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Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1922-09-02
Democratic Floor Leader
COmmends GOldsbOrOugh

No Democratic candidate for denomination member of
Congress probably has recommendation than this
week accorded Congressman Alan Godsbooug First
District People of the Eastern Shore naturally interested in
what impression Congressman Godboough has made with his
colleagues in Congress during the last years and Tuesday
The Cenevle Observer this telegram Claude Ktchn,
Democratic floor leader of Congress-
Hon. Claude Kitchin,
Scotland Neck ~ c.
What is your and his colleagues estimate T. Colds
borough member of Congress
THE CENTREVILLE OBSERVER.
Wednesday morning the following telegram received
Nh. Kitchn:
Centrevile Observer,
Centrevile Maryland.
Answering your inquiry. will say Hon. 7. Alan GodSborOugh is
regarded by his colleagues able dgent and patriotic
representative
He has ple-emnen degree the esteem and confidence
of the entire membership of the House. regardless party
OF the many members who the SixySeventh
Congress, has promising than he His Dis
tct may well he proud of him and any District
fortunate in having such a representative.
CLAUDE KITCHIN.
political advertisement published by authority of AIDA p
Whby. Political Agent.)
Next Tuesday is Registration day allow coming of
who not already registered get the books they
can vote in the Primaries
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1922-09-02
Notice of
Opening of Schools

The teachers and patrons Of the
Public Schools of Worcester County
are hereby notified that the schools
will be opened for the Fall Term
If 1929. a. follows:
White Schools. september eth
Colored Schools, September 18th.
A. C. HUMPHREYS Supt.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1922-09-02
GIRDLETREE NJ. 2. CHURCH

Services Sunday, Sept. 3rd, as fol
lows:
Portersville-lO.3O, A. NJ.
Girdletree-3.00, =. NJ Revival.
Observation-Disclosures. i. NJ.
Evangelistic services beginning
this Sunday at Girdletree, lasting
two weeks. J. 7. GEORGE. Pastor.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1922-09-02
PRIMARY
Notice

Notice is hereby given that the
officers of Registration Of voters of
Worcester County will meet at the
time and place hereinafter disig-
mated, for the purpose Of registering
new voters. Said sitting of the
Registration Officers will be held on
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1922-09-02
STATION e. wHALEY, Solicitors.
Mortgage Sale
Or VALUABLE
FARM

BY virtue Of the power contained
in a mortgage from Posie f. Tu
and Maurice J. Tull, her husband, to
Richard 7. Ames, Margaret S. Fin
ney, William :. Ashby and J. Coley
A>hby. dated January 13, 1921, re-
corded among the land records of
Worcester County, Maryland.in Liber
o. d. C. No 20, folio log, default
having occurred therein, the under
signed will sell at public auction to
the highest bidder in front Of the
Court House at Snow Hill, Worces-
te, County. Maryland,
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1922-09-02
& UPSHUR, Solicitors.
,RUPT SALE
OF VALUABLE
and Personal
Estate

virtue of orders of the Hon.
G. Rose, Judge of the District
Z of the United States for the
rist of Maryland, passed in the
ser of William Wigton, bankrupt,
of Lula A. Wigton, bankrupt.
sectively, the undersigned will sell
public auction on the premises
Ire the said William Wigton and
1. A. Wigton now reside, near the
e road between Berlin and Ocean
Z, in Worcester County, Mary
nm
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1922-09-02
What is your
VEuture WorthC

"YORTH is matter of fitness whether it is in
~ work or in goods The purpose thing or act
M fill, makes it valuable Your worth is
measured by what you do.
What today? WHAT WILL YOU BE WORTH FIVE
YEARS FROM NOW attitude
that
will tell Take seriously Plan ahead Short
Bookkeeping
Day and Night School all the
OPENS SEPTEMBER
Baltimore opportunity prepared
List desirable boarding We shall be
making a selection May you catalog?
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1922-09-02
Public Sale
Personal Property

Having decided to discontinue
farming, will sell at public sale at
my residence on South Main street,
Berlin, Md. on
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1922-09-02
FRANKLIN UPSHUR.

