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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1919-10-29
WINE FOR SACRAMENTAL
PURPOSES.

California paper, the Los Angeles
Times, says that the amount of wine
being manufactured in the California
internal revenue district for sacra-
mental" purposes is enough to float
the battleship New Mexico Thus
some laws make liars of us ALL says
the Times, not seeming to perceive
that in many cases the law came too
late to make liars of some of us. No
doubt a good deal of camouflage in
the way of "sacramental' wine is be-
ing tried, but it is only one of many
ways in which those who profit by it
will seek to evade and violate the pro-
hibitory law But what The Express
would like to ask is, Why is "sacra-
mental wine? Can anybody give a
good and sufficient reason for using in
church service liquor that public
opinion is convinced makes beasts
of men and it not fit for the heather?
Would not unfermented fruit juice
answer the same purpose in religious
ceremonials, and not give opportunity
for extensive manufacture of wine re-
ally designed for illicit sale to those
whom it will injure? Time was when
living human sacrifices were offered
on religious affairs; later animals
were offered; still more recently, all
living human sacrifices were offered
discard. The world moves and the
churches move with it, but church
that insists that it needs alcohol in
its service is not in that respect lead
ing the world to higher ideals, nor ev-
en- keeping pace with enlightened pub
lie sentiment. The prohibiting of
harmful practices and alcoholic drinks
and then making an exception in fav-
or of religious sects was humbug
in the first place, a sop to prejudice
and slap to intelligence. Religious
bodies should not be excepted from
the operation of laws designed Gas all
laws are supposed to be designed) for
the physical mental and moral inn
provement of humanity. When the
fanatical Dhoukbuoys start ghost
dancing and marching across Canada
naked, the civil law seizes them and
puts them in jail-not because they
are fanatics, but because they are
laws deemed essential to
human well-being. When the Nor
mons espoused and practiced polyga-
my they became amenable to the laws
OF the United States; their religious
practices of part of the community
should not be allowed to trample up
on the civil law, which is the COM
mon sense of all.-Knoxville Iowa,
Express
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1919-10-29
THE HIGH COST OF LOAFING.

The Corn Exchange National Bank
of Philadelphia issues the following
statement:
1t is the high cost of loafing, not
the high cost of living, that is troub-
ling America today We are produc-
ing less per hour per man and we are
consuming more per hour per man
than was the rule before the war: con
sequently there are two buyers to one
seller, as against two sellers to one
buyer in other days.
Investigation by large manufac-
turing plant in Philadelphia showed
that the product per man per hour,
under identical circumstances TODAY
and before the war, was one-third less
at the present time than in the past.
this Notwithstanding an increase of
100 per cent in wages. In an investi-
cation covering several states it was
developed that the wage per man per
hour had increased 240 per cent; CO.
lncldently the product per man per
hour had decreased 81 per cent.
These instances tell the same story.
not of increased wages, these have
been common to all times and all
countries-but to a widespread habit
OF doing less work per hour. There
can be only one result to this contin-
ual advance in prices, an end to the
creation OF new wealth, with the re-
public simply running on the mo-
mentum acquired in other years un-
I'll that momentum is exhausted"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1919-10-29

Ammonia, half-pint; peppermint, four
ounces; horse linament, four ounces /;
water, four ounces; sweeten to taste.
He then took few shots at his wife,
his hand being fortunately unsteady,
and pointed gun at the chief of po-
lice who went to arrest him Another
fellow drank bottle of Jamaica
ginger on a bet and went for walk
to cool off. He awoke in the city iail.
d. Smith of Tulsa, Okla, was not SO
fortunate. He lived long enough to
tell the police that he mixed some
sort of extract with his ginger. From
all OF which we have deduced the NOR
al that when Uncle Sam tells you to
stop buying drinks it is conducive to
health and wisdom to obey. You can't
tell what you are getting when you
buy from bootlegger; but you know
that it is very expensive. AS for sub
stitutes, the incidents just mentioned
show their danger.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1919-10-29
SALOONMEN WARNED BY
u. S. REVENUE OFFICER

