davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
, 1922-10-04
Sugar PIums Ancient Sweet.

The most ancient sweets are sugai
plums. sugar almonds, and burnt al
monds.
, 1922-10-04
Fire Races In constantInopIe

Constantinople.-A fire is raging in
upper Pera street, a main thorough
fare of the capital. The population
is in a state of panic.
, 1922-10-04
Arabian Vlneaar EInest.

The vinegar made by the Arabs is
aid TO be far superior to any other.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1922-05-19
Voters Want the Facts About
Dry America
REPORT ON RESULTS
SENT BY NICHOLSON
Figures Show Wonderful Benefits
Under Dry Law
WET PROPAGANDA EXPLAINED

Action taken by the Swedish Parlia-
ment on April provides for a vote
on the question of total Prohibition
to be held on August 81. The Anti
Saloon League of Sweden through Su-
perintendent David Ostlund has ap-
pealed to America for facts relative
to the results of Prohibition in this
country. In response to request ca
bled to him, Bishop Thomas Nichol-
son, national president of the Anti
Saloon League sent the following
compilation of facts and figures
Many of these refer particularly to
Illinois and others apply to other
places throughout the entire nation.
Chicago Crime Decreases
The annual report of the Chicago
Crime Commission shows the follow
ino decrease II, m n ;or crio,ec.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1922-05-19
CANNOT DO WITHOUT THE LEAGUE
The Continent, May 4, 1922

ago. full strong
Prohibion This
serious and The Continent hasten
affirmative of which S capable.
If year now
needed
have add their agitation the effort Their combined
ALL
the of
intensely
repealed,
fighting
life which Prohibition basicaly solid
which
bulseye
trained Workers off the
would be
the comeback ntnable
churches who
o Prohibition will in
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The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1922-05-19
AMERICAN BUSINESS MEN
FAVOR PROHIBITION LAW
Australian QUESTIONABLE Shows Big
Majority Against Liquor Return

The Illinois State Journal of Spring
field recently printed the following
Interesting facts acquired by the
Business Mans Efficiency League of
Sidney, Australia, regarding the
workability of Prohibition in the
United States and Canada are con-
tanned in communication received
by the Chamber OF Commerce from
Fred E. Middleton, secretary of the
Sidney league, in acknowledgement of
the report which the Springfield or
ganization sent in answer to their re-
quest concerning the effect of Prohi-
bition on business in this city.
The QUESTIONABLE which the Aus
tralian league sent out and which was
answered by Manager c. E. jerks of
the local Chamber of Commerce, in
quired what effect Prohibition in this
country had had upon business. Man
ager jerks and President w. H. Bruce
stated that as far as could be ascer-
tained business conditions had inn
proved since Prohibition went into
effect, and that, whether due to Pro-
hibition's effect or not, savings ac-
counts in banks had increased.
The communication from the Sid
ney league follows:
I'VE take this opportunity of thank
ing you for the information concern
ing Prohibition in its relation to" bet
ter business, with which you have
supplied us. You will be interested
to know that we have received three
hundred replies to our QUESTIONABLE
from Canada and the United States.
Our correspondents include govern
ors, presidents of Chambers OF COM
merce, bank managers, railway presi
dents, big business concerns, social
workers, etc. No less than thirty-six
of the forty-eight states of the Union
are represented, and seven of the nine
provinces of Canada. The replies in
clude answers varying in length from
three lines from John Wanamaker, the
well-known merchant of Philadelphia,
to typewriter booklet of ten pages
from the Mercantile Trust Company
of San Francisco.
"Of those replying, twenty-six give
non-committal answers, forty-hve give
their judgment that the law is a fail
ure, while pa say with varying de-
gress of emphasis that Prohibition is
proving a decided benefit to the COM
munity generally, and to business in
particular.
"a summary of the evidence we
have received has been submitted to
our members, and as a result of bal
lot on the question our organization
has decided to become permanent
educational agency among Australian
business men in the interest of Pro-
hibition."
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1922-05-19
STRAIGHT FIGHT IN N. ].
ON WET-AND-DRY ISSUE

Governor Edwards will have no op-
position at the primaries for the NOM
nation for United States Senator. At
the polls in November he will contest
with Senator Frelinghuysen who is a
candidate to succeed himself. New
Jersey will then decide between Ed
wards wet as the Atlantic Ocean"
and Freylinghuysen, straight from
the shoulder dry. The contest will be
watched with interest by the country.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1922-05-19
W. C. T. U. REPORTS
ON DRY LAW GAINS
IN CITY OF CHICAGO
Statistics and Statements Show Much
Improvement