7 I9tft-s
TAKE NOTICE.-The creditors of
William Wigton, bankrupt, add of
Lula A. Wigton, bankrupt, are hereby
notified that the sale of the real and
personal property of the said bank
rupts will take place at the time and
place and upon the terms above men
toned.
F. w. c. WEBB,
Referee.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1922-09-02

From o'clock, a. m, to O'Clock
p. m. at the following places:
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1922-12-15
SCOTTISH DRYS MADE GOOD
PROGRESS FIRST BALLOT

Mrs. G. c. Milne, Aberdeen, told
the convention Of the results of the
first local option or local veto vote in
Scotland In spite of the desperate
efforts put forward by the solidly
entrenched liquor interests some 400
licenses have been cancelled and al
townships have gone dry; IS others
have voted for a rs per cent reduction
in the number of licenses.
She declared that it was discourag-
ing to think that SOB districts had
gone completely wet but nevertheless
the future was not hopeless for the
analysis of the total vote put diff
ferent complexion on the matter. OF
all the voters 80 PEI cent had gone
dry. She declared that the church did
its part-in way,-adding. Officially
it was splendid. Practically it was
nowhere. The assemblies moved
resolutions, but as somebody has
said, the apostles never framed resolu-
tons. Much is left to be desired in
regard to the churches in Scotland.
Il am not blaming them. 1t is not
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1922-12-15
AFRICAN VOICES APPEAL
Sierra Leone Man Declares People
of His Continent Need Prohibi-
ton

From a hundred and fifty millions
of people of Africa, Sylvester Brod-
erick, of Sierra Leone, brough greet
ings to the Toronto Convention. Said
he:
"If you were to go to Africa, espe-
cially along the West Coast, where l
come from, you would find that we
need Prohibition. Along in the har-
vest season Of the year when the peo-
pie gather their crops from the farms,
they offer sacrifices and among the
elements in their sacrifice they have
a bottle of whisky or rum which they
give to their god in thankfulness for a
good harvest.
"And then you ask this question:
Where does this whisky come from?
So far as my knowledge goes, we do
not have dstillery in Africa. So we
can infer that all the alcohol comes
from foreign countries and therefore
you can see that if there is Prohibition
in foreign countries Africa will go dry.
During my two years stay in Amer
lea | have studied the Prohibition ques-
ton and I can see it is mighty sue
cess, and l look forward to the time
when Africa and all the rest of the
world will go dry"
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1922-12-15
LIQUOR MILLENNIUM HAS
NOT YET ARRIVED IN B. c.
Vancouver Paper Shows Liquor
Control Is Not Making Good
In West Country.
PRISONERS DOUBLED
Three Days After October Clean
up Liquor Illegally Sold in
Vancouver

Mr.. A, Z. Cooke who addressed the
convention on the liquor situation in
British Columbia, calls attention to
some errors in the report OF the adj
dress from which the story appearing
in last weeks American Issue was
taken. In letter to the Toronto
Globe Mr.. Cooke says
1.-THE statistics as to the amount of
liquor sold were taken not from
government blue books (for such do
not yet exist except the first annual
report of the Liquor Control Board
which only covers nine and one-half
months), but from the Vancouver
World, the government organ i'll Van
couver, and from statements of men,
bers in the legislature Other figures
were taken from the official records
OF the Vancouver police court and the
attorney generals department. The
only member of the provincial cabinet
quoted was the attorney general
whose definite statements to the
British Columbia press were used, but
it was my own statement, not his,
that the liquor control system was a
failure. l pointed out that he as an
honest official was making strenuous
efforts to enforce the majesty of the
law when the moral force of the law
was ad'-killed in fact by the act of
his own department which fills men
with the liquor which drives them to
violate all law.
"The list of 200 clubs I exhibited
as having been selling liquor illegally
in Vancouver early in October, was
not supplied or compiled by the
police but by a private detective who
visited them and furnished their
names and addresses. Many of these
places are now closed since the
murder of Constable McBeath on
Otober 9, but it is simply question
of time until many Vi them will re-
open as they have done repeatedly be-
fore now
another slight corrections: 1t was
not after one year of control but
during the first year of government
control that the total number of
prisoners in our provincial jails was
1909 as against 845 in 1918 and $50
in 1919 under Prohibition. These
figures come from the attorney gem
erals office. 1t is also true that in a
number of places liquor could be
bought illegally three days after the
cleanup of the city in October but
not in hundreds OF plaes. 1t will
take some little time before they can
resume business on that SCALE"
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1922-12-15

