The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-04-21
". C. I. U. Actiuities
: God, Home and Native Lan,
 Fly MRS. MABEL F. LEAKE

Inc Seattle Daily Times, speaking edi- torially, says America and John Bar leycorn are nearing the parting of the ways and the time is approaching when they will cease to travel the road to- gether."
 It is less than two years since the booze barons were whispering to each other. through chattering teeth, What if the press should turn against us?' Well, the press has mostly turned. The time is past when even their vast wealth can purchase newspaper support Bet ter take the advice of former friends to ''get" before the getting is still worse.
 You can tell Kansas people for me that they have the finest, the cleanest. the healthiest and most vigorous sol- diers in point of endurance that we have ever known. The official records show this" These are the words of Gen. Leonard Wood, in speaking of the boys at Camp Funston. the Kansas camp, which has brought honor to the state and proved an unanswerable argument in favor of prohibition state as a place in which to rear superior young people.
 Under ordinary circumstances, the guardhouse in such camp as Camp Funston would have an average popula- tion of 2oO" General Wood explained. Today we have one man in the guard house, and he is there for the infrac- tion of minor rule. Nothing like such order has ever been known in a military camp.
 We attribute this to the dry zone or der and to Kansas prohibition, which prevents the sale of liquor. These Kan sas boys were brought up in clean at mosphere--they started right.
 The Woman's Christian Temperance union of Arnolds Park and Okoboji, Iowa, have passed the following resolu- tions in order to benefit them as indi- viduals and as union:
 Believing that gossip is one of the worst of evils and the common cause of mans contention toward man: be it
 s.Resolved, That slander against one's character. true or untrue, shall not be laid at our door.
 That we will not listen to idle gos- sip
 oThat we will not repeat detrimental reports unless necessary.
 That we will not be inquisitive as to affairs to learn about which might cre- ate islander and gossip.
 .That we will not cast reflections upon any by either tone or gesture.
 "That we will guard against unkind insinuations that may hurt some ones feelings.
 .sThat we will teach the children to ahhor gossip and exaggeration, and not allow them to tell tales out of school "That we will suspend judgment until we know the truth"
 One of the best known labor leaders in the south, Tom J. Greer, president of the Louisiana Federation of Labor, says: since the influence of the liquor traffic has been removed from union politics. we have made tremendous gains in Shreveport
 ..Membership in labor unions has in crea sed from 1900 to 370o. Home owners among union men have increased 40 per cent since Shreveport went dry
 Tn a recent statement to the pardoning hoard. Attorney General Brown of Har- risburg Pa, says: Apparently, every case that comes before us is linked up in some way with booze. It is con tended in case after case that the prs- oner was irresponsible from drink at the time of the crime.
 1t seems everywhere people are realz- ing more and more that alcohol is the parent of almost all the evils and crimes in the civilized world
 Mrs. F. NJ Jackson president of the Central union, announces a special meet ing for next Tuesday afternoon at o'clock in the auditorium of the local headquarters. The True Spirit of Moth CTS Day" will be the topic. Important aH 7