OCR Text |
Show The Bell Tolls! Tne bell peals, the liquor traffic says, for what alcoholic beverages have done to this nation since such narcotic drinks were returned to the public market place by repeal In 1933! The bell tolls, the social and religious re-ligious leader says, for what liquor has done and is doing in multiplying the human and economic miseries which always are the dregs in each drinker's cup! The bell clangs an alarm to the nation, the Woman's Christian Tem-j Tem-j perance Union says, to stop what I liquor Is doing, to return to a sane, I sober concept of life, instead of giv- I ing in on all fronts to human weak- i ness and commercial greed! j Every American who is mentally awake knows that the nation faces HSW'TWv.'Wfl9rv'l serious problems I PW1P resulting from , J-tffpwVS 'ne sa'e anc use I - rPJ'!jrs?'' .jf of alcoholic bev- I ' j ) , erages. j U Leaders of the J , t-i J) ' liquor traffic ad- ll r!TZtyl v'se heu: saloon-I saloon-I keepers to "curb SWs,,r excesses" or an ' fyw t aroused pubi .j fJ will prohibit their I ,., , trade. 1941's Saloon T , ... Leaders of the ' temperance forces say these "ex cesses" and their bad effects spring from the "narcotic which the liquor traffic peddles." Apologists for liquor point to taxes paid, jobs furnished, and grain bought by the alcoholic beverage industry, in-dustry, r Crusaders of the temperance forces say to look behind these claims and see the huge costs of liquor - inspired delinquency and crime, of wasted lives and opportunities, opportu-nities, of actual economic losses. In trying to evaluate this problem and to think through to a conclusion, the average citizen has run up against a mass of propaganda but a minimum of cold, hard facts. If the American public has the facts, no one need worry about the public's final de- cision on any Jp problem of great s social impor- J1 -St. tnnce. But, the (Z.'K public must have tKr2rjy thefacts.en- fl E'i larged only by hi t-iMi'' sound, logical tS-j7?C '' conclusions which 'ii-AJ. those facts and fjf .y 1 mankind's history g? ' will support. " The W.C.T.U. One Result ; believes the facts point the way to personal abstinence for the individual individ-ual and prohibition for the traffic. It has made available its 66-year collection of the findings of science on "What alcohol is and what it does" for presentation to the public j in cooperation with this and other ! newspapers. Given these basic, uncolored facts it will be up to tlie public to reach its own decision as to what is to be done. t - |