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The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-02-23
DRUGGIST GOES DRY
at Revival Meeting That
He Will Sell no More Liquor;
Refuses All Customers

No more liquor will be sold in Ray,
Ind. In a dramatic testimony given
at revival services at the Methodist
church John Zimmerman, druggist,
announced that no more whisky could
be had at his store. The announce
ment was electrical
He declared his parents had been
Christians and that he had tried to
live as one. However, when he got
into his present business he began to
sell liquor. Efforts in his own strength
to quit selling were futile.
He declared, however, that on the
day preceding his testimony, he had
refused to sell liquor to anybody. The
church people will help him to keep
his resolution.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-02-23
IT'S POOR Bargain
Ohio Spends More Money for Asyl-
ur1ls, Hospitals and Other State
Institutions Than 1t Gets
From License

Ohio is not making much money
out of her liquor license fees. For
the current fiscal year the license
fees amount to $6,101,S94. OF this
amount, the Auditors and Treasures
receive $125,53l the state gets ST.
7o3,258; municipalities have the share
of $3,148,879; counties take $924,591
the township portion is $109,ol5.
According to these figures the
state itself gets only little more
than one-fourth of the amount re-
ceived from licenses. And yet the
estimate of the Board of Administers
ton is that the hospitals, insane
asylums, reformatories and other
state institutions will cost this year
100000, and it is we'll known that
but for the liquor traffic of Ohio
these institutions would be almost
empty.
The share of the blood money re-
ceived by the counties will not begin
to pay the counties expenses for their
share of the damage caused by the
liquor traffic.
The same thing is true of the
townships and municipalities.
4 There are saloons in "a of the SO
counties. Hancock and Vinton have
each only one saloon.
The total that has been collected
since 1888 under the Scott, Dow and
Akin laws aggregates $l45,270,000
OF this amount the state received
$40,000,000; the municipalities ST.
100000; the counties, $24,0O0,00O, and
the townships 100000.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-02-23
PREACHER DEFEATS VETS
Gang Element at Coatesville, Pa,
Fails to Keep Name of Rev.
Thomas w. Mckinney Of
Mayoralty Ballot

Opposition of the liquor and gang
element in Coatesville, Pa, failed to
keep the name of Rev. Thomas W..
Mckinney, candidate for Mayor, off
the ticket. The special primaries
were held February Is. The preach
er's opponent at the election to be
held March 81 will be A. w. Swing,
who had the full strength Of the par
sons opposition behind him.
The struggle was to get 81 per
cent of the voters. Had Swing done
so he would have kept Mckinney off
the ballot. Swing received ia votes
and Mckinney GOA. Swings hackers
are said to have admitted that if the
preacher succeeded in getting on the
ballot they could not defeat him at
the election. A third candidate, James
G. Pugh, received 203 votes. A total
of 375 registered voters failed to at
tend the primary. 1t is believed Nc
Kinney will get nearly all OF these
578 votes, as the Swing strength was
practically all at the primaries.
All the better wards in the city were
carried by the minister.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-02-23
WILL BAR SHIPMENT
into DRY TERRITORY
Delaware's Lower House Passes
Measure to Protect Two Arid
Counties From Imports of
Liquor by Carriers
Is First Test of Strength This Ses-
sion; Drys Say Bill Is Ger
tain to Be Passed by
Senate

Alter a battle lasting more than two
hours the House of Representatives
of Delaware on February Is passed
the Loose anti-shipment liquor bill,
which, if it is passed by the Senate
and signed by the Governor, will bar
liquor shipments into the dry coun-
ties of Kent and Sussex. Delaware
has but three counties. The third,
Newcastle, of which Wilmington is
the seat, has about 200 saloons.
Under the Loose measure common
carriers are not permitted to ship in
toxicants into the two counties, but
exception is made in the case of pas
sengers of common carriers, whose
personal baggage or parcels for pri-
vate use must not include more than
one quart of spirituous nor more than
one dozen bottles of malt liquor.
Additional exceptions are made in
the case of sacramental or medicinal
liquors and to shipment of liquor in
continuous transit where its sale is
not prohibited by law.
The bill was passed by vote of 81
to 5, and its passage marked the first
clash during this session between wet
and dry forces. The debate was
marked by the exchange of charges
and counter charges by spokesman
of both factions.
Drys say no adverse action is ex-
pected when the bill comes up in the
Senate.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-02-23
WANT DRY DINNERS
Chamber of Commerce Members,
Kansas City, Seek to Have Liz
uor Taken From Menus

