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The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-04-27
Prohibition Practical
Say Mine Operators

Discussing the cost of whisky to
miners and mine operators, The Black
Diamond, official organ of the coal
industry, prints the following:
The coal man is beginning to dis
cuss the benefits of practical Prohi-
bition by asking:
Now that men arc scarce and
now that we are coming to use our
mines to more nearly their productive
capacity, how much does it cost us to
have whisky for sale in our mining
camps?
ITO answer their own questions,
they are going back over their rec
ords. Men who operate mines in wet
territories find that they cannot de-
pend on using much more than 90 per
cent of their men for two and, some
times, for three days after pay day. A
certain percentage of the miners in
sist upon getting drunk the minute
they are paid. They insist stubbornly
upon staying drunk for two or three
days. As far as the mine which em-
ploys them is concerned, hoisting en-
gine and the power plant might as
we'll be out of business to that same
extent because their absence stops the
production of coal.
"In the mining districts where they
have Prohibition, the operators have
found that the day after pay day is
the same as the day before rs far as
working time is concerned. One hun
dred per cent of the men are on the
job the day after they are paid, the
same as they were the day before.
"The time of the mine is worth, we
will say, 5000 day. There Pro-
hibition has fixed cash value to the
coal mine operator because it saves
him the loss of from $500 to 5000 each
|pay day, or, in other words, from
$500 to 81 200 month Since that is
more than the net profits of some of
the mines, in normal times, practical
Prohibition is coming to have great
cash value to the coal operator.
at is also proving to have cash
value to the coal miner. In times like
these, the miners are earning easily
about S. day. If the mine employs
100 men, that means $500 day to the
miners when they are at work. If,
however, they are not allowed to work
because some of the miners insist
upon getting drunk, and hence upon
shutting down the mine for day or
two or three days, after each pay day,
it cost the miners $500, $1,000 or
81, 500 every two weeks, or double that
amount every month.
"This brings Prohibition into the
practical zone. 1t has dollars and
cents value. 1t is on that basis that
both the operators and the miners are
figuring today"
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-04-27
DANVILLE MAYOR
and CITIZENS WILL
ENFORCE Law
Vigilance Club Organized to
Prosecute Booleggers
and Blndpiggers
WILL AID POLICE

The 68 saloons of Danville, city
OF 10000 inhabitants, will close on
May ! as result of the local option
election last week.
That the people are resolved to
make the city actually as we'll as le-
gally dry is shown by the fact that
they elected George F. Rearck, a
radical dry, for Mayor, and that they
have decided to organize vigilance
club to cooperate with the Mayor
elect and with the police department
in enforcing the law.
Rearick's Election Came Unsought
The election of Mr.. Rearick as
Mayor was a great compliment to
him. 1t is an instance of the Office
seeking the man rather than the man
the office. 1t is said that Mr.. Rearicll
even refused to electioneer in his own
behalf.
That the Mayor-elect will enforce
the law, there is not shadow of
doubt. AS leader of the Mems Bible
class of the First M. Z. church of the
city, Mr.. Rearick is recognized not
only as an uncompromising foe of
the liquor traffic, but as one who will
advance the moral interests of the
city in every possible way.
His training and experience as an
attorney will enable him to bring a
trained business intellect to the adj
ministration of the city's affairs. Dan
vile will enter upon new and better
era, both morally and financially, un-
der the administration of George F.
Redrick.
Bootleggers Will Have Hard Shedding
The prediction of the wcts that
Danville will become "bootleggers'
paradise" will not be fulfilled. The
vigilance committee, which is being
organized, will make it possible for
the police to detect violations of the
law and will crystalline public senti-
ment back of the authorities in its
enforcement The new Danville spirit
is revealed in the following paragraph
from the Commerical-News:
Its time to clean up; and Danville
citizens who have succeeded in vot-
ing Danyille dry against terrific odds
are putting their shoulders to the
wheel in the equally Herculean task
OF keeping it dry. The time has come,
literally, to hew to the line, let the
chips fall where they may"
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-04-27
Camp Followers Of Rum Are Already Modified