Hon. w. E. Raney, Encouragement
of Ontario, one of the speakers at the
Saturday night banquet. declared that
he is ashamed of what Canada is doing
in the way of an impediinent to the en-
forcement OF the prohibitory law in the
United States. He pointed to the fact
that the province of Ontario has gone
as far as it can in temperance legisla-
ton and any further Legislation look
ing to correcting the defects in en-
forcement would have to come from
the dominion government. lie made
special reference to the breweries and
distilleries as consciously contributing
to the breaking of the law in the states.
In this connection he said: "a
am convinced that nations will
soon compel their subjects to re-
spect the laws of other states.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1922-12-15

"For several decades temperance
work has been carried on in all Scan
d;navian countries, and there is ground
to believe that the day is near when
total Prohibition will be an established
rule in all OF them with a population
of 100000 persons. One country,
Finland, has total Prohibition already
and was even so days ahead of the
United States in that respect. Nor
way has half way Prohibition, mas
much making and selling of all drinks
stronger than IA per centum of alcohol
is banned. There is no doubt that
Norway has had some benefit as to
temperance from this law, that has
been in effect since 1916, first issued
as war measure, but adopted in Sep
TENDER, 1921, as general law.
Sweden with its population of 100000
has had organized temperance work
more than one century, or since 1919,
when Peter Wieselgren, later district
pastor in the state church, organized
the first temperance society. From
1879 the international Order of Good
Templars had worked in Sweden and
done a most excellent work. Other
temperance organizations of similar
character were also established and
gained foothold. The total member
ship of all such organizations at the
beginning of this century exceeded
100000.
"The work Of the societies not only
rescued thousands of individuals from
drink and prevented other thousands
from falling, but il created at the same
time strong public sentiment for
prohibitive legislation. The great Pc
tition OF more than $4,000 men and
women in io0o-lol0. asking for per.
manent total Prohibition, is the grand
est expression of public sentiment re-
garding Prohibition, that any nation
has ever shown.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1922-12-15
THE FIGHT FOR PROHIBITION IN SWEDEN
David Osund Secretary the AnSoon League of Sweden
World Against Alcoholism

"This petition did not bring Prohibi-
ton there and then, because Sweden
had at that time an undemocratic way
of government. The so-called higher
classes had power to restrain the will
of the people, and did it.
However, the mighty expression of
the peoples will awoke the enemies of
Prohibition to do something in order
to keep their positions for the future.
They were bound to admit, that the
liquor system that Sweden had at that
time, the Gothenburg system, was far
from giving satisfaction, and that some
measures were needed.
"This was the reason for the appear
ance of the well-known DR.. Ivan Bratt
on the scene of temperance reform.
"The Bratt system is impossible to
carry outl
"The evil thing can not be regulated.
at must be stamped out!
an the course of seven years tina,
system has spread to such an extent
that about one million persons have
their right---their Motbook--to buy
whisky.
"One of every six Swedes possesses
such book. 1t has been said that this
book is more popular than the Bible.
"The message of victory in the U. S.
A. as we'll as in Canada thrilled the
great crowds all over in Sweden. The
churches, having for past decades left
the temperance work to the regular
temperance organizations received with
great enthusiasm the story how the
Anti-Saloon League of America, the
church in action against the saloon,
and as your speaker went from place
to place speaking either in the state
churches or in the free religious
churches, there began to be felt great
need of similar organization in Sweden,
that could fight in the strength of the
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1922-12-15
CANADIAN CONDEMNS SOCIAL GLASS
Not Brawling Street Drunkenness,
But Sideboard Drinking is the Real
Menace

