Yet statistics show j where children of. a dry town pas from a grammar school into hdgl school on an average Of 38 out of 100 where as in the state of Connecticak I only 25 pass in no-license cities. Wher
 Is the loss The loss is in the futrr,
 of the boys and girls. You are losin, i this opportunity for them You ar
 letting them so into business, Thre
 out of the four boys or girls do so be T cause the father does not spare tn
 family as he should. They cannot liv I as they should. dress as they should
 unless they no to work for them
 selves. The town and state lose whe, 2 Q boy or girl is cheated Of this chance
 There is no happy home life, no sue
 cess in any line Of good business un legg our boys and girls arc given jua sI Chances. The father dpen mot pay hi C bills, cannot buy clothing or ssnd hi