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The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1927-05-01
DEATHS FROM ALCOHOLISM

At the hearings before the Senate Judi
ciary committee in Washington, in 1926,
DR.. Haven Emerson presented charts
showing the trend of mortality in diseases
directly related to the use of alcohol.
Deaths from cirrhosis of the liver treated
by Bellevue and allied hospitals, which
handle most of the alcohol cases IN New
York City, went to new low point in
1917, the first year of the war, descended
still lower in 1921, but rose again in 1925,
but even the high point in 1925 was only
OF per 100 900 as against 2l7 in 1911 An
other chart from Bellevue hospital showed
327 in 1915-16 as against go in 1925. But
the very significant fact that in 1922 be-
fore the State Legislature of New York
had repealed al state laws for the enforce
ment OF prohibition and before the boot
leggers had learned how to successfully
evade the law, there were only 20 deaths
as against $50 in 1925 and 327 in 1915 and
1916.
Dr. Irving Fisher of Yale University, in
his book prohibition at It's Worst"
gives many very fine charts. Chart No. %
shows an unusual saving of lives in for
mer wet states since prohibition; it shows
that the death rate from acute and chron-
ic alcoholism fell in 1920 to less than
1879 of what it had been before prohibi-
Inauguration of National Prohibition and
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1927-05-01
DARROWISM AND VHEELERISNI
Oft Repeated Sayings of barrow Answered by Wheeler in Debate
a Carnegie Hall
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The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1927-05-01
THE AMERICAN ISSUE

some use for much of the shelf room
once occupied by the patents. What if
in the back the space is given over to
cooking operations? In the older days
there were percolators and percolatons,
pill mass, pill cutters and sundry other
operations now better done elsewhere and
otherwise.
The underlying fact is that the people
do not dope themselves like they former
1y did. They still take far too much
medicine. They take pills, powders, and
notions when all they need to do is to
let nature handle the job. But at that,
the habit is a dwindling one. A very
bad custom-but not so bad as it was.
The lunch counter and soda fountain
custom or habit is taking the space for
merly used to supply the drug taking GUS
tom or habit, and that is more of gain
than loss to health
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1927-05-01

An eminent citizen bewails the evolu-
ton of the drug store. He is particularly
unhappy because the soda fountain and
the lunch counter nov take up the best
space, and the man who wants to get
little medicine must find his way through
lunch tables to the rear somewhere in
order to make his purchase.
| am not so sure that the change is al
together for the worse. There was an
odor of medicine about the old style drug
store that was easily transformed into an
odor of reverence The formal rows of
stately bottles were somewhat cathedral
like in their impressiveness. To lose this
was something of loss.
But let us see what the soda fountain
and the lunch counter really displaced.
In the first place, let's consider the con-
tents of these row on row of gallon bot
ties. They looked impressive. They had
glass shoppers and raised porcelain labels,
each bearing title written in Latin and
printed in gold letters. The preparations
in those bottles are known in the trade as
Galenicals. The medicines themselves ac-
tually went out OF use twenty to fifty years
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1927-05-01

ago. The medicine in those bottles stay
ed there untouched, slowly changing with
time, for say twenty years, taking up
space-nothing but tombstones.
OF course, an up-to-date druggist, pay
ing rent for space, must decide to give
this space to something the people really
cared for. And there was a world of
proof that they did not care for the old
fashioned Galenica1s
Next arose the question as to what
should be done about the patents. There
is still call for some of these but in
stead OF forty running feet, ten will now
furnish all the space required.
In recent years I have visited number
of drug stores in Central American and
Caribbean countries. One cannot appre-
ciate the decrease in the faith of the
American people in the patents until he
looks over the acreage of shelf space CIV
en- to patents in these drug stores. AS
they are, so our drug stores once were.
On their shelves they still have the hoary
old fellows that began to disappear here
twenty or more years ago. Here, again,
the up to the minute druggist must find
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1927-05-01

