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The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-07-06
Peoria Industries Will Not Be
Made Idle, by Food
Saving Law
WAR DEMANDS GREAT
Oistilleries in Worlds Whisky Center
Use Much Grain
BUT DO NOT FIX PRICE

internal Revenue Collector T.. u.
McCabe of the Fifth Illinois District
in which Peoria is situated is OF the
opinion that even if the most drastic
bone-dry legislation passes, the out
put of Peoria distileries will still re-
main above normal
During the year he estimates 54,-
100000 gallons of spirits have been
manufactured by Peoria distillcries
OF this amount 100000 gallons
are in the class of liquor manu-
factured for beverage purposes. The
remainder was for war purposes and
use in the arts and sciences.
Whisky and Corn Prices
Corn prices, it now appears, are not
fixed by the demands of Peoria distil-
leries. Mr.. T. A. Grier, veteran
grain dealer, commenting upon the
effect of war Prohibition upon the
local corn markets, said:
"In this connection I want to cor
rect an impression that seems preva-
lent in the minds Of many. That is
!, this, The price ofrccrr is not set by
the consumption of the distilleries.
They are not the biggest users in
the local market. The Corn Pro-
ducts Company and the independent
starch houses use more corn from
central Illinois than all the distiller-
les, and these are the people who set
the prices
Much Grain Used for Booze
From the same authority, we learn
in Peoria $4,000 bushels of corn are
sold every day in the week to the
local distilleries, and the two houses
in Pekin. This represents an outlay
of over $4,000 daily at present
prices. The total amount of corn
used during the past year is esti-
mated as follows:
Corn TO- ,350,000 bushels
Rye and barley. =. 650,O00 bushels
The following interesting statistics
covering Peoria's distilling interests
have been published:
Five distilleries in operation.
Daily grind $4,000 bushels of grain,
making 100000 gallons.
Number of employees, 1850.
Average weekly wage, $4,000.
Employees in cooper shops and in
manufacture of distillery supplies,
) 1,5OO.
Average weekly wage, approximate
ly $4,000.
Capital invested, estimated, $4,000
Spirits held in bond, 100000 bar
rels.
Revenue employees, 145.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-07-06
Illinois League Endorses Action


AT a meeting of the Headquarters
Committee of the Illinois Anti-Saloon
League the following resolutions
were passed commencing the action
taken by the National Legislative
Committee:
Chicago, Illinois,
July 2, 1917.
Hon. Edwin c. Dinwiddie, Ma
tional Legislative Superintendent,
and Members of the National
Legislative Committee, Washing
ton, D. c
Dear Sirs:--The Headquarters
Committee OF the nti-Saloon
League 0: Illinois i'll session to-
day at the Hamilton Club lis
tened TO most interesting
informal report by Supcrintend-
ent F. Scot, Mcbride concerning
his recent visit at Washington,
D. {. He read part OF the cor
respondence as published in the
papers between the President of
the Urited States and your COM
mittee.
1t was moved and most cor
daily approved that letter OF
appreciation be sent to the Ma
tionai superintendent, the Legis-
lative Superintendent and the
Legislative Committee expressing
the admiration and appreciation
of our Headquarters Committee
of the fine ability shown by you
in meeting the unprecedented
situation so suddenly created.
We thankfully believe that you
as representatives of the National
Anti-Saloon League showed high
est craftsmanship in your cor
respondence with the President
of this nation We also appreci-
ate the high skill with which you
handled this delicate matter, and
most heartily coincide in the de-
cisions you reached. You spoke
in splendid patriotism for our
whole constituency, placing
the National League in a most
favorable position and at the
same time keeping your hands
clean and the way clear to press
on our fight for total Prohibition
of the beverage liquor traffic in
this nation without any compro-
mise whatever with the liquor
forces and any surrender of the
principles at stake.
On behalf of the Headquarters
Committee of the Anti-Saloon
League of Illinois. we are.
Most cordially yours
Thomas J. Bolger. Chairman.
NJ. Z. Boynton, Secretary.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-07-06
Smallpox Shuts
Churches but
Saloons Stay Ope,,

A smallpox scare originating
among negroes recently arrived from
the South. led to the closing of the
churches in Chicago Heights on Sun
day, June 10, but all the saloons were
permitted to run full blast as usual.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-07-06

