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The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-06-18
a specially appointed tribunal.

The bin contains no provision for
compulsion or even compulsory regis
tration by the male population, but
will enahh,,e the opening of rolls of
volunteers who are prepared to work
in any factory controlled by the gov
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-06-18
WON'T RESORT TO comPuLsloN
Englan Has Plan to Handle Prob
lem of Munition Making

lem of Munition Making
London June 1.-THE government
appears to have abandoned at least
for the present any idea of resorting
to compuIsion in the organization of
industries for the production of NUM-
tions of war. David Lloyd-George.
the minister of munitions. in his re-
cent conferences with the trade I'M
ion leaders has reached an agree
ment upon bill which will be intro
duced in the House of Commons next
week and passed with all possible
speed, giving the government power
to prohibit strikes Or lockouts pre-
judicial to the national interest in
controlled factories and providing
that all questions of wages and con-
ditions of employment be settled by
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-06-18
NORTH BENNINGTON

Mrs. l.. T.. Fuiler of New York is
visiting her sister, Mrs. Florence Sur
dam.
The children of the Congregational
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-06-11
WOMAN SENTENCED TO
ETERNAL SOBRIEIY''
Police Judge Lets Pioneer Go
with Permanent Ban
on Drink.

NEW YORK, June 1n.-Magistrate
Harry Miller. sitting in the Jamaica
police court, sentenced Mrs. Margaret
Askins to eternal sobriety- She ac-
cepted the life sentence with thanks
and left the court with her husband.
whose plea to the court won for her
that sentence instead OF another.
Mrs Askins, who is 80 Years old.
IS the wife OF Charles Asklns, Of 10
Park place, Jamaica She was charged
with having been an improper guard
ian Of her children. The trouble was
ascrIbed to drink
Agent C. Harstedt, Of the Children,s
Society, told the magistrate that the
woman had once threatened to ki1l
her children and that she had chased
her husband with a carving knife
The husband refused to make any
statement. He said that his wife
would be all right Il she let liquor
alone. The eternal sentence was
then imposed
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-06-11
Get Rid Of Rheumatism
An Easy Matter with Rheuma, the
Marvellous Remedy for the Disease.

An Easy Matter With hheuaa, the
Marvellous Remedy for the Disease.
Drive out the uric acid from the
joints. Get every particle OF tins
poisonous matter out Of your sys-
tenn, and keep 1t out
You can do 1t with Rheuma, a
scientific prescription that acts at
once on kidneys. stomach, liver and
blood; dissolves the uric acid and
causes rheumatic agony to vanish
Read this proof: After treatment
by three doctors, without results. I
have been cured OF a very bad case
OF rheumatism by using two bottles
OF Rheuma- 1t is now two years
since used the remedy. and am
still as well as ever. Previously
was cripple, walking with clutches"
Judge John Barhourst. Fort Lor-
annie. Ohio.
wel1s-Haymaker thinks well
enough OF Rheuma to offersit on the
no cure, no pay plan at 50 cents
Advertisement
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-06-11

NEW YORK, June 11.-Mary Aus
tin, the novelist. has made a tour of
the cabarets and cafes on Broadway
by gasllght and is convinced, after
study Of the situation, that only the
foolish are lured by the night lie She
says the adventure on, Broadway by
night has but one real objective
It is nourished on the coin OF rich
young fools and freshness and cnarm
of young women She believes that
the way to reform Broadway Is to
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-06-11
TEN HIGH SCHOOLS
WILL BE FAVORED
That Number VIII Receive Aid
This Year from the
State Fund.