Many members of the Chamber of
Commerce of Kansas City, Mo-, have
started movement TO drive John
Berleycorn from the banquet room.
If the crusade is successful the John
Jay dinner hereafter will be more
democratic. Because of cocktails and
wines tickets to this dinner have been
costing from SIS to $3.50 plate.
Two years ago the Chamber aban-
doned the bar feature of its annual
trade trip. However, liquor has been
served at most of the smokers. The
time has come, say the insurgents, to
cut out liquor altogether.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-02-23
DRYS MAKE GAINS
Massachusetts, No License Forces
Change Towns; Dry Vote Shows
Gain for Temperance

No-license made gains in the first
of the 1917 town elections held Feb
ruary S in Massachusetts. Of the 81
out of 317 towns recorded on the
question of the sale of liquor for the
year beginning May /, 1917, FIVE
changed their attitude from yes to
no and four went from no to yes.
The total vote also showed gain for
no-license.
The towns changing from yes to
no we're: Enfield, Hampden, Shell
burne, Sutton and Worthington.
Those which went from no to yes
were auckland, Lenox, Peru and
Russell.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-02-23
is HE CRAZY?

The owner of large plantation in
Mississippi, where the fine figs grow,
is giving away a few fve-acre fruit
tracts. The only condition is that
figs be planted. The Owner wants
enough figs raised to supply CO.
operative canning factory. You caa
secure five acres and an interest in
the canning factory by writing the
Eubank Farms Company, 1913 Key
stone, Pittsburgh, Pa. They will
plant and care for your trees for So
per month. Your profit should be
81 900 per year. Some think this man
is crazy for giving away such valua-
bic land, but there may be method in
his madness.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-02-23
Play Piano
In One Hour
For One Gent
a Postal Gard Brings It to you Free.

Would you give n penny TO learn TO
1mrossiblef No. not at all. Hundreds
OF thousands OF others who never played
before played their flrst piece in lust 9
Few minutes. THEN WHY CAN'T Your
John I'll. Ferguson. Acme, Alta, Cana
d.. says: II was not a little amazed
when found could play in 81 few
mlnutes.n O. Pitmann, Memo. Okla,
says: Have two children, one is II and
the other 10, who in q very few minutes
could play 1t well, and they did not
know one note from another in the old
music.n V. II. Perkins, Romney, Ind.
says: 81 studied Easy Form music
fifteen minutes and then started to
play" Thousands of similar reports arc
IN our files. Doesn't this convince you
that Yen can play by this wonderful new
method2 Any child can now UNDER
stand and play music without previous
knowledge. No teacher. No tedious
instructions by mail.
III you can't play the piano or organ.
send postcard today, stating the NUM-
Der of white keyso your instrumentand
we will mail you 100 pieces of the Worlds
size. together with Instructions that
Will enable You to play my one of tho
pieces In one evening. III you can play
at the end of 8 days you pay only sl.5O
and 81 so q month for 5 months or mail
the music back to us and owe nothing.
All you need do is simply send your name
and address to Easy Method Music Co.
sl72 C,arkson Bldg. Chicago, III.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-02-23
FEW WOMEN ERRING
Prohibition and Doing Away of Vice
Are Making Womens' Crime in
Denver Negligible

Prohibition of the liquor traffic and
the war on vice are making crime
among women in Denver almost negli-
gible, the city authorities say.
Denver has no need for women's
courts such as have been established
in New York, Los Angeles and other
large wet cities, declare city officials
and persons interested in reform
work.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-02-23
SAY GIRLS DRUNK

On the testimony of policemen that
they had seen drunken girls carried
out of the Walters Club, Philadel-
phia, and that there was drinking in
the place on Sundays, William E.
Ahern, the bartender, was held for
court in $500 bond. Harry E. Vein
stock, manager of the club, was dis
charged.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-02-23
PLAN DRY MOVEMENT
Drys of Alberta Hear Announcement
at Convention That Dominion
Law Is Sought