The May oath number of the Union
Signal in an article on the results of
Prohibition in Chicago prints the fol-
lowing:
"The year 1921 was heralded far
and wide as a banner health year in
the city of Chicago, the vital statis-
tics furnished by its officials showing
a marked increase in deaths.
"Dr. William A. Evens, health ed
itor of The Tribune, was asked if
Prohibition had been a factor in this
fine health record and he replied in
the affirmative
"Dr. John Dill Robertson, former
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1922-05-19
VOLSTEAD LAW CUTS AC-
CIDENTS S PER CENT

Chicago Evening American)
Steadier nerves as a result of
cutting off the liquor supply has
cut the percentage of accidents
in bridge and structural iron
work from "a to 10, according
to report just issued by the
Bridge and Structural Iron
Workers Union of Chicago. The
tabulation was made on last
Mondays accidents as COM
pared with those of 1919. The
trade is considered one of the
most hazardous in construction
work.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1922-05-19
1876 OF l58 COLLEGE
HEADS POLL DRY
Chicago Herald .Examiner)

The Intercollegiate Prohibition As
sociation made public replies from 15S
college and university presidents, in
forty states, to a QUESTIONABLE asking
what the faculty and students of each
institution thought about Prohibition
in theory and in fact. The replies
showed 1876 favorable to Prohibition,
ten non-committal or indefinite, eight
unfavorable and four favorable to the
theory but unfavorable to present
laws.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1922-05-19

A survey of the entire state by the
parole agents of the division of par
dons and paroles shows that in cities
like Rock Island, Peoria, Springfield,
East St. Louis and Decatur crime
was less during 1920 than in former
years.
In 50 large cities in the United
States over 10000 population arrests
for all causes numbered o86,301 in
1917 and 856,oo3 in 1920
Drunkenness has Decreased
Police records for seven Illinois cit
les which were wet before national
sPrehibition. show the following: -s.a-,,
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1922-05-19
Arrests for

In 50 large cities including New
York, Chicago, and Philadelphia with
a combined population of over TO-
100000 arrests for drunkenness in 1917
numbered 316,842, in 1920, 10o,769, a
decrease of IS per cent
In Chicago arrests for drunkenness
and disorderly conduct decreased as
follows: 55,942 in 1917, 45,414 in
1918, 35,608 in 1919, and $3.50 in 1920,
A nationwide survey by the New
York Herald shows that drinking has
fallen off 20 per cent in the two years
since America went dry. An estimate
published by the New York Herald
based on statistics gathered from
throughout the nation was the basis
of the following conclusion: "The
total consumption of liquor in the
United States today can not be more
than 80 per cent of the consumption
before Prohibition"
Estimates prepared for Prohibition
Commissioner Roy A. Haynes were
made public by him on January IA,
1922, as follows: "Two years of Ma
tional Prohibition have reduced the
number of drinkers of alcoholic bever-
ages in the United States from TO-
100000 to 100000, decrease of H.
100000 Only IS per cent of former
drinkers are drinking now and these
are drinking but S per cent of the
quantity of liquor that was formerly
consumed, while the drink bill of the
nation has decreased two billion dol
lars year"
Sixty-fve Neal Institutes for the
cure of the inebriates have been closed
since America went dry. The large
building occupied for many years by
the Kelley Institute at Dwight, Illi-
nois, for the cure of drunkards has
been leased to the government for
hospital purposes. The Washington
ian Home in Chicago for the treat
ment of drink patients has been
closed.
Poverty and Distress
Institutions for the relief of pow
erty and distress report decrease in
cases caused by drink. Commander
Evangeline Booth in September, 1921,
made the following comment: Year
by year we have celebrated the
Thanksgiving holiday from six in the
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1922-05-19
LIQUOR is BANNED BY
SIGMA DELTA KAPPA
Chicago Daily Tribune)

Booze and the fraternity man
will be as widely separated as
the north and south poles if all
Greek letter organizations fol-
low the example Of members of
the Sigma Delta Kappa fra
ternity, who at the closing ses-
sion of their convention at the
Hotel Sherman passed a resolu-
ton advocating that the letter
and the spirit of the Eighteenth
Amendment be observed
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1922-05-19
Deaths From Alcoholism

