The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1926-04-23

classes, the lowering of standards,
the fiask-carrying, and other disgust
/ ing and degrading practices which
have been introduced among those
who ought to know better. We must
remember, however, that the pictures
of these violations of the law are
drawn usually by those who wish to
use them as an argument for the re-
peal or modification of the law. When
its modification is desired by the sin
cere friends of prohibition, some
modification of it may and probably
will be made "
Bishop Beecher says, 81 disapprove
of the principle of the modification
of the Act because l do not believe
there is a middle ground"
claw enforcement is no more than
the spirit of the citizenry makes it. !"
Central High School, Kansas City is
against student drinking. The school
paper, "The Luminary," carried an
editorial calling upon students to
condemn this low and disgusting
habit" of drinking intoxicants in VIC
latiOn of the Prohibition law and fay
ed students who practiced this habit
Several of the societies of the school
are backing a movement for reform,
many of them having already gone
on record to the effect by adopting
amendments to their constitutions
which threaten expulsion for any
member seen in a state of intoxica-
ton in a public place. An editorial
In '"The Luminary" said: ct is con-
temptible; it denotes a lack of breed
ing; it is reflection on home train
ing; it reveals an inferior intellect.
Since the adoption of the prohibition
amendment, the liquor question has
been one of continual Jest. This lest
If it is One-has given rise to the
greatest crop of smart alexis the
country has ever known. 1t is smart,
they think, to- affect the drinking hab-
|. 1T. The solution does not lie in an
appeal to the student-drinker to re-
; nounce his indecent habit; that might
do some good but it is doubtful. 1t
IS for the school at large to provide
this solution: Condemn this low and
disgusting habit; ostracize the drink
! er; stamp him as an undesirable"
, Prohibition has helped the working
man. When the saloon passed, the
: workers money went into a home.
: furniture, an automobile, and those
other convenlences and necessities of
| everyday life that promote comfort
and happiness for the whole family
The American workingman of todav
has more spare time and spare money
) IMAM IN any other period in history
FfonIoltlon ought to be given credit
: for this. wv
Fewer children are forced to labor
: since prohibition. A decrease of sly.
! ty-seven per cent in the number al
r children under sixteen wears of a0t
has taken place. Accounted for b1
! the absence of legalized saloons
winch has resulted in a large number
OF pay envelopes reaching the homes
OF workers and minimizing the ne
cesslty OF children's wages for the
support of the household"
Ihere has been a decrease in thu
PuDnc dependents in almshouses from
1910 to 1922. This means a decrease
S Oh individuals placed in public inst.
CuJlons because they were without :
Y means of self-support. The renor
: SHOWS more men than women ente-
= almshcuses. Intemperance has roucl
v to do with the excessive number q
!. men paupers. Countries now firm
lshlng nearly three-fourths of for
o elgn- born paupers in the Unite,
= states aImshOuses were also on tn
n list OF those which furnished abou
n nlnety-slx per cent of paupers who's
l. ccndlClon was due to personal intern
n perance.
n Teaching foreign mothers the Eng
IS !Ish Language and American ideal
IS that they may better take their pIace
: IN family and community life an
n help their children become gco
e Americans and law observers is q
e objective of the Americanization De
r parCment OF the w. C. T. u. N
l. greater contribution has been mad
IS toward the cause Of good citizenshi
# than that which has been achieved b
our teachers teaching English in I'll
a. home. The home is the nursery :
Il good citizenship and law Observance,
= Terrible things have been attribut
10 ed TO prohibition which have ha
"A other causes and which would hav
a. been worse without the constitution;
amendment. After six years. prohib
i Ulon Is here more strongly than :
n any other time since the sever;
" states ratified the measure abolishin
n the sale and manufacture of LIQUOR :
10 beverage in the United States.
O is not perfect, for it seeks to Grad
40 cate a world-old evil from the on
10 toms of a people. But the vets Izno
II It's strength; they know they cam,
defeat it. It's sponsors also know I
- strength.
20 Moses Simpkins of Virginia h,
3 been sentenced to five years in II
n penltGentiary for selling enc pint
&C whisky to a minor.
a As there are always people vi
q will do anything for money. If w
en- probably be a long time before boo
a logging can be abolished. but If ed
" Gators will see to it that every chi
IS faithfully taught the evils If 4
ed ginning to dring or of drinking ~
nd alcoholic beverage whatsoever d
or ooctlegging business will fell +
he want OF Patronage. To do this "
wv De a SPLENDID victory for all shat y
V" used to regard as American-for Ii
d erCy, Tor individuality, for the fire.
a com OF each man to conduct his ~
W NE IN his own way so iong as
in does not violate the rights of otbe,
ad fer the responsibility Of ea,n m,
&c for the evils he brings upon binose
its by the abuse of that freedom. y
ial are nation of sturdy freemen-n
er Kept from mischief by a paternal Ia
% fastened IN our Constitution. \
"a waUched by host of guardians al