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The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1917-07-05

Wife-Big checks for dresses '
not be In demand this season.
observation-disclosures heavenl
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1917-07-05

81 am going to put patch on 70
tune"
'.Then make 1t potato patch"
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1917-07-05
Warning For Educators.

The state superintendent of educa.
ton calls the attention Of school trus-
tees and officers to section 1926 of the
code, which rerscribes serious penal.
ties for those who have dealings In
books, school furniture and supplies.
Some such officials are suspected OF
having an interest in the sale of such
supplies, and this is case in which a
word to the wise is sufficient"
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1917-07-05

Always begin at the bottom and
work up. young man, unless You con-
template digging well.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1917-07-05

"Does your wife listen to your ad-
vicew
Listen? OF course she does. My
wife is very polite"
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1917-07-05

THIS Is THE AGE OF YOUTH.
You will look ten years younger if you
darken your ugly. grizzly. gray hairs BY
using la Creole" Hair Dressing ADV.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1917-07-05

A single application Of Roman Eye Bal.
sam upon going to bed will prove its mer-
it by morning. Effective for Inaamma-
tions of the Eyes, external and internal.
Adv.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1917-07-05
Filling the state Treasury

Filling the State Treasury.
The penitentiary board of trustees
has, paid into the state treasury $780,
5S6.08 received on account of the last
cotton sale at the Parchman farm.
This amount covered 1858 bales sold.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1917-07-05

Spartan Women Suffered Untold Tcftuses
but who wants to be a Spartan? Take
"Femenina" for all female disorders.
Price SOC and $1.00.-Adv.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1917-07-05
DON'T cAMRIE

that your hearts all right. Make
sure. Take "Renovine"--a heart and
nerve tonic. Price Soc and $1.O0.--Adv.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1917-07-05

Nothing makes a colonel grouchier
than to have to go to work without a
drop of breakfast.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1917-07-05

POLARIZATION" Chill Tonic i guaranteed
to drive away ChiIls and Fever OF your
money refunded Price ADJ.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1917-07-05

It used to be roses were born tc
blush unseen-but these days ever
they have press agent.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1917-07-05

DR.. Peeryss sDead shot'' 10 powerful ana
prompt but safe. One dose only 10 enough
10 expel Worms or Tapeworm- No castor
oil necessary Adv
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1917-07-05

wrirhes Indian Vegetable Pills contain
nothing but vegetable ingredients, which act
gently as tonic and purgative by stimu-
lation and not by irritation. Adv.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1917-07-05

If you have talent for criticism, don't
fail to use 1t on yourself.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1917-07-05

Fretting Is a perpetual confession o.
weakness.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1917-07-05

Not by strength but by perseverance
are great works accomplished.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1917-07-05
SAVE a DOCTORS BILL

by keeping Mississippi Diarrhea Cor
dial handy for all stomach complaints
Price Csc and 50c.-Adv.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1917-07-05

A lean woman and a fat one nearly
always envy each other.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1917-07-05
CA[0MEL S|CKENS!
It's MERCURY! DANCE

Dodsons Liver Tone" Sahten You Up Better Than Savang Dangerous
CaomeI and Doesn't Make You Sck-Dont Lose Days Work.
Wonderful Discovery Destroying Sale of CaomeI Here
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1917-07-05
twenty-five Years.
Experience With
Kidney Remedy

Between twenty-five and thirty years
ago I commenced selling DR.. Kilmer's
Swamp-Root and during all that time |
have never heard single complaint from
my customers; they are more inclined to
praise it; and Judging from their favor.
able remarks and the repeated sales l
enjoy I am confident that SwampRoot is
a valuable medicine for the troubles for
wi ich it is intended.
Very truly yours,
OTTO H. G.. >LIPPERT,
Pharmacist.
1901 Freeman, Cor. Liberty SITS,
Sept. 10, 1916. Cincinnati, Ohio.
Prove What Swamp Root Will Do For You
Send ten cents to DR.. Kilmer & Co.,
Binghamton, N. Y, for a sample size
bottle. 1t will convince anyone. You
will also receive a booklet of valuable
information, telling about the kidneys
and bladder. When writing, be sure and
mention this paper. Regular ffty-cent
and one-dollar size bottles for sale at all
drug stores.-Adv.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1917-07-05
The niHereneA

