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The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-02-02
Mr.. Bryan's Influence

Mr.. Bryan, three times the nomi-
nee OF the Democratic party for Pres
ident of the United States, the leader
who made the nomination of Presi-
dent Wilson possible, and who was
an important asset in securing Prcsi-
dent Wilson's reelection last Novem-
Der, has devoted his life, his great
talents and his superb eloquence to
championing national Prohibition,
and is making the effort of his life
to bring the Democratic party into
line for the cause he is advocating.
His influence will be great. There
are in the country millions of Demo-
Gratis who as strongly favor the abo-
lition of the liquor traffic as does Mr.
Bryan, but all are not as sincere, con-
,eistent and courageous as he is. How
cvaf that may be, locally, and regard
less or the views of the people of
Springfield on the issue, they will
give the great commoncr a hearty
welcome 10 the city and splendid au-
diences of attentive listeners will hear
his addrcss.-Spring6eld Register.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-02-02
SPECIAL OFFER
Temperance Literature for Distribu-
ton in the Prohibition Campaign

Eight Large Budgets of Assorted
Posters and Effective Leaflets for
Young Peoples Societies and other
organizations taking an active part i'll
the dry campaign.
POSTER BUDGET No. i54
posters and cartoons, including II
large black and white posters, 10
posters in colors vote Dry For U.s."
and 10 Brewer Posters; price $l.25.
POSTER BUDGET No. 2 = 4o6
posters and cartoons, including SO
large black and white posters on the
nature and effects of alcohol, 100 col
ored posters ."Vote Dry For Us" and
so Brewer Posters; price $500.
LITERATUE BUDGET No. 3
1850 leaflets $50 leaflets on each of 81
different subjects), including The
Destruction OF Kansas, A Fathers
Mistake, This Hawk Killed 40 Hens,
The Typesetters, The Saloon an
Enemy to the Wage Garner, The
Farmer and the Saloon, We Must
Have More Boys, A Way to Make
Money, The High Cost of Living,
The Saloon an Enemy to the Work
ingman and Farmer, Liquor n d
Labor. Charged With Murder, Pris-
oner No. CABS, Catholic Clergy and
the Saloon, Industry Against Alcohol,
Buy Your Own Cherries, Prohibition
Prohibits, The Time Has Come, Bill
and the Water Wagon. Price $3.50.
LITERATURE BUDGET No. 4
Same as Budget No. 3, except that it
is double the quantity of each leaf1et:
total 800 leaflets. Price $500.
SPECIAL CAMPAIGN BUDGET
No. 5-Containing 900 posters, car
toons and leaflets, including 5 Stats
teal posters, Russian posters. 5
Brewer posters, so Daddy and His
Two Little Boys. and so each of 10
| different styles of leaflets. Price $500
SPECIAL CAMPAIGN BUDGET
No. 6-Containing 1880 leaflets; so
each of Sc different subjects. These
leaflets are entirely different from the
leaflets mentioned above. They in
clude Series D az subjects), Series
E az subjects) and the V. I. B. leaf
lets az subjects). Price $3.50.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-02-02
NO CONFISCATION
Michigan and Virginia Brewing
Plants to Be Buster Than Ever

According to the Detroit News,
several of the brewerics of that city
have already taken steps to have their
plants converted into establishments
for the manufacture of artificial ice
Some of the breweries will be oper-
atcd as ice plants long before Prohi-
bition goes into effect in Michigan.
Under the county option law,
number OF breweries have been put
out of business in Michigan during
the past few years. In only or in
stance has brewery property de-
creased in value in Prohibition terri
tory. On the contrary, such property
has greatly increased in value by con-
verting it to the use of productive
industries. The brewery at Flint is
said to be the only one that was not
made over into factory of some
kind, and this brewery was con-
verified into church.
A news dispatch from Virginia says
that every brewery in that state has
arranged to engage in the production
of some other commodity. Evidently
Prohibition does not con6scate brew
cry property.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-02-02
THIS SOUNDS GOOD
Spokane Made Enviable Record First
Dry Year

