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The Nevada County picayune., 1917-06-07
SaI-Vet will keep your stock in a healthy condition: We have all sizes.
 Hesterly Drug Store.


 We have all sizes.
 Hesterly Drug Store.
 We will pay S2.00 per bushel for Irish potatoes brought to us on Tuesday and Wednesday. June 12 and 13 We want a car load.
 Farmers Supply Go.
 The Methodist protracted meeting will begin next Sunday. Rev. Monk of Camden will do the preaching and Miss Boone of Greenville. Texas will conduct the singing.
 John Daly Parker of Parker township, was in the city yes terday. MT. Parker was one of the Registrars of that precinct, and is a candidate for Sheriff of this county.
 J. H. Higgins left this morn ing for Arizona. He will go through in his car. Mir. Higgins and family carry the good wishes of host of people here. This family moved here from Missou. ri two years ago and we all re- gret to see them move away.
 The many friends of Steve CarriKan. ST.. of Hope. were shocked to hear of his untimely and tragic death which occurred Tuesday. He was accidentally shot while on his way to one of his farms out from Hope. We were unable to learn the particu- lars.
 Ve have a few Hereford cat tie left from car shipped here re- gently and will offer them for sale at Farm ars Union Warehouse Prescott, Saturday, June 9th. 1917. Prices and terms reason able. Smith and Sharp at First State Bank.
 Bring us your Irish potatoes June 12 and l3. will pay you $2 per bushel. Will ship a car on those dates. Do not let the sun shine on the potatoes.
 Farmers Supply Co.
 Those who love singing had quite treat at Boughton last Sunday. The annual all-day singing was pulled off there and many from different parts of the county attended. Dinner was served on the grounds and a real singing time was had by all. Boughton konws how to do things any way when she tries.
 What is a dollar, anyhow?" The question is an easy one to answer. A dollar is what some men promise to pay for their county paper. It is something a newspaper man enjoys more in an- ticipation than in reality. It is the price of a days work for some men and a single nights drink for others. It is what the wife frequently needs, but seldom has. It is the power that makes or unmakes men. It is the hard est thing to get and the easiest thing to get rid of, known to mankind. It IS a blessing in a small measure and a curse in many instances. IL is mighty and scarce. No man ever had more than he wanted and no nan ever will. A dollar is a snare and delusion, and every ,ne of us are chasing the deiu-
The Nevada County picayune., 1917-06-07

Dr.. Hess Poultry Panacea will keep your chickens healthy and free from Chol- era, 25c at Hesterly Drug Store.
The Nevada County picayune., 1917-06-07

Hog Cholera Cure and Pro ven tatives at Guthrie's.
 J. H. McDaniel of Gale, was in the city yesterday on business.
 John Butler of Parker town- ship was a Prescott visitor yes- terday.
 Carl Mum Esq, of Willisville, was in the city Wednesday on business.
 Esq. Geo. Alder of Taylor township was a pleasant caller yesterday.
 There will be somewhere in the neighboreood of 1900 of war age in Nevada county.
 Telephone us to save you the size Ice Cream Freezer you will need. We have 8 complete stock. Prescott Hardware Company.
 Lawrence Britt of Boughton was in the city yesterday. He said there were 99 registered in that township.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-08-17

Spokesman for the liquor interests
hold up their hands in horror at the
Prohibition wave now sweeping over
the country. They admit that sa-
looms in this and other communities
should be more effectively regulated.
They ask that the public be content
with regulation of the liquor traffic
instead of insisting upon its suppress
sion. Yet the liquor interests, where
they are in control of municipal al
fairs, make no move-except sham
moves--to bring about better regula-
ton of saloons.
The license committee of the Chi
cago City Council and the council
itself are wet by substantial MAORI
ties. If the liquor interests really
want effective regulation of their bust
ness the Chicago city council will do
their bidding with deferential speed
and thoroughness. But the council
does nothing. The eastern junket of
the license committee may be fol-
lowed by a few supplementary at
tcmpts to fool the public, but nobody
will be fooled.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-08-17
HURTS SHIP BUILDING
Baltimore Sun, Unfriendly to Prohi-
bition, Admits That Liquor Is
Great Menace to Shipyards
of America