also the toxity of bootleg liquors rose,
the death rate among pre-proh.btion adj
diets rose with it, SO as to bring the death
rate up to nearly three-fourths of the
pre-prohibition level. AS this class of
drunkards disappears, the death rate from
alcoholism seems likely to fall again and
to become almost negligible. One fact
stands out very clearly and that is that
the first year of prohibition, 1920, gives US
some idea of the possibilities when we
scan the figures for that year the alco-
holic death rate falling, as | have just
stated, to 1879 of the pre-prohibition level,
The mortality due to acute and chronic
alcoholism in the entire country began to
decrease only upon the beginning of war
time restriction of the liquor traffic. Be-
tween 1917 and 1919 the number of deaths
fell to $40 of the pre-war level. Because
Of the reaction which came and the great
er toxity or poisoning power of bootleg
liquor, the number of deaths rose after
1920 beginning with National Prohibi-
ton. The results of the restrictions show
a decided benefit, for in 1924 the number
of deaths was little more than one-half of
the average number between 1910 and
1916, and the period between 1920 and
1924 shows drop of $40 as compared
with pre-prohibition mortality.
The peak of the reaction has apparently
passed and mortality will probably again
decline The peak was probably no more
than the accelerated mortality of pre-pro-
hbition addicts What prohibition has
done for an avowedly wet state and one
of the two states that did not ratify the
Eighteenth Amendment, the state of Con-
necticut, is shown in the following facts:
The number of deaths from acute and
chronic alcoholism between 1920 and 1924
is only 36q6 of the number between 1910
and 1916. Even at its peak the death
rate was 1919 below pre-prohbition level.
indicating saving Of hundreds OF human
lives. New York State with its reputa-
ton as a wet state, having repealed all its
state prohibition enforcement laws, has,
in spite of that fact, benefited greatly by
the prohibition law, as deaths from cir
rhosis of the liver have been cut almost in
half. Professor Fisher summarizes the
situation we'll when he says Prohibition
is primarily in the interest of Public
Health 1t represents the greatest hygien-
ic experiment in history and one of the
most successful"
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1927-05-01

Will our pastors and people any longer
permit that false sense of security to Grip
pie their support of their great temper
ance leader the League, whose education
al work was the dominant influence in Sc
curing the Eighteenth Amendment? VIII
they listen for a moment to the cease
less ridicule and SANDER of the temper
ance leaders? VIII they remember the
100000 young men and women coming to
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1927-05-01

Give what a square deal? The AntiSa
loon League. Why? Let US see. The
League is the bureau through which the
churches do their work for temperance
and prohibition. 1t is the church at work
against the liquor traffic, as the Mission
Boards are for missions and the Boards
of Education for education. 1t is practi-
cally a part of the organization of the
churches.
Through the League the Christian for
ces of our land have won their great battle
against the saloon. The League does not
claim the entire credit, yet it is very
doubtful if we could have won without it.
What other agency could have united the
many groups of temperance workers,
sometimes almost as bitter in their inter
necine contentious as in their war against
the common foe, into one irresistible pha-
lanx?
The enemy recognizes the value of the
League. A brewer is said TO have held up
in brewers meeting an Anti-Saloon
League subscription card and said, Here
is the thing that put us out of
business" The New York Times, prob
ably the leading wet paper in America,
said editorially not long since, that if the
United States wants light wines and beer
in this country they must first put the
Anti-Saloon League out of commission.
The Times went on to tell how to put
the League out of commission, viz, to
close the doors and pulpits of the church.
es against representatives of the League,
thereby cutting off its moral and financial
support Let us remember, then, that
when a pastor or church does not freely
open to the League speakers and give
them the cordial, enthusiastic backing of
church and pastor, il is thereby, albeit un-
Willingly, playing the game of the enemy
and giving strength to the illegal and des
perate liquor traffic in its avowed purpose
TO make the enforcement of the law a hiss
ing and a byword.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1927-05-01
A STRONG AND WISE APPEAL
Or. II. Bennett)