The DInerehce.
A bachelors exclamation: "a lass !"
A maidens exclamation: "Ah Men !"
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1917-07-05

This season, a. usual, the noblest
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1917-07-05
EnoIish "a She is Spoke

EnQIIsh as She Is SPOKE.
"That was great send-off they gave
Jabbs."
eyes, If there is no comeback to It."
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1917-07-05

Federal Authorities Are Investigating.
Notice was given out last week in
printed circulars by number of citi
zens in the vicinity of Embrey, signed
by a Committee on advertisement"
that there would be a mass meeting at
Walthall ON the 22d for the purpose
of sending petitions to congress pray
ing for the repeal of the selective draft
law. Accordingly, a crowd assembled
at the court house and organized by
electing a chairman and secretary.
Speeches were made by DR.. w. W..
Gore and S. s. Gore. They flayed the
president with abuse in mixed med
ley of malice. mendacity and mislead
ing statements. with fluent, flowing
and flippant oratory, waited out on the
wings of most venomous hot air.
At this juncture a very patriotic,
sensible and well-informed woman in
the audience came to the rescue of the
president defended him and in plain,
simple verbiage informed them that
they were guilty of treason.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1917-07-05
state License Given Out. ~

State Licenses Given OUT. ~
Licenses to practice medicine In the
state were granted Is applicants after
the examinations here, and IA to prao.
tice dentistry were given by the state
dental examiners.
The licenses given by the state
board of health to physicians and sur
geons were to whites, as no negro
stood the examination. Three men
failed. The percentage Of men who
were successful was unusually high.
as seldom does rs per cent become
successful.
Those granted medical licenses are
Bethune C. Bernard, Senatobia; Writ
Adams Rodgers, Jackson; John Walter
Wills, Raleigh; John Howard Kallis,
Shuqualak; William earle Scale, Phil.
adelphia; Alexander Greene Touch.
stone, Braxton; Shelly James Caddy,
Bond; John Lively White, Sarah: Rob.
ert Paine, Aberdeen; Harry M. Smith.
Natchez; Walter Clifton Royals, Meri.
dian; Mac McLendon, Fort Mitchell.
Ala; Peyton Reed Greaves, Fondren;
Albert Purser Smith, Bay st. Louis;
Ellis P. Burns. Ratliff.
For the first time during the exist.
ence of the present board negro pass.
ed 1t is known that some of the
members of the board have an antip.
athy against negro applicants. How
ever. one out Of five applicants was
passed.
The IA of the Fl men applicants Civ.
en- dentistry licenses after examina.
ton were Almay Austin, Biloxi; J. S.
Burns, Ripley; S. Dickson, Jr., Holly
Springs; Ernest A. Ray, Meridian; r.
w. Street. Ripley; James B. Mccoy,
DeKalb; A. B. Russ, Pennington; C.
L. Wall, Peoria; J. P. Classify, Forest;
w. C. Sandusky, Holly Springs; A. G.
Tillman, Vicksburg; M. F. Powers,
Greenville; E. A. Kolb, Eupora. and E.
A. Phillips, the only negro to pass
Hattiesburg.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-12-21
COMES FROM ALASKA
Mrs. Thatcher in Washington for
Conventions and to Help Protect
Governor From Vicious Inter
ests Attacking Him

Mrs. Cornelia T. Thatcher, presi-
dent of the Alaska Women's Chris
ton Temperance Union, was an inter
esting figure at three conventions in
Washington. She came primarily to
attend the national Women's Chris
tan Temperance Union convention
and remained for the conventions OF
the Anti-Saloon League and the SUIT
frage Association.
To reach Washington, she travelled
nine miles OH horseback, Is miles on
a lumber wagon. IS miles on the new
government railroad, 1900 miles by
steamer to Seattle and $500 miles
overland by railroad from Seattle to
Washington She is much interested
in the fight which the people OF
Alaska are making against the corrupt
interests OF the territory. These lat
ter are seeking TO Gust Governor j.,
+. A. Strong and will move on the ad-
ministration with the argument that
Strong poilti1di io9ai'y 10 ii" "
question. Mrs. Thatcher declares that
the moral forces of Alaska are unan-
imous for the retention of Governor
Strong in office.
While i'll Washington she will make
her report to President Wilson, who
has agreed to accept her statement as
the statement of the moral forces OF
Alaska in the Strong case. Mrs.
Thatcher formerly was editor OF the
Union Signal, the national organ OF
the Women's Christian Temperance
Union.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-12-21