AT a meeting of the Headquarters
Committee OF the Illinois Anti-Saloon
League the following resolutions
were passed commencing the action
taken by the National Legislative
Committee:
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-07-06

The correspondent below will give
the situation clearly to our friends
and the attitude of the state and ma
tonal League to this program. The
fight is still on for national Prohibi-
ton as war measure and national
as a part OF the constitu-
ton of the United States.
The Presidents Letter
The following is the Presidents let
ter to the Rev. James Cannon, Jr.,
chairman of the Legislative Commit
tee of the Anti-Saloon League:
The White House, Washington,
June 2o.-My Dear DR.. Cannon
| am very glad to respond to the
request of Senator Martin, the
Democratic floor leader in the
Senate, that give to your Legis-
lative Committee an expression OF
my opinion with regard to the
w.sest ant nIost patriotic policy
to be pursued towards the food
administration legislation now
pending in the Congress. | re-
gard the immediate passage of
the bill as of vital consequence to
the safety and defense of the ma
ton.
Time is of the essence; and yet
it has become evident that heated
and protracted debate will delay
the passage of the bill indefinitely
if the provisions affecting the
manufacture of beer and wines
are retained and insisted upon.
In these circumstances | have not
hesitated to say to members of
the Senate who have been kind
enough to consult me that it
would undoubtedly be in the pub
lie interest in this critical matter
if the friends of those provisions
should consent to their elinina-
ton from the present measure.
Feeling that your committee is
actuated by the same patriotic
motives which inspire ME, am
confident that these considera-
tions will seem 20 you, as they
seem to me, to be imperative.
Woodrow Wilson.
The Committees Reply
The following is the reply made to
the Presidents appeal:
June 30, 1917
The President, The White
House, Washington: -.
We have earnestly considered
the statement in your letter of
yesterday to the Legislative Com
inittee of the Anti-Saloon League
of America, that in the face of the
present food crisis you are greatly
concerned lest the early passage
of the food administration legis-
lation now pending in Congress
be jeopardized by a heated and
protracted debate upon certain
sections of the bill relating to the
manufacture of foodstuffs into
Intoxicating liquors.
We are aware of the threat
made by the friends of beer and
wine in the Senate of an indefinite
and protracted flibuster against
those provisions of the bill. We
beg to assure you that as patriotic
Americans, determined to uphold
you as Commanded-in-C Chief of
the army and navy in the present
war, we will not for our constitu-
ency offer any obstruction to the
prompt passage of the food con-
troll bill.
OF course. we cannot presume
TO indicate to members of Con-
gress what action they should
take in view of tits request from
the President of the United
States. They will doubtless act
In accordance with their convic-
tions of duty.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-07-06

We are glad to note that your
request applies only TO the pend
ing food administration legisla-
ton. 1t will be our purpose to
urge the passage Of legislation
prohibiting the waste OF food
stuffs in the manufacture Of beer
and wines at the earliest possible
date, either in the form OF sepa-
rate bill or in connection with
other war legislation.
We assure you of our purpose
as patriotic American citizens to
cooperate in every possible way
in the winning of The great war
in which our nation is engaged.
Sincerely and respectfully yours,
James Cannon, Jr.
Arthur ]. Barton.
Wayne B. Wheeler
g Legislative Committee
F. A. Baker,
General Superintendent.
Edwin c. Dinwiddie, ., y.
Legislative Superintendent.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-07-06
PRESIDENTS APPEAL DELAYS
COMPLETE VICTORY FOR DRYS
Patriotism of Dry Leaders Prevents Threatened Fiibuster
By Vets on Food Saving Bill
PROHIBITION AMENDMENT To THE foop CONTROL Z


bill with prohibiting the foods
being
a
recognizing the o
they willing fbuster
below AnSaloon
This OF o
that the liquor the Earlier
Prohibition of
they would refuse support any emergency
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-07-06

Russia Is dry; France is nearly dry;
England would be dry if SO much dis
tillery and brewery stock wasn't
owned by the members OF Parlia-
ment; the u. S. will soon be dry. The
drys are winning.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1917-03-01
Worlds HIGHEST Auto Road.

