, 1925-01-14
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Some people re worried over the Yellow Peril, others arr fearful lest
Jews and Catholics. For oursef, we cannot sleep nights thinking about the
Methodist Menace. According to a recent dispatch there re now 47119s4
Methodists in the country which includes only the preparatory and full
fedged members and does not count affiliated, nonresident members of
and there are o Chinese Methodlts Philippine Methodits, French and
Spanish Methodists. According to the report, they increased in 10 area in
the United States last year, with Nebraska the banner Methodist state,
Somebody with a talent for nosing ut unmspected facts and proving
them with figures, makes the statement that there is al annual minimum
in the United State of 5000 deaths and 5000 cases of serious, permanent
disability arising o vi of the use of poisonous homemade liquors. This is
not so surprising, but he makes the further statement that usually the vic
Tins are not, S might be supposed, the village drunkards, but protesting
prohibitioniss. While the "wets" are discriminating and particular, and
make their purchases from merchants whose goods are made by experts
the poor prohibitonits, unskined and bunging, have to manufacture their
own by stealth, with the consequence that they frequently keel over and
croak from drinking their w product:
Neuman Harding, IN amiable visitor from across the water, writes to
Frederick Thrasher, of the University of Chicago, suggesting the death
Doc Wilson clarence True) in his bulletin published by the Board of
Temperance, Prohibition and Public Morals of the Methodist Church. says:
prohibition enforcement is becoming more effective every day, and this
ton between federal and local authorities" In the next issue he admits
that there are 5000 bOOtleggers in Washington, D. C. alone. Somehow we
A dispatch from Washington states that reports from hospitals in
various sections of the country show that alcoholic cases treated this year
far exceed those of other years. In Bellevue hospital, New York City,
alone the alcoholic cases have jumped from 1000 in 1921 to $500 in 1924.
If 1916 stills were connscated in 1924, imagine the output of those
duct. Small wonder that those who are penaized for having brains, in
dustry and thrift by the payment of an income tax, squhm when they have
Mbhion.
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Some of the bootleggers in prison at Atlanta, Georgia, are mirionaires,
but the government has found n 0 wa of coniscating their wealth
A meeting was recently held in Copenhagen to discuss measures to
combat the "pernhious activities of American and native prohibition agents
and prevocateurs o working busny to fokt upon Europe the humihating
bondage of the hypocritcal American Prohibition law"
At a public meeting Major Hutton of Helsingfors declared that Finland
was o the only absolutely dry country in Europe, Norway and Iceland
being but semdry countries. Prior to going dry, Finland had, Major Hutton
asserted, a lower consumption of alcoholic beverages than any other country
in Europe. After the introduction of prohibition the picture changed, he
declared, adding that FINLAND now is stepped in liquors" Enormous amounts
OF liquor. good and bad, were daily struggled into the country, it being M
possible for the government to curb the rum traffic owing to Finlands
enormous stretches of coast line, he asserted, and declared in conclusion
that the Finish hospitals we're crowded with victims of drink.
Thorfnn Michaelson, a Norwegian delegate, said that yer the more
moderate form of prohibition now established in Norway had had similar
results.
In looking I've a list of authors whose new books we're among the
Christmas fiction, we remarked that the fashion in names has changed
since Charles Dickens, William Makepeace Thackery and James Fennmore|
Cooper wrote our stories for us. instead of plain Georges and Johns we
now find romantic and high-soundng names like these of the heroes in
Bertha NJ. Cays fiction. Floyd Dell, Gerald Bullet, Noel Syyestre, Tenn
pie Bailey, Basil King, Cecil Roberts, Archibald Marshall, Ramon Cofman,
Ileyenyn Jones, Claude Farrere, and Kenneth Burke, were a few Of the
stylish names among the new authors.