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Show COMPARES SLAUGHTER OF SALOON AND WAR Mrs. John P. St. John, Woman's Christian Chris-tian Temperance Union Leader, Pleads for Cause. Drawing a word picture of the carnage car-nage that daily marks the toll of d'ath .in Europe, Mrs. John P. Ht. John of Kansas, national representative of the W. C. T. I., brought to a close her lecture at the First Presbyterian church , last night with the unqualified statement state-ment that the saloons anil the dives of the United State were daily taking more lives than are exacted by the war: now raging in Europe. ; This evening Mrs. St. John wifi speak , at the Liberty Park Methodist church. In introducing Mrs. St. .John, the Hev. George E. Davit-s, pastor or the church, said ''t. John'' in the temperance-! work Hpelled volumes and required no j diagram to explain why Kaunas was on, the map as a prohibition state. ! Opening Iter add re-s-, M rs. St . .1 ohn j called attention to thf fact that s'x- j teen years ayo she had d'-livered an ap peal in Halt Eake on behalf of Red' ross work and for funds or the relief re-lief of sufferers in the Spanish-Anirri- I can war. She noted the coincidence,! remarking that the line of battle in the eauj-e for temperance were year by I vrar growing stronger, and the muse1 receiving the attention f the best j niinds of the nation. Of Kaiisa:-, Mrs. St. John said: " Tt , is todav a state without a loon or a d i ve. ' ' She called the Kuropcan war th? " A rrnageddon ' ' foretold in Scriptu re, and promise-1 her hearers that at her address tonight she would buck up her statements with facts and figures. |