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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-29

ing don't mix AS Mr. Dooley said ::
The world turned against it's lifelong
roommate, Jawn Barleycorn, when it sus
pected that he had no good fight in him
he lived FIR years on his reputation as a
Warryor. No army was supposed to be
amy good without him. He was vel
come in the sojcr's tent an tn gin RAILS
headquarters People said about him.
Hes scamp and a false friend, but
he's divvil in a scrap. An now they
know he amt amy good at that ayther.
His bluff has been called"
In 1917 Uncle Sam made terrific
onslaught on Demon Rum. In February
the District of Columbia became dry, in
July the army order was published Great
ing dry zones about war camps, in Sep
TENDER the distilleries closed under the
food bill and in December the national
prohibition amendment was passed bv
Congress and submitted to the state
for ratification
The last load of grain went TO the
breWeries on September 80, 1918, and
war prohibition--which has been called
the trial marriage of national prohib
tlon-was formally adopted on Novem
Der u, and will go into effect july /.
1919 and remain in effect during the
period of rehabilitation, TO be deter
mined by the President.
This is brief summary of the Allied
campaign against the liquor traffic and
brings us to the final scene-the death
struggle of old King Alcohol, which, as
far as New York is concerned, will be
staged at Albany during the early part
of 1919.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-29

nobody else wants, who cannot get H.,
ter jobs. The cottage mothers ana
fathers are paid even less. What rnan
or woman Of training, education ava
ability, unless possessed of ndeperde,,
means, will work for even $50 a month
from early morning to late at nigbrY
The bad boy is materialist. Whit
he lacks is an ideal. His starved bt,,.
soul is wrapped in the ching" Wbst
he needs for balance is the idea n.
thought, the hope, the ambition ~.
aroused imagination. When he goes n
the average reformatory this mater.,
ism, by process Of starvation, is linton
sifed. He is, by virtue of his imnrisor
ment and his poverty in things that bovs
love, made to dream more than ever NJ
things" and how to get them.
The greatest lesson, to my mind
against theft is possession. The troubls
with the thief is that he rarely possesses
anything and always wants. Why LET
boy be dreaming of how to get hold Of
the things that he wants? Whv MT
give him chance to earn them? Tho
harder he works the more he can oct
Can you see the result of such a method,
/ have tried it. At school which ran
a short while ago, i'll which l Instituted
this method, bad boys came to ME and
complained that they didn't have enough
to do. | vas paying them 10 cents an
hour for every hour of work they did
They were obliged to pay out of their
earnings So week for their board. and
were allowed TO buy what clothes thu
wanted
This is not mere theory. 1t has been
tried. The facts are available for sny
one who cares TO see them Why should
We allow the old evil system to continue
to breed criminals and poison our COM
nunities with them?
Can we hope that the women, now
that they have the power, will Interfere
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-29
Citizen and the Reformatory Problem

beetle child all get the same exercise,
the same food and the same medicine
Yet that is exactly what's being done.
And the reason is this: The reforma-
tory does not make the slightest attempt
at reformation. That is not its object.
Therefore it has no programme for
reformation. The reformatory exists be-
cause its people think you can make
man better by furnishing him. The re-
formatory is house of detention, where
boys are kept certain length of time
for punishment and then sent away.
The only way to teach boy how to
live in civilized community where laws
are made for social benefit is to see that
he lives in such a community. And the
reformatory should be such COM
munity. The boys should be their own
officers and make their own laws When
they do they will not only obey them
while at the reformatory, but they will
go out of it with new understanding of
the immense value and Importance of
having laws and rules
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-29

There IS something cynical in the
booklet which the Association for I'm.
proving the Condition Of the Poor still
circulated last winter-perhap its data
were time-worn, but one read that the
maintenance Of a child of Two sboud
cost no more than four dollars a month
While the Health Department was adj
vlslng that each child Of that age should
have quart Of milk day. 1t does not
require much arithmetic TO figure that.
with milk at 10 cents d quart, the A. |.
I. =. s cheerful allowance would not even
cover the milk bill. Whence, then, would
come the cereal and orange juice the
Board Of Health recommended, to say
nothing Of clothing?
De Tocqueyille's Democracy" book
written more than hundred years ago
in fact, just after our Revolution
containing his observations on our the
Dry and practice of democracy, is excel
lent reading nowadays To De Tocque-
Vile the village town meeting was the
handspring of our political life-its very
germ.
1t would not be bad thing if in GU,
cities we returned, district by district to
the community spirit, and infused int
our political life something of the vii
lage neighborliness and kindness. some
thing Of the equality and fraternity.
that there obtains
How about it, New Citizen? Go to
your school board, attend the ward meet
ing, the district meeting, get on commit
tees and working committees, and make
this old New York human and hab-
table place this winter. Our men ha
peen lighting for democracy Let Us e.
feet d real democracy that shall nale
the city pleasant place net only for
privileged few-there is no democracy
in that-but for all he5. children.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-29
The Old Cry
Justice, Not Charity

