Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1921-11-11
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Commander Evangeline Boot, Of .
the Army in this country, makes
what may be considered an official |
report on the early fruits of nation
wide Prohibition. "Boozer's day"
has been an established Army in
stitution in New York City for
long time. Year by year. writes
Commander Booth, I'VE have CO..
ebrated the Thanksgiving hol-
day from six i'll the morning COL
lecting tile drpnks from the pa, X
benches, feeding them and sober
ing them up, and saving them
with huge and lasting results.
But last year they we've not there
and so we gave the dav to Il e
poorest children of the great city,
And here Commander Booth finds
one Of the most significant of |
tile early results Of Prohibition"
as far as the Salvation Army isl
concerned.
1t means that III the future
we shall have less to do with the
grave, and more to do with tie
cradle; less binding up of Iife's
broken plants, and more training
Of nte'S untramneled vines; tllat
more Of our energy, our ing cnicus
methods, will be thrown into the
work Of prevention, which in the
anal analysis must be so much
more valuable to the home, the.
nation and the Kingdom of God
than even the most worthy work
of cure"
| Who better than the Salvation
Army, it is asked, can speak of
the results OF the Punishment
from the streets and novels of the
poor of this liquid fire and dis
titled damnation?' She answers
that the Army social secretaries
lreport that drunkenness among
the men frequenting the Army
hotels and [ Industrial Homes has
almost entirely disappeared, that
men who could hardly support
themselves from day to day now
possess savings accounts. In one
hotel twenty-five men, who before
Prohibition could muster only
dime among then1, now have de-
poslts ranging from 500 to $500.
| Above all III Importance are
the benefits which Commander
! Booth finds have accrued to the
lChijdren. Better prenatal care
! for the mother, more food. I'M
proved clothing, more money. and
above every thing else, the absen-
&C OF lnebriation's brutalitles, are
laIl III evidence, telling i'll the life
chances of these infants. " Com
mander Booth has been asked eff
it is true that law is being violat-
ed" Her answer is:
Yes, as the laws against ar
son, theft and murder have been
violated; but these laws and their
penalties rema IN, aud 50 will tile
Eighteenth Amendment stand
1--WE recognize that the task of
banisl1ing all Intoxicating liquor
from the land is a Stupendous, a
engthy one, but the same strong
forces of moral sentiment, scien-
titlc education, aud business pru.
denCe which made outlaw of its
sale and manufacture are equa
to tile undertaking. And, behind
S forts, there must also be
reshoned with the dynamics oil
divi inspirations"
But will prohibition stand?
Without hesitation lie Salvation
Isl Itader replies Yes"
THE edifce of Prohibition
has been well aud Substantially
built, its labor has not been spas
nodlc nor its material cheap, aud
what IT has taken so many years
to raise up would surely take asI
many years to pull down. There
fore, for the future, we are un-
afraid. The coming generation,
growing up without alcohol, edu-
Gated in tile history of its abuses
against hygiene, commerce, and
morality, will muster so vast an
army against their fathers greatl
est foe as to protect from any and |
every jeopardy the legislation
which safeguards their national
life.
By the Constitutions Amend-j
ment of Prohibition a measure
has been enacted that will dol