GOORGANTOWN, June dn.-Hgh
schools Of West Virginia have until
June 10 to register their applications
for normal training departments in
the high schools, provided for by a.
recent act OF the legislature, author
ling an appropriation OF $500 for
each OF ten schools chosen foT THIS
purpose
The state board Of education viii
meet June 10 to consider these app1z-
cations and to choose from among
them the ten high schools which viii
draw the $500 each Only first rank.
high schools will be eligible for the.
state aid, and such a school must
employ at least one teacher prepared
to instruct in normal training. In
selecting the schools the board viii
make an effort to distribute the
schools, geographically, so that all
parts OF the state Will be represented
as fairly as possible under the con-
ditionS prescribed
The location Of state normal schools
viii also be taken into consideration
and attention will be given to the
accessibility of the proposed schools,
the normal atmosphere OF the towns
in which they are to be located and
the facilities for taking care Of the
pupils who may board while studying.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-06-11

Hammerstein's v1ctoria-the most
profitable vaudeville house in the
worlds to be given over to moving
pictures The Victoria has furnished
the sinews Of war for the redoubtable
Oscar. so that he could cage his
song birds and furnish London and
America with grand opera. It was
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-06-11
GQDFbTHERS
OF German Crown Princes In
FAINT to Include Entire
Fifth Army.

PHILADELPHIA. June 1.-THE
coedpcational system. particularly as
applied to medical educaton, was
vigorously attacked by DR. Gertrude
A. Walker at the annual alunnae con
ference of the Womanss Medical Col
Iege, held here.
aCoeducation as an ideal a beau
tiful theory, IS fine thing to con-
template she said But in practice.
1t seldom or never works out Sex;
prejudice and rivalry and all OF the
arhraH artificial dtsincttons we
have built up must be abolished be-
fore II Will be practical
.<In medicine, particularly, men
wtsa 10 specialize IN things that wo-
men do not The curriculum OF the,
school is moulded to fit the needs o6
the greatest majority. and as the wor.
men are in the minority they must
suffer
Investigators In Bavaria have
found that the more bread school
children eat the better condition Of
their teeth
Ausrala:s population issnow esti
mated at 5s00e 0oos
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-06-11

The exodus to the resort hotels has
given New York vacant look Broad
way presents changed appearance
in summer It is the promenade for
the actor folk who rarely sumner In
the country The country is too Tar
away from the bright lights
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-06-11
formerly car barn and for years has
been an eye-sore to the theatrical

formerly a car barn and for years has
been an eye-sore to the theatrical
district.
When the house was. closed this
season an army Of wreckers began to
demolish the Interior It was sup
posed, however, it Is to be better than
ever under the Hammerste1n manage
ment, but instead it is to be known
as the Ria1to theater and will be IN
der the management Of Sam Rothap-
fel, who made the Strand theater and
later resigned in a huff, so the Broad:
way rumor goes
He Immediately selected the Vic
tor1a and Oscar Hammerstein finally
consented Rothapfel was once a
coal miner in PENNSYLVANIA and
reached his present position In, the
entertainment world through sheer
determination.
The telephone girl in Broadway
hotel was In dutter Of excitement
when Jimmy Allison, the correspon-
dent, stepped in to call up friend
ooh. Mr. Allison" she giggled. Il
just made dredfl mistake. A,man
weighing ESQ pounds called up wo-
man. didn't disconnect the re-
ceiver.''
Can you imagine big guy like
that calling himself Cutey? When
I said absentminded1y Thanks. MI
Cntey,
What happened 2"
why the fat rascal sent me box
Of roses with a note in It asking me to
go to dinner with him tonight"
Allison turned on his heel and
walked away whistling Bl'me Mr.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-06-11

Down on lower Broadway bright
looking young man introduced a new
method of attempting to get job.
He marched in the middle Of the
street Carrying a. banner which read:
II am 23 years old. have a col
1ege- education and am a married man
of family. want work I held my
last Job for ten years and got an In
crease in salary every year The ear
closed down the business For two
months have sought work See me
now, If you want my services.
AS the young man only appeared
for one day on the streets it is as
sumed that he landed the job by his
unique stunt
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-06-11

teach it that it is just as exciting to
be good If you know how to take it
that way. As matter Of fact the idle
and the vicious are first cousins of one
another, and Broadway is the great
advertisement OF personal 1nef1cien-
cy-
While Mrs. Austin and others are
lampooning the White Way. the hotel
and restaurant men-scared by the
turn OF events-are defending 1t.
They declare without a dissenting
voice that Broadway has never been
SO decent, that women are very rare
" molested and MASKING has been re-
duced to minimum
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-07-20
Some of the 100000 Workers Who
Would Be Thrown Out of Employ
ment by the Abolition of the
Liquor Traffic,