Average decrease (per cent? so
The Fifty-fourtl Annual Report of
the New York State Board of Char
tiles for the year 1920 quotes the SUI
perintendent of large city hospital
as giving representative impression
of the influence of Prohibition:
(a) Patients. The intoxicated
lodging house type is seldom seen
now. In the psychopathic serv-
ice marked decrease in the num-
Der of admissions for alcoholism
is noted.
(b) Employees. A marked
change for the better is noted in
their appearance, conduct and per-
formance of duties. They remain
longer in the service.
The year 1921 was the healthiest
in the United States, according to fig
ures submitted by thirty-seven leading
insurance companies, which transact
about 80 per cent of the life insurance
business of the country. The figures
for the first ten months indicate
lowering of the death rate among pol
icy holders from 9.S in 1920 to 8.24 in
1921.
In the hospitals for the insane in
Ohio, of the total admissions in 1911,
11.8 per cent were attributed to alco-
hol, while in 1921 the percentage from
the same cause was 81.
Welfare Facts
Intoxicating liquor is menace to
the general welfare. 1t has always
been detrimental to the health, wealth
and happiness of the people. Its
elimination means better home condi-
tions, decreased cruelty and increased
welfare and happiness of the people.
Drink was factor under license, in
1917, in p per cent OF the cases han
died by the Boston Family Welfare
Society. In 1920 only 2H per cent of
the cases were due to this cause. and
for the first seven months of 1921 (hg-
ures available for this period onlv) the
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1922-05-19

has been no state code to enforce
Prohibition until recently, and few
states do not yet have enforcement
codes. Enforcement activities were
limited to few federal agents.
Where enforcement codes have been
adopted the cooperation OF national,
state and municipal officers will tend
to better enforcement of the law.
The other factor is that many states
were under state Prohibition before
the Eighteenth Amendment went into
effect. In such states as great re-
duction in the number of arrests could
not reasonably be expected as in
states where the sale of liquor had
been licensed.
If you follow newspaper accounts
of crime, you will find many of the
sensational crimes nave their origin
in liquor. This does not prove that
Prohibition provokes crime-it proves
what the drys have always said, that
alcohol provokes crime, and it should
be an added incentive to do away abb
soluteiy and completely with every
form of alcoholic beverage.
Health of the Nation
Science has demonstrated that in
toxicating liquor is narcotic, water
absorbing, irritating drug or poison.
1t is detrimental to health. The
American Medical Association dis
courages its use even as a medicine.
In the following figures showing the
deaths from alcoholism in New York
City, 1918 is omitted because influ-
enza influenced mortality statistics,
and war restrictions had already be-
gun to affect the mortality; 1919 is
omitted because half of it was under
license and half under war Prohibit
ton:
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1922-05-19

Is Prohibition success? This
Wayne Wheeler General Counsel and Legislative
AntSaoon of
Magazine OF
law In the beginning
out that the onha of standard
have prohibited liquors alcoholic
The following Wheees permission
History Magazine published by
reprinted this Issue
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1922-05-19
Children Cared For

Miss Edna Foley, superintendent
of the Visiting Nurses Association,
said: We have never seen SO many
families to whom we minister we'll
dressed and so many children with
shoes and stockings. So many men
are not now tempted because liquor
is so expensive
Statistics from records of the
United Charities of Chicago show a
drop from 499 intemperance cases in
1918 to 81 in 1921"
John ]. Abbott, vice president of
the Continental and Commercial Trust
and Savings Bank of Chicago, said:
Since the date on which National
Prohibition went into effect the saw
ings deposits of this bank have in
creased approximately $10,000,000. or
80 per cent"
The Princeton union., 1922-08-10

by the biggest and
best educational
fair ever staged in
the Northwest.
No other fair or
exposition staged
in America this
year is Offering as
much money for
prizes and pre-
m}1ynoo oo thu N6}~o
The Princeton union., 1922-08-10

