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The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1918-12-13
PROCLA NATION
(By John G. Oglesby, Acting
Governor of Illinois)

(By John g.. Oglesby, Acting
Governor of lllinois)
Whereas, The Secretary of
War of the United States of
America has today advised the
Governor of Illinois as follows:
SIGNING THE ARMS
TICE IN NO WAY lessons
RESPONSIBILITY OF CIV
IL COMMUNITIES FOR
PROTECTION OF SOL
DIERS FROM PRoSTITU-
TION AND SALE OF LIO-
UOR. Our states and cities
ought never to lose the control
which has been established or
stop so vital a work. The gov
ernment proposes to leave no
measure unused in the repres-
sion of these evils, and from
now until rehabilitation is fully
accomplished the War Depart
ment is determined to return
soldiers to their families and to
civil life uncontaminated by dis
ease. Laxity in your state after
so much has been done would
be a disaster to our soldiers and
their families" And
Whereas, The said Secretary
of War has requested that this
message be transmitted to the
executive of all cities and towns;
Now, therefore, I, John G.
Oglesby, Acting Governor of
Illinois, do hereby direct the
public attention to the foregoing
message and request that every
effort be made to keep all COM
rnunities free from vices and
evils as suggested by the Secre-
tary of War.
State council representatives
will, of course, respond to this
call.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1918-12-13

The dry members of the Legisla-
ture will not be stampeded by the at
titude of some of the Chicago papers
on the question of ratification of the
National Prohibition Amendment.
Some of the reporters say they favor
Shaaahan because he is nice fellow
and gives them inside dope so it IS
easy to get their stories. We haven't
a thing in the world against Mr.. Shan
ahan personally. This fight is not a
personal fight, but fight for prin-
ciple. The ratification proposition is
too big and too important to let per-
sona1 preferences rule ones attitude,
but Mr.. Shanahan is not the only nice
fellow in the Legislature, made up OF
153 members. A man does not have
to be wet to be good fellow. A
dry speaker will trust the reporters
so long as they treat him squarcly,
and Chicago reporters following their
custom will do that.
But why these edtorials2 The ed
itorials thus far have not been definite.
They have, however, intimated that
the wet and dry issue is not of suffi-
cient importance to decide the organ
ization of Legislature. The vets
have counted it OF sufficient impor-
tance for the last Is years and have
nearly always had their wishes OH this
proposition. 1t is hardly to be ex-
rected tina. newspapers that wrote ed
itorials against the submission of ma
tional Prohibition when it was up in
Congress will favor its ratification
when it is under consideration at
Springfield We hope they will so
change their attitude as to do so, but
when the congressman OF Illinois
were about to vote on this question
ar waasnIngton, me rwo IeadIng
morning papers in Chicago questioned
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1918-12-13
DelnObiization
Has Its Dangers
No Less Than War

This is from the London (Eng.)
Daily Express of September IL:
"An American sailor arrived at
Paddington, having been drinking in
the train. He was quickly spotted,
of course, and became an easy prey
to harpies on the prowl. Taken to
an hotel for lodgings, he took more
drink and went to sleep. When he
awoke all his money, pass, etc, had
disappeared. He could obtain no sat-
isfaction at the hotel and the police
man at the corner could do nothing
to help him. The first and last fact
in that, as in nearly all cases, is al
cohol. 1t provokes both victims and
vultures.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1918-12-13
why WILSON SIGNED

Just why the President signed the
war Prohibition bill was explained at
a meeting of the Philadelphia Liquor
Dealers Association, as follows:
"News also reaches us from Wash
ington that if the brewers inquiry
which has recently been held there
hadn't come up so strong, the Presi-
dent would not have signed the bill,
and as he generally tries to play to
the public, he couldn't very well do
anything else"
Right When the truth is known,
there is nothing to do but to do away
with the liquor business.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1918-12-13

An Associated Press dispatch from
Mexico City says that United States
liquor dealers are taking advantage oil
opportunities offered in Mexico, Cuba
Canada and various South American
countries. Reports from border points
say that large quantities of liquor are
being shipped across the line and sold
at low prices. Several leading manu-
facturers are said to be establishing
breweries and distilleries in Mexico to
take the place of those closed in the
United States
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1918-12-13