The Spokesman-Review of Spo-
kane, Wash, asserts that city saved
at least $4,000,000 during its first year
of Prohibition. This money, that
newspaper says, means saving of
$35 per capita and the sum will pay
the cost of running the city govern
ment ly three times over. That,
paper then goes on to enumerate
some of The benefits which come to a
saloonless community.
The average number oil, inmates in
the county in6rmary dropped from
172 in lis to III in 1916, and there
was net saving OF $4,000 in the cost
of operation. In 1915, 1z0 cases of de-
lirium tremens were handled by the,
county and only IL in 1916 The,
record of arrests shows drunkenness
has decreased 40 per cent, vagrancy
81 per cent, and disorderly conducts
81 per cent. Only one-half as many
burglaries were committed during the
dry year as were committed in 1915,
one-third as many forgcries, less than,
one-half the robberics, and less than
onc-third the petty iarcenies. 1t cost,
$4,000 less to administer jails, county
inflrmary and INDECENT relief in 1916
than in 1915.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-02-02

SPECIAL CAMPAIGN BUDGET
No. 7-Containing 1000 leaflets Go
each of 10 different subjects), includ-
ing Saloon Compels Children to Be-.
come Wage Farmers, Putting the
Mortgage on the Cradle, The Full
Father and the Empty Stocking, Stop
the Waste, Alcohol the Great Enemy,
Profit, This Is the Penalty, Filling the
Ranks, The Curse of Drink, Pay Day
Scenes, Liquor and Labor. Price $780,,
COMBINATION BUDGET No 8
Containing 400 leaflets 600 each
of the 81 leaflets included in Budget
No. 8, and 100 each of the 16 leaflets
in Budget No. y. Price 5000.
If you want to create temperance
sentiment in your community, you
cannot do better than to get one
or more of these budgets and syste-
matically distribute it. Order from
Young Peoples Cooperative Tenn
perance Bureau, Westerville, Ohio.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-02-02
What Illinois Papers Say Of John Barleycorn

of humanity. as the Old Man of the
Mountain elung to Sindbad the Sailor
but now civilization is determined to
shake him off and set him to work
at pulling useful loads instead.
What really wonderful and splen-
did outcome this is. We take a great
evil and we turn it to good, so that
the world thus receives double gain.
Alcohol, instead of being prostituted
to the ruin of man, is to take the
place of gasoline and other natural
fuels and serve the world with light,
power and heat-Greenfeld Argus.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-02-02
PROHIBITION POSSIBILITIES
New York SUM

The United States Supreme Court
has given King Alcohol body blow
Prohibition, both in countries at war
and in those at peace, is making
mighty strides toward ultimate domin-
alton of the earth because mankind
has decreed that anything that mill
tatcs against efficiency must be sup
pressed. Possibly the non-alcoholic
generations of the future must find,
because of their devotion to the water
wagon, less difficulty in overcoming
the three great foes to progress, name
ly, disease, poverty and war, than we
and our ancestors have experienced.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-02-02
Can't Regulate the Saloon

Chicago, Jan. l6.-lEditor of the
Tribune IA few years ago l was
employed as salesman by one of the
largest wholesale liquor houses in the
city of Chicago, my personal sales
averaging between $4,000 and 100000
a year, and have visited most all the
saloons of any consequence in the
city / venture to say without fear of
contradiction that very few, if any,
of the saloons could exist under strict
observation of the law. You can no
more regulate a saloon than the
power of man can regulate the sun,
the moon, or the stars. Regulation
advocation saves the saloon. Prohi-
bition saves the home. The remedy
is not regulation but strangulation.
The only way to sever the liquor
business from politics is to take the
government out of the liquor bust
ness. Then we will have strict en-
forcement of the law by federal au-
thorities as we have with opium I'M
der the Harrison dope law. You cam
not regulate crime. The saloon is a
crime, declared SO by the Supreme
Court. You might just as we'll ask
our members of the Legislature to
pass laws licensing the picking of
pockets before a. m. and after IL
p. m as to ask that it pass laws regu-
lating the saloon. If the brewers and
distillers arc sincere, they would I'M
load their present stocks and proper
ties and invest their money in lcgiti-
mate lines of business and stop cor
rupting politics and degenerating hu-
mainly.
John w. Langley,
Asst. Supt. -Anti-Saloon League.
We clip the above article from the
Voice of the People" in the Chicago
Tribune, because it expresses our idea
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-02-02