Addressing Sunday Evening Club audience which filled Orches.
Sunday, Sherwood Eddy, director
Y A. and the prison Europe
followers of Rum already moboized
will called the trenches What
going drink day Others did
suffering terribly result Let make the
mistake"
great appauded this appeal of Mr. Eddy the
echo breath interesting talk
Chicago Mr. Eddy pointed how the horrors
made tenfold by drunkenness and immortality.
quoted English Colonel exclaimng in despair: oh
losing When answered that the shrapne and
guns getting hundreds the Colonel repied
lost through immoral forces
that attack through all shell the
enemy"
Mr. Eddy pointed recruiting Kansas City
he had found these forces
appealed the fathers and mothers whose boys will
help end these followers
of already debauhng the soldiers of the republic
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-04-27
HIGHEST COURT RULES DRAM
SHOPS MUST CLOSE SUNDAY
Cannot Even Sell Notwithstanding Drinks on That Day
BARASA 0VER-RULED

Court of Cook county bill for an
injunction to restrain the Mayor and
Chief OF Police from interfering will,
the opening of his saloons on Sunday.
Boerncr contended, first, that the
Sunday closing law did not apply to
licensed dramshops, and secondly,
that even if it did so, he could never
theless keep open on Sunday for the
purpose of selling Notwithstanding
drinks.
Judge Theodore Brentano of the
Superior Court decided against Boer-
ncr, who took an appeal to the Su-
preme Court.
Knockout Blow to the Sunday Saloon
In sustaining the action OF Judge
Brentano, the Supreme Court has inn
mensely strengthened the hands of
the Mayors, States Attorneys and
other city and county officials who
are seeking to enforce the Sunday
closing law.
This law, which the vets have tried
to make the people of Chicago,
Peoria, Rock Island and other wet
cities believe is dead letter, has thus
been declared by the court of last re-
sort as a sound law with binding
force in every part of the state. The
saloonkeeper who keeps his place
open on Sunday is therefore law
breaker whom the police should hunt
out and the courts punish just as they
hunt out and punish murderers,
thieves, or any other class OF law
breakers.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-04-27
ANOTHER LAW EN-
FORCEMENT MAYOR

In his first address to the city coun-
Gil recently, the newly elected Mayor
of Galesburg said:
A majority of the citizens of
Galesburg declared by their BAL
lots that this be dry territory, and :
the presumption is until the con-
trary appears, that they decided
rightly they demand, and expect
enforcement of the laws relating
to the illicit sale of liquor, and the
administrator cannot shirk the
responsibility in this direction; it
courts the honest assistance OF all
good and loyal citizens in making
possible the accomplishment of
rigid law enforcement.
This is the new civic note that is
being struck everywhere in the mu-
of Illinois. The good old
days of the wide-open town are fast
passing away.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-04-27

The efforts of the Chicago liquor
interests, led by the United Societies,
to overthrow the Sunday closing law
was given a knockout blow by the Su-
preme Court of Illinois last week. The
Court held that saloons which keep
open on Sunday even for the sale OF
soft drinks, arc lawbreakers.
According TO the decision of the
court, all licensed saloons are tip
pling houses" and come within the
Prohibition of section 25o of Chapter
43 of the Revised Statutes OF Illinois
which reads as follows:
Whoever keeps open any tip
pling house, or place where liquor
is sold or given away. upon the
first day of the week, commonly
called Sunday, shall be fined not
less than $500.
United Societies Chief Overruled
1t will be recalled that in January
Judge Bernard Barasa, Vice Presi-
dent of the United Societies, elected
last November to fill an unexpircd
term on the municipal bench, ruled
in the cases of a number of saloon
keepers arraigned before him for vio-
lating the Sunday closing law, that
the state law does not require saloons
to close their doors on Sunday, but
merely prohibits the sale of intoxi-
eating liquors therein. Judge Barasa
dismissed the cases before him.
Later, Henry Boerner, Chicago
saloonkeeper, encouraged by Judge
Barasa's decision, filed in the Superior
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-04-27
SUPREME COURT UPHOLDS The SUNDAY LID
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PROHIBITION AND DE-
MOCRACY IN RUSSIA

Explaining the cost of the
revolution in Russia that over
night changed that country
from one of the most autocratic
to one of the most democratic
nations, the Chicago American
says, editorially:
Alcohol kept the Russian
peoples submissive-for alcohol
PREVENTS THOUGHT.
when the peasant felt that
he was miserable, unjustly
treated, hopeless, he drank. And
when he was drunk, he felt
nothing. The next day his en-
ergies were devoted to recoy-
.ring from the drink, and SO on.
"The alcohol that made the
peasant a poor thinker also
made him a poor fighter.
"The alcohol that paid the
cost of the army kept the peas
ant and the nation poor.
so, advised by those who
thought only little way ahead,
and who believed that they were
helping him, the Gar said: No
more alcohol
And the people, using their
brains when the alcohol was
gone, promptly said:
No more Gar
"AND TODAY THERE is
A REPUBLIC IN RUSSIA
A REPUBLIC THAT WILL
HAVE ITS TRIALS-ITS
FAILURES, BUT THAT
WILL LAST"
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-04-27
Says Wilson VIII
Issue Dry War Order