Of other millions, and to incorporated places
having a population OF $500 and over. of $751;
955,O01, grand total running up into the hun
dreds Of millions every year in liquor license
and tax receipts.
Greater burden on direct taxation 10 fall
upon all the population instead of upon those
who voluntarily pay the tax indirectly
when they see fit to purchase liquors
How many banks would be forced to the
wall along with the crash in other directions
man would undertake 10 say. How many
millions of unemp loyed would walk the streets
for months and possibly years there is no way
or figuring.
Yet to the average Prohibitionist speakers
all this is as nothing. With the greatest non
chalance they put down on paper ways in
which the revenue could be raised that would
be lost by the abolishing of liquor.
They ignore the fact that the raising OF tho
revenue for a single State 10 take the place OF
revenues lost by abolition OF the liquor busi-
ness is a task beyond the best minds Of States
like West Virginia, for instance, where an ex.
ira legislative session has failed to devise a
way OF replacing $500. 900 annually lost In rev.
enues. due to Statewide prohibition.
They ignore the fact that some States are so
largely dependent upon the liquor industry
and some States are so vitality interested in it,
that almost total paralysis would ensue in
those sections IL the liquor industry was wiped
out Take the case Of Kentucky, for instance
Were IN 1913 me products or distiQeries in
bonded warehouses paid onethird more taxes
than all the stocks OF merchandise in the
State more than twice as much as all the
horses OF all kinds in the State: nearly three
times s much as all the mules Jacks and len
MES In the State; more than three times as
much all the cattle of all kinds In the State.
This has been paid. mind you. by the prod
ucts Of distilleries in bonded warehouses aloha
and does not take into consideration the as
sessed value OF distilleries. the bonded ware
houses themselves. real estate. nor any per
sonalty OF any kind belonging TO owners of
distilleries. nor the value OF breweries and
realty and personally conn scted Herewith
This brief statement will show any thinkins
just how great a calamity nationwide
prohibition woulc be in Kentucky. Nor Is Ken.
lucky alone In tnis respect. The blow would
fall elsewkerS with the greatest severity
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-07-20

ssYoc 80 Says Joseph Debar, Secretary of the
ACOs National Wholesale Liquor Dealers
Association of America, Who Declares that the
Wiping Out of the Country Liquor Industry Will
Cause the Most Disastrous Panic in ALI History

Loss OF customers for hundreds OF millions
annually now received for corn, barley, hops.
rice, wheat, grapes, apples, peaches. cherries,
molasses and other farm products now utilized
oy distillers, brewers and wine makers.
Loss or jobs by some $4,000 salaried en-
ployes, some $4,000 travelling statesmen. some
10000 wage earners in manufacturing and
wholesale liquor establishments. and loss Of
places by 101,234 bartenders, a grand total Of
nearly 100000 employees, making a living upon
conservative estimate for 100000 Of the
1OO'OOO,OOO people Of the country. All OF these
hgures, with the exception Of the estimate
10 travelling statesmen, are from the United
states Census OF Manufactures for 1909. The
salary and wages OF the employees OF the liquor
manufacturing plants alone In 1909 is given by
the census as over S73,00O,OO0 year.
Loss in addition 10 this to farm laborers
amount Of which is problematical According
averaged 11.SS per cent Of total value of crops
produced. Applying this ratio to S113.513,971
worth of farm products used by breweries and
distilleries in 1913. the total payment for farm
labor Of products used In these industries was
over $4,000, 900. a sum sufficient for the en-
ployment OF nearly $4,000 persons for six
months at average wage of $50 month.
Loss Of millions of dollars annually In wages
to barrel and stave makers, bottle makers
printers and employees in other collateral lines
Of business drawing a large volume of their
work from the liquor industry and industries
dependent upon IT.
Loss OF $23OOOO0OO annually In internal rev.
enue and over S1S,0o0,000 in customs revenue
a grand total of nearly $3.50 OOO over one
third of the total annual income from all
sources.
Necessity OF raising this vast sum by taxa
ton in other directions. The difficulty Of this
will be apparent TO all who recall the stress
attendant upon the imposition a short time
back of a 800 700 900 war tax.
Necessity for a vast army of United States
officials to enforce the nationwide prohibition
law in every State and every local community
within the countrys bounds This will also
entail the necessity of raising great sum by
taxation in addition to that raised TO replace
the internal revenue and customs revenue lost
by aboishing the liquor industry.
Loss to States Of many Millions to counties
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-07-20
The Liquor Workers
VIII Get Better Jobs.