The Reforming of Old Al
Demon Alcohol from time imme-
mortal has been riding on the back
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-02-02
How Liquor Loves the Law

A wet editorial writer gives US this
choice paragraph:
But when Prohibition comes, and
barrooms are abolished. and one must
seek out blind-pig, drinking will as
sumo different and more win
some aspect. In addition to the
pleasure of drinking, there will be
the zest o. diso5eying the law, defy
ing the constituted authorities, fout-
ing the will of the majority
Lewistown, Canton, Cuba, Farm
ington, S.. David and other parts of
the county have had an example of
this love of the law by the wholesale
liquor dealers who are in every way
encouraging bootleggers, soft drink
parlors and divers and sundry Clubs,
to openly "f1out the will of the ma
jority."-Fulton Democrat.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-02-02

Thus it will be seen in the temper
ate families 81 per cent of the chill
dren were normal as against II per
cent normal in the incorporate fam
lilies.
Certainly it is time the United
States Government should investigate
this subject.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-02-02

very nicely. We will never get rid
of saloons while VIC. the people, the
government, get rakc-cff out of the
business. That's the "salve" that
eases many consciences. Langley
has it rigat.-Exehangc.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-02-02
King Alcohol to Be Barred

1t seems 10 be increasingly evident
that King Alcohol will not have
seat at the council table at which the
future of the world is TO be decided.
Chicago Post.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-02-02
KNOW WHAT is FOR THE BEST

Evidently the state of Colorado
likes Prohibition and wants the whole
country to enjoy its benefits. The
lower House of the Colorado Legis-
lature has sent memorial to Con-
gress ursing national Prohibition
amendment to make the United
States 100 per cent dry"
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-02-02
SENATOR SHERMAN
ON INFANT DEATHS
Senate Appropriates Money
for Study of Mortality
Among Children
ALCOHOL A CAUSE

A discussion of great humanitarian
interest took place last week in tn,
United States Senate over the pro
posed appropriation of $72,12 for tn,
investigation of infant mortality.
Senators Sherman and LaFollett,
quoted statistics showing the alarm
ing proportion of defective children
and of children who die in infancy
The object of the bill is thus STATED
by Senator Sherman:
Death reaps its harvest where
there is the least known to take
care of the child. 1t is to stop
that untimely harvest as it sweeps
through the home of the humble
that this investigation is de-
signed.
Nearly One-Half of Children
Defective
About week ago, Mr.. Presi-
dent, an examination by medical
authority of $4,000 school children
in Chicago was completed. These
children had passed the infant
stage and having reached school
age, were found in the schools of
that city. Of the $4,000 children
who were examined by competent
medical authority, 10000, nearly
one-half, were found physically
defective.
According to the military rec
ords of various enlistment sta
tons of this country, it is re-
ported as result of medical ex-
aninations that an unusually and
dangerously large percentage of
the applicants are rejected for
physical defects. 1t is known that
for some cause, there are more
physical detectives in the present
generation of Americans than are
either safe or necessary.
Alcohol a Chief Cause
If the Children's Bureau, created
by the federal government under tn,
act mentioned, will investigate the eff
feet of the use of alcohol by parents
on infant mortality and on the healtl
of children, it will discover som,
alarming facts.
Prof. T. Laitincn presented an cx
haustive study of the effect of alcoho
on infant mortality before the Twelfth
International Congress on Hlcohof
ism. According to Professor Laitinen
who investigated over 1850 children
Is per cent of the children of abstain
ing parents die in infancy. whereas
% per cent of the children OF moder
ate drinking parents and 81 per cen
of the children of immoderate drink
ng parents die in infancy. Thus, on
of the 1859 children, the drinking o
the parents actually cost 2,407 lives.
Even of the children of drinkin,
parents who survive childhood, thou
sands are rendered defective through
drink. Investigation of 81 children
in 10 temperate families shows tn,
following:
The Detroit times., 1917-09-13
TENNIS STARS
APPEAR TODAY
National Players Come To De.
trOit For Two Day
Exhibition