The women will come into their own
at the fair. An entire building with an
annex has been set aside for exhibits
OF canning, sewing and baking. Won
ems exhibits will prove to all that in
terest in home-making is as great to-
day as fifty years ago, still making it
the greatest occupation in the world.
Delicious breads and cakes, pies and
cookies, canned foods and other home
made products, will be on tempting
display. Home needle work of every
kind, from fancy work and laces to the
most practical sewing and dressmak-
ing, will be feast for women's souls.
Boys and girls, too, will have ex.
hibits. To them, the fair is to be an
Achievement Week." It will give
them chance to show their parents
and friends what they have learned in
school, and what they are getting out
of their enrolment IN Boys and Girls
Club Work. There will be team dem.
onstrations of all kinds by boys and
girls, showing how expert they have
become in bread making, in sewing,
canning, and in the Judging of live
stock.
The Princeton union., 1922-08-10

nesota State Fair will pav to winners
IN the many exhibits and contests on
the program. One hundred and TWEEN.
weight thousand, four hundred and
forty-nine dollars in prizes is offered
by the fair management-about $1,000
more than was offered in 1921, when
winners in many contests divided
$121,817.00.
A livestock show that will not be
excelled anywhere in the country will
feature the coming fair. The fair has
ofered $59,905.00 in premiums for
livestock exhibits. The remarkable in.
terest that has been shown in the cat.
tie show this year presages the finest
collection of animals that has ever
graced a show at the fair. So many
entries have been received by the man.
agement that the new mammoth cattle
barn erected recently at cost of
O.00-and which was thought
big enough to take care of the needs
OF the cattle department for years to
come-win prove inadequate to house
a; all OF the animals which will be e1-
Especially interesting will be the
exhibit Of dairy cattle. No other in.
dustry has enjoyed such wonderful
The Princeton union., 1922-08-10
PRAY BEFORE STARTING WORK
Among Business Men In coun-
try's Financial Center.

The church that is located in the
business district of a city is developing
new form of use. Within the past
year Trinity church, standing at the
Broadway end of Wall street, New
York, and having great curb market
Immediately behind it. finds steadily
increasing number Of business and pro-
fessional men in its pews from 8 80 to
8 o'clock Of each week day morning,
except Saturday. There is no service
at this hour, and no ministers are
about. It is Immediately before a
busy day. A year ago there were not
enough men in the pews at this morn
ing hour for the sections to take note.
It is to be remembered that at all
hours Trinity has people in its pews,
regardless Of services.
Recently this morning custom has
grown, until at present the numbers
in pews at $3.50 O'clock will reach
forty to fifty. They never bring in
newspapers or books. They do not
come to read or to rest. They come
in, kneel, and pray. Then they go
out and to business. No invitation
ever was given, save the general one
Of opening the doors to all people and
making all pews free.
The Princeton union., 1922-08-10
TIE PRINvzIoN Unlos THuRsDA1, Aueusr i, IL,

neau OF SWINE wa, De exhibited Tor the
$7,110.00 in premiums offered. For the
sheep contests, the fair is Offering
$4,470.
The agricultural building, with its
inspiring exhibits of grains, grasses
and vegetables Of all descriptions, will
be veritable paradise to visitors in
terested in farm crops. Counties Of
the state will vie with each other in
their arrangement of attractive dis
plays from our 1922 Billion Dollar
Harvest" Nearly $20,o0o.oO in cash
prizes will be paid out for winning
exhibits.
The thousands Of plants and flow
ers, and heaping displays of fruits and
vegetables, will convert the horticul-
tural building into veritable fairy
land. Luscious plums, rosycheeked
apples, shapely pears and peaches, and
delicious strawberries and grapes, will
peep out at visitors from long rows of
exhibits. Beautiful flowers and
shrubs, rich in color and design, will
draw out numerous "Ah's" and "Oh's"
from passers by.
The Princeton union., 1922-08-10
Unknown AUstraiia.

A motoring expedition which will
occupy months and cover ground
hitherto untraversed without the aid
OF camels and donkeys is being under
taken from Adelaide for Darwin, re-
turning through the bush country of
Queensland, New South Wales, and
Victoria, approximately 5000 miles.
The party includes Mr.. McCallum, a
state legislator and authority on pas
toral stock, who is financing the trip
and will report to the federal gov
ernment on the possibilities Of settle
ment and development OF the interior
by whites, also on the benefits of a
transcontinental line. Captain White,
a noted ornithologist, will collect birds
In connection with the Australian
check list which has occupied scien-
lists for years and will be completed
In October-London Times Weekly.
The Princeton union., 1922-08-10
CHINESE CITY WORTH SEEING.
Hong Kong, Though in Control Of the
British, 10 in Way PecuIi-
arIy Oriental.

