Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-06-22
ABOLISH LIQUOR,
CARTER ADVISES
PROHIBITION AIDS EUROPE

To Give or Sell intoxicants to One
Who Is Training to Defend His Coun-
try Is Reasonable Act Against the
Nation, Major General Asserts-Tem-
perance Scores Big Victories.
BY MAJOR GENERAL WILLIAM
HARDING CARTER, U. S. A.
With the declaration of war with |
Germany and the enactment of the Sc
lective draft law, we have assumed
obligations whose ultimate ends no
man can foresee. Primarily we have
now become responsible for the prepa-
ration of hundreds of thousands of
young men for the stern duties and
hardShips of war, and in the natural
order of things they will constitute the
human element available for the ma
tion's defense for many years to come
The nation owes it to the young men
who are selected for military training
and service that from the very first
they shall know that the training will
be carried on under circumstances
above reproach.
The development of minds and
bodies to meet the demands of mill
tary service in war requires not only
the most modern hygienic surround
ings, but the absence of every form of
personal dissipation. Any one who
sells or gives intoxicants or drugs of
any kind to young men undergoing
training for the nations defense not
only commits a crime against the in
dividual, but reasonable act against
the nation.
The experience of European nations
has made it clear that to maintain
modern army in the field there must
be organized industry at home. Any
thing that initiates against this by
depriving the human element of its
normal energy, working under war
pressure, must be combated and if need
be destroyed.
intoxicants Produce Criminals.
The public is far better advised to-
day than ever before concerning the
effects Of the habitual use of intoxi-
cants in producing criminal, insane and
untrustworthy men and women and
degenerate children. Prisons, asy-
lums and public NrefOrmatories furnish
continuous and abundant evidence
along these lines. The increasing un-
discipline of Americans has been OBJ
served and noted by investigators and
students for many years. This is evil
denced in lack of respect for parents
for the aged, for the officers of the law
and for the law itself. 1t has also been
a uniform observation that these con-
ditiOns become aggravated whenever
and wherever Intoxicating liquors are
habitually used Confronted with
these facts, we are about to undertake
the creation of a large army of the
q people and to prepare it for participa-
tion in the most gigantic struggle in
the history of wars
When the army was reorganized In
1901, following the war with Spain,
there was introduced in the act pro.
hibitOry legislation regarding the sale
of wines and beers upon military res
ervatiOns. There was much resent.
ment on the part of the army at this
discriminatory legislation, for, while it
introduced prohibition on reservations,
it encouraged border line saloons in
surrounding territory.
: Navy Also Bans Liquor.
Tn hn Of h
abolition of the sale Of beer and wines
alcoholic liquors were previously
, barred-on military reservations the
naval regulations banished intoxicat
ing drinks from war vessels Modern
! battleships, destroyers and submarines
: had become too complicated to be in
trusted in any part to minds beclouded
with drink. Efficiency and safety Of
operation alike demanded the eXclu
sion of liquors from war vessels. anj
it is certain that if the restoration Of
the wine mess for the period of the
! war were put to vote of naval off
GERS it would be overwhelmingly de
t feated.
a Observing the operations of the S,
called anti-canteen law, which stopped
n the sale of wine and beer at post ex
= changes or canteens, it was found tina
for time the Offenses involving drunk
: enness increased at army posts Located
in territory where saloons were per
= mitted to exist. This was credited t.
the fact that men went consdera bl
: distances from barracks for liquor and
: not expecting to repeat the trip soon
INDUCED in too much for their owl
: good The statistics of disciplinary aC
n ton through a number Of years SCENE,
+ to establish that more than so per cen
e of the cases of desertion and absenc
without leave were due to drunken
L ness.
Big Victory For Temperance.
While the current returns of the in
T. ternal revenue bureau of the treasur
make it appear that the income iron
= the manufacture of beer and liquor
r has steadily increased, there can be n
question that the temperance and tota
I. abstinence campaigns of the past fey
/, years have brought about a marke
change in American life. II is n
Il longer fashionable to serve wines an
y liquors in the lavish way which oil
u tanned in fokkner years. That temper
ance has wEp lasting victory is al
tested by tAA large increase in terr
"a tory cOvere6i by prohibition laws an
oe in the drasdc regulations governin
ne the employs ent of men in dangeror
be occupatiOnAa When individuals are r
'ponsible I'd lhe lives CT otfors.