Attention has been called TO the fact that
West Virginia will have deficit this year OF
about 100000, due TO Statewide prohiDitlon,
which amount IT is claimed Will be annualIy
lost in revenues from the liquor traffic Mr.
Debar. does not mention the fact that In the
fiscal year ending June 80, 1919, Wnen the
State was collecting it's internal revenue tax
there was a deficit OF S4SO,OOO, and on June 80
1914. there was a deficit OF S35O,OOO. The diff
Aculty with the last Legislature was not that
IL was unable 10 find way 10 raise Iund 10
carry on the work of the various State depart
ments but that Il was unwilling, for political
reasons to tax the great corporations OF the
State their fair share Of the burden of taxation.
1t is inevitable that when politicians fail 10
make provision Of any kind for deficit tEere
will be a temporary embarrassment 10 the
State; but In spite OF this handicap, Which is
the result OF a fight that has been going on for
years, and with a full knowledge OF what would
happen so far as the loss Of internal revenue
was concerned the citizens Of the State voted
by a majority Of nearly 100000 IN favor OF
Statewide prohibition.
Reference is made to the large amount OF
money paid IN the form Of internal revenue tax
by the liquor industry for the privilege OF
carrying on It's business. If IL could be said
that this business resulted only In good first
TO those who are engaged in it, and. second. &c
those who are consumers OF liquor, the millions
of dollars which paid in the form Of tax
might be regarded a blessing. But one can
not discuss this question fairly without refer.
ring TO the cost and the burden OF the liquor
business upon the State, because It Is compelled
to maintain police departments, penitentiaries
asylums OF various kinds and other institu
tons 10 take care OF the victims OF alcohol.
II is not possible 10 state specifically what
the liquor industry costs the State on this &C.
count, but IL has been said by reliable author.
tiles that liquor is responsible in this country
for % per cent o. the poverty, 19 per cent OF
the divorces, % per cent OF the insanity, 81
per cent OF the pauperism. 40 per cent OF the
child desertion and so per cent OF the crime
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-07-20
The Nations Annual Drink Bill Is
Greater Than the Assessed Valu-
alton of ALI the Real Estate
in the City of Philadelphia

transportation OF the finished product as we'll
as the raw materials which the LIQUOR in.
dustry now furnishes, other industries which
would benefit through the transfer of trade
rom liquor to some other commodity would IN
dou6tedly supply as much business for the
railroad man as the brewers and distillers do
Ii is true, as Mr.. Debar points out that when
slavery was abolished. there was just as much
work TO be done as before. But when the
liquor business is abolished there will be mora
work than before-only the work will be DIFF.
ferent
1t must rot be assumed that were the LIQUOR
business abolished every dollar now invested
IN II would be lost Land values would remain
the same, and most OF the buildings and much
OF the machinery could be used for other kinds
value.
Mr.. Debar says that, the liquor business ia
fifth in Importance in the United States Hers
are some figures showing its relative import
ance as compared with all other industries,
the figures being taken from the Bulletin of
Statistics on Manufactures. 1s1oi
All I5nuo,
Industries Industry.
Workers (number). 6,616046 $500
Wages paid SO APT OBS 600 s45252 600
Cost Of materials. 1914, 791 900 I39199 600
Capital invested. Is. 42S 100000 771.5IeOOO
1t will be noted that the liquor Industry en-
ploys only about one per cent of the workers
IN the manufacturing industries
Taking five leading industries in this coun.
try-namely. textiles and its finished products
iron and steel and their products. lumber and
its manufactures leather and its finished nrod
ucts. and paper and printing and comparing
them with the liquor business (incIiJiinR the
mailing Industry with regard to the number
OF wage-earners employed, capital invested and
wages paid, We arrive at some interesting CON.
illusions. Based upon the figures found IN +ba
Abstract OF Statistics OF Manufacture we die
cover that the number OF wage-earnars For
each one million dollars invested in each of
these industries, was as follows: LIQUOR N:
Textiles. SIS; Iron. 2S4; Lumber, 57s: I,eather
f69 and Paper 367.
These figures prove that the textile ,ndust-v
employs seven and one-half times as rnonx
workers for each million dollars as does the
liquor industry; the iron industry nea-lv sonr
times many; lumber seven and one-baIf
paper ave times as many. 80
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-07-20
By Rev. Charles Sickle