The recent visit Of the prince of
Wales to Hong Kong has drawn atten-
tion once more to that island, known
by it's residents as the ''Island Of
Sweet Waters.''
Great Britain obtained Hong Kong,
80 years ago, by the treaty of Nan
king, and though she took care, in
1893, to lease nearly 400 miles Of the
adjacent Chinese mainland, in order
to make this outpost more secure
against attack, the Far East has come
to think Of Hong Kong less as a Brit
ish fortified naval station than as
commercial port, admirably admin
istered by a British governor, serving
South China.
Victoria, the city, stretches for four
miles along the northern shore of the
rocky island and faces the Kowloon
peninsula, separated from it only by a
narrow strait only half a mile wide.
Above the city rises the famous
Peak, where the lucky people have
houses, high up out of the heat, and
whose summit can be reached quite
quickly In miniature train that is
hauled up it's steep sides like lift,
and initiates the visitor into one Of
the classic examples Of relativity for
while one is in it, the houses clinging
to the hill all seem to be stuck on
sideways and in imminent danger Of
falling off into the abyss below.
The view from the Peak is ex-
quisite, especially at dawn or before
darkness falls.
Down below all is hustle and noise.
The streets are thronged with hun
dreds Of jostling Cinnamon, and the
native part of the city, by night, Lit
up with lanterns and gay with open
shop fronts, is stimulating welter
Of color and strange sounds, and
peculiar, battling odors.-Montreal
Family Herald.
The Princeton union., 1922-08-10
New Cattle Feed for Army.

Compressed forage, composed Of
pure oats and other grains, pressed in
to bricks made with a binder Of
molasses, has been successfully devel-
oped at Camp Lewis. The bricks are
II inches long, inches wide and III
inches thick. Perforations make it
possible to break up the bricks by
hand If only portions are to be fed
to the army horses or mules. With
the new compressed feed, it Is pointed
out, horse can 60 into battle carry
ing it's rations as the soldier carries
his own. Tests were made on so an
imals at Camp Lewis, and all but four
took readily to the new compressed
feed, according to the report Of the
chief camp veterinarian. With the ex-
ception Of two Of the animals, all
gained weight and maintained their
working efficiency. No sickness was
observed. One stallion gained 46
pounds in 30 days.-Popular Mechan-
les Magazine.
The Princeton union., 1922-08-10

turkey-like. and by his bedside sat a
nurse, waiting for the moment when
Mr.. Fotheringay might decide to open
his eyes.
Mr.. Fotheringay had not opened his
eyes, but he was speaking. did they
find it? Did they find it?" he asked
in weak whisper.
"Yes, yes, Mr.. Fotheringay," an
swered the nurse.
"Mr. Fotheringay stretched out his
hand "Give it to me-" he muttered.
The nurse took the metal disk from
the bureau and placed it in Mr.. Foth-
eringay's hand. It was dime.
The Princeton union., 1922-08-10
Youna Solomon.

Elinor Glyn, the daring novelist,
said at Coronado tea:
youth has strange ideas. I saw a
composition that Los Angeles boy Of
fourteen wrote the other day on The
Ages of Man. The composition ran
like this:
""There are three ages of man. One,
When we are young we think of the
sins we will commit when we grow
up. This is the Age Of Innocence.
""Two, When we grow up we com
nit these sins. This is called the
Prime of Life.
"'Three, When we are old we are
sorry we committed them. This Il
our Dotage.'"
The Princeton union., 1922-08-10
$2,500,000 FAIR
PROGRAM READY
Greatest Exposition Ever Staged
in World Promised on
Sept. 2 to 9.

A score Of fairs within fair-that
is what the great Minnesota State
Fair. Twin Cities, September to ..
will be this year.
In point Of entries and in quality of
exhibits, this years fair will function
as an international exhibition More
than 260 acres Of exhibits, valued at
more than $2,50O,00c, will be presented
The Princeton union., 1922-08-10
Record Cattle Show al State Falr

RECORD cattle Snow at State Fair.
The biggest cattle show ever staged
in the middle west will feature the
Minnesota State Fair, Twin Cities,
September to 9. More than 1000
head of cattle will be exhibited on the
main floor of the $5OO,O00 Cattle Barn.
Premiums amounting to $24,773.0O
have been put up by the State Fair.
The Princeton union., 1922-08-10

throughout the Northwest. That pros.
perity follows the dairy COW was
proved to farmers and breeders many
times the past two years, when the
Northwest remained one of the most
prosperous agricultural sections in
the entire country.
Both the swine and the sheep shows
will be larger than ever. Nearly 1000
The Princeton union., 1922-08-10

T he greatest
barnyard chorus
of the year will
be heard in the
po ultry show,
where more than
1000 birds will be
shown. The prize
winning birds will
be given prem.
i11ma Of 50 OG7 m