A news dispatch sent out from the
metropolis OF the state to the effect
that the death knell to saloonkeepers
IN Milwaukee and Wisconsin is being
sounded in letter by Burt Williams,
internal revenue collector, to approx
imately $3.50 saloonkeepers in the
state.
This communication is intended to
be the final warning from the depart
ment before wartime prohibition be-
comes effective through passing and
final approval of the enabling statute.
The Letter in Part Follows.
This bill has passed congress and
was sent to the president on October
IL for his signature. In case he signs
the bill, the law will become effective
on the morning following his sigma
ture. In case he fails to sign it, it
will become a law at the expiration of
ten days from date of delivery at the
White house
You should keep yourselves posted
as to the progress of this bill as no
personal notice will be given dealers
upon the date the law becomes effect
i've. Any persons found violating its
provisions will be Immediately arrest
ed and arraigned in United States
court for prosecution and punishment
under provisions of this law.
THE law provides severe punish
ments in the shape of both fines and
Imprisonment for violation of it's pro-
visions and collectors of internal rev
enue are charged with the duty of Sc
curing evidence and reporting viola
lions to the United State attorney for
prosecution.
I'VE will wipe out every blind pig
and open saloon in our district and
put an end to the manufacture and
sale OF every variety of liquor which
contains more than one-half of l per
cent of alcohol.
The effect on this act will be to take
enforcement of the liquor law out of
the hands of local officials and into
the power of the federal officials.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1919-10-29
LOOK NOT UPON THE HOME BREW!
Mt. AYR Journal


Wherever one goes nowadays, one
hears OF some new recipe for a drink
that is guaranteed to kill that burning
thirst and at the same time possess
ing the much longed-for recoil. We
want to sound note of warning to
those who feel a temptation to grasp
at any straw held out: Be careful. The
case of New Orleans man who went
blind after drinking half an ounce of
wood alcohol is but one of a number
of mishaps caused by child-like con-
fifidence as to substitutes for the old
thing. Jack Buck of Chicago, dis
solved ball of metal polish in a glass
of water and drank it. A friendly
stranger had told him it wouldn't hurt
him. 1t didn't-muchN Now the police
are seeking the friendly stranger on
charge of manslaughter. A painter
of Hartford. Conn, made his own at
home of the following ingredients:
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1919-10-29
NEVER HAD A SHOW.
Joe Beall 'ud set up on a key
Down to the grocery store an throw
One leg right over t'other leg,

Joe Beall 'ud set up on key
Down to the grocery store an throw
One leg right over t'other leg,
An swear he'd had no show.
80, no." said 10,
"Hain't had no show"
Then shift his quid to t'other law.
An chaw, an chaw, an chaw an cha
An chaw, an chaw, an chaw an chaw
He said he got no start in life,
Didn't get money from his dad,
The washin' took in by his wife
Earned all the funds he ever had.
20, no." said 10,
"Hain't had no show"
An then he'd look up at the clock,
An talk, an talk, an talk an talk.
1--WE waited twenty year-let's see
Yes, twentyAfour an never struck
Altho' I've sot roun' patiently,
The fust tarnatiOn streak of luck.
'O' no." said 10,
"Hain't had no show"
Then stuck like mucilage to the spot
An sot, an sot, an sot an sot.
Tee come down regler every day
For twenty years to Piper's store
I've sot here in a patient way,
Say, hain't l, Piper" Piper swore
81 tell We, 10,
Eyer hain't no show;
Yer too dern patient" hull raft
Just LATED, an laffed and LATED an
LATED. Sam Walter Foss
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1919-10-29

Have you ever driven thru the coun-
Try and seen those lonely, neglected
cemeteries? Every county has a num-
Der OF them. They bespeak sadly of
day when professions wound their
way there fifty to seventy years ago
and the dead were buried amid deep
and solemn grief Now the graves
are sunken in, the tombstones toppIed
over and the mourners too are gone.
Ihelr hopes, their loves, their fears.
their hates, all gone and forgotten.
Even the names Of the dead can
scarcely be read upon the humble and
now aged slabs of marble that were
the custom in those days. How unreal
lie seems when we stand over those
graves and read the fading inscrip-
lions? So quiet it is-not a sound but
the soft sigh of the wind thru the
tree tops that are now dropping their
dead leaves.
SO we too, we living, we must join
that vast throng. How fast we hasten
and how quiet it will be out there?
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1919-10-29