Consider how much more Thomas Mott
Osborne accomplished in the job Of prison
warden at Sing Sing than if he had re-
manned as an outside worker" merely
interested in prison reform-and in ex-
tracing such from reluctant and politi-
cal appointees.
Conscientious work for the public
good in the smaller offices throughout the
city would obviate the necessity of much
settlement work. We should have more
sanitary factories, less illness, better
food, less malnutrition among children,
and the whole need of social and chart
table work would be greatly lessened be-
cause of more complete social and indus
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-29
Among the Poor, 4
But Not of Them

Toward their poor neighbors they are
in the same position as that of diver,
equipped with air valves and cord to pull
when he wishes to gain the surface oc-
cupies in comparison with a drowning
man. Of course, the diver may legiti-
mately criticise the foolish struggles of
the other, the unwise clutches, the futile
ill-considered efforts, but, while also in
the water he isn't in the same position.
The difference is slight but essential. The
diver may pull his cord and get out when
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-29

want to close up those saloons they can
DO it now by using their political IN
huence and letting their state Senators
and Aasemblymen know how they feel
about it,
The women must not allow them
selves to be misled by the statements Of
wet politicians and liquor controlled
propagandists. They must use their
own brains and initiative, study the
question, see what prohibition has ac-
complished in the states which have
adopted it and combat the thread
bare arguments of the liquor interests
with facts and figures which are irref-
utable
The State Suffrage party Endorsed
ratification at its fiftieth annual conYen-
ton at Albany, on December = The
resolution, introduced by Mary Garrett
Hay, chairman of the New York City
party. was passed without dissenting
vote. Miss Hay has always been an adyo-
Va wal abstinence, ana to-day
IN favor of national prohibition and
anxious to see the women nail their
colors to the mast and use their political
influence to put New York il the rat
fcatlon list Her attitude as leader OF
the City Suffrage forces leaves little
doubt of the course women who follow
her leadership will take. The fact that
upstate women IN many towns and cities
have worked, without the vote, for local
option may be taken to indicate that
they too will stand solidly behind the
amendment and take an active part IL
the legislative fight at Albany.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-29
Woman's "Innuence"
No Longer Indirect

After the first of the year Albany will
be the scene Of bitter fight between
the wet and dry forces of the state over
the ratification of the Federal prohibi-
ton amendment. There can be no side
stepping the issue, and women must
either take part in it or sit passively
by and thus give the impression that
they are uninterested
The old days of indirect influence"
are passed. Feminine reformers who
complained bitterly in the past that
their petitions to the legislators we're
mere scraps of paper tossed into the
wastebasket because the names attached
did not represent votes, know that every
petition they sign this winter will carry
threat and a demand. If the women
OF the state really want to do away with
the social and economic crimes commit
ted in the name and under the influence
of alcohol they can bring pressure to
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-29

ally prevent such tragedies as that Of the
Triangle fire a few years ago; and in
spectors of steamboats, who would have
sufficient conscience to find out if a boat
were really seaworthy and if life preserv-
ers would float. A man of integrity,
placed in high public office, could then
have chance of putting in as deputies
men and women of civic ideals, instead of
having to choose from the usual crowd
of Office seekers
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-29

moral issue women can be depended upon
to work as a unit.
New York women" Miss Potter said
in q recent interview, "have wonder
full opportunity to show that they are,
flrSt OF all, women, with the interests of
humanity at heart and then Democrats,
Republicans or Socialists. If they work
unitedly and intelligently for the passage
Of the prohibition amendment in the
state Legislature they will be doing a
service to suffrage not only in this
country but throughout the world. for
they will prove conclusively that they
can be depended upon to use their DO
Iitical power to bring about moral
good.
They do not have to forego allegiance
to the political parties of their choice
lhey have simply to bring pressure to
bear upon the legislators they sent to
Albany and let them know, in decided
terms, that they wish them to vote for
ratification.
There is, am sure, no radical diff
terence between Republican and Demo
cratic women when it comes to a matter
OF protecting the homes of the state and
nation. The hard, cold, scientific and
economic facts Of the liquor traffic, as
well as the heartbreaking human stories
of ruined homes and disrupted families.
are only too familiar to women.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-29