Here is story that sounds very
much like the story we are getting
from England, We get the facts
from the Baltimore (Md.) Sun. 1t has
been learned, says the Sun, that in
some of the greatest shipyards of the
country large percentage of the men
habitually take two or three days
holiday each week. Drink, says the
Sun, plays bad part in all this. With
an unusual amount of money in their
pockets and indifferent to their jobs,
large numbers of workingmen are
hanging about the saloons soaking
rum into their systems.
The Sun cannot be accused OF
dealing unfairly with the liquor inter
ests. In the fight to close up the
saloons in Baltimore last fall there
was no more vigorous opponent OF
Prohibition than the Sun One of the
stock arguments put up by that paper
against Prohibition was based upon
the "inalienab1e right" of a man to
make hog of himself if he wished to
do SO. The saloon was held up as a
friend of the laboring man. The rich
man has his club, therefore, the
workingman must have his saloon,
was about the way the Sun put it.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-08-17
That Boston
Pilgrimage

Members of the license committee
Of the Chicago City Council, who
have been investigating in Boston the
so-called model saloons of that COM
mtinity, have sufficiently demon
strated in the past their romantic af-
lection for the business of selling
drinks over the bar. Doubtless they
will bring back recommendations in
regard to abuses of saloon manage
ment in Chicago and thus will en-
deavor to show that the trip east at
the expense of the taxpayers really
had a serious purpose. That, how
ever, probably will be the end of the
matter.
A commission of aldermen and citi-
zens, of which Alderman Toman, the
present chairman of the council Ii
cense committee, was the head and
guiding spirit, made a trip to Boston
once before and returned with tales
of restrictions that it was intended
TO impose on Chicago saloons. The
commission submitted a report. The
recommendation made by it have not
been put into effect. Nor has there
been any special effort to get bene-
6cial results for the public in accord
ance with those recommendations.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-08-17
Chicago Board Visits
East to Study Saloons
Commission Investigates Methods of
Liquor Regulation in Boston and
New York

Members of the Chicago City
Council Committee on licenses have
been investigating the liquor traffic in
Boston and New York. In Boston
the committee, which is headed by
Alderman John Toman, held confer
ences with the local licensing board,
and with members of various organ
izations, for and against the liquor
traffic.
In Boston the saloons are con-
trolled by a state board. This re-
moves local political influence, &C
cording to the testimony of witnesses
before the Chicago Committee. While
this plan is given credit for good re-
suits, it appeared to conflict with the
local self government or home rule
ideas held by some of the Chicago
men.
Boston saloons close at II p. m.
Treating is said to be a custom not
in vogue there. 1t is not against the
law, but saloonkeepers are requested
not to sell liquor after this fashion so
favored farther west. Boston bars
are open to view, as screens and cur
tains are not permitted.
In spite of all the regulations in
force, according to the secretary of
the Massachusetts, Anti-Saloon
League, there is II times as much in
toxication in districts where there are
saloons as in Prohibition areas. Con-
siderable testimony unfavorable to
saloons was given to the committee,
but it was made plain that the Chi
cago visitors desired information re-
garding the regulation of the liquor
business and not facts in support of
Prohibition. Therefore the report
that Boston's low arrest record for a
"a hour period was made when all
saloons and hotel bars closed during
military registration did not interest
them.
From Boston the investigation COM
mittee went to New York to study
the liquor problem there.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-08-17
Dry Danville Is
Doing Well
Better Businesses Occupy Store
rooms Vacated by Saloons