The Rev. Father Lance1ot Minehan,
Toronto, Canada, in an address Mon
day afternoon, November 81, carried
the war into the ranks of those whom
he termed the most dangerous op-
ponents of Prohibition--the advocates
of the social glass and the sideboard
decanter. He declared that it was not
the brawling street drunkenness
which had convinced him of the
necessity of absolute Prohibition, but
the appreciable dulling of the finer
sensibilties and consequent domestic
tragedies which were the sequal of
the respectable drinking"
Father Minehans remarks carried
additional weight because he stated
at the outset that although lifelong
abstainer he had not always favored
Prohibition of alcoholic beverage. ex-
planning: Il was opposed to interior
ing with individuals liberty. While l
wanted the open bars closed, I was
anxious to maintained human dignity
in the right to choose and refrain
without going to the extreme.
hoped to unite moderation in the use
of strong drink with safety. l found
we could not.
i have never seen any company
where the social glass was circulated
even once that the moral sense was
not blunted and womaniy modesty
perceptibly diminished. | therefore
concluded that the only way was to
withdraw the social glass altogether.
That is my reason for being Pro-
hibitionist although my inherited
national tendencies were against
radical interference with personal
liberty"
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1922-12-15
CHALLENGES u. S. TO HOLD LAW
Mrs. Deborah Knox Livingsto

Superintendent Citizenship w C. T. Executive
Committee World League Against Alcoholism
privilege International gatherings both
of Atlantic held recently above
represented significant
reaching Every of the worlds problem for the
habit the drink discussed
Of international fame. The addresses and discussion brought much
delegate and each felt challenged
greatness making
world.
The Toronto established of with def
program poythe policy which
organizations will find place and have The inspiration of such
be estimated words but the influences by
gathering will their nation the earth
cryang which
dedicate energy and strength
The Toronto Convention emphasized the need
regarding the truth about alcohol and the need of organization
challenged
hold enforce its law the contribution toward world
Prohibiona challenge which American citizen
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1922-12-15
BuoLE CALL TO DRY FORCES OF WORLD
Cora Frances Stoddard
Executive Secretary Scientific Temperance Bureau

Executive Secretary Scientific Temperance Bureau
The buge call the world wide forces
fighting vision alcoholism
International question which be dealt with only by
solidarity
To and
deepened responsibility holding and
the liquor has been gained
program
phases illuminate them with the
from lands
The keynote Secretary
nvncible
their application social and
Gona1 conditions.
part inspiration of the Convention due the
spiritual aousg eadyng holding
in many nations
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1922-12-15
LABOR GROUP
INTERESTING SIDELIGHTS

No speaker received a greater ova-
ton at the banquet than James Simp-
son, labor leader of Toronto. Mr.
Simpson said that he saw in this con-
vention the harbinger of another
league of nations. He said: eff the
same spirit which animates this gath
ering could be brought into interna-
tional relationships there would be nc
question OF any more war;"
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1922-12-15
OPINIONS OF WOMEN
LEADERS
GREAT IN PLANNERS, HOSPITALITY
AND SPEAKERS
Anna A. Gordon

A
President Worlds w T. u, President w C. T. u of the United States.
Joint President World League Against Alcoholism
World Against Alcoholism
chimes weather. good humor and fraternal spirit The
launching bound make its The
will nightly forward intelligent conservation of
delegates from countries the inspiring of
freeing the world 'front.' the raj in beverage alcohol.
gathering will be three outstanding
Canada and the United States from
Prohibition highest observance and enforcement Hun
public
ship
will back their first
Prohibition
United States prepared nteigny
the liquor Third
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1922-12-15
MARKS AN EPOCH
K. c. w. Crooke,
Superintendent Anti Saloon League of
Florida

The World League Against Alcohol
ism in convention at Toronto with its
thousands OF delegates from SO or more
nations representing every section OF
the world, with its facts, figures, en-
thusiasm and intelligent inspiration l
consider to be the greatest meeting for
its purpose ever gathered together on
this globe. 1t marks an epoch from
which every nation will count the
quickening years which hasten the
breakdown of the beverage liquor pro
gram and the steadily advancing vic
tory for world Prohibition.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1922-12-15
HEARD ROUND WORLD
Samuel c. Dickie,

President Albion College, Michigan
The Toronto Convention was great
gathering. 1t cannot fail to give in.
SEPARATION and courage to noble men and
women everywhere. The high note Of
the Convention will be heard around
the world.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1922-12-15

easy for a Christian minister to speak
out when he has men in the front
pew who are substituting the church
and making money manufacturing
liquor"
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1922-12-15
Lord of Hosts against the fearful foe
of home and church and nation.