why does the ReQ cross neeO
money? The war is over"
National headquarters of the Ameri-
can Red Cross has answered this ques-
tion, and has outlined graphically the
reasons why it is necessary to raise
$15,OOO,OO0 for its international, ma.
tional and local v ork.
In brief the answer is as follows:
Because: The actual war work is
not completed. The Red Cross cannot
lay down it's responsibilities to the
American soldiers, sailors or marines
until everyone OF them has been re.
leased from service, recovered from
illness or wounds or receiving proper
care, or back in the place in the worlC
from which the war snatched them.
Because: The American Red Gross
is planning to launch comprehensive
program for peace times, designed tt
prevent the needless waste of human
lives through preyentable diseases ant
accidents in America; continue ant
broaden its home service work ant
public nursing, first aid, home hygiene
and Junior Red Cross activities.
Because: By a recent act of Con
gress medical, surgical and dietar,
food supplies valued at $35,000,OO(
were turned over to the Red Cross b..
the government, the supplies havin5
been purchased for use with the Amer
lean forces. These supplies are scat
tered throughout Europe, many OF
them far from the places where they
are most needed. The prompt anG
efficient distribution and handling OF
these supplies means the maintenance
of force of trained workers where
the supplies are and where they are
most needed.
Because: Pestilence and starvation
have gripped many European coun'
tries because of the war. These coun
tries are unable to cope with their owr
difficulties, and the only force organ.
lied with facilities capable of stepping
into the breach and bringing order
from chaos is the Red Cross. Typhus
is sapping the man strength of many
countries, and the American Red Gross
Is using every available power tc
check it.
Because: The Red Cross must be
prepared to meet emergencies arising
from disasters at home and abroad.
The Red Cross membership must be
maintained at its present high stan
dard Every enrolment is vote of
confidence in the past performances of
the American Red Cross and a reaf-
firmation Of the belief in the principles
for which it has stood in the past and
its plans for the future.
The Red Cross, having committed
itself to a definite and comprehensive
program, cannot turn back, and to go
forward it must have as general a
membership as possible and ample
funds to provide for any contingency
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1919-10-29

mittee of the American Red Cross who
is touring the country to place the
proposed peace work sQuarely before
the people. His tour was outlined to
carry the message into all states as a
forerunner of the Third Red Cross
Roll Call, to be conducted from Nov.
2 to IL for 100000 annual member
ships and $15,OOOOOO.
Most Diseases PreventabIe.
''The war has accentuated and
sharpened our realization that the
greatest contributing factor in disturb
ing the happiness of mankind is the
question of physical well-being, the
problem of health and disease" DR..
Farrand said. A large portion of the
disease of the world is preventable,
and the people naturally are looking
to organizations that are able to help
and guide that are built on lines that
beget confidence.
"The organization best equipped FOR
this purpose is the American Rec
Cross. States and municipalities must
conduct this campaign and the local
Red Cross organizations are operating
units For the last ten years leaders
in health work have sought an organi
cation capable of co-ordinating the
various local activities into a masseC
movement which would produce re
suits. That organization is the Rec
Cross.
Nursing Program Developed.
Are we not going to take advantage
of this opportunity to better humanity
. We have here an organization thai
represents every national interest
that knows no party and no creed
that has attached to it every type OF
man, woman and child in the United
States and we propose to put this en-
ergy behind the great movement tc
coordinate and bring together these
varied interests so far as possible
'"The biggest activity which the Rec
Cross has undertaken in this field is
the great public nursing program
The entire movement for public health
depends upon the adequate develop
ment of the public nurse"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1919-10-29
GEN. PERSHING GIVES
$4,000 TO RED CROSS,
The last act of Gen. Pershine

Il. The last act of Gen. Pershing
before he left France for the
United States was to turn over
to the American Red Cross a.
625.40 francs, about $4,000, to be
used by the Red Cross for the
care Of French orphan children who
had been adopted" by the Red Cross.
A chaplain attached to Gen. Pershing's
staff visited the Red Cross headquar-
tiers and saw the work which was be-
ing done for the children. Apparently
he had carried report to the COM
mander in chief, and the check was
tha result.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1919-10-29