Is Danville doing we'll as a dry
city? Judge for yourself as to its ap-
pearance. Just look at the first block
on East Main street-a neat looking
restaurant in place of the Miller sa-
loon, an attractive looking dry goods
store instead of the Cherry saloon, a
good looking suit store where Bob
Dallas, until recently, kept a saloon.
All in one block. Who wouldn't say
it was an improvement to our city?
A person connected with large
dry goods store says, I'm ready to
testify that business has improved
sooner than | expected. Why, you
would be surprised to see how many
men come in to buy things for their
wives, and on Saturday nights. my
sales almost double. The manager of
my department said he had always
thought the saloon was necessity to
business, but his eyes have been
opened already"
Then we talked with the manager
of large hat shop and she said 90,
our business has been better since the
town went dry in spite of the fact
that many sporting women used to
buy from us"
And we asked the manager of a
large shoe store, How goes it in a
dry town." And he said, at keeps us
humping. Pm looking FOR extra help
for the fall trade."-Danville's APP
peal.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-08-17
Orders DUN Saloon
Lid; Disobeys;
Gets Arrested

Robert Parchmann is Mayor of Ly-
ons. He also owns a saloon in the
suburb. Yesterday he told Assistant
States Attorney Case he was annoy
ing himself by defying his own order
to close his saloon Sunday.
Parchmann said he wrote himself
letter last week warning himself he
would have himself arrested unless he
kept the saloon closed Sunday. But
Saloonkeeper Parchmann stuck his
tongue in this cheek, tossed the let
ter into the waste basket and kept
the saloon open.
Thereupon the police seized Sa-
loonkeeper Parchmann and his bar
tender. Mayor Parchmann said it
served himself right and is consider
ing revoking his license to teach him
self lesson.
"The trustees will meet soon, and
I think | can promise that the sa-
looms in Lyons will be closed next
Sunday" Parchmann said as he left
Cases office, breathing virtuous in
dignation against himself.
The above story from a Chicago
paper describes the case of Mayor
who was at the same time saloon
keeper. In Lyons the Mayor owns
a saloon. In many other Illinois
towns the saloons own a Mayor.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-08-17
u. S. Dry Movement
Helps Candy Sales
Prohibition Is Great Aid to the Candy
Business

In circular advertising the bonds
of big candy manufacturing COM
pany Prohibition is credited with Civ
ing a great impetus to the candy
trade. The circular, which is being
sent out by we'll known firm of Chi
cago bankers, bears the heading, exit
Alcohol-Enter Candy"
''In the United States" the circular
says, "the candy business is getting
the greatest impetus through the dry
movement. AS the western and
southern sections have abolished liq-
uor the increase in candy and choco-
late consumption has been remark
able. Brewers are actually going into
the candy business. 1t is no accident
that whenever any locality goes dry,
candy and ice cream stores, or drug
stores whose chief business is candy
and soda water, move into the corners
vacated by the saloons. In the South
the United Cigar Stores have candy
and soda water departments"
Referring to the demand for candy
as compared to liquor in the army and
navy the advertisement states: "A,
captain at the front with the British
army reports that the canteen has five
times the demand for sweets that was
expected and oneffth the demand for
beer. All belligerent nations are sup
plying their armies with constantly
increasing ratons of sweets. In this
they are following the example of the
United States, which several years
ago sent candy by the ton to the
troops in the Philippines. Recently
the Atlantic squadron started on a
cruise minus liquor, but with 10000
pounds of candy and chocolate in the
lockers.
"The explanation, of course, is quite
simple. Soldiers and sailors have dis
covered that sugar supplies strength
instead of the deceptive feeling of
strength. It's effects last much longer
and there is no confusion of the senses
or mind with subsequent depression"
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-08-17