More Than Two Hundred and Fifty
Sat Down Together for Feast and
Short Speeches

More than $50 delegates to the
Anti-Saloon League convention, many
of them among the foremost business
men of the United States, sat down
to banquet at Rouscher's, in Wash
ington, Wednesday evening.
Wayne b. Wheeler, National At
torney of the League, presided as
POSTMASTER, and the following re-
sponded:
DIR. James Cannon, Jr., superintend-
ent of the Anti-Saloon League of Vir-
ginia, who explained that the election
of Westmoreland Davis, Governor OF
Virginia, was not in any sense a
reputation of Prohibition; T. w.
Warner, president of the Warner
Manufacturing Company, of Toledo,
Ohio; Sebastian S. Kresge, of De-
troit, owner of chain of stores, who
said that, next to winning the war,
Prohibition is the biggest job the peo-
pie of America ever have had in all
their history; L. B. Musgrove, of
Birmingham, Ala, a prominent plant
err; Rev Father ]. ]. Curran, of
Wilkes-Barre, Pa, and George r.
Stuart, of Birmingham, famous pastor,
lecturer and humorist.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-12-21
INCLUDES EN- ALL
Catholic and Protestant, Jew and Gen.
tile, Are United for Overthrow of
Liquor Traffic in United
States

One of the most interesting ses-
sions of the Anti-Saloon League Con-
vention at Washington was that oil
Tuesday afternoon, at which Rev
Father J. J. Curran, OF Wilkesbarre,
Pa, spoke. In introducing Father
Curran, the chairman of the session,
DR.. A. ]. Barton, OF Dallas, Texas,
who is Baptist, referred to the sig
ni6cance OF the fact that the Anti-Sa-
loon League fight against the liquor
traffic is fight of the united church
es, both Catholic and Protestant.
There were in the Convention at
the time representatives OF almost all
the better known Christian denomina-
tons, all listening with the greatest OF
interest to Father Curran.
At the close of his speech. further
comment was made by the chairman
on the union of Christian effort
against the liquor traffic, when DR. +.
L. Hertzfeid, of Baltimore, Md, a
prison reform worker, arose and said
that he was Jew and that great
many Jews were lining up with the
Christians in the fight against the
common enemy, DR.. Hertzfeld's
statement was greeted with tremen-
dous applause.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-12-21
BUSINESS MEN MEET
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witty and pointed manner of depicting
the great good which comes from
Prohibition When a question came
from the audience as to reports in the
North about the recent election in
Virginia being in a sense "black eye"
for Prohibition there, Mr.. Conway
came back quick as a flash with, at
amt So" He paid a tribute to the
leadership of DR. James Cannon, jr.,
of the Prohibition forces of Virginia,
and asserted that the Virginians all
"swcar by DIR. Jim Cannon"
The audience with regret permitted
Mr.. Conway to close. At one time
in his talk he spoke of the great influ-
ence for good of the Richmond Vir-
gilman, and its growing power in the
state.
This particular sentiment was
echoed by Mr.. Shelley, he, also, like
Mr.. Conway, paying tribute to Pres
ident Wilson as a native son of the
Old Dominion. Mr. Sheffey said he
had no further trouble with his en-
ployees now that Prohibition law
prevails in Virginia. He expressed
regret that all states are not so fortu-
nate, especially from the standpoint
of the good it would do the manufac-
turers, the business men, as we'll as
the individual
Mr.. Wilson spoke of the historic
ground on which the building stands
in which the meeting was being held,
and declared that the man who as
sasinated President Lincoln, and the
one who assassinated President Nc
Kinley, was drunk. Mr.. Wilson COM
pared the number of cases of drunk
enness in the District of Columbia un-
der dry law with those before the
District became dry, and showed a
remarkable decrease despite the fact
that Baltimore is so near"
Mr.. Hernick told similar story as
to Kansas, and Mr.. Rowden, as to
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-12-21
IDAHO Law UPHELD
United States Supreme Court Rem
ders Important and Far-Reaching
Decision; State Can Forbid
- the Possessions of Liquor
for Personal Use