Rev. F. o. Fl. Smith, addressing the
Tri-City Evangelical Association of
Rock Island, said he had reliable in
formation that President Wilson in
tends to issue an order making the
United States dry during the period
of the war.
He said his information came from
a man who had recently talked with
the President on the subject, and
who asserted the President stated that
if Congress failed to act, he would
take the initiative himself.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-04-27
Chicago Council Again
Protects Saloon interests

Alderman Carl T. Murray's ordin-
ance providing that saloon licenses in
Chicago be refused for the next half
year to the 265 aliens now holding
them, was referred to the license COM
mittee. AS this committee is drip
ping wet. it is understood the ordin-
ance will be killed by it.
Murray moved a suspension OF the
rules in order TO get his ordinance
before the council, but the motion
was voted down to the tune OF 10 to
50. The Chicago council seems re-
solved to make campaign material for
the drys.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-04-27
Ethel Cowell, alias Ethel Pat

,lection:- j
Ethel Cowell, alias Ethel Pat
terson, and her sister, Beatrice
Patterson, were fined in police
court Friday morning on charges
OF being intoxicated They paid
and were then advised to leave
town at once. They agreed.
The women were quarreling.
falling down and staggering down
the street Thursday afternoon. In
the rear of an East Main street
store they created a scene, and
were later arrested as they started
to enter South street bar.
Evidently the regulator was not
on duty at the regulated sa-
looms" of Danville. since the wo-
men stated in court they had Wis
tied more than half a dozen bars.
It was such things as these that pu
Danville in the dry column.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-04-27

The railroad station at Bedford,
Va. was broken into the other night
and the thief stole six quarts of liq-
uor that had been shipped to six
thirsty Bedfordites. They must now
wait a month before they can order
another quart. Prohibition is tough
on the thirsty soul
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-04-27

Governor Willis says: "There
never was time in the history of the
country when the granaries of the
United States were as bare as today.
Why should the liquor interests be
permitted to pour millions of bushels
of this priceless grain into their watts
while starving children walk the
streets OF our American citiesl"
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-04-27

Total counties in U. S.. .2oo7
The question is naturally suggested
by these figures: "Why should 708
counties out of 2,o97 determine the
policy of our government upon the
liquor question:"
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-04-27
Arguments Change

Already 5000 of the needed 10000
volunteers to push the statewide dry
campaign in Cleveland, Ohio, have
been enrolled.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-04-27
Liquor Stocks
Take a Tumble
Financial Review Says Industry Faces
Ruin

Financial Review Says Industry Faces
Ruin
New York Times Financial Review
History is being made SO rapidly in
these days that fluctuations in the
prices of securities from day to day
are not of great importance. Reforms
that would have taken years or dec
AIDES in working out under normal
world conditions have come to head
and taken their place as part OF the
new worlds standards without Great
ing much furorc.
An instance in point is furnished by
the precarious situation today OF the
LIQUOR industry. Hitherto so firmly
established as to seem almost impreg-
nable against organized attack, 1t has
already been almost wiped out in Rus
sia, seriously repressed in France and
Great Britain and now appears to be
in danger of federal condemnation IN
the United States.
Arguments Change
Where arguments based on moral
or sentimental grounds have made but
little headway against the liquor trat-
fic in two-score years, the mere hint
of an approaching shortage of grain
in the United States has served to
bring at once TO the fore the question
of national legislation to prohibit the
operation of breweries and distilleries.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-04-27
DRY COUNTIES OF
THE UNITED STATES

While watching the triumphal
march of the states toward Prohibi-
tion, do not forget the rapidly increas-
ing number of counties that are join
ing the dry procession in both wet
and dry states. Last year added over
200 The tally is now as follows:
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-04-27
Sc OUT OF s.