The Indianapolis Star says that not
a single case of disorderly conduct in
any of the l64 precincts of Marion
county was reported on the recent
election day. Not single arrest on
the charge of violating election laws
was made. Republican and Demo-
cratic leaders credit the absence of dis
orderliness to the fact that Indiana
was holding her first election under
the state Prohibition law
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1918-12-13

Professor Lynn Harold Hough, of
Garrett Biblical Institute, in recent
address, said: II was deeply impressed
with the wonderful strength of Eng
land after her more than four years
of war and her unparalleled losses.
Her greatest problem is drink and the
allied sex evils. This, too, is the prob
lem of Ireland. She needs Prohibition
more than she needs home rule"
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1918-12-13
FLORIDA RATIFIES
On November % the Florida
Legislature ratified the Nation

Legislature ratified the Nation
al Prohibition Amendment. The
vote was rs dry to Q wet in the
Senate and 81 dry to 3 wet in
the House. Florida is number
IS in the list of states that have
ratified. The regular session of
the Florida Legislature will not
convene until April, 1919. This
would have been too late to
make it possible for Florida to
be one of the SO ratification
states. Accordingly, action was
taken at special session and
Florida will go down in history
on the ratification honor roll.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1918-12-13
Gov. Whitman Of New York on Wet Politics
Address Governor Charles s. Whitman
November

What Whitman about the power
Yorka n
keeping mind the
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1918-12-13

The October number of the Brew
ers Review lists 40 breweries recently
closed.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1918-12-13

FRIENDLY ENEMIES = Persons
who give liquor to returned soldiers.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1918-12-13
Business Women

Although women have been en-
tering all fields of business activity
for many years. yet they still have
a curiously subordinate position
You 90 into large factory and its
offices are full of humming type
writers operated by girls In the
work rooms women are found al
most everywhere.
But in the offices occupied by the
officers of the corporation. how
many women do you find? The
positions calling for executive man
agement are usually filled entirely
by men. Most of the superinlend-
ents and heads of the mechanical
departments are men. From this
condition a good many people argue
that women lack the capacity for
executive management.
Of course anyone who believes
that mental gifts are transmitted
from one generation to another.
must consider that men inherit
masculine traits and women fem.
mime traits. From all time the big
positions OF executive responsibility
have been filled by men. 1t is per-
haps inevitable that in so far as
this Gift is transmitted, it has
been handed down largely to the
male sex.
Still modern thought leads US to
believe that education. training, and
environment count more in life
than heredity. Probably the prin
cipal reason why women do not
take large executive jobs is they do
not train for it. They look at a bus
mess position as temporary stop.
gap until they get married. They
want something to give them i'm
mediate independence until the
husband comes along. 1t hardly
seems worth while for them to fit
themselves for permanent career
that very likely will be broken be-
fore it is much more than begun
AS marriage is the most normal
field for a woman's life. it hardly
seems worth while to argue against
that point of view. At the same
time young women are given &c
entering business life with TOT
S uperfcial preparation.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1918-12-13
Reasons for Food Shortage

From every part of the globe,
but especially in Europe and Asia
come reports that there is eminent
danger of starvation to large num-
bers of people.
This is not to be wondered at
when we take into consideration
what has been going on during the
last four years. Famine has always
followed war like vultures follow
pestilence
The leading producing nations of
the earth have been engaged in the
workiof destroying instead of pro-
ducine. while millions of tons of
food:supplies have been sent to the
bottom of the ocean with reckless
disregard of the ultimate result of
destruction.
Doubtless an aggregate amount
of food has thus been destroyed
equal to a years production of the
world.
1t naturally follows then that
food will be short in the aggregate
and those nations most dependent
on the others for supplies will be
the greatest sufferers.
In famine sall nations turns to
the United States as the first source
of relief from starvation. 1t is so
now.
We have a surplus. doubtless, but
it is very doubtful if it is sufficient
to relieve the distress of all We
cannot be expected to starve our
selves in order that all may be
saved,
When we have done our best
that is all that can be expected Of
even the United States.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1918-12-13
Will Education Pay