Announcement was made at the AL
berta Temperance convention at Ed
monitor that a dominion-wide Prohi-
bition campaign is to be launched i'm
mediately. Parliament will be asked
to pass war measure prohibiting the
manufacture or importation of liquor
for beverage purposes, with refer
'endum after the war to make the Pro-
hibition permanent.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-02-23
DRUNK TO WASH AUTO

A prisoner in the court of Mayor
Newell at New Castle, Pa, never
knows what he will be asked to do
to gain HIS liberty. The sentence
handed to one drunk was to wash an
automobile that is used in police SER
vice. Another was sentenced to clean
the windows of the courtroom.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-02-23
LIQUOR ADS BARRED
South Carolina House Passes Bill,
Previously Passed by Senate, Ex-
Guiding Booze Publicity

South Carolina hereafter will bar
all liquor publicity. The House of
Representative on February Is passed
a bill prohibiting liquor advertising
in newspapers, periodicals or any
other form in the state. The bill al
ready had passed the Senate. 1t is in
line with similar laws in other states.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-02-23
ANOTHER COUNTY DRY

Weilsboro, Pa, county seat of To
ga county, steps into the saloonless
list with the end of the license year.
Judge s. F. Channell has refused to
issue renewal of license to the three
there. He held that evil
dence clearly proved violation of the
law on the part of all applicants.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-02-23
cAL|FORNIANS Offer
MANY LIQUOR BILLS
ALI of Them Are Regulatory Meas
ures and Stop Short of Actual
Prohibition; Some Wet,
Others Dry
Limitation of Hours of Sale Is
Sought; Grape Growers Back of
Proposed Statute With
Drastic Provisions

A quartet of bills of Importance on
the liquor issue are pending in the
Legislature of California. These are
the Ron,lnger bill, aimed at all spirit
uous liquors containing more than lc
per cent of alcohol; the Ashley bill,
providing regulation of saloons; the
Carr-Dennett bill, constituting the
county the local option unit, and the
Petit bill, directed at the vticultural
commission.
There are others. Assemblyman
Gelder seeks by constitutional amend
ment to protect liquor from state
wide legislation and make the Wyllie
local option bill the sole liquor law
of the state. Assemblyman Argabrite
would accomplish the same thing by
ndding a new section to the pena.
code.
Assemblyman Merriam would pro-
hibit the selling of liquor to any per-
son who has taken drink cure. He
HlSO WOuiu CNtCiiu tllS ioiiipilioi W.
sales to intoxicated persons. Fur
Their, he would prohibit sales to any
person, member of whose family
protests to the seller. A fourth fea-
ture of his bill severely regulates the
Baloons.
Merriam has two other bills. One
Of them prohibits the sale of liquor
during the "a hours of an election
day; the other provides Sunday and
holiday closing and limits the hours
of sale on week days to from 7 a. m.
to 9 p. m.
Assemolyman Knight would pro-
hibit the sale of liquor on trains ex.
cept in dining cars; would eliminate
curtainec and isolated booths in cafes
and abolish public dining rooms with
connecting bed rooms. Another
Knight bill would completely abolish
saloons, but not the entire sale of
liquor.
Senator Canepa has proposed all
amendment which provides compen-
sation to wine growers. brewers and
others in case California adopts Pro-
hibition.
The thyme bill would create a
State Commission to investigate the
liquor traffic and report to the Gov
error not later than July l., 1918,
whether alcoholic liquors are inher-
emily bad as beverages for human
beings"
Endorsed by the Grape Protective
Association, the Ashley bill presents
drastic features. 1t limits saloons to
one for each 1000 population. 1t
closes all liquor places on Sundays
and at midnight. 1t limits the con-
duct of saloons to properly qualified
persons" and holds clubs to legiti-
mate membership 1t strengthens the
laws regarding sale to intoxicated
persons and habitual drunkards. 1t
prohibits manufacturers and whole
salers from having connection with
retail places. 1t eliminates back and
side entrances and stained windows.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-02-23
WAR Is ECONOMY

Battle against trusts. corporations and
swindlers, deal privately; You can get fer
81 90 five 2sc tubes OF non-aoohole extract.
one vanilla. lemon. cinnamon, celery and red
food coloriug. and help the L. s. go dry. Or
six pairs OF good socks or four pairs of stock.
extract 10 make ten gallons Of the best kind
OF maple syrup. or full particulars for SC in
stamps For every Soc You spend with US
You are given a free chance $4,000 cash
pr &C. Don't delay. Send at once. Address.
w Nallnrv BOY 81. Findlav. Ohio.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-02-23
RESTRICTION CUTS SALES