A LAWYER AND A REAL ESTATE MAN RE-
GENTLY CANVASSED ONE FLOOR OF THE FIRST
NATIONAL BANK OFFICE BUILDING CHICAGO
FOR SIGNERS TO PETITION PRAYING FOR A DRY
UNITED STATES THEY SAW So MEN OF THESE
So MEN, 48 SIGNED WITHOUT HESITATION EIGHT
OTHERS SAID THEY FAVORED THE PROPOSITION
BUT FOR BUSINESS REASONS DID NOT DEEM IT
WISE TO SIGN. ONLY TWO OPPOSED.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-04-27
One Reason Why
Da1uille Voted Dry

The following item appeared in the
Danvile Commercial-News for April
l3, four days prior to the local option
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1917-01-24
Pomona Grangers at Irasburg.

Twenty members of Prospect
Pomona Grange braved the storm
Thursday to enjoy the hospitality of
Black River Valley Grange at Iras-
burg. Seven officers were present to
be installed, the others being installed
by proxy. F. E. Newton, deputy of
District No. Is, conducted the install
lation service, assisted by Glenn E.
Newton of Bloomington Grange. w.
G. Dutton, w. M; F. w. Hastings,
O.; B. J. Jenness, S.; Mrs. c. p.
Towne, L.; A. w. Wiley, Chap; Will
May, Treas; w. H. Kidder, G. K; Mr..
and Mrs. Armour Smith, Asst and
Lady Asst. Stewards; Mrs. Mary
Metcalf, Ceres; Mrs. w. G. ~Dutton,
Pomona; Mrs. George Kline, Flora.
Before the close of the session, the
retiring lecturer, Mrs. B. J. Jenness,
presented to Pomona, a ten-dollar
gold piece, the first prize for atten-
dance for the year. This was one of
several prizes offered by the lecturer
of the state Grange. Of course we
were pleased. A bountiful dinner
was enjoyed by all the visitors. The
next meeting is to be held with Crys-
tai Lake Grange March 1st.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1917-01-24
PRESIDENT WILSON
APPEALS TO YOU

Another winter closes around the
great European struggle, and, with
the cold, there comes greater need
among soldiers in the fighting line
and in the hospitals, and still more
among the women and children in ru-
ined homes or in exile.
This country, at peace, blessed with
prosperity, can hardly imagine the
needs, but it can help to meet them.
Of great Importance among the
agencies which have expressed OUT
sympathy with suffering humanity
among the belligerent nations has,
been the American Red Cross. This
organization of our countrymen has
brought relief to every nation in the.
great war.
Its skilled workers have cared for
the wounded of every army, have gone
forth through the desolate Siberian
plains to bring help to thousands of
prisoners, have fought disease in pes
tilence-ridden Siberia, and have
brought hope to countless noncombat-
ants, women and children.
Wherever these Red Cross men and
women go, they are carrying the
message that Americans cannot rest
without seeking to relieve such suf-
fering.
Organized, persistent work, like
that conducted by our American Red,
Cross, requires a great deal of money
Since the. beginning of the war, NOR
men in all walks of life. We have RI
ceived checks in five figures and penn
MES wrapped in smudged envelopes.
But now our funds are well-nigh
exhausted. We find ourselves at the
point where activities must be seri-
Ously curtailed and we must turn
away from the heart-breaking ap-
peals brought by every European
mail unless by your contribution you
help us to continue.
It is for you to decide whether the
most prosperous nation in the world
/ will allow it's national relief organiza-
tion to keep up it's work or withdraw
from a field where there exists the
greatest need ever recorded in his
tory.
We leave the situation in your
hands, confident of the outcome.
Woodrow Wilson,
President, American Red Cross.
Subscribe for suffering humanity.
Should designate your gift for the
Allied Powers or the Central Powers,
for any one nation or purpose, it will
go in full as you direct.
Subscriptions undesignated will go
| in full where the American Red Cross
| in it's judgment can accomplish the
greatest good.
Checks and money orders should be
payable to the American Red Cross"
and mailed to the local chapter of the
! Red Cross Or to the American Red
Cross, Washington, D. C.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1917-01-24

in Skowhegan, Me-, where she will
make her home.
Mondays blizzard and the cold
snap following has made the coal
shortage in town look serious to
many householder.
Armour Uric is having his home on
Church street, which he recently pur-
chased, wired and has commenced re-
pairs upon the interior of the build
ing.
C. S. Clogston, who has been seri-
ously ill the past week, is on the gain.
His daughter, Mrs. Josie Freegard, of
Glover, is here helping care for her
father
Miss Ruth Freeman, who is teach
ing in Glover, is i'll at Mr.. Coomer's
where she boards, and her mother.
Mrs Mary Freeman, has gone there
to care for her.
Henry Colburne, a nephew of Miss
Colburne, who went to the front last
spring, and who had been missing
since Nov. 18, has been heard from
and is in German prison.
St. John Baptist Mission service
will be held in the parlor of the Crys-
tai Lake House Sunday evening at
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1917-01-24