the various states an opportunity to
say, in the manner prescribed by the
constitution, whether or not they wish
this particular change in organic
fundamental law"
The following extracts from the
speeches OF Senators Shafroth and
Beckham answer the confscation ar
gument and give other interesting
facts on the subject:
Everybody who engages in
the liquor business knows full we'll
when he enters it that the state or
city has the power to impose such
high license as will put him out of
business and the power to prohibit
the sale OF liquor without any compen-
sation to him. He therefore takes
that into consideration when he es-
tablshes his business and relies upon
large profits to enable him to take
the risk. Senator Shafroth.
1t has no friends LETT, except
those who manufacture and sell it
and make a profit out of the BUSH
This is not simply wartime
movement. The arguments in favor
of Prohibition have been accumulated,
not created by the existence of the
present worldwide war. -
Senator Beckham.
Dry Kansas Defended
In answer to Misrepresentation
about Prohibition in Kansas, Senator
Thompson presented over 100 letters
from District Judges, SheriHs, County
Attorneys, Mayors, Chiefs of Police
and other law enforcing officers in all
the counties OF the state.
Commenting on the letters the Kan
sas Senator said: Nov, if Prohibition
has been such bad thing for Kan
sas, as claimed by the opposition, how
could we get 100 honorable men
charged with official responsibility,
located in every section OF the state,
to write such letters as these? I will
say that in all the responses there
was not single dscordant note and
not a word or line tending in any
way to justify the argument of the
opposition. If Prohibition
has been such a bad thing how is it
that the sentiment for it has been
growing SO rapidly until now it ex-
tends everywhere"
No New Wet Arguments
No new arguments in defense of
the saloon traffic were presented by
the wet Senators. Most of the
speeches against the resolution re-
ferred to the method of amending the
constitution. Several Senator'S OPP
posed the proposed amendment on the
ground that small dry states would
be as powerful as large wet states in
the matter of ratification.
Wet speeches upon the merits of
the Prohibition policy were composed
of the same old arguments long ago
disproved by actual experience in ter
ritory now dry.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-08-17
MANY GREAT SPEACHES
Continued From Page One)

lContlnued FROM Page One)
sent almost as large, if not larger,
membership than can be found on the
official roster of the American Fed
Grafton of Labor. Forty of the labor
unions listed are bartenders' unions,
and no doubt many of the other
unions acted Solely out of sympathy
with their fellow workingmen. i.
Petitions From Wet States
A most significant fact about this
labor petition is that all of the al
legged petitioners except two come
from Fl states without Prohibition.
The omission of protests from Prohi-
bition states is the most eloquent
part of the whole document, for it
suggests at once to those who come
from states where the workingmen
have seen the effect of Prohibition
and have no disposition to petition
against Prohibition even as an act of
sympathy with their fellow workmen,
that they know they will be doing
them great kindness to give them
the Prohibition that has worked so
we'll for labor as we'll as capital in the
Prohibition states.
The liquor interests now SANDER
labor by suggesting that it is unpa-
triotic, that if the laborer is denied
his drink even in war times, he will
rebel. They, in effect, say that the
laboring man measures his patriotism
by glass of beer. Who says this
Not labor, but the liquor interests.
Who threatens us with rebellion? Not
the laborer, but the liquor inter
States Should Decide
Senator Ashurst thus explained the
purpose of the dry resolution:
This proposed amendment is not
an attempt to force upon a state
something it does not want. 1t is,
and only is, a great referendum giving
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-08-17
Crime Experts
Dare Not Drink
Whisky Dealer Says Booze Would
Make Them Blunder

"Now there may be some ohenses,
such as arise from man drinking
and getting into street brawl, or a
man going home and beating his wife,
that result from drink. But the real
crime, the dangerous crime such as
burglary or cracking a safe-that is
done by the trained criminal who does
not drink. That crime is premedi-
tated and carried out carefully. The
men who do it don't drink because if
they drank they would be caught. A
man who drinks gets caught. Now
take the pickpocket. Do you suppose
he could go through mans pockets
if he drank? Certainly not, because
he would be clumsy and be arrested
The above statement was made by
Charles Hermann, president of Chaplin
& Gore, the big Chicago whisky firm.
He intended to prove that whisky
does not cause much crime after all.
In attempting to do so he gave some
very interesting testimony showing
that no man who needs a clear head
and a steady hand can afford to drink
Mr.. Herman neglected to explain to
the correspondent how it is that GRIM
inals do not need booze to brace their
nerves and give them courage for their
dangerous tasks. The whisky advo-
Gates claim that the soldiers need alco-
holic bravery, but they don't say any
thing about drink making them clum-
sy and unable to work carefully.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-08-17
CHICAGO DOCTORS