SIX national tennis. stars appear
at The Detroit Tennis club this aft
ernoon playing three matches after
toe semrhnals IN the local court
tournament have been played oF.
Frank B Alexander fOr many years
member of the championship
doubles team, will play Hardy. a
veteran. in singles in thc opening
match OF the exhibition contests
Miss Molis Biurstedt and John
Strachan VIII play Miss Mary
Browne and Throckmorton. inter.
scholastic champion ~ mixed
doubles Alexander snd Throck-
morton will meet Strachan and
Hardy In doubles 90 end the days
program Friday, Miss bjurstedt
and Miss browne meet In singles.
The proceeds 60 90 The ambulance
that viii bear the 'ennis club name
In France
In Yesterdays play Wesbrook
beat Robinson. Reindei defeated
stone Raseman won from Atkinson.
and Lightner TOOK Monohan into
camp In ihe fourth round ot the
singles az the Tennis club. The
,emiansls are 20 he played today.
and Reindel and Weshr0ok are
paired. with Rasemsn and Lightner
IN the other match The dope
seems 20 favor Reiudei and LiEhtner
In the finals
The first and second rounds OF the
women's singles were played on
Yesterday Miss Buda stephens. who
is conceded the tourney winning
TWO matches
The Detroit times., 1917-09-13
TIGERS SPLIT
WITH INDIANS
Detroit and Cleveland Divide
Double Bill At Navin
Field

II took the Tigers two full games
and two extra innings besides 10
break thru the Cleveland defense
Tor a victory In a double-header. yes
terday. Jim Bagby keeping the jung
RIeers well IN hand In the frst con-
test and Klepfer and Morton forcing
them to 20 two extra innings TO
squeeze Ia win In the exit match.
Bagby tried hard 10 blank Tige'
but the Detroit nine was bound 10
score and managed TO push over
two counters in the dying moments
OF the game. the Tiger total being
iust one-fourth OF Cleveland's. James
rets credit for winning the second
game. going the full II Innings.
while Dauss was the victim OF Bag
by's good pitching In the first en-
counter.
Detroit suffered by poor work IN
the feld In the opening game, max
ing three errors. while an equal
number Of mlsplays by members Of
FohIs crew helped Detroit cop The
second game Cleveland outhit De
troit in both games. and might have
cleaned up on the days program but
for the boots OF the helders.
The Tigers are still suffering nom
the wfldness Of their hurlers, pauss
issuing four passes 10 start with and
James dishing out seven compliment
tsries In the last game. Cleveland
hits and free passes might have
been enough to win the last but for
sensational fielding by the Tiger in
feld.
Cobb fell way down in his batting
while Speaker had gala day al the
plate. Ty failed 10 connect safety
in nine trips 10 the plate while ter
rible Tris smashed out four blows
In seven chances This Is the sec
ond time this season that Cobb has
rome hitless in a double-headeT. and
Cleveland VAS the opposing nine
before. Some consolation Ia found
in the fact that Ty's hitting streak
started just after he had gone hit
less In the two games II he starts
again. be may land the 400 mark
vet. altho II will take terrihc
squirt on the part OF the Georgia
Peach 10 get in the chosen ranks
again.
Nayin feld is dark today, but Chi
cago opens a three.game series here
tomorrow.
The Detroit times., 1917-09-13
DETROITER TIED
FOR THIRD PLACE

CHICAGO Nl Sent NJ Leo
D.egcl. ot Detroit. tied with JOCK
Hutchinson. ~ Gienvie for third
place In 36.hole preliminary OF the
Western open Golf championship al
The Westmoreland Country club yes
erday Edward ZOOS Of Phlladei
phia. turned In the bes' card for the
dav.
The Detroit times., 1917-09-13
SENATE CURBS
GERMAN PRESS