A party of eleven went to Newport
Wednesday evening to see the picture
play, Civilization"
Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence Thayer of
Rock Island were the guests last
week of their brother, Harry Thayer.
The Christian Endeavor society will
meet on Tuesday evening and it is ex-
pected that several from the New
port society will be present. A short
literary program is planned.
Mr.. Drew of West Derby was in
town the first of the week soliciting
subscribers for electric lights. If a
sufficient number can be obtained the
lights will be put through here in the
early spring.
Sunday A. M Wright brought his
phonograph and in place of the regu-
lar singing in Sunday school he
played four of the songs which are
being sung at the Billy Sunday meet
ings in Boston. These were very fine
records, especially a duet by Mr.
Rodeheaver and Mrs. Asher. All en-
joyed Mr.. Wright's kindness very
much.
Friday evening at 73O in the Cow
entry town hall, DR.. G. H. Patton's
CTaVelOgue, FOur Thousand Miles
through Africa" will be illustrated
by. 70 colored stereopticon slides. This
lecture should prove instructive to
both old and young. Come and show
your interest in the pupils of the
grammar school under whose aus
pices it is given. Tickets may be Sc
cured from the pupils.
Sunday the Congregational and M.
r. churches will hold union services i'm
the Congregational church at 1O.45 a.
M, and 7.15 p. m. At both services
they will be adressed by Albert Laing
field secretary of the Anti-Saloon
league. At the morning service Mr..
Laing will present a report of the
progress of temperance reform. In
the evening he will give his illustrat-
Continued on Page Eighty
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1917-01-24
BROWNINGTON

Mrs. Truman Blake is quite sick.
Ethel and Ruth Newton were in st.
Johnsbury Saturday.
Harley Blake, who has been very
sick, is much better.
Mrs. Young is spending a few days
with her daughters in Burlington.
Mildred Mack has been out of school
on account of illness for some time.
The Ladies Aid society will serve
dinner at the hall Thursday, j an. 25.
Schools are much broken up with the
prevailing illness among the chill
dren.
Mrs. Moore, who has been caring for
Mrs. Reid and little daughter, has re-
turned to her home.
Seventeen members Of Brownington
grange attended Pomona grange at
Irasburg last Thursday.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1917-01-24
Noted Holstein Breeder Coming to
TrOy.

J. w. Prentiss of Alstead, N. H.,
one of the largest and best-known
breeders of Holsteins in New En-
gland, is coming to Troy to give a
talk on Holstein cattle. The meet
ing will be held in Brooks hall Thurs
day, Jan. 25th, at 8 o'clock p. m. This
opportunity to hear man Of Mr..
Premises ability and experience
should be a treat for the Holstein
fanciers of Orleans county and good
attendance is assured. Everyone in
terested in Holsteins or in the i'm
provement of dairy cattle is invited
to attend.
The county agent will hold meet
ings as given by the schedule below.
The subject for discussion is the i'm
proving of the maple products mar
ket. This should interest Orleans
county farmers.
Date Community E Place Hour
Jan. 80 Greensboro Grange Hall 2
Jan. 80 N Craftsbury Academy 8
Jan. 81 S. Albany church vestry 2
Jan. 81 w. Glover school hall 8
Feb. 1 Coventry town hall
In each case the hour indicated is
%. m,
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1917-01-24
Barton Academy and
Graded School
B. A. NOTES

Very many pupils are absent on ac-
count of illness.
Prin. F. J. Bates was out of school
several days last week on account of
his hold on the grip, or vice versa.
Mrs. Jennings was absent from her
teaching duties in the fourth and fifth
grade room one day on account of i'll
ness.
The Richford basket ball team
rather more than scored on our team
Thursday evening. In fact they
swamped our team by score of 26-6.
The B. A. basket ball team hopes to
do with the Orleans team tonight
what Richford did to US Thursday
night See the game in Seaver's hall.