voting age in America every year who
need the teaching work of the League?
Says one of our great editors, 1T is I'M
thinkable that the drys should allow
these millions (of new voters who have
attained their majority since the business
of drunkard making was outlawed) to be
deceived and mis-taught by the wet prop
uganda of hundreds of daily wet news
papers in this country without awakening
and getting busy again in a great and
worthy way-especially through support
ing and strengthening the work of the
Anti Saloon League. TO your tents, Q
Israeli"
Brother pastor, open your pulpit
promptly, and cordially to the AntiSa-
loon League And do not shut this great
and vital cause to night hour, unless
that happens to be your better service.
And back up your visiting speaker with
strong words of your own. The ultimate
protection of your own church, your
country and your home is in this situa-
ton l do not speak in my own behalf,
for a somewhat wider acquaintance with
our church brings to ME an open door in
my work. But our State Superintendent
are having a difficult time. l bespeal for
them a cordial welcome from our pastors.
1t is not easy to have to ask for hearing
and to be denied. Surely our churches
can all give one service in a whole year
to this cause when we consider the issues
that are at stake. And where your State
Superintendent cannot get over all the
ground and come to you every year, can
not, will not, every church put the Anti
Saloon League in its budget for from
$50 to $3.50 a year, according to the
church's ability? Brother pastor, think on
this Brother Presiding Elder, will you
not ask at the Quarterly Conference
about this, and suggest that the Church
Committee on Temperance and Social
Service be developed in its activity in this
and other ways? Surely this is Gods
work. Let us do it.
And men and women, whom God has
blessed with means, under whose eye this
falls, should without hesitation send out
of their 1.-THE to the League from $500 to
81 900 a year. This is patriotism, religion
and common sense. And this way lies per-
manent deliverance from the blight and
curse of the liquor business, and victory
for decency and law observance.-From
The Pentecostal erald, March 3d. 1927.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1927-05-01
OLD TINE DRUG STORES GONE, BUT NO Loss

Copyright 1927: Chicago Tribune May oth)
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there is a private telephone and the desk is ornamented with two new push-buttons. One is used to call the new office boy and the other, sometimes, will bring to his side a stenographer who isn't at the moment engaged with taking dictation from some department executive.
 A year or two of experience and the ''two-button" man one fine day discovers that third button graces his desk. It is to summon his pri- vate secretary, new acquisition and one which marks another real milestone in his journey on the road to success" Now, at last. he has emerged from his second lieutenancy" in the world of big business.
 The next push-button. is a little slower in coming. but when it
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SED[OV|A RADIO PLANT
 CLOSES FUR SHORT T|ME

The Seldovia radio, operated inde- pendently for number of years by Adam Lipke, has discontinued opera tions and will remain closed for the next three months, according to the owner and operator, MT. Lipke, who was an arrival in Seward this morn ing on the s. s. Admiral Watson.
 Accompanied by his estimable wife, MT. Lipke is southbound for the States where he will purchase new equipment for the building up of his plant. He plans to be gone only a month making the round trip on the Watson. Mrs. Lipke however, will remain in the States on an extended visit and will probably go to Hono- lulu before returning home.
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THE SAGA OF AN EXECUTIVE