WASHINGTON. sept ls -@ re
administration trading with the on
emy bin. which passed The house
without dissenting vote last JULY
has now passed the senate With
many amendments
one amendment gives the presi-
dent power a. embargo imports and
prohibits publication OF war com
ment in NE German language. un-
less accompanied m a parallel col
umn by a translation I'm English
other important provisions inter
diet commerce between Americans
and Germans or the laftor's allies.
give fhe president broad powers %
regulate operations OF enemy insur
ance companies in this country and
extend espionage powers
The Detroit times., 1917-09-13

Nc. Miss Rer, IS not sending Mr..
Morsan or 20 war with a mothers
blessing but Is welcoming him home
20 the lfrle cid farm after many
wears absence In Turn To The
Right" which comes 90 the Detroit
opera house next week This play
Is al about q peach orchard peach
The Detroit times., 1917-09-13
HUTCHINSON is
PARK CHAMPION

Hutchinson defeated Shields IN
the fnsl round of the City Park
tennis tourney and annexed the title
The winner fell n fhe nrst SET o'5
lasted better than his opponent and
by constantly changing his style OF
play. kept Shields on The defensive
and beat him. The score, A5. IS.
SIS
The Detroit times., 1917-09-13

CHICAGO Sept. IS A. J Earring.
president OF The Chicago. Milwaukee
& 81 Paul railroad. announces that
Fl = Byron. of the Chicago bur
Hnrfon & quincy railroad. hsd been
selected to succeed him as presi
dent Of the 81 Paul
The Detroit times., 1917-09-13
LADY SEYMOUR
COPS FUTURITY
IN SHORT SHIP

JACKSON. Msch.. Sept. 13.--Lady
Seymour won from Captain Grit IN
= three-heat race AZ the fair yester-
day in the annual futurity. Captain
Grit took the first heat when Lady
Seymour broke In the stretch. but
Lady Seymour came back strong in
The next two heats and copped the
event. This was the feature of yes.
icrday's Short ship card Ten thou.
sand people turned out TO watch The
races
The Detroit times., 1917-09-13

son ~ wealth rs sbie 60 overcome
the handicap -of LIS birth. ana be-
comes rcal man Anna Little u
seen in the sole 80 the girl OF the
plains New. pictures = new com.
cdy and other special features with
round out the program.
lelsle Ferguson. noted stage star.
makes her screen debut in the WASH
ington theater next week in nim
~ Robert luthcns
novel "HarharN Shrrp The romap-
tfc' story of AIge}a which tells ~
the infatuatton ~ Tan English noble
woman FOR "a dark skinned army ofn-
Ger with all the oriental color ant
costumea provides photupleH ~
powerful dramatic values. Miss Fer
.euson's art aud beauty are we'll
known and The star and PICTURES
cations supporting Miss Ferguson
IN the leading roles arc Pedro dc
Cordoba. Lumsden Hare and Alex
shannon Added attractions In sh0rt
hlms and special music are noted.
and Emmons and ColNin will sns.
Ever, body who ren. rpners the
popular success. sweet Kitty bcl-
Few }tara axe. viii De- glHd go vel
come 80 again in musical form. un-
der-the name 90 KITTY Darifn" IN
which Alice Nielsen returns 90 light
I'rtH lN ihf go TICK thfN trf next
Wock Tho role of the Irish lass
with hcr nirtatious proclivlties 10 ono
that wtli agIfs thc dramatic and vo-
ral abilities of Miss Nielsen. and in
lts spontanclfv. fresh ami artiess
charm is said 90 provide this ever
doiightfui rrfrte denH-- ssfth an i4aal
medium Miss Nielsen is surrounded
with an exceptional cast including
Pauline Han. Fraus Westcrtou Eds
win stevens Sidruis Esrrro IusnIfa
Flcfrhrr. John fhillius and msny
others famous in light opera
Birthday greetings 20 Cen Perish.
ine. The commander OF our forces m
France. 5l years uld TODAY.
The Detroit times., 1917-09-13