Not single arrest for drunkenness
has been made in Sayre, largest bor-
ough in Bradford county. Pa. since
Judge Maxwell made his order to
hotel men that they discontinue the
sale of liquor in bottles. Before this
order there were dozens of arrests.
The people arc getting taste of what
sven partial Prohibition will do.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-02-23
CAMPAIGN IS BEGUN

A non-partisan campaign to make
Pennsylvania dry was started at
Pittsburgh February Is. There was
big gathering at which the principal
speaker was Clinton N. Howard of
Rochester. N. Y. Many delegates
were present
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-02-23
YEAR FOR LIQUOR SALE

Rex Wunderlich, of Langdale Wis,
reputed to be a wealthy lumberman.
was sentenced to one year in the
federal prison at Leavcnworth, Kan
sas, when found guilty on a charge
OF giving liquor to an Indian girl.
He also was fined $500.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-02-23

$1,000 PER MAN PER CoUNTY-sirange
invention, startles world-agcnts amazed. len
inexperienced men divide $4,000. korstad,
a minister, $19S first II hours. loo cold
cash, made, paid. banked by stoneman in 80
days. $4,000 TO date A hot or cold running
$3.50. Self-heating. No plumbing or water.
works required. Investigate. Exclusive sale.
Credit given. Send no money. Wrtc letter
or postal today. ALLEN MFG. CO. 332
Allen Bldg Toledo Ohio.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-21
Good EnoHgh

A ma word
 is not obscene But somehow walking imagination dewwe gar morning veanda breathing the mystical night vsitants from hidden asmines of somehow think of of the stars by cannot priests high prtestesses their hroats and then sobed prayer perfect might visit their hearts  enough? Madonna quiet tha of the centuries pryer of God dscoverer of the laws that holdth n Newton sighs gathered few pebbles from the shore while all before is the ocea unknown" low s Edison? We haven not begun"
 And Burbank fields coaborer with God in sneknp new plants and like wstul just garden. Then who he good enough? He history ghtngom wood torch to oil dp to candle lightning He has lost sight of man travelling asde horse then laying steel rs
  ing his the climb from courier carrier pigeon packet to this day of the hdoe wired He forgotten the whole yearnng worldsobbng urge to- 
 of living ana wonder about and by night More Thee God spectacle the man who
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-21
THE IMPRESSIVE PAUSE
m the Pittsburg Post.

From the FltISDurg POSt.
 In his latest war talk in Pittsburg Frederick Palmer displayed a version Of the impressive pause to heighten effect. platform artifice which he may have evolved from study of the cratorical methods of Tom Reed, the Maine statesman intensely admired by Palmer in his New York newspaper days.
 "As to peace," this war correspond- : ent concluded in Carnegie Music hall, where his motion pictures of the Somme and verdun fighting were shown. T hesitate to say" Pause. giv- ing everybody time to hang expect antly on the portentous utterance about to be delivered ''Will there be peace?" Pause again to let thrill of expectation shiver tho back hair of the audience. T do not know" Momen- tary consternation-could 1t be there was anything the speaker would ad- init no knowing? Nunno. Impossible. Hark! the voice of omniscience spake once more: But I do know" most impressive pause to let suspense reach its fullest tide audience hanging by its eyelashes on the thrilling words -"if Germany will grant the conces- sions demanded by the allies, the war will end"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-21

Down in the black belt labor agents are just about as popular as the boil weevll. Birmingham may have to disappoint the New York American and land that government arnor plant.
 Although "Buffalo Bill' Is dead, his name is q trademark, and it will be re- tained in the show business.
 