Recent years have seen a great
reaction from old fashioned book
education, and the demand now is
for young people who shall be
efficient in business. In many ways
this reaction was necessary. Yet
it must not 60 so far that young
pc ople will not care for general in.
tellieence.
1t is certainly upsettiDg to an am.
bilious boy, when he finds that a
first class mechanic earns more
than the average school teacher, or
minister, or newspaper writer. Why
spend years in study, when he can
earn more by perfecting himself in
some form of shop practice?
1t is a pretty serious matter if
present demand for skilled me.
chanics shall lead our young PEG.
pie to ignore the value of high
school and college education. For
tunately most men who make good
pay as mechanics have common
sense and realize the value of edu
cation. They want their children
to have more of it than the older
generation had. So it is hardly
likely that our high schools and
colleges will be depopulated.
The country will suffer. however.
if fails to provide an adequate re-
turn to brain workers, to intelligent
and educated people who have
spent time and money in acquiring
knowledge, and fitting themselves
to be better citizens. But educated
people must do their share, in max
ing themselves fit for active partic-
ipation in life. Education must do
something more than develop their
critical and analytic faculties.
Many men have developed
through book study an exceedingly
cultivated power of observation
They are refined, penetrating stud
ents of life, can discourse charming
ly and give sound judgements OF
any subject. But they can't do an,
thing. The power of initiative wa'
left out of their education. Tha
kind of training is not fitted to mod
ern life.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1918-12-13
Farmers as Legislators

The National Grange passed a
resolution at its recent annual
meeting, to the effect that "Aeri-
culture should be fully represented
in all legislative bodies"
This resolution expresses the feel
ing. often found among the farming
class, that they do not have in our
law making bodies the representa-
ton or influence to which their
numbers and their service to the
community entities them Now
they are demanding legislation in
their own interest. The increased
prosperity of the farms, the respect
in which the calling is now held,
are likely to increase its political
influence The politicians will have
to figure on a good many farmer
candidates within the next few
years,
Lawyers have commonly been
most numerous as legislators, from
the Gift of public speech which they
acquire. Many farmers are ex-
ceedingly good takers in converse
tion. and would be useful in leeis-
lative committee work, but they
can't always think on their feet and
frequently fail to make a good
political speech.
An ideal legislature would con,
tain representatives of all types Of
people and include a wide variety
of professional callings. If the
farmers feel they have not been
fairly represented, there are just
two ways for them to get recoeni,
ton. The first is as indicated be
fore to cultivate the art of public
speaking. The second is to devote
a good deal of time to public causes
and community efforts The men
who get start in politics are those
who are willing to give up good
deal of time to unpaid work fol-
public interests.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1918-12-13
Losses in War

Austria-hungary lost 4 million
killed and wounded in the war, &C.
cOrding to an Exchange Telegraph
dispatch from Copenhagen. Eight
hundred thousand men were killed,
including seventeen thousand
officers.
The German losses were placed
at 6.330.O00 by the Socialist Vor-
wearts of Berlin, November 20. The
newspapers estimate, which was
unofficial said that up to October
81, 1.5S0,000 German soldiers had
been killed and the fate of 100000
was not known. Four million SOL
diers were wounded and 100000
were prisoners.
The British losses in all theatres
of activity, including killed, wound.
ed and missing. were officially plac-
ed at 3,049,991 on November 10.
OF the total 658,O00 were killed,
including $1,000 officers
An official announcement from
London, Wednesday said that 1
million men had been killed or were
dead through various causes. it be-
ing explained that the earlier total
of killed did DOT include the men
reported missing who actually lost
their lives nor those who died of
disease.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1918-12-13
Institutions Behind