Continued From Page One)
lower ones. This is largely because
alcohol paralyzes inhibition; that is.
alcohol is habit producing narcotic
drug.
The effects just given are of sin
gle dose or of number of small sue
cessive doses close together; i. e., the
immediate effect.
The Morning After
Then what of the secondary effect
the after effect? Is it not expressed
in "the morning after the night be-
fore" Everything is below par. Nc
question as to efficiency then. Third
it is known that the deterioration is
progressive, cumulative. The more
and the longer alcohol is taken the
worse the paralysis of the higher fac
ulties. The end is dementia-zero ir
mentality.
Now just an extra word about one
OF these higher mental acts absolutely
necessary to efficiency. I mean inhi.
bition-self-restraint. This is first
weakened and then paralyzed. Mar
seldom means to get drunk, never
to be a drunkard Yet we are IA
miliar with the one who means to take
one drink and takes 20, as also will
him who means to take or 3 a day
and takes 10 or IS. And, mind you
this after he has promised himself
never again"
There is another way of stating ;
drinkers lack OF efficiency. Alcoho
is an anesthetic. The drinker is nevel
fully conscious of his incapacity. Al
we have seen he has feeling or be
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-08-17
Exit Booze,
Enter Boom

Big crowds in Henry on Saturday
nights and business booming. Old
tumb1edown buildings being sup
planted by fine new bricks. Bone
Dry" and all the old boozers cussing
the drys for it, and the business men
filling their tills and the Riddles wear
ing shoes who formerly saw father
spend his money for booze. Henry
is on the boom since she cut out
booze.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-08-17
100000 Women
Not Registered
Chicago Women Must Register or
Lose Chance to Help Vote the
City Dry

Registration is word to conjure
with in political fights. The vets al
ways register. A large proportion 'of
Chicago drys are not registers.
Chicago has 100000 population,
| 100000 are minors, 100000 are reg
istered voters, leaving 100000 adults
who are not registered as voters. Of
This number a considerable portion
are aliens, but at least $4,000 may
register if they would.
1t is estimated that 100000 women
in Chicago are not registered There
are enough drys in Chicago to roll
I'D a great majority against the sa-
looms. One of the problems of the
dry Chicago Federation is to over
come the indifference and political in
dolence of the dry men and women
who are not registered.
The New State Law
According to new state law all
unregistered voters must register
hereafter in room 308 City Hall, at
the Election commissioners Office.
The office will be open from 9 a. M to
9 p. m. every day except Sundays and
HOLIDAYS. All citizens 81 years OF age,
male or female, who have lived in the
state one year, the county 90 days, in
the precinct 80 days, are qualified to
register and vote.
If the campaign to make Chicago
dry is to be successful, pastors, Sum
day school superintendent, Bible
class leaders, young peoples society
presidents, various clubs and other
organizations must begin at once a
most vigorous campaign to make
votes.
Must Win With Votes
Prayers, songs, petitions, letters OF
protest, public meetings, are good,
but after all, Our campaign must be
won by votes-unless we have them
we stand to lose. Let committees
be appointed at once. Let pulpits
and platforms send forth the call for
registration.
AS DIR. Cuyler said: Next to the sin
OF voting wrong is the sin of not vot-
ing at all" No one should fail to
register for this coming campaign to
rid Chicago of its most corrupting in
fuence-the anarchistic saloon.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-08-17
No Free Lunch
But Beer Free
Liquorites Unhappy Unless Evading
Some Law

Philadelphia-Free beer today sup
planted free lunch in many drink en-
poriums here.
Governor Brumbaugh sounded the
death knell of the ancient and accept
able bite for nothin'p custom when
he signed the anti-free-lunch bill. 1t
became effective today.
Now the saloons are free lunch
less" but not free peerless" A
sandwich is being, sold for the price
of beer and gratis glass of "suds'
is presented to the thirsty PATRON
Champion of Fair Play.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-08-17
MOTHER SUES SALOONIST

On the charge that he sold liquor
to Clifford Church, aged Is, without
her written consent, Mrs. Eva Middle
ton, of Kansas City Mo-, the boys
mother has sued D. M. Carey, saloon
keeper for $1,000. She alleges Carey
sold liquor to Church 40 different
times and asks $50 for each time.