That Intoxicating liquors are not a
necessity; that they are evil and only
evil. and that their storage in any
mans home or their presence in his
pocket may make him a dangerous
man in human society, is the sub
stance oil one of the most drastic deci-
sions on the liquor question ever put
forth by the highest judicial tribunal
OF the nation.
1t is for the states to say whether
this evil ard dangerous thing shall be
licensed and sold under more or less
rigorous safeguards, or denied the
consideration given to other commodi-
ties and even prohibited for personal
use This opinion was announced De-
cember 10.
Justice McReynolds, who read the
decision OF the court, said that a state
"has the power absolutely to prohibit
manufacture, gift, purchase, sale or
transportation of Intoxicating liquors
within its borders without violating
the constitution"
We further think, he added, it
clearly follows from our numer-
Gus decisions unfolding Prohibi-
ton legislation that the right to
hold intoxicating liquors for per-
sonal use is not one of those
fundamental privileges of citi-
zen of the United States which no
state may abridge. A contrary
view would be incompatible with
the undoubted power to prevent
manufacture, gift, sale, purchase
or transportation of such articles
the only feasible ways of getting
them. An assured method of pos
session would necessarily imply
some adequate methods to obtain,
not subject to destruction at the
will of the state.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-12-21
To UNITE EFFORTS
Temperance Council Pledges Support
To Those Candidates Only Who
Will Work and Vote for
Amendment Ratification

Unihcation of effort and interest in
state campaigns for the ratification
of the Prohibition amendment to the
federal constitution will be brought
by the National Council so far as it
has influence.
At the annual meeting of the or
ganization in Washington, d. c., De-
cember 10, a resolution was adopted
under which the Council will give its
support to only those candidates for
state legislatures who are pledged to
work and vote for the ratification pro-
gram without regard to political
party
Mrs. D. K. Livingston, prominent
in the work of the Woman's Chris
tian Temperance Union of Rhode
Island; Edwin c. Dinwiddie, Legis-
lative Superintendent of the Anti
Saloon League of America; Arthur
]. Davis, superintendent of the
Massachusetts League; Miss Cora
IL duSSS OlOuudIu, VI DOSlOll, SGCICtdIy
of the Scientific Temperance Fedora
ton, and Mrs. Ella Stewart, of Chi
cago, were the principal speakers.
These officers were elected: Presi-
dent, DR.. Daniel A. Polling, Boston,
Mass; vice presidents, DR.. P. A.
Baker, Westerville, Ohio, General
Superintendent of the Anti-Saloon
League; Miss Anna A. Gordon, of
Evanston, Ill, national president of
the Woman's Christian Temperance
Union; Virgil G. Hinshaw, national
chairman of the Prohibition party;
DIR. D. Leigh Colvin, New York City,
president of the intercollegiate Pro-
hibition Association; Ben Wright,
Lockport, N. Y, grand chief templar
of the Independent Order of Good
Templars; secretary, E. H. CHEERING
ton, general manager of the publication
interests of the Anti-Saloon League,
Westerville; chairman of the cxecu-
tive committee, Mr.. Cherrington; sec
rotary of the executive committee,
Miss Stoddard.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-12-21
STRONG RESOLUTIONS ADopTEDAT LEAGUE CONVENTION