Labor and Capital-those two great
forces-are graphing today in I'll
tanic struggle. Capital in a word,
represents organized wealth furnish
ing the fluid vehicle of business. La
Dor represents power and production.
Capital withdraws it's purse and the
world starves. Labor withdraws it's
effort and the result is likewise.
Capital has exploited the country, the
world, much. It's evil policy is re-
sponsible today for most of the suf-
fering and want. Capital is greedy,
so greedy, but it also fears. Many a
silent hour is spent by the rich pro-
fiteer wondering how long he can es-
cape the reckoning. Capital knows
that thru it the world hovers close
upon Bolshevism. 1t realizes that
with the soviets in control the wealth
it holds would be as so many chips
of wood or grains of sand But Cap
ital is greedy and will not let go al
tho it is almost certain that the deluge
is coming.
Labor thinks it wants the complete
control of all industry but in its heart
Labor knows that such a pass would
find it even worse off than at present.
Labor must realize that an ignorant
demogog is worse master than Cap
ftalism. This is the history of Com
lmunism, of Labor control, of Bolshe-
Fism. France so found it more than
n century ago. Russia has found it
put today. The state cannot be de-
brived of its brains and exist Business
fannot go on when the faculties that
Organize it are killed off or driven
way In then steps the Labor ty-
ant who is the worst demagog of all.
Business machinery breaks down.
pod and supply distribution fails.
honey becomes worthless as an ex-
Nhange medium because there is no
fort behind the currency. The re-
Hilt is chaos and the people starve,
feeze and die in untold numbers.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1919-10-29
WOULD PROVIDE STORAGE
FOR LIFE-GIVING GLANDS.

Paris, Oct. 21.-Esta blishment OF
municipal cold storage plants in which
alleged life giving interstitial glands
could be kept on ice to supply the de-
mand for renewing human youth is
advocated by DR.. Serge Voroneff, said
to be the originator of the operation.
IF removed from the body of a
hopelessly injured man while he is
still alive, certain vital organs, es-
pecially the interstitial glands will
live for weeks in ice boxes" said Vor-
Oneff
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1919-10-29
PORK PRICES TOUCH LOW
EST LEVEL IN 3 YEARS.

st. Louis, Mo-, Oct 23.-Hog prices
on the toboggan slide for two weeks
continued the downward slide today.
Prices reached the lowest mark in
more than three years when sales
were made early today at the nation
al stockyards at $12.70, with the top
5 cents higher
The market today was down fifty
cents, following two weeks Of sim
liar decline. Since August ] the fall
has been more than $40 a hundred.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1919-10-29

Twenty million died prematurely in
Russia last winter. No one realizes
the rigors of that climate who has
been used to a more temperate zone
Millions more will die this winter
Russia will find its way out-perhaps
Perhaps also the thing will slide
along until there is only a miserable
fragment of the people left. And
back OF it all stands the solemn fact
that Russia is in misery because she
was great and trusting. Russia too
fought for Freedom and paid terribly
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1919-10-29

Do you believe in a Devil? Do you
believe in a force that struggles to
hold the world in murderous savag-
cry? OF course we know this theory
to be obsolete but there is good
grounds for believing in it strongly
just as we strongly believe in force
for good that makes us do good and
great things. Every man gets wrong
deal from someone some time in his
life. Every man gives a wrong deal
to others many times in his life. This
is human and the forces that make
us do evil things are lying back in
our minds, lurking in the recesses
Just ready to pop out and say, do
This even though our conscience
tells us that is very wrong. More than
often we do it too.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1919-10-29
Could Verify Statement.