The appropriations for several of
the State institutions are exhaust
ed and deficiencies exceeding $50.
600 must be incurred has just been
revealed.
These deficiencies are:
School for the blind, which had
an appropriation. $4,000; Federal
Soldiers Home. $8O,8OO; Colony for
Feeble Minded, $263080; Indus
trial Home for Girls, SOL. 1853; Deaf
and Dumb Asylum, $231,00O.
The last two have on hand
$31892 and $3.50, respectively,
which is only a small fraction OF
what they expend monthly.
Because of the sharp advances in
living prices, the allowance for
county patients has been found in
adequate. and some of the state
hospitals have been compelled to
incur deficiencies for feeding and
clothing the inmates.
Gov. Gardner whitfield to the bone
the biennial aspirations made by
the Legislature for eleemosyDary
and penal institutions to save mon
ey with which to meet the $2.250.-
600 loan obtained from the St.
Louis Clearing House to pay off the
state debt. The final payment will
be made shortly after January 1.
The State spent more than it
earned in November, as receipts
were $804,614.05, and expenditures
$042,229 32. The state revenue
fund, out of which salaries, etc,
must come, amounts to $685..
86383.
The balances in other state funds
follow: Good road fund, SIPS.
1921; Capitol Building fund. $780,
1873; Game fund. $2l,627 SIS;
Penitentiary fund, 20 cents; State
park fund. $25,191,33.-Missouri
Message.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1918-12-13
No More Militarism

The conspiracy to clamp the
muller of universal military ser
vice on the aspirations of the
American people will, if we are not
mistaken, encounter another seri-
Gus obstacle if President Wilson
and Secretary Baker can thwart
the scheme long enough to give
the returning and released soldiers
an opportunity to express their
views. So long as Kaiserism re-
NAMED to be defeated, the young
men of Americas great armies
went grimly and even cheerfnlly
about their task learning to be SOL
diers. There was hardly a whisper
of complaint. They were for doing
the JOB, and doing it thoroughly.
Today, with peace assured, we are
beginning to get from them their
true feeling about the life of SOL
der. They don't like it. Their
one desire is to get home and get
out of uniform. Leave it to the
M. P's." chorused group of SOL
diers in the front line above Verdun
when the New York Times CORE
spondent asked if they'd like to be
in the army occupation. we want
to get home" If soldering were
popular under any conditions, it
would have been popular to boys
with the prospect of d triumphal
march through the beautiful coun-
try of Alsace-Lorraine and the
Rhine. In the camps in this coun-
try it is the same. There is less
danger of militarism becoming pop
ular in this country than manv of
us feared. Ask the boys who have
been through it Their experience
will place them as firmly in opposi-
ton to DR.. Nicholas Murray Butler
and his kind as those of US who ar.
rived at it on more theoretical
grounds. The campaign for univer-
sal service is a dishonest conspiracy
fostered by men VINO are desperate
ly trying to keep back the rising
tide of democracy, and to save their
privileges They believe that mill
tary discipline for every boy of
every generation will breed a more
uncritical and unthinking rever-
ence for established institutions. a
habit of unquestionine obedience, a
conformity that is scornful of
heresies and untried things. In
England this issue is understood by
every liberal. The Bishop of Ok
ford, who returned last week after a
long visit in this country, must
have been appalled, by the callow
acceptance among large circles here
of all institution that, as he told
them, would be fatal to the progress
of human freedom. Public.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1918-12-13

We are informed that both Ma
tional and State banking depart
ments are insisting that banks must
refuse payment on any customers
check if the chech would Overdraw
the account. This may work an
inconvenience to some of us but if
it is the law we need not be sur
prised if payment is refused on our
checks. Bankers inform us that
they do not want to inconvenience
any of their customers but that they
must comply with the law.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1918-12-13
Lucky Germans

Every correspondent who has
written upon the subject agrees the
German people in occupied territory
show few signs of war suffering
They are well dressed and are not
emaciated. Food seems to be OBJ
tainable in sufficient quantities and
prices are no higher in Berlin than
in Paris.
German hotels supply their guests
with hot water at all times. while
French hotels furnish hot water only
twice a week. The Germans who
carried the church bells of Frauce
and Belgium away to melt down
slept in brass beds and were still
using metals for other purposes not
essential in war. In general, the
conditions under which the Germans
have lived, so far as the correspon-
dents nave observed, are seventh
heaven compared with what has
been endured in occupied France
and Belgium.
These, it may be supposed. are
some of the reasons why the Allied
Food Administration is not hasten.
ing to shower Germany with grain
nd meat. They are reasons for
believing more firmly than ever
that the first duty of the Allies is
to feed the despoiled and starved
victims of Germany in the .evacuat-
ed territories
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1918-12-13