of home and church and nation.
"In March, 1920, Swedish Anti
Saloon League was organized. thor
oughly according to the pattern of
u. S. A., with representatives of the
free religious churches of the country,
duly elected by the church boards; also
from the state church representatives
were chosen. 1t was remarkable
hour indeed, when at the great General
Church Council in Stockholm, OH the
oath day of March, 1920, with Sweden's
archbishop, Rev. Nathaniel Soderblom
in the chair, the Swedish state church
decided to be represented in the Swed-
ish Anti-Saloon League and elected
four pastors as representatives.
THE result is already visible : While
at the outset of the Anti-Saloon
League propaganda in Sweden scarcely
dozen of the state church clergy
would take the stand for total Prohibi-
ton and their number is always on the
increase.
while most of the free religious
pastors, 1919, were Indifferent as to
the temperance work and especially
Prohibition, it will now be very diff
cult to find one single free religious
pastor in the whole country who is not
Fundamentally with us in the fight.
1--WE did not gain a majority in the
plebiscite held August u, 1922.
Votes against Prohibition 924,934
Votes for Prohibition -. SS9,028
Wet majority .......... 1920
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1922-12-15

The history of the progress of the
downfall of King Alcohol is also the
history of the progress of the uplift of
the human sace.-Mr. Hits, Comptroller
of Toronto.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1922-12-15

Superintendent Citizenship Dept W. C. u and member Exc
Committee World League Against Alcoholism
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1922-12-15

"The campaign was we'll managed
and strong fight.
"On both sides of the question it
was the belief that the drys would roll
up strong majority. When it was
not done the Brat system must be
named as the foremost reason. The
Notebook has had a controlling power
on more people than we expected.
Next must be named the flood of wet
lies that the daily press sent out over
the people. With one or two excep-
tons all the great daily papers were in
the hands of the enemy. 1t was bet
ter in this respect in the country dis
tricts. Last, but by no means least
must be mentioned the trade treaty
difficulties of Iceland and Spain. The
enemies of Prohibition stated very
strongly that Sweden would come into
like difficulties if the dry policy should
be adopted"
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-01-15
Divorces Among French
Reach Alarming Stage,
Woman Lawyer Declares

But jvyu taking the offcpt uf tho
war into consideration % is ucvcr-
thcless true that the divorce rate Is
RAPIDLY increasing 300 o. dlsuulr'lug
fashion Somc people say We
must revise tho laws We are drift.
Ing toward that pnst uoing fashion
prevalent iu certain parts ot the
tultod states. Vhrt, lawyers tesurc
their clients divorces 90 ultrn.tupId
speed
The social Nngic.
Certainly ~ is the duty uf the 'cr-
islntors co. strengthen tho smurrluHv
tic and not tu wvatcn o. But CON.
trnry to what most pouplo s'oW tu
hplicvc. 10 b. not the Limitation ~
the puusoA for divorce thpt ia ih"
remedy Tho French courts. at
leaat have mover granted q divorce
whom thoV believed there was "a poe
sihlc chance FOR reconciliation.
Furthermore. Il would hc arbitrary
to compel two people to continue "a
common existence. when that hnd
become Impossible.
For thusr who study the question
apart from pU rrlgiuu- oriuion"
without political paH7iuu uod win
out mon'u roaorviilou', diVurr" w
necessary Ovll n lg remedy fur
certain tragic situations Whrto the
pruluuralluu uf m, muruud stat"
woutd lee iutnlorablo And m Mt oft .
en- tho interests or the two parties
To- the mlrr'urc coincide with those
Of their ,hll lrou daily witnesses tu
painful encounters
n a. not lu limiting tho number uf
divorces but In Improving the mHl.
ringo laws that our Legislators VIII
respond tn tho wighcs of those who
are alarmed at this startling IN
crease Tho almost unlimited pow
ers conferred upon tho husband az
bend of the family and the suhor-
dinniinn ~ woman to him are pct-
hnpa two ~ the serious rnugc9 ot al
vcvCc Thrac are only two. IN leg
iflntior hcrc In preventive moth
Cd. lust ns there is I'm medicine, Tho
problem of divorce should rot hc
treated ne n local disease. Every
thing that works mr the improve
mpnt uf married life for a moro Just
balance Ia ;Es moral and uuicrini
conditions uf husband and wife, IL
worth more than system OF dc
fenEc and restriction.