buttons come more rapidly as ex- ecutive responsibilities grow. De- partments are organized one by one and placed under the direction of the maturing man.
 It is years later that the last of these buttons is added to the al ready imposing row on the desk of our hero. Since our first acquaint- ance with him, he has climbed from the very bottom, to the peak job of the business. He is now the "big boss.'
 And what is this last button for? Surely he already has all he needs.
 But-watch him. It is midfore noon. He has completed his dic- tation for the day. Two or three callers are. waiting in the outer office, but he has given word that he "can't be disturbed He reaches for that last button and presses it. A metallic click sounds at the door leading to the outer office. That button closed an electric circuit which locked the outer door. The "big boss" gets up from his desk. goes to a small locker, opens it and takes out a set of golf clubs. For the next half hour, he practices
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office and reading a detective story, is the office boy. A buzzer over his head sounds out. Annoyed at the interruption, he looks at the in- dicator board to see just who has interrupted his reverie. Perhaps it is clerk in the accounting depart ment who has rung. If so, the youth finishes the chapter and then drags himself languidly in answer to the call. If it should happen to be the quick, snappy ring of the 'big boss" however, the boy jumps and hustles into the private sanctum.
 A few years later this same office boy, now grown to manhood, steps for the first time into his own "pri- vate" office. To be sure, it isn't very private, after all-just parti- toned off from the room set aside for all the clerks. But on his desk
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AIMS AND PURPOSES
 IF AMERICAN. LEGION

The third of series of articles describing the purpose and activities of the American Legion follows:
 Departments and posts take an ac- tive part in rehabilitation work, par ticularly in seeking out and contact ing men needing help. Splendid work is done by the Legion Auxiliary, made up of mothers, wives, daughters and sisters of Legionaires, in assist ing families of the disabled. More than half a million dollars was spent by the Auxiliary in 1926 for this work alone.
 Laws affecting compensations, hos pitalization and rehabilitation of the disabled have been constantly liberal ized and humanized by the Legion efforts. Benefits under the Reed Johnson bill during the first year of it's operation, alone totaled $16.493,- 866 to 39,433 disabled, among them being shell-sho cked, tubercular, blind and totally deaf veterans. In the first six years the Legion obtained from Congress appropriation for the care of the disabled totaling $2,377,- OS2,671, yearly average of $345,313,- 900, of which $17,4S7,75O, was for hospital construction and enlarge ments.
 In it's Americanism work the Le- zion aims to encourage a better cit izenship and to foster throughout the Nation better opportunities for edu- cation as preparation for citizen ship. Emphasis is placed by the Nat ional Americanism Commission on the duties and responsibilities of cit izenship. Citizens are urged in a non- partisan way to vote.
 Education in all it's phases receives the attention of the commission Mat ters which have come in for it's par ticular attention are civics, illiteracy, physical education, stricter enforce ment of compulsory school attend ance laws, and the education, assimi-
 The Peggy O'Neil spring styles have arrived
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OTTO KRAFT VISITOR

Otto Kraft, prominent merchant man of Kodiak, and one of the lead ing business men of the Westward district, is a Seward visitor. MT. Kraft arrived today on the Watson and will remain in the city for sev- eral days.
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CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING

