Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1919-06-13
PRIZE ESSAYS
W. C. t. U. Contest For Eighth Grade
Pupils Has Prohibition in the
Army Proved a Success or a Fall
urs' First and Second Prize
Essays

Essays
Some time go we published in the
Tribune the prize winning essays Of
the w. G. Z. U. Contest for seventh
grade pupils. This week we are glad
to print winning essays in the Eighth
Grade Contest. The subject given
was as stated in the caption of this
article. The Board of Judges con-
sisted of Miss Jessie Knibloe, Mrs.
Eliza Scott and Mrs. G. B. Heise.
The first prize of $500 was award
ed Celia Fouty whose essay is print
ed first the second prize of $500
was awarded Gertrude Miller.
It was great thing when the
18th amendment was adopted last
January. Other nations will look
up to ours and to our army and navy
for they easily see how abstinence
has improved them and their fight
ing qualities. Ours, a sober army
and navy, helped greatly to win the
war. 1t was when the United States
sober army entered that the turning
point came.
Prohibition has reduced our death
rate for it is said that rum has dug
more graves and sent more souls un-
saved to the judgment than all the
wars since Joshua stood before
Jericho.
Since we have prohibition the
boys in the army and navy send
money home, that would have been
spent for liquor, to provide for their
families.
We speak of the horrors of war.
carnage, bloodshed and terrible mu-
tilation. There are crippled men,
empty coat sleeves, weeping, discon-
solate widows and hungry, homeless
orphans, together with enormous
debts and grinding taxation. But
all these fail to compare in their
horrors and woes with the victims
of the overshadowing curse of rum.
Rum debauches more homes. makes
more misery and anguish, more
pauperfsm, crime and murder and
more victims of self destruction than
war ever has.
Sec. Daniels says: "Cleanliness of
life, sobrie.y, self-control, are the
fundamentals for the soldier of to-
day."
Liquor is very destructive to the
body. 1t causes nearly a quarter of
fall the insanity. Alcohol weakens
the white blood cells, preventing them
from destroying disease germs, there
fore alcohol is harmful to the entire
body. It causes fatty muscles and
so prevents the arteries from con-
tracing as they should this disturb
anee of circulation is often the cause
| many diseases of the brain, kid
neys and other organs.
Alcohol lessons the endurance. No
civilized nation now supplies alcoholic
drinks as was formerly done, for on
long marches and severe hardships
those who drink are the first to fail
in strength.
l. A sober army and NAVY won this
lgreat war so we see prGabition has
been a great success in the army.
The boys will and do thank the peo-
pie who prob ;bited its use. They
did not use it in the army while Il
they had been at home they might
/ have formed the habit of using It
1 and thus have become men of very
poor character.
cohol effects the whole body. it
weakens the heart and if the heart
does not work correctly the whole
body is put out of commission. The
mind is affected and a person is then
not capable of doing things in the
right way.
| Secretary Daniels says, "Cleanli-
ness, sobriety and self-control are
the fundamentals for the soldier to-
day."
Alcohol was allowed in the army
during the Civil War. It was sup
posed that it helped the soldiers en-
dure the hardships. It was finally
Seen by the army officials and doc
tors that it increased sickness and
lowered their ability to endure hard
ships. Thsre. has been great effort
to publish that soldiers are opposed
to prohibition. This is not true.
The American soldier is no friend to
alcohol and he does not want it in
this free country.
i Lincoln, the great man of the
Civil War says, "And when the vic
tory shall be complete when there
shall be neither a slave nor drunk
ard on. the earth, how proud the
title of that land which may truly
claim to be the birthplace and the
cradle of both these revolutions that
shall have planted and nurtured to
maturity, both the political and moral
freedom of their species.
We see that most of the crimes
murders and other needless things
are caused because of liquor.
Of course there are some soldiers
who are opposed to prohibition but
this would be Va strange world if
there were not some who oppose
everything. The majority of the
soldiers will vote dry. There will
be better generations from now on
because the people know the terrible
effect of alcohol.
The Spokane Spokesman Review
rejects the assumption that most of
our soldiers will come back converts
to the "beer and light wine theory
it says, "The average soldiers great
grievance against Europe is that he
could never get ice water there. He
does not speak kindly of the native
wines which have an acquired taste.
As to another acquired taste, that
for whiskey most of the American
soldiers have not got it. A great
number of them come from dry
states. They know how prohibition
works. They have found it is possi-
BILE for a community to struggle
along without saloons. They will
not give the vets great deal Of COM
FORT"