larger? | don't say that we should re
lease boys who commit crimes, but I'm
trying to figure out which foolish way
would be the more practical.
It's Up to the
Women
believe that now that women arc
going to enter in full force the political
life of the state they will wipe out much
of the evil in our institutions. Whatever
interest they may take in institutions in
general, the reformatory should fall com
pletely under their care They must
get rid of the CRATER, the incompetent,
the soulless job holder, and substitute
something better.
Just as the mother is physically built
so as to be able perfectly to nurture the
body of her offspring, so she is spiritual
~ built in way which can more per-
fectly nourish its growing mentality.
Not all mothers may be the best mothers,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-29
Reform Is Not
The Purpose

The only segregation or classification,
to my knowledge, is that of age and size.
Where the cottage system is in vogue
one cottage will have boys from five to
eight, another from eight to twelve, and
so on.
Doesn't it seem preposterous that
boy, let US say, who is vicious and I'M
manageable should be given the very
same treatment as that given to truant
who was dreamer and loved to wander
off by himself rather than be confined in
a schoolroom?
Wouldn't it seem ridiculous to give
Paul Chapman, for example, the very
same treatment that you would give to a
boy whose sole crime was that his par
ents we're drunkards?
Imagine a hospital in which a man
who had his leg amputated man who
had typhoid a man with pneumonia, q
woman who had appendicitis and an inn
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-29
TNHAT the refonnatory does not re.

THAT the reformatory does not re-
form has become proverbial. |
have very often myself heard
people say, in quarters where one would
least expect it: "If he goes to the re-
formatory he will become a real Grim
insl." Time and time again have
heard teachers, social workers and even
parents ask: What shall do with
him? don't want to send him to a re-
formatory; don't you know of some de-
cent place can send him to-
Think of it. We are spending mill
ions annually on reformatories that not
only fail to reform the boys sent to them
but, according to the majority of those
who have made deep study of these in
stitutions, actually breed criminals hard
en- those who have acquired criminal
habits, and by contact spread the dis
cases to those who never had them. A
very large percentage of the boys in re-
formatories were sent to the institution
not because of any crime that they COM
mitted, but only because their homes
seemed to lack the proper kind of guard
ianship. Add to this the fact that the
average reformatory admits that half
the boys released fail to make good and
you can realize what pest houses these
rcformatories really arc.
The Easiest
Way
Why do we tolerate this sort Of thing?
How long would we tolerate school that
year after year sent out more than half
OF its pupils unable to read or write?
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-29
BY ROSE WESTON BULL

INHE eyes of the country will be
turned on the women voters Of
New York State during the
session of the Legislature which cou-
Venes next Tuesday. They are in a
peculiar position to answer the much
nlooted question, "Will women stand to-
gether when it comes to moral issue 2"
Prohibition is distinctly moral is
sue, and it is as such that women are
Fundamentally interested in it, though
they appreciate as much as men do it's
scientific and economic aspects.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-29
We Make Our Own
Democracy

After all, in republic like ours. in
which the people and the will of the peo-
pie are sovereign, the democracy we have
is exactly the democracy the citizens
make. ga law" says De Tocqueville,
can be no purer than its channels" nor
is it possible for any public Office to be
administered with a higher sense of
honor than that possessed by the man or
woman who happens to be filling it. The
creation Of the Office may have been in
spired by the noblest ideals, but if the
incumbent hasn't ideals the ideals that
existed when his office was created weigh
little.
We therefore have the familiar spec
tacle of men and women, disinterested
publicsp spirited men and women, trying to
COAX or cudgel or push or worry d limp
or unwilling public official into the per-
Torrance either of his obvious duty or
Of some act of public benefit easily with
in his proNince--toward which worthy
end he proceeds with about as much low
Gus impulse as cat pulled by the tall
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-29

and the wet politicians of both parties
arc interested in keeping them in ig-
norancc of the issue and camouf1aging
the fight with the old surface arguments
that absolute Federal pro-
hlDltlon--cannot be enforced, that the
people do not want it, that it would re-
suit in the loss of millions to the state.
that it IS an infringement of personal
rights. II the women will swallow these
political capsules and be content without
investigating the matter the liquor forces
viii be very much gratificd, for then
Aey can be kept out Of the melee.
But the Anti-Saoon League, which is
be the Big Bertha Of the prohibition
chit iii Albany, is working with the
omen, irrespective Of party. 1t real
rs that they are the controlling politi-
~ element in the state and form
'capon that can be effectively used to
nc up the legislators
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-29

