Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1917-11-29


THE brewers, in a desperate effort to
save their own hides, seem TO have cut
loose from their old friends and allies, the
wHiskey distillers. In big advertise
me1t in the city papers on Tuesday, pub
lished by the United Sta ties Brewers As
sociation, they express their JOY over the
fact that they are no longer in partnership
with the manufacturers of distilled liquors,
and say that they will now be very good
that they really have wanted to be good
all along, but were dominated by the in
iquitous liquor people. We gather that
what they are really in business for is
The good of humanity, for they refer to
their beer as the "handmaiden OF true
temperance"
This ingenious move OF the brewers
will not save them and their beer saloons.
They have got TO 60. The breweries are
still using vast quantities OF grain that is
needed for bread. Their saloons are
still headquarters OF iniquity and the CEN
tiers TO which flock criminals OF all de-
grees-indeed, il has been demonstrated
that very large proportion OF the plots
against our country and its business have
been formulated in the saloons. Here
the dynamlters and incendiaries congre-
gate and here our enemy aliens secretly
connive together, as witness the TACT that
our government has found il necessary to
peremptorily close all the saloons along
the docks and water fronts of the large
cities.
The brewers insist that the drink they
brew is not only harmless, but is good
for the people, and will be boon to
humanity by weaving IFS users away
from hard liquors. This specious reason
ing will not do.
Look what few generations OF unre-
strained beer drinking has done for the
Germansl Observe how they have be-
come a constituencies, brutal, cruel ma
ton, whose atrocities and outrages and
disregard of all moral or national law
have made them byword and Kissing
10 all the world. Does any sensible per-
son desire the people OF the United States
10 become like the beer-swilling Ger
mans?
The brewers are no better than the
distillers. Put them all out OF business
The railroads have fallen down in the
yreat emergency brought about by present
Conditions and the managers admit it by
Freeing TO the proposition that the i'm
uortant eastern lines be placed under
government management Railroads Of
ficials have become confused by the
tremendous amount OF business that the
roads have been called upon to handle,
and no genius seems to have arisen TO
provide methods TO relieve the congestion
OF freight that is blocking main and side
tracks and important terminals. AT a
conference in Washington last Saturday
ofrailway managers, government officials
and experts along various lines, 1t was
agreed that the Railroad War Board
should operate all lines east Of Chicago
as one centralized system in order 10
obtain the maximum Of efficiency, and
rolling stock, tracks and terminal facilities
will be pooled without regard to present
ownership or existing individual or
corporate interests. The roads will be
operated by committee of five chosen
from The important roads, which will be
under the general direction Of the Rail-
road War Boards. Red tape is 10 be cut,
short routes used for shipment. and cars
drawn from inactive lines TO those that
need them most. 1t was announced on
Monday that Arthur w. Thompson, vice
president OF the Baltimore & Ohio
system, will be at the head OF the COM
mittee, the other members being Carl r.
Gray, president OF the Western Mary
land system, A. T. Dice. of the Phila-
delphia and Reading, p. E. Crowley, Of
the New York Central lines, Elisha Lee.
OF the Pennsylvania Railroad, and A. J..
Stone, of the Erie This committee will
have charge OF $4,000 miles of railroad in
the territory between Chicago and the
Atlantic coast, and will have practically
absolute control OF all these great lines.
The experiment will be watched with
good deal OF interest. II there is any
real ability among The railroad men to
whom this great work has been COM
mitted, there will be opportunity for its
deuelnnmenf for the government will