The worlds highest automobile road
and one of the most remarkable pieces
Of road building on record has just
been completed In Colorado. The new
highway runs to the very top of Pixies
peak. whose crest is more than 14.OOO
feet high.
The man who discovered Pixies peak
said that 1t would never be climbed.
Today the topmost point Is accessible
for seven passenger touring cars, The
new road Is eighteen miles long. and
in that distance it rises 5000 feet. The
engineering is SO skillfully done that
the average grade Is only 6 per cent
rise of six feet in every 1O0-and the
maximum grade does not exceed 10
per cent. The road is never less than
twenty feet wide. and around some OF
the sharper curves Is as much as fifty
feet. Guard rails at the more danger
Gus edges reassure the nervous driver.
There is a system of auto supply sta
lions and water stations along the
whole road. which Is also followed by
Il telephone line.
To blast out the new highway. run
ming for much of its length through
almost solid rock. fifteen carloads of
dynamite were necessary. So carefully
was the work carried on that not a
single laborer was injured in the blast
inc
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1917-03-01
Peculiarly of French Flag.

It Is not generally known that the
three strips Of color that make up the
French national flag are not equal in
width When the tricolor was first
authorized, 1902, the positions and
proportions of the three colors were
not stated, and such a variety Of flags
was seen that two years later the ma.
tional assembly declared that the na-
tional standard should be formed Of
1.-The three national colors In equal
bands placed vertically, the hoist be-
Ing blue. the middle white and the fly
red"
For years the flag was made In this
way; but, though the bands were
equal. they never looked equal owing
to an optical illusion. the blue appear.
ing wider than the white and the white
wider than the red.
At last, after many experiments, II
was officially decided that in every
hundred parts the blue should lie thir.
ty, white thirty three and red thirty
seven.-Pittsburgh Press.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1917-03-01
Free Flower Seed
Hastings Catalogue
Tells You About Il

No matter whether you farm on
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or flowers in q small way, you need
Hastings 1917 Seed Catalog. It's
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Good seeds Of almost every kind
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You are going to garden or farm
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Write today for Hastings 1917
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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1917-03-01
Essay on the Duck.

A prize essay on 'The Duck" was
written by Michigan schoolgirl and
printed in the Detroit Journal:
The duck is low heavy bird. He
Is mighty poor singer. having
coarse voice caused by getting so many
frogs in his neck and he likes the wa
ter and carries toy balloon In his
stomach to keep from sinking. the duck
has only two legs and they are set SO
far back on his running gears by na-
ture that they come pretty near miss
ing his body some ducks when they get
big curls on their tails are called
brakes and don't have to set or hatch
but just loaf and 20 swimming and eat
everything in sight If l were to be a
duck would rather he a drake they
have wide bill like they use 1t for a
spade they walk like drunk man
they bounce and bump about from side
to side If you scare them they will 1ap
their wings and try to make pass a
singing"
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1917-03-01
Ten Years Ago.

From the Banner of Feb %, l9o7-Benton.l
Two paragraphs from the Plain
Dealing report read: 'Mr. ]. H.
Many of Atlanta, Ca, is here on a
visit with his cousin, Hon. J. T.
Many" "Mr. C. L. Gaines of
Shreveport brought crowd of oil
Trospcctors into this community Mon
day." [So It is to be seen they were
at it even ten years ago.]
"The gin at this place was shut
down last Saturday. The seasons run
amounted to 20A5 bales ginned.
During the 1866 season only 755
bales were ginned, and about 400
during the season of 1904-5." 1.-THE
ginning SEASONS now close earlier.
Everybody tries to farm early and
thus get ahead Of the boil weevil.
| The number of bales ginned at the
Benton gin last season was TAO. But
there are now more gins.
| "Mr. T. +. Neeny Of Pine Bluff.
| Ark, Travelling Passenger Agent for
the Cotton Belt, will meet with the
members cf Loudon Butler Camp, U.
c. v, at the meeting to be held at
this place on Saturday, March 9th.
He would be pleased to learn at that
time how many of the veterans and
others from our community expect to
attend the Richmond reunion" TEN
years ago there were many. more vet
Grams to attend the Confederate re.
unions than at this time. Their ranks
arc fast being thinned, and ere long
there will be no call to hold reunions
for these gallant cid Sons of the
Southland. A few years more ano
they all will have answered that
last roll call" So let US, in apprecia
ton Of their herioc and patriotic
struggle fer the supremacy of the
South, do what we can for them to
day.]
The Haughton correspondent said
in part: "Mr. Loye McDade ha!
moved into his new residence" "Mr
]. N. Plat has just completed a resi-
dence at Koran for Mr.. Ev R. Con
nell" "Mr. and Mrs. Tom Hickman
are the proud parents of prett!
) little baby girl" "Mr. E. E. Wake
is listing the assessable property il
this ward for Assessor Mading.
"Miss Ethel Elston, of Mansfield Col
: lcge, is at home to spend two or tire
days with the home folks" "Mr. G
; W. Stephens has moved from hi
place in Bossier Point back to hi
I. home, just east Of town." "Mr. G
H. Hanette of Texas and Miss Haiti
! Hitler were quietly married Sunda
at the home Of the BRIDE" ''Mr. LIE
Jordan bought a car load of hog
: from the farmers of this vicinity las
e week and shipped them to his home i
Missouri. Mr.. Jordan says this is a
: fine a hog country as he has eve
SEEN" I'VE have always though
v hog raising should be more encoul
q aged here in Bossier Parish.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1917-03-01
RETROSPECTIVE
Fifty Years Ago.

