Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-10-28
DOUGLAS DAILY DISPATCH FRIDAY MORNING. OCTOBER 28 1927

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the part of conscientious Officials
elected or appointed for this pur kse,
is bound to foster the respect and
lasting benefits so long worked tor
and prayed for by white ribboners
from crusade days till now.
! "The 18th amendment to the con.
Stitution was not put over on the
American people but by them. It
was ratified by % entire legislative
bodies in 46 states. by greater num-
ber of each than ever be.orG endorsed
an amendment to our federal COLI.
! stitution. Surely then it is not at
all outside the realm of good ethics
to assert that on every inch Of sell
over which waves our Stars and
Stripes, the constitution of our be-
loved United States must rule SUI
preme and that the citizen of this
country to be a good citizen must
obey its every law regardless of what
his own personal opinions or desires
may be.
'To those two outstanding demands
of the opponents Of prohibition to-
troll and modification to permit the
| sale of beer fnd wine-we of the
W. G, T. u. and kindred organiza
tions stand shoulder to shoulder,
facing the enenly's guns with the
ultimatum they shall not passP And
when more than 100000 white rib
boners, to say nothing of the addi-
tional army of Gods good citizens
so will, need we fear? No, not if we
keep awake and moving and organ
lied. We must every one accept
our obligation of citizenship seriously
by assisting in the selection of fit
candidates for public office and then
voting in the primaries and OH elec-
ton day. Prohibition came before.
the ballot was given to women but
they must use the 10th to enforce
the 18th.
! Another challenge which we should
and can meet squarely and without
fear or equivocation-th prohibition
is corrllpting our youth. There are
Eso many we'll substantiated refuta-
| tions to this charge that to quote
at length would make this messagc
lop-sidcd on one phase of our subject
Typical of others and sufficient to
give are the words of A. A.. Stagg,
physical director of the University
of Chicago, under oath before the
sub committee OF the senate judiciary
committee Director Stagg said in
part, "It is my conviction that it
! is the greatest sort of blessing that
prohibition has been law during
this unstable period when the youth
of today has such vast freedom.
Without prohibition there would be
an unmeasureably ,N'eater amount of
drunkenness and debauchery than
there is now. 1t is the breaking
down of the home and the irreSpoR-
sibility on the part of the parents
toward their children which creates
the problems of today and not the
] Volstead act, The statement that
prohibition has produced these con-
ditions is an absurdity and pure bunk
J. have been at the University of
Chicago for "a years and I am con-
vinced that there is not anything
like the amount of drinking among
the younger. generation that there was
/ before prohibition All, verify, pro-
hibition is the best method.
HYes, really. it must be, il not so,
what mas caused our bank deposits
to increase from to "a billions of
dollars and the number of depositors
from IL to AZ million? Last year
the consumption of milk in the naz
ton increased 600 million gallons
And why? Two reasons perhaps
because there was money with which
to buy it and also because it has
such great food value. It is easy
to understand why milk is SO good;
just hear how it is made:
/ From the sun it takes part;
In the sky it gets it's start
Sunbeams leave it, as they pass,
Hidden in the summer grass.
BosSy, from the grass and clover
Eats it up and makes it over;
! Tints it white and sends it, new
In a bottle straight to you.
Then when we think seriously we
decide that somebody besides boot
/ leggers must have bought automobiles
/ during 1925 because this country pro-
duced them at the rate of 80 miles
of cars per day. Alfred Reeves,
general manager of the National
| Automobile Chamber of Commerce
says so. Prof. Irving Fisher, of Yale,
declares. that ''if prohibition enforce
ment cost us billion dollars a year
it would be well worth while as an
economic investment, as it IS saving
the country six billion dollars an
nually in the increased efficiency of
j its workers.
"It would be difficult to find more
fitting words with which to conclude
this message than those of our ma
tional president, Mrs. Ella A. Boole
She states that it is not surprising
today in the face of a world wide
challenge to religion, to the Some
the ordered state, to civilization itself,
that prohibition should be challenged
also. The women of America stand
in the front ranks of the defenders
of the faith handed down to us by
! the heroic men and women who made
and kept us a nation and who sacri-
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