or woman to distrib ute Rawleigh's Food Products, Household Remedies, Extracts, Flavors, Spices, Soaps, Toilet Pre- parations, Stock and Poultry Sup plies to users. Lowest prices; best values. 30 million packages of these Products sold to United States and Canadian consumers last year. Raw leigh's business established 1899; 15 million dollars capital. We train and help you-no experience need ed. Pleasant, profitable work. Write for particulars giving full informa- tion about yourself. Enclose snap shot or photo if possible. The w. T. Rawleigh Co.,, Oakland, Calif., Dent C
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H. P. Allen, Territorial officer for the suppression fo liquor among In- diaus, returned from a trip to Vest ward points.
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does arrive it means that the ris- ing young executive has become so burdened with responsibilities that he must shift some of the details to less important shoulders. He has been given an assistant, a sort of right hand man, to relieve him of detail.
 Gradually, to the steadily climb ing young man, these buttons mean less actual work and more time for executive thinki " To the little dry batteries behind the desk, however, each new button means more work.
 From now on, the mother-of-pearl
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Brunswick Monographs and Re- cords. Schallerer's Alaska Shop.
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Mrs. E. Griffith, well known Inter- for business woman who conducts a trading post at Gulkana, is on the Admiral Watson on her way to Cor dova. Mrs. Griffith has been at Kodi- ak for the last two months on busi- mess.
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c. W. Pajoman, merchant at Afog- nak, is visitor in Seward having arrived today on the Admiral Wat son.
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lation and naturalization of the for eign-bOrn new in the country. Re- striction of migration to check the flood of those entering the United States is consistently advocated. Rev. olutionary radicalism and extreme pacifism are opposed at all times.
 Guidance is given in projects for civic betterment. Hundreds of these are carried on each year by Legion posts in their local communities all over the country.
 American Education Week was in- augurated by the commission in 1921 and is carried on in cooperation with more than 150 organizations each year. A national flag code was form ulated by conferences held in 1923 and 1924 at the call of the Legion.
 Gro Be Continued)
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FOR SALE-50O hand-power stump pullers, $50 each; horsepower, $75; automatic gates; hand we'll borers; water wheels. J. Duerest, III 3rd RentOn, Wn.
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The trouble is that there are so many laws and such limited supply of respect.
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of the business man to- day up the ladder of success, is marked by the number Of call but tons on his desk
 Stretched laZily on well-worn bench in an obscure corner of the
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Eastman Kodaks and films. Schal. ierer's Alaska Shop.
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FOR RENT-The furnished home of Mrs. Stotko Enquire at the Stot-
 kO store 14t
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WANTED-Work in private family
 by young girl. Enquire Jesse Lee
 Home AK
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The finest Safety Razor in the world at $15 Schallerer's Alaska Shop.
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FOR SALE-Small complete canning outfit for the home. Enquire the Gateway.
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Ask for the film in the yell W box. Eastman's Films. Schallerers Alaska Shop.
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putting, swinging and stance" on the soft, green carpet of his big office!
 Then he goes back to his desk, presses the last button again and the little dry cells send an electric current which unlocks the door.
 The "big boss" is back on the job.
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Being an Outline of the Career
 of the S'Man of Business"

the button" has
 become the symbol of modern mans power to
 command. The progress
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FOR SALE+Quartz and placer not ices, proof of labor blanks and any
 other legal blanks applying to the Territory, at The Gateway office. If.
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FOR SALE-Lumber and building material of all kinds. Cal M. Bro. sius, Seward, Alaska. If.
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WANTED-To Buy, Clean cotton rags. will pay 5c per pound. Gateway. If.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-14
QUAKE LOSS MINIMlZED.
Shocks Hit Buildings in California
Already Partly Wrecked.

CALEXICO, Calf, February IA up.
damage caused by a series of seven
earthquake shocks which Saturday
rocked cities in the Imperial Valley
conferred here and was confined to
buildings which had been partly
wrecked by the major disturbance Of
January /, a survey completed today
disclosed
The Quakes, the first of which was
felt at 1858 am. shook down cornices
and loose bricks from a number Of
condemned buildings.
Ell Centre and Brawley, where the
tremors were said to have been the
most severe, reported no damage done.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-14
INSURANCE RATES
ON AUTO THEFTS UP
Chicago Announces Big Increase in
Effect Today-$3,000,00 Re-
| norted Lost Last Year.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, February 14.-Automo-
bile theft insurance rates on virtually
every make of car will advance from
30 to so per cent today, effective
throughout the Middle West, the lSZ !
manual of the Western Automoblit
Underwriters Conference announces,
blaming activities of auto thieves dur
ing 1925 for the increase. A net loss
of 100000 resulted last year from
auto thefts, it was stated.
The Underwriters Conference lists
three different classes Of auto thefts.
naming them-first. the commercial
theft, in which lowpriced cars are
stolen, easiest to be disposed of at a
nominal price; second, the accessory
and joyride thefts, in which medium
priced machines are taken and strip
ped Of their tires and other aces
sories, and third, the crime thefts, in
which the higher priced cars fire.
Quently are stolen to be used in some
form Of crime, including bootleggers'
activities and highwaymen.