The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1917-06-01
WHAT PROHIBITION HAS DONE
FOR CECIL COUNTY.
Prize Essay BY Fifth Grade Pupil OF
Rising Sun Grammar School.

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Rising Sun Grammar School.
The following essay, written by
Matilda Duyckinck, fifth grade
pupil of Rising Sun Grammar
School, was awarded first prize,
suitably engraved gold medal, by the
Judges in the recent contest open to
public school pupils of Cecil county.
There were 93 essays submitted to
the judges, who selected the follow
ing one as the prize winner:
What Prohibition Has Done For
Cecil County.
1t has raised the standard of eff
, cheney for it's people by removing
from their midst the selling of liquor
publicity, thus presenting better
environment for grownups as we'll as
children. By it's removal the people
of Cecil County are able to buy the
necessaries of life, and some things
not absolutely necessary, and when
ever the money made by the worker
of such a family are bound to rise to
a higher level in their living, their
reading and in their home life. 1t
has removed from our midst the
sight, which was familiar to children
of earlier days, of numbers of old
men who were not able to support
themselves or their families because
they had used intoxicants freely,
whose only aim or purpose in life
was to sit around places where
/ liquor was sold, either half or wholly
drunk the day long, which was worse
than idling their time. Now, the
older men of our County, unless
their health has failed them, are
busy, interested, useful citizens and
no child has to make apologies for
its grandfather, as was done fifty
years ago by many Cecil County
children. 1t has been helpful in the
increased improvement of our Coun-
ty, by the money that formerly went
for whiskey being spent for new
fences on the farm, new buildings in
the country and towns, paint upon
such buildings, silos so that more
stock can be fed on the farms, i'm
proved methods in all kinds of work
due to clear, active brains not be-
fuddled with alcoholics and also due
to fixed purpose of our citizens to
look at what has been done and to
do their best to improve upon this.
1t has helped in our better schools,
more earnest church workers and in
many, many ways; and those who
have lived in dry territory all over
our land are more and more con-
WINGED that these dry areas should
be extended until our land is entirely
free from the rule of King Alcohol,
for which nothing can be said except
that it enriches those who make and
sell it. Other lines of trade improve
upon their raw material; the saw
mill uses logs, the grist mill wheat;
but the saloons raw material is the
children and it takes from them
everything that is worth while and
leaves them care to the state,
Who has child to donate to con-
tinue the liquor dealers business?
The taking out of our County the
saloon has helped the person addict
ed to drink most of all by removing
from his presence the smell of
whiskey and the temptation to
drink; that is our duty to remove
temptations from our weaker broth
ers. 1t has helped our young men
by allowing them to come into man
hood without learning to drink
liquor; it has helped our boys be-
cause they are growing up to feel
that the saloon has no place in a
civilized community. And it has
lessened crime.
VIII Abolish Tolls On Lancaster Pike