Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1916-03-09
LARGE ATTENDANCE At
PROHIBITION MEETING
Anti-Wets Hold Big Meeting at
Home of A. III. Olmstead
Wednesday.

Last Wednesday afternoon a large
representation Of ladies together with
pastors from the various churches as
sembled at the home of A. II. Ohm
stead. The hite-ribboners made
plans for future campaign work and
all listened to the address which was
full of facts, telling incidents and
practical suggestions for teaching
temperance in the Sunday school. Mr..
Sharp said in part:
The Saloon must Go;
Prohibition must come;
The righteous intelligence of
America is agreed that Alcoholic
beverages are a prime menace to life
and health, property and morality,
and hence must and shall be prohib-
tied.
The best way to save from the
flood of intemperance is to keep the
victims from falling in and so the boy
and girl loom large in the campaign
for prohibition today. Keep the cup
from the youth; the drinks will soon
pass on and the saloonists occupation
will be gone.
Science is showing by experiment
that the use Of alcoholic beverages re-
duce a mans capacity for physical
or mental effort. The abstainer has
the advantage in life's race. John
Barleycorn used to be thought jolly
good fellow but the searchlights Of
science and the police courts have re-
vealed him as a debancher, robber and
murderer. In the Sunday school, re-
ligion and science are allies against
this arch foe to decency and morality,
our homes, society and our country.
The teaching of temperance in the
Sunday school has been largely in
cidental; it should be broad, regular,
systematic and scientific and al
legiance to its principles urged from
every legimate motive.
Self interest demands it. Compel
ition for position or trade is now so
keen that one needs to be in posses
sion of himself and discard every
handicap to success. Our great rail-
roads. mercantile and Industrial en-
terprises taboo the drinker; he is bar
red from seat in high places. The
country demands the clean and
strong for exalted station.
Athletics. The athlete must be
abstemious, no blue ribbons for the
selfindulgent. This makes an anpeal
TO youth impatient of delayed rewards
for the pennant is not in the sweet
bye and bye, but today or tomor-
row on the field whose companions
cheer.
Apply temperance to eating as well
as drinking The Good Book links the
drunkard and the glutton. A too-full
stomach impairs physical and intel
lectual activity. A pile Of buckwheat
cakes or license at the pie counter
may spell failure in class. And the
cigarette, the effect of the little white
smokes on the heart and nerves Is
so we'll known that success in class
room and field prohibits them. Har-
ward University records show that for
80 years past not a habitual smoker
has stood at the head of his class.
The victors wreath is not made of
tobacco leaves.
IL used to be alleged that cigarettes
were treated with drugs to create a
craving and promote sales, but the
facts are that to render the making"
more adaptable, they are treated
with certain substances not particu-
larly harmful but which in combustion
with rice paper and tobacco give off
two ultra poisons vapors,-furfurol
and acrolein-which by inhalation go
into the human system. So, cigarette
smoking is a drug habit and this ac-
counts for its baneful effects on body.
mind and morals.
Selfrespect. When one INDUCES in
that which renders him less man,
less a gentleman, he may excuse him
self, but cannot respect himself, much
less hope to be respected. Letting
down this bar opens innumerable by
ways of immortality.
Honor to parents. A son or daugh-
ter in open or secret league with John