From the Banner of March 2, 1s67-Bellevue.l
can exchange says: We would
like to see a million or negroes flock
into Massachusetts, During the
past fifty years many negroes have
gone from the South to the North,
but, like the proverbial cat, they came
back home again. Even at this late
day the negro has not learned that
the South is about his only place in
the Union, nor has he learned to turn
a deaf ear to the willy and designing
labor agent from the North. Notably
during the past year many of them
were beguilcd to Northern States and
not few of these suffered keenly
from the experience. Some were
shipped home "feet first."]
"Thc Mercury, new paper pub
lished in South Boston, says: The
President and Congress are at log
gerheads. They had better COM
premise, ard let the South into the
Union; and all go to work and pay
our debts, and get back, if possible
upon constitutional principles. King
Cotton is dethroned, but King Bread
and Butter must be saved, and that
can only be done by labor. Industry
must thrive" During those day:
the South had no voice in the man
agement Of our national legislation
but stood ready to go to any reason
able length in order to bring abou
a genuine feeling of fraternity be
tween the sections. The reader ha
only to Summon to mind pen picture
of such notorious characters as THAI
Stevens and the brutal Brownlow t.
recall the pitable condition of affair
for the South during that period
The older readers of the Banne
keenly appreciate what "'reconstruc
ton" means.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1917-03-01
CONVlcTS AS ROAD BUILDERS.
Warden thinner Reports Work Of Iili-
nois Men Excellent.

Warden thinner Reports Work Of Iili-.
nois Men Excellent.
Fifty prisoners are working in and
around the new epileptic colony in I'LL
nois this spring in grading and road
building.
Warden thinner Of the state peniten-
tiary in a recent letter to the national
committee OH prisons reports great sue
cess in convict road work in Illinois.
The laws OF that state require that
townships desiring to secure the serv-
ices of convicts for road work must
make application and enter into con-
tract With the institution. No work
can be done until such request has
been made md contract entered into.
The success of the work. Warden
thinner states, depends upon the selec-
ton of the men for the work. Five
camps have already been worked In
Illinois and all carried out without
friction or trouble Of any sort. The
warden also emphasizes the Importance
Of selecting officers for the camp who
are capable of supervising such camp
and having charge of the prisoners In
the camp.
The national committee on prisons
agrees with Warden thinner that too
much stress cannot be laid upon the
selection of the men and the choice of
officers. The committee has brought
before the Society For Highway Engi.
neering the opportunity for the road
engineer in convict road work and the
need that engineers be specially trained
for this work. Upon the men in charge
of convict camps there is heavy respon.
sibiiity, but to the right man success Is
assured.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1917-03-01
THE HORSE WILL DISAPPEAR.
This 10 Prediction by Kansas State
Highway Engineer.