"There are songs" said the musician
that never, never die. They 90
ringing down the ages 'That is true.
sir" Brown replied. ''For the past six
months and upward I have heard my
daughter try TO kill two or three each
evening. but they never. never die"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1919-10-29

meet the demands
of war must not
be permitted to
slip back into in
activity" said DR..
Livingston Far
rand, chairman of
the Central Com
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1919-10-29
How beautiful the Truth is,

HOW Deautltul the Truth isl
With shining feet it treads the path
toward greater light than Man
knows of
How great it would be if the world
dropped its lies and assembling and
lived according to the Truth that ev-
cry man knows.
But nobody does.
No living man tells the truth, the
whole truth and nothing but the
truth.
If he framed his life along these
lines he would surely die; his fell
lows would kill him.
If they did not kill him they would
exile him, imprison him or lock him
up in an insane asylum
The world does not want the truth
1t thinks it does but it does not. When
the world becomes ready for the truth
then the Millennium will come. Not un-
til then
People say, why don't you expose
this one or that one; why don't you
show up this evil or that wrong?
Why don't you tear the mask from
this proud hypocrite or that miserable
scoundrel?" Yes why not?
We have great example of one who
told the truth. We have other ex-
amples of lesser ones who saw the
light and attempted in their way to
expound the truth that was in them
Universally-one and all--they were
stoned and prosecuted
No man unless he be either very
rich or very poor can afford to tell
the truth and live it. The great lose
the light in treading their devious
path and the poor usually have had it
kicked out of them.
A few years ago a certain man be-
gan paper on this principle In a
year he had three million readers. In
eighteen months he was dead-shot
thru the heart by an assassin. Since
then no one has attempted it,
We would like to teri the Truth and
live it. 1t is great temptation to
forsake all ard follow this. Perhaps
some day when the death warrant has
been written-when we know that the
time for striving is over and done
we will do so.
oh, that Great DAY.
"A. L. S. October, 1919.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1919-10-29

Did he war really teach us any
thing? We talked a great deal of
Democracy and we heard a great deal
about brotherhood and sympathy.
That was truly an exalted period. Lit
tie talk then of division, of clash, of
Bolshevism, of Capitalism. Then
women worked with utmost sacrifice
to do the work that no one but a wo-
man could do. Then men forgot their
struggling after money and power and
gave their all to the great ideal
Americanism. 1t was time for sol
emn tears but it was also a time for
thankfulness, for prayer and heroic
altruism. Now it seems we are
sliding back into the old petty ways.
We again think more in terms of Mon
ey than we do in terms of Men. Have
we forgotten the lesson and the blood
that was shed? War is terrible but
1t is ennobling. Peace is splendid but
1t often brings softness and selfish
ness.
1t seems to us that if Americanism.
Democracy, means anything we should
find common ground for good citi-
zenship. Surely the flag is big
enough for all creeds and races to
find equal protection beneath its
folds. The flag is great enough that
one and all should give their utmost
for the blessings they receive from it.
The flag should be a flag for the
white man but it should also be a flag
for the black man. Some are so con-
stituted that they cannot hate man
because he worships in a different
way nor despise him because his skin
is OF a different color Perhaps these
men are fools perhaps also they are
truly wise and gifted from the Lord
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1919-10-29

Our legislators have shown their
total inability to cope with modern
problems While the world is crying
for some brain to solve the riddles
the national assemblies battle over
the difference between Tweedledum
and Tweedledee. This is because
they are men and only men. Because
the world is human it must work
along and pay and suffer. There are
no short cuts. There is no other way.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1919-10-29

held from Nov. 2
to II, for 100000
600 annual men,
bers and $15,OO0,-
900.
The first Ques-
ton t b a t W Ill
arise is:
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1919-10-29

Life seems so complex to those who
are in the midst of it's problems. We
Tear the day as it comes and we strive
in fear of other days to come-days
when we shall be old and perhaps
poor and neglected. The flush of
youth and life that keeps us in the
center of things will not be with us
then. That strength, that power to
do, that magnetism and energy that
is part of youth and that attracts old
and young, will pass away. So we
hurry and struggle before Time
snatches the gifts away.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1919-10-29
MUSINGS.

A Lonely Graveyard.
The Gifts of Life.
The Poet Saith.
A Lesson Forgotten.
One Flag for All.
Labor and Capital.
Results of BOlsheyism.
No Hope Here.
The Devil and Selfishness.
Tried and Found Wanting.
Service.
Make Childhood Beautiful.
The Truth and the Life.