We have become intimated with
such things as food shortages, coal
shortages, gasoline shortages and
the shortages of people who admire
the Kaiser, but a literature shortage
is new and strange There was one
in Green Ridge, according to The
Local News. which says: "Almanacs
were in great demand in Green
Ridge last Sunday. No Sunday
papers arrived and folks just had to
have something to read. Dale Muir
sold out his almanacs early and
then there was rush on mail order
catalogues"
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1918-12-13

Kespohl- Mohrenstecher's Christ
mas business is breaking all records
this year. There is reason for it.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1918-12-13

Please bring the little tets in the
MORNING.-Miss Belle johnson.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1918-12-13
A Closeup of the War

Tho Review Of Reviews has hundred and more
stories IN six handsome Volumes
tusey illustrated
the reated
is
te with twoyeaI subscrpuon to the Review Of Reyews
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1918-08-31
HAVOC PLAYED BY
STORM AT SCRABBLE
METHODIST CHURCH BLOWN
1OVER-SILOS ARE DOWN AND
ROOFS ARE OFF.

Scrabble received the concentrated
destructive effect of the wind and
rain storm which went over the city
Monday evening, according to reports
from there yesterday morning.
The Methodist Episcopal Church
was blown over entirely and badly
damaged The front of the house at
the home of MIR. James Staley was
blown in, the barn of Mr.. Seibert
Myers was damaged. Mr.. DeIIaven
Henson's porch was Blown loose from
the house, roofs on the barns at Wild
Goose Farms were torn off, and sew
eral silos were Noppled over The prin-
cipal damage was done by the wina
and not the rain.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1918-08-31
DUTY WELL DONE
FOR HIS COUNTRY
YOUNG MAN LOSES RIGHT LEG
IN BATTLING THE TERRIBLE
HUN.

Martinsburg today has as one OF
its visitors mere youth in age, but
one who has already accomplished his
share of the burden falling upon the
people of the Allied powers to make
the world safe for democracy and hui
manity.
The person referred to is Private
D. w. IIildreth, a young man who pre-
vious to enlisting in the service. of
his country, was resident of Boston,
and later, while fighting in the 1O4th
U. S. infantry, in France, was wound
ed by Hun bullet and as result
is now minus his right leg.
Private Hildreth, who has been
speaking in many places about the
country for the Red Cross, will prob
ably be in Martinsburg until tomor-
row, and will then leave for Wash
ington, en- route to Boston. By that
time he expects his honorable dis
charge from headquarters.
The young man was injured last
spring while his regiment was in the
thick of the fight in the section of
Seicheprey, town in France not far
from the German border. He was later
operated upon in a town near Toul
by DR.. Heuer, a noted Baltimore sur
geon, who removed his leg above the
knee.
During his stay here thus far Pri-
waite Hildreth has been met On the
streets by scores of people, who have
questioned, him as to his injury and
various matters regarding the fight
ing in France, He answers all ques-
tons courteously and seems never to
grow tired.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1918-08-31
bud" FORD HELD
FOR NEXT COURT
COUNTY NEGRO IN JAIL TO
AWAIT ACTION OF HIGHER
TRIBUNAL,

This morning before Justice J. ID.
Wolf the preliminary hearing of A.
F. BUD Ford, county negro, accus-
ed of having made an indecent pro-
posal to Mrs. Roy ID. Vanmetre, wife
of a well known local liverwman, was
held and Ford is now in Jail because
of his failure to place bond of So
600, to await the September term of
Circuit Court.
Ford, it will be remembered, ess
capped from Martinsburg some time
since and was later located in Phil
adelphia by the officers OF that city.
He was brought here last week and
has since been in the county jail.
Fined for Assault.
On an assault and battery charge
preferred by his wife, who claims that
he beat her up, Charles Ross, a
resident of the Little Georgetown sec.
ton of the county was before Justice
Wolf this morning and was fined $50
land costs.