Belding banner., 1916-11-22
W.. C. T. u. ITEMS
Bills introduced

on March %, introduced in the House
of Representatives bill making 1T
unlawful for any person or persons,
company or corporation, to sell, give
away, or dispense intoxicating bev-
erages in the District of Columbia,
Alaska, Hawaii, Porto Rico, Guam,
Tutuila, the Canal Zone, or in any
island, reservation, premises, build
ing, ship or naval station owned or
controlled by the United States Gov
ernment." The bill is known as
House Bill 1855.
Representative Charles H. Ran
dali of California recently introduced
in the House of Representatives
bill providing that no person addict
ed to the use of Intoxicating bever-
ages shall be appointed to, or re-
tained in, any Office, appointment, or
employment to which the provisions
of the act to regulate and improve
the civil service of the United States
are applicable.
The Abercrombie Bill which has
been offered in the House of Rep
resentatives will prohibit any kind of
liquor advertising from being trans
ported through the mails into states
which have anti-liquor advertising
laws. Delegations from Maine, Ala
bama, and Mississippi have appeared
in Washington in favor of the bill.
After Prohibition
When Michigan becomes a prohi-
bition state, it can hardly be expect
ed that the enemy will promptly give
- L. hI "a
death, judging from the experience
Of other states.
In Colorado the vets hae initiated
an amendment to permit beer traffic
under certain restrictions.
In Washington and Oregon they
are asking the people who have late
| ly repudiated them to permit the
manufactures of beer to be peddled
! from home to home.
In Michigan, when the saloons are
gone, we will still have the brewery
people and the saloon riff-raff with
us, left over from the old conditions,
and our folks will need to exercise
eternal vigilance in order to hold what
they get. Let the w. G. L. u. keep
its army modified and ready for any
emergency.
A Prohibitory Law
A prohibitory law is directed at
the business Of selling poison as q
beverage and of maintaining a rem
devious for temptation, dissipation
and disorder. 1t says to no man
"Thou shalt not buy or drink
though it may, and may well, come
to that. 1t is in the nature Of q
quarantine regulation, which never
says, "Thou shalt not catch yellow
fever" but: "Thou shall not spread
i yellow fever" Incidentally a Law
that restrains a man from selling II
his neighbor diminishes the neigh
boris opportunity to spend his owl
money and experiment with his owl
body, but that does not make it {
sumptuary law.
Duluth, Minnesota, was voted dr.,
by the "Trade Union Dry League,
which offered to find places for al
liquor employees ousted by the pro
! hibition law, but they received onl!
six applications. Positions wer
found for all six within a few days
but when the time arrived for them u
take these positions, five of them ha.
found other employment. The sixtl
still employed at it.
What does alcohol do7 It anaes
thetizes the mental control and ex
cites the lower impulses. Empty tn
oil cup, start your automobile, an
leap from the seat. Is there any wa
to tell what the machine will do
Is there any way to tell how muc
the machine will be damaged?
There is no natural drink appt
tite. Offer a glass of beer to
healthy child, born of healthy paI
ents, and it will shudder with dis
gust. Nature abhors the taste Of a
cohol. The appetite Is engendere
for commercial purposes by organis
al froIo