 Switzerland evidently means to keep her neutrality on straight if 1t takes every soldier in the country.
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 Its all very we'll to feed the Belgians, yet several hundred thousand people have died of starvation in Syria.
 *
 Still, a thief might steal a robe from an automobile when he wouldn't think of taking it off a horses back.
 q
 Too bad about that German commerce raider. It is making a great reputation, but nobody seems to know the ships name.
 Those army aviators who were lost in Mexico won't be able to tell any stories about the wild animals they met be- cause they didn't meet any
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 Professor Taft says the Teak" investi- gation is like bad smell that will pass away. Why, sure. Even Thomas w. Lawson will pass away some day. Wholesale liquor dealers in Tennessee have already stopped shipping liquor into Alabama. That's g. bibulous persons idea of preparing for the worst.
 *
 An ingenious German has patented machine for stringing beads. A costume for an oriental dancer can now be made almost in the twinkling of an eye. The Sultan of Turkey will attend conference of the central powers and their allies at Berlin, but. when the Kaiser starts to talking 1t will be a case of Big I and little you"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-21
WASHINGTON ATE WITH KNIFE

WASHINGTON ATE WITH KNIFE From the Louisville Courier-Journal.
 There are innumerable men and women who would rather be found guilty of violation of any ono of the Ten Commandments than to be guilty of eating with their knives. Yet, the Magazine of American History re- minds us, John Quincy Adams was the first American President who ate with his fork. He acquired the custom in France and Mrs Adams felt it neces- sary to explain to guests at the White House that MT. Adams couldn't over come the habit" Andrew Jackson "re- stored republican simplicity by eat ing with his knife. as George Wash ington, Thomas Jefferson, James Mon- roe and James Madison had done
 Eating with the fork is obedience to convention, merely. The custom was Washington was President, and if John Quincy Adams affected it because he had seen Frenchmen give preference to the fork he. rather than Washington, was underbred. Nothing Is surer proof of lack of genuine refinement than the ostentatious affectation of manners and customs discovered away from home.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-21
HOTEL LOBBrEs
Leaeue outlooIx RrIrht

Tt begins to appear that Birmingham will be a chief contender for the South ern league rag during the coming sea- son." said James B. Donelson, an ardent baseball fan. President Smith is an- nouncing the sale and purchase of play CTS rapidly, and by the time he is through the Barons should be formidable.
 The last years team was not good one for several reasons. I believe Man ager Molesworth is an excellent pilot, provided he has players to work with' and can readily develop winning az gregation.
 Baseball in the Southern league will be faster this season than for two years previous. The magnates are out to make money, and it looks like all of them are seeing which one can buy the greatest number of players. do not anticipate any trouble with the Players fraternity and the Baugh circuit will start on April Il, as originally planned, with every player signed.''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-21
SAWS RESET.

There's one thing that's certain" Says old MT. Peck; "A boil on the stove is Worth two on the neck"
 Cincinnati Enquirer. Said young Mir. Duffer, A gay dog is he: '.A peach in the lap Is worth two on a tree"
 Birmingham Age-Herald. And old Uncle Bing distinctly heard mutter "A hair on the head Is worth two in the butter"
 Judge. I said to the waiter. That slow. awkward goop, "A thumb on your hand Is worth two in the soup."
 St. Louis Star We. too, raised a holler And smashed at the screen; "A fly meath the swatter Is worth two on the bean"
 -Pittsburg Post. In re sick patient Whom nothing could save, "A patient in bed Is worth two in the grave"
 Southern Medical Journal
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-21

tatives-to stand as unit in urging the board to come to this state with open mind and discard all that may have been said by rivals pressing the claims of some other section of the country. It would certainly be worth while for the delegation to present a solid front. And whatever is done in this direction should be done now.
 A great armor plate industry in Alabama, owned and operated by Uncle Sam, would make this district hum anew, for it would be the means of bringing millions of dollars of fresh capital here for investment.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-21
A CARNTvAL OF INFELIo1TY

From the Kansas City Star.
 The Horton Headlight is beginning to wonder if the district court hasn't set a dangerous precedent in grant, ing a divorce recently to Daniel White Cloud on the grounds that his squaw wouldn't work. Since MT. White Cloud was given his decree, comes Mrs. Iron Moccasin with the allegations that she drew a blank in the matrimonial lot tery, and that her husband is cruel. Mrs. Inghtfoot also deposes and says her mate is so far from being light foot that he Is slowpoke and won't support her, and that her only mo- ments of quiet meditation are when he leaves her. as he frequently does. The Headlight fears that now divorces are fashionable. every noble ' red woman in Brown county will neither eat nor sleep until she gets one. The situa- t,on recalls to the editor thef Indian chief who called on the dentist in quest of gold tooth and. on being told that all his teeth were sound re- piled: "No matter, knock out one in front and put in gold one anyhow