This 10 Prediction by Kansas State
Highway Engineer.
That within ten years the horse will
practically disappear from the public
highways Of Kansas for both pleasure
aud business Is the prediction by w. 8.
Gearhart. state highway engineer. The
horse, he holds. cannot compete with
either the auto or the motor truck any
more than the old freighter with his
OK team could with the iron horse
driven by steam, and it really looks as
though old Dobbin will soon have to
stay home OIL the farm with the COVE.
These new methods of Transports
ton require new and adequate systems
Of highway construction and mainte-
nance" says Mr.. Gearhart. "The sys-
tenn Of earth roads which the counties
and townships OF Kansas built up and
were maintaining during the last six
years was probably the best and or
the largest scale the world had ever
seen. but the rains, snow and frost dur
ing the past year have given them tbs
appearance now of European battle
fields.
Until recently many Kansans had
begun to believe properly graded and
constantly dragged earth roads would
answer every purpose. However. 1t Is
now clearly evident that if the main
roads. those highways radiating out
from the market centers and connect
ing the cities, constituting about 10 to
Is per cent Of the total road mileage.
are to be maintained in the eastern
third of the state as 3G5 day highways
Which will carry modern traffic at all
seasons it will be necessary to surface
them with more permanent material
than puddled earth secured by drag
ging the roads while they are wet
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1917-03-01
Two Periods for Planting Corn.

There are two more or less dis
tinct planting periods for the stand
ard strains Of corn in Louisiana. The
first, or early, period would approx
mate the 10th of March and the sec
ond the 25th of April in Central
Louisiana, being somewhat earlier in
the extreme south and five to ten
days later in the extreme northern
portion Of the state. Corn planted
from the goth of March to the 18th
of April is very apt to be destroyed
by the corn root worm. The second
planting period referred to above
comes after the first generation of
root worms has passed into the
chrysalis or resting stage. Very early
corn is generally believed to be safer
than late planted corn. exclusive of
the danger of frost.-L. S. U. Press
Bulletin.
If you have something on your farm
you would like to convert into money
advertise it in the Banner.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1917-03-01
now covered by about Is inches Q

now covered by about Is inches of
water. The well is on what is known
as flat lands which tract of 40 acres
Eley purchased for $40" An i'm
mense drilling auger was secured by
bue:ness men Of Bellevue, with a
view of boring into this bed of
"ccal." The auger was broken off
in the ground, at depth of perhaps
80, 40 or so feet, and efforts to dig
it out proved fruitless. And thus
was the whole project abandoned.]
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1917-03-01
Thirty Years AfO.

From the Banner Of March 3, lSS7-Belleyue.l
Married, at the residence of Col.
John w. Rabb, in this parish, on Feb
ruary %, 1887, by Justice P. R. Gil
mcr, Mr.. Sidney J. Caldwell to Miss
Jessie Rabbi"
Married, on the 23d ultimo, at the
residence of the brides mother, by
Rev. A. R. Banks, Mr.. William R..
Sibley of Coleville and Miss Maggie
Sue Meares, all of Bossier Parish"
"Bossier Parish is most favored
spot for man CT limited money, or
one tired of the long, stormy winters
of the North" -FOUR climate has not
changed, and that's all just as true
to-day as it was thirty years ago.]
'Miss Anna L. Rurks died at the
hcme of her father, C. M. Burks,
February 16, 1887. She was born
March IA, 1856, and joined the M. E.
Church, South, during March, 1877.
She was a devoted Christian, and died
in peace"
"More railroad talk has been in.
dulgcd in by our people during the
past month than we have heard in a
long time" [Bossier only had one
railroad at that time. Four lines now
operate through the parish, and the
total length of these roads in the
parish is about 10 miles.]
Under the heading Probably q
Coal Bed the Banner said: 'Last
week Sam Eley began digging wei
on his place. in the outskirts of Belle
vue, on the Minden road. Truth i:
said to be found at the bottom OF
every well, but he was more particu
larly digging for water, when, at the
depth of Is feet, he struck hare
substance which impeded further
progress. 1t proved to be dark sub
stance having every indication OF
coal. A pickaxe was brought into
rcquisition and the bed was exca
waited to the depth of two feet, hard
solid chunks of coal wood being
scooped out. The specimens had the
appearance of brown Ignite coal, con
tanning more or less bitumen, ant
when thrown on fire blazed uE
brightly, emitting the fumes Of char.
coal. The bed Of supposed coal i: