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Show I Temperance BB: - (Conducted by the National Woman's BB Christian Tcmpcranco Union ) jB LATEST WORD OF SCIENCE. Bfl Tho liquorltes in tholr publicity artl- BB clcs often quoto what they call a "ro- HB cent" statement in tho Lancet (Lon- Hfl don, England) concerning benefits Hfl from tho uso of alcoholic medicines HH nnd bovornges. As a matter of fact it HB appeared somo years ago and was pro- jH pared by prollquorltcs in an attempt HH H to offsot tho nntlalcoholic utterances of Bj J leading English physicians and sur- BJ r gcons such men as Sir Frederick BJ Troves, surgeon to tho king; Sir Thorn- H as Barlow, physician to tho king; Sir Bj Victor Horsloy, England's greatest BJ nourological surgeon; Sir A. Pcarco BJ Gould of tho Mlddlesox hospital, Sir H James Bnrr, dean of tho Medical B School of Liverpool university; Prof. B Sims Woodhcad of Cambrldgo unlver- fl slty medical school, and others of like B standing. fl Tho statement received 1G signatures of medical mon, and half of theso, it waB discovered, wcro men who owned brewery or distillery stock. It was given conspicuous placo in every barroom bar-room In England nnd in many American Ameri-can saloons and is still doing duty. To tho question, Is alcohol a food or a poison, a stimulant or a depressant? sclonco is giving reply. Its latest report re-port comes from the nutrition laboratory labora-tory of the Carneglo institution of Washington, whero tests woro mado to determine- tho effects of alcohol on motor mo-tor and mental processes. Tho subjects sub-jects were collcgo graduates, somo of thorn modcrato drinkers, somo hard drinkers. In all tho tests mado tho ovldenco showed clearly that alcohol is a doprcssant to tho system, novcr a stimulant. 1VVHAT DOCTORS THINK. When tho liquor men circularized tho physicians of Vermont, urging them to oppose stato-wido prohibition, tho replies woro not what thoy had hoped for. This is ono of them: "Wo, tho members of tho medical Btaff of tho Vermont State hospital, submit tho following as an expression of our opinion of tho uso of alcohol as a bovorago. "Wo aro now and. over shall bo utterly ut-terly opposed to tho salo and uso of alcohol in any form as a bovorago; wo aro absolutely opposed to any propaganda propa-ganda that has for its purposo to lo-gallzo lo-gallzo tho salo of alcohol as a bovorago. bovor-ago. It has no placo internally as a modiclno; it is alwayB in nil forms a poison and a destroyer of protoplasm proto-plasm and a paralyzer of protoplasmic activity. (Signed) "DON D. GROUT, M. D., "W. L. WASSON, M. D "E. A. STANLEY, M. D., "T. J. ALLEN, M. D." ORGANIZER'S STORY. Ono of our pro-liquor friends told tho writer that women ought to stay at homo and bring up their families. Thoy ought to train their boys to lot liquor alono. Then ho told a pathetic story that ho personally know to bo k truo (?) of a certain Mrs. Pingloy out Hk In Kansas (always Kansas!), who j wont out lecturing for tho W. C. T. U. BP nnd loft her threo little children for T tholr fathor to look after. Ho could not bo with them ovory moment, and tho threo boys played on tho railroad " track and woro all killed by tho cars running over them. As I dryly commented, com-mented, all thatspolIed tho story was that tho W. C. T. U. never Bonds out woman lecturers with small children at homo, and thero novcr was any Mrs. Pingloy employed as a W. C. T. U. speaker in Kansas. Ho was not certain thon whether that was her namo or not, and thought perhaps Bho was speaking for Bomo other causo! RAILROAD WATER-WAGON CLUB. "Every Bessemer man on tho water wagon." This is tho aim of tho employees em-ployees of tho Bessemer & Lake Erio railroad. Whllo membership is not compulsory, tho movement is so popular pop-ular that thoso who do not Join feol that thoy aro somewhat under condemnation. con-demnation. Many men who aro not ., " members havo quit drinking. In Al t' - blon, Pa., tho division torminal of tho ", road, tho Water-Wagon club has prac- ,Jr tically put tho saloon out of buslnosB. Instead of pay day being a day of wild carousing it is now quiet and orderly. DANK DEPOSITS INCREA8E. Tho saloons of Sioux City, la, closed when tho Btato went into tho prohibition prohibi-tion column tho first of January, 1916. Tho savings bank deposits in tho city increasdd $10,000 tho first wook tho saloons woro closed. In that week 3E0 now Bavings accounts woro opened in ' ' tho various banks, most of them by people who had novor had a bank account ac-count boforo. WATER WAGON SAFEST. m "You can't got away from It, I toll ' "P"' you. Tho wator wagon may noto ns Jolly to rldo on as tho boozo cart, but it takes you to a homo and friends. Tho boozo cart dumps you In tho gutter gut-ter or In a pauper's grave." Joss Wll-lord. Wll-lord. FOUR BAR8. Act I. Boforo tho bar of tho Baloon, Act II