Women, because of their new politi
cal power, will play an important part
in this final scene. The liquor interests
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-29

1t would be extremely interesting to
observe what would happen if The Mhoc
noble army Of social uplifters, of men
and women Interested in civic reform and
public welfare, should go into definite adj
ministrative jobs, under the city govern
ment; if, instead of social and settlement
and welfare work from the outside and
getting what assistance and concessions
they could from public officials, they
themselves should be public officials. Now
that women Of New York have the fran
chise and are eligible for various Offices
from which they were excluded before
there should be a vast amount of moral
and civic energy ready to be poured into
the channels of the city administration.
Social Work as an
Official Job
Suppose, instead of doing settlement or
social work, these good folk should serve
in comparatively unimportant civic jobs.
which they could make important by put
ting into them a high sense of the value
of personal integrity in the performance
of any public duty--a motive which rare
ly actuates our smaller oniceholders.
Then we should find men and women
really interested in the welfare Of work
ing girls serving as factory inspectors
and as sub-inspectors, who would effectu-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-29
Women Must Take Sides in the Prohibition FIGHT

bear on the legislators to have the reso-
luton adopted ratifying the amendment.
for years temperance advocates
fought an uphill and unpopular fight,
passing their contentious against aEohol
purely on moral grounds. They were
not afraid of being jeercd at ana ridi
culed. The Womans Christian Tenn
perance Union and various other total
abstinence societies bore the brunt Of
crltlclsm, and kept right on attacking
alcohol as foe to morality and religion.
Later the educational note crept into the
campaign; then the scientific exclamation
OF ITS effects on the human body was
utilized
Gradually the question passed from
the realm of morality into that of Geo.
Monies. Business woke up the fact that
alcohol and efficiency could not be part
ners. Science Investigations became fire.
quent. Physicians and research work
ers discovered that alcohol was the d.
rect or indirect cause of disease. So
biologists joined in the hue and cry after
John Barleycorn, and began to relate
statistlcally the percentage of. crime,
poverty. insanity, lack of employment
desertion and child abuse due to drink.
Criminal records were studied. and
Judges and coroners began to trace muir
ders. suicides. felonies of all sorts and
descriptions to the drink habit.
John Barleycorn
Is Stacker
Then came the war, and Uncle Sam,
in concert with his allies and even his
enemies, decided that rum and recruit
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-29
This Is Not a
! arty Issue

During the election campaign Miss
-edeila Potter, superintendent of the
rsanlzation department of the Anti
saloon League, lent a helping hand to
women who made organized effort TO
4efeat wet candidates for the Legis-
AZURE. Now Miss Potter stands ready
. help all women voters, irrespective of
party, who want New York to ratify the
PROMOTION amendment. She believes
that by standing back of the amendment
irrespective of party they will help the
suffrage cause in other parts Of the coun-
try, and prove that when it comes to a
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-29
A Campaign Of Mothers
For Their Sons

If the mothers of this state who lie
awake nights fearing the evil effect the
saloons may have on their sons really
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-29

TTg TOT ueI1IOCTdCy OHe OF Cne
most useful things that the New
Citizen can do is to practise democracy.
Many of us, during the past year, have
been wondering exactly what it was we
meant by it's it the Liberty, Equality,
Fraternity passionately chalked upon
and cut into the walls of Paris during
the French Revolution? Is it the right
TO life, liberty and the pursuit Of happi-
ness" boldly stated as inalenable in our
Declaration of ndependence-and more
than the pursuit of happiness, the chance
Of getting a little Of it?
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-29

into the same stream. and go through
the same process.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-29
John Barleycorn
Is a Stacker

Then came the war, and Uncle Sam,
IN concert with his allies and even his
enemies, decided that rum and recruit
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-29
The Easiest
Way
By FRANCES DUNCAN MANNING

n OW that our men have been fight
~ ing for democracy one Of the
- most useful things that the New
The Dermott news., 1918-03-14
CaIomeI Today! Sick Tomorrow!
Guarantee Dodson's Liver Tone
Don't take nasty, dangerous calomel when bilious,
constipated headachy. Listen to mel

Calomel makes you sick; you lose a
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and it saliyates; calomel Injuries your
liver.
If you are bilious, feel lazy, slug
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Your druggist or dealer sells you a
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