Williams news., 1919-01-31
DRY U. s. A.

got busy, old John Barleycorn was just as much out of luck as the Kaiser was when the Tanks got started over in France. 1t | is hard to realize that the thing has really been done so quickly. U. s. Dry! The saloon gone forever
 Many pages of the history of these days of human progress will be devoted to telling of the benefits that will accrue to the American nation as result of national prohibition. A few of the benefits are so apparent that they may be foretold with out the gift of prophecy.
 When America found herself engaged in giant trial at arms with the German Empire, she awoke for the first time to a full realization of the enormous amount of national wealth that she was annually burning up in harmful alcoholic drinks. Needing all of her grain, she saw the folly of permitting more than a million bushels to be wasted each year in this manner. Needing every pound of coal to prosecute the war, she saw the enormity of burn ing millions of tons each year, to distill and transport bad | spirits. And labor! America | awoke with start upon seeing that enough labor was being wasted annually in the prose cution of this one industry, to turn the tide, of the war.
 1t follows naturally that that which is so wasteful in time of war, must, likewise, be waste full in time of peace. The re- suit was inevitable. Johns day of doom had come. 1
 In the future, the grain here tofore wasted in making harm full drinks, will go to feed the hungry; the coal to warm the nations homes, and the labor will turn to making clothing, furniture, machinery-a thous- and things for the comfort and enrichment of the people of the nation.
 No one can doubt that the moral benefits which America will derive, from this new law, must far outweigh the econom- ic, and yet moralists might have .hOuted this truth while the sun continued to shine, without gaining hearing. It is only !. when you get the hard headed business men behind move ment-because they are con- vinced that it is good business that there is hope of success: But,s now, having passed the thru economic necessi- ty, we may drink our cup of pleasure in contemplating the moral benefits that must also acrue.
 In the first place, our crowd ed public istitutions are now in line for respite. There will be fewer crimes, there will be fewer inmates for the hospitals for the insane, fewer incorrigi- bles for the reform schools, and there will be less need for charity and fewer paupers. Mans life will be heightened and his days will be made pleasanter3 and happier. Our soldiers in this war, reflecting national character, stood out above all others for upright character and clean living. The next generation will far excel the present.
 Look at American life from any angle, and the benefits that must inevitably result from na- tional prohibition, become ap- parent. The opposition will rapidly melt away. Sentiment favoring the strict enforcement of the law will rapidly grow; and, fifty years from now, peo- pie will look back and wonder at the poor ignorant forefathers who believed booze necessary that prohibition was against F human nature, etc., just as we laugh at the beliefs and super stitions of three hundred years ago.
 Erie Poison who has been at San Antonio, Texas, for the past year, received his dis n h or~a o& To xa- AZ l