I'VE express most emphatically our
opinion that the welfare of our coun-
try required the complete abolition
of the use of food stuffs in the manu-
factute of beer and wine as well as in
the matter of spirituous liquors and
we urge the President OF the United
States to exercise forthwith the au-
thority conferred upon him by Con
gress to prevent the further waste of
food stuffs, fuel man-power and
transportation facilities by breweries,
wineries, and other manufactures of
intoxicants.
I'VE most earnestly call upon the
President and upon the War and Navy
Departments of the United States to
impress upon our Allies that while
the people of this country are willing
to give freely of our money and of
our sons to the winning of this war
we cannot agree to lay the sobriety
and the virtue of our manhood as a
sacrifice upon the affairs of drunken
ness and vice. We urge the adoption
of such regulations for the army and
navy outside of the United States, and
such diplomatic representations to
other countries as will give to our
men abroad equal protection to tina.
which they have at home in the cam
tonments and naval bases of our own
country.
1--WE protest not only against the
use of food stuffs in the manufacture
of Intoxicating liquors at home, but
also against the use of food stuffs
shipped from this country for the
manufacture OF Intoxicating liquors
abroad
ave call upon all good citizens to
join in campaigns for the ratification
of the constitutional amendment after
Congress shall have submitted the
same to the states. We protest against
any compromise. The worst saloons
in America have been brewery owned
or controlled. The propaganda in be-
half of beer, conducted by the Ger
man-American Alliance, is in harmony
with the other recently disclosed ac-
tivities of that organization, which
brand it as an enemy to our country.
Wherever alcohol is sold, whether
in beer, wine or whisky, the country
is weakened. The only adequate rem
edy is the annihilation of the whole
traffic. Nothing less will solve the
alcohol problem and nothing less will
give democracy a fair chance in its
great work of making men. For this
we fight, and to this holy purpose we
pledge our sacred honor"
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-12-21

By unanimous vote the following
resolutions were adopted by the Board
of Directors of the Anti-Saloon
League of America, Thursday, De-
cember Is, and by the convention that
same evening:
"The Anti-Saloon League of Amer
lea, in convention assembled, this 18th
day of December, 1917, expresses its
gratitude to Almighty God for guild
ance and success.
I'VE affirm our loyalty and devotion
to the cause of democracy and pledge
our fullest cooperation to the gov
eminent and the President of the
United States in the mighty conflict
now on between autocratic Ii
cense on the one hand, and political,
economic, moral and religious liberty
on the other.
I'VE greatly rejoice in the remark
able progress during recent years as
shown in the sustaining of'She inter-
state liquor shipment law by the,
United States Supreme Court, to-
gether with numerous other national
and state decisions against the liquor
traffic, the defeat of the liquor forces
in all efforts to reclaim dry states, the
extension of Prohibition to 81 states.
Alaska, Porto Rico and the District
of Columbia, the passage by Congress
of the anti-liquor advertising, bone
dry and interstate liquor shipment
laws, the Prohibition of the sale OF
liquors in the army and navy and to
all uniformed soldiers and sailors, the
federal appropriation to provide for
the recreation and moral welfare of
the soldiers i'll army posts and military
camps, the elimination of food stuff
waste in the manufacture of distilled
liquors, the action by the United
States Senate in passing the Federal
Prohibition Resolution, as we'll as all
other progress toward prohibition and
the enforcement of prohibitory laws
through the several departments of
the federal government and through
constituted authorities throughout the
nation.
1--WE urge upon Congress the i'm
mediate submission of the National,
Prohibition Amendment to our federal
c0.rt.t,.t.o.,
to take prompt action to ratify the
same, and thus write this great CON
servation principle into the basic law
OF the nation.
1--WE insist that Congress take action
to prohibit the manufacture and sale
OF alcoholic beverages during the war,
and for Prohibition in the territory OF
Hawaii
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-12-21
PROHIBITION TO WIN WAR

Governor Horace +. Graham, OF
Vermont, was invited to attend the
League, convention at
Washington, but found it impossible
TO be present, so he wrote to Frank
H. Brooks, of St. JolAsbury letter
in which he expressed regret at his in
ability to be present The letter is as
follows:
Montpelier, Dec 6, 1917.
Mr.. Frank H. Brooks,
st. Johnsbury.
Dear Sir:--I find it impossible
for me to attend the Anti-Saloon
League Convention to be held in
Washington, beginning December
10, because of matters which will
keep me here.
/ want to say to you that l am
in sympathy with this movement
and hope that the purpose which
It seems to accomplish will be at
tanned. feel that at this time we
should have but one object and
that is to win the war; and one of
the chiefsaids in bringing the war
to an early and successful conclu-
sion is, to my mind, the elimina-
ton of alcohol as beverage.
Yours very truly,
(Signed) Horace F. Graham.