Two-base hits-Burns, VIZ HATS
and Neach. Tnree-base hits--Spesk-
er. Bagby and Chapman. Home run
Cunningham. stolen bases Bush.
Graney :. Sacrifice hit--Evans Sac
rffice fiy--Turncr. Double plays
Bush and Burns Cobb and Stanage,
Chapman, Turner and Harris. Left
on basos--Detroit 5. Cleveland s. First
base on errors-Cleveland 2. Bases
on balls--On Dauss Hits and
earned runs--Or Dauss : hits. 4 runs
IN &2-a innings; of Cunningham. 5
hits. runs in 5i-3 inningA struck
out--By Cunningham . Passed ball
~-~Stanage. Umpires-Owens and Ev-
ans. Tfme--i.3a.
The Detroit times., 1917-09-13

The Boss Hey what you doin
10 nv dog
The Efficiency Expert have
JUST fgured out the number of foot
POUNDS If energy he il wasting IT.
wagging his ,ail so ana attaching
his tail m This smaller motor A feV
kind words vill furnish the fuel
The Detroit times., 1917-09-13

Senator John II Hankhesd. WHO
has -enresentsd Alabama IN one or
the 0ther branch ~ congress FOR 80
wears celebrates his seventy rtth
birthday anniversary 'oday
The Detroit times., 1917-09-13

Detective Sergeant csayaeely -
Big Ike is up 20 his old tricss-
rolled q lush for two hundred yes
terday and hain't even telephone
me about it
The Detroit times., 1917-09-13

fam. and a mothers love and faith
thar her boy will turn out night IN
the end II has been one OF the
biggest stage successes in years.
The Detroit times., 1917-09-13
STANDINGS
American League


Yesterday's Results
In Washington
Ooo0Ol0o0ooooeoo-ii1l i1l
GOO0IoOoo ooon0o on--i So
shore and lail ANtfs
and AInsmith Umpires--D Louehiin
and Moriart5
In Philadelphia
New York1 @ % o.
Athletics q - l'
Batteries and NunamAh-
er. Joberson and Never. Lwpircs-
and Nallln
No others schedule.
The Detroit times., 1917-09-13

Innings issts6sseIoir
Cleveland ......i oOodi 100 o u--g
Detroit ......oo03 ooGO Q I--t
Two-bsse hits gharman. iiclin0u
and Speaker. stolen bases hapnan.
Speaker, Heiimsn. SraneT and Wit
Sncrince Speaker. Sacrifice iy-
Neach. Double piays-Bush. Young
and Rurns EvansN Harris and Ev-
ans. Left on bases-Detroit 4. Cleve-
land 2. First base on errors-Detroit
q Bases on baiie--ON James 7 OF
klepfer 1. on Morton J. Hits and
earned runs--On Kiepfer 4 hits. I
run In innings. on Morton. hits.
run In 8. OF James Z hits. ? runs in
IL. struck out--Bv James g. bv
Kiepfsr z. by Morton Z. Passed balls
Spencer Z. rmpires--Evans and
Owens. Time -. Attendance
3.11s.
The Detroit times., 1917-09-13
cox WINNER OF
z OUT OF 3 RACES

SYRACUSE. y Y, Sept l3.-Be
fore a crowd OF $4,000 people In the
state fair grounds. walter Cox drove
home two winning horses III the
Grand Circuit meeting yesterday and
took second place in the third and
final event One Of his wins, La
Princeton in the , ~ trot. was the
feature race OF the day
An oil painting of Napoleon Di-
rect, the first and only horse driven
10 a two-minute mark BY Geers. Ras
presented 20 Pop yesterday
The summary.
THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE 95
PACE. 3 HEAT PLAIN. PURSE
nUn
The Detroit times., 1917-09-13

Are you one Of the hundreds who
have tried many diHeren, tonies and now
say ~Dsndruf cant be stopped7
II 80, remember. Pompeian HAIR
Massage 10 not eaIy tonic, u IS treat
s>nt This treatment 10 carefully described
in a leAnet. The Hair and It's Care
enclosed in every package.