The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-05-03
Nation S Greatest Men
Demand Prohibition

Washington, April 30-A growing
demand for war prohibition is coming
from wholly unexpected, influential
business sources. Governor Harris,
of Georgia, after consulting with other
governors has sent out a call for a
governors congress to meet in the ma
tional capital May to consider ef-
fective state prohibition purely as a
war mea sure.
kilograms urging prohibition have
been received at the capitol from Gov
ernors Brumbaugh, of Pennsylvania;
Aldrich, of Nebraska; Cats, of Flori-
da; Alexander, of Idaho; Capper, Of
Kansas; and Bilbo, of Mississippi,
while more than 900 telegraphic de
mands have been received within the
last week from such men as Howard
Elliott, president of the New York,
New Haven & Hartford railroad, F. A..
Vanderlip, president of the National
City Bank of New York, David For
gan, Chicago's leading banker, Joseph
Boyer, president of the Burroughs Add.
ing Machine company, H. C. King,
president of Oberlin university, F. L.
McVeigh, president of the university
of North Dakota, N F. limit, presi-
dent OF Washington and Jefferson COL
lege, Geo. F. Bogardus. president of
the university Of Southern California,
Simon Patten, economist, of Pennsyl-
vania. Among big contingent of
editors demanding prohibition are Van
Valkenburg. of the Philadelphia North
American; Schermerhorn, of the De.
troit News = Buttenheim. of the Amer
lean City; and Holt, of the New York
Independent. Out of group of near
Nv so authors may be named Upton
Sinclair, Booth HARRINGTON. Ray Stan
nard Baker and John Burroughs.
When the democratic caucus by a
vote Of 81 to so declared for national
prohibition during the war, the world
was dazed and amazed. There is no
occasion for it. 1t is the logic of
events. The nation is confronted with
an alarming food shortage, and we
must feed not only ourselves but our
allies. Prohibition will divert enough
foodstuff from the waste of the liquor
traffic into its legitimate use to give
every one of the ~ million men in
the armies of our European allies a
pound loaf of bread every day.
The best actuarial authority. was
brought to Washington and asked
what effect moderate drinking had
upon life, and told in the cold calcula-
ton of science that 100 men die
among moderate drinkers for every
100 that die among abstainers. Wd
need men. This presented practical
proposition; no sentiment no moral
izing. This is language that the
brusque business brain grasps. We
need more men for farms. factories
and the ranks. Congressman were
told that there are some hundreds of
thousands of men engaged in the man.
ufacture and sale of liquor which, with
the traffic prohibited for the war,
would help meet the labor crisis In
addition to this it is said that the use
of liquor decreases the efficiency of
labor from Is per cent to 80 per cent.
Then the doctors came with the
testimony that the liquor traffic is
largely responsible for those forms of
contagion that are most prevalent and
most disabling among soldiers. The
demand for war prohibition comes
from newly apoused business inter-
ests that are seeking, in a practical
way, to help adjust the nation to the
strain and stress of the war.
am just in receipt of the above
article from Washington, and hasten
to give it further publicity through
the courtesy of the Times-Record
with the end in view that our local
organizations of all kinds, also pri-
vate citizens, may use their influence
in favor of this prohibition war meas
ure. kilograms endorsing such &C.
ton should be sent to Messrs. Young,
Gronna, Norton and McCumber, as
well as President Wilson. The meet
ing of the governors for the consider
alton of this matter is set for Friday,
May 4. This is our Arbor Day. Let
us think in still larger unit for this
Arbor Day and lend our aid not only
to the betterment of the state, but the
entire nation.
This is an opportunity to make a
practical use of your patriotism-do
not overlook or neglect it.
Mrs. w. NJ. Greenwood.
Publicity Supt,. w. c. T. II.