TTHE argument that the abolition of the
liquor traffic will create a financial
panic is based entirely upon the absurd
proposition that II the liquor dealers fail to
get the money now spent for beer and whis.
key Aobody else will get IL.
It is assumed that If a man doesn't spend
dollar for BOOZE he will throw that dollar into
the sewer or into some kind of a bottomless
pit, instead OF using It to purchase some other
commodity, which will do good instead OF harm,
which will have permanent value, and which
will give the workingmen of the country more
work, more wages and greater prosperity every
way than If the same amount of money were
spent for beer and whiskey.
Every workingman knows that we ere not
suffering from overproduction, but from under.
consumption He is painfully conscious OF the
fact that he doesn't live well as he should
In comparison with others who do not work as
hard as he does and that he cannot give his
family the benefits which they deserve There
fore. IL will not injure him particularly IL the
brewery and distillery owners were to put
their brains and what is left of their capital"
when the liquor business is destroyed into the
production OF materials which will give him
more of the comforts OF life here and now and
less OF its torments both here and hereafter.
AS for the poor farmer" who would suffer
so grievously, according TO the defender OF the
saloon, because the brewers and distillers
would fail to buy his grain and grapes his ap-
pies and cherries-there is no fear that he will
ouy rewer automobiles and less farm machin-
cry, and all the other modern conveniences
which he now enjoys. because somebody else
will buy his apples and cherries, his grain and
grapes-besides, economists and farm experts
are even afraid that the American farmer
will soon be unable TO raise enough grain 20
adequately supply this country.
Regarding the railroad man who would no
longer handle the "2.5 per cent of the total
traffic OF all mapdfacturing industries of the
country" which the liquor business now fur.
for fuO1a
that the railroad man will get as much bust.
ness and much money from the transfer OF
a given amount OF grain, whether that grain
is shipped to e brewer or a baker. AS for the
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-07-20
Great Industries
That Must Be Destroyed.

Loss of billions OF dollars IN assets and In
annual business TO barrel and stave manufac-
turers, lumber men. bottle makers, box max
ers, grain dealers. printers. auto truck manu-
facturers and other collateral lines OF business.
Loss Of millions OF dollars annually TO fnsur.
ence men IN premiums Loss or millions TO
building constructors, ETC. IL Is estimated now
that millions OF dollars Of Improvements by
distillers. brewers. Wholesale and retail dealers
are being held IN allegiance as the result or the
uncertainty about the future OF their business.
this failure 20 invest capital IN hand being one
OF the factors IN the slow recovery from the
general business depression.
Among the industries not ordinarily asso-
ciated IN the public mind with the liquor In
dustry that would be disastrously affected are
the following:
Filter builders. manufacturers and dealers In
stave timber for barrels. producers OF tank
timber for watts, yeast makers manufacturers
OF grinding machinery for grinding grain EN-
pOyers OF every conceivable type OF artisan
such as iron and copper workers bricklayers.
cement workers, carpenters. roofers. pipeft-
ters engine builders. coopers blacksmiths.
wagon makers, automobile makers. box and
case makers, tag printers, label makers. lithog
raphers, sign makers. engravers. makers or
altering materials bung and strap makers, glue
manufacturers, producers OF hltering agents.
emokestack and boiler makers. furnace build
ers men IN the cork industry, jug. bottle and
glassware makers. hoop and tank iron men,
makers OF steel granitized tanks, makers OF
paper and carton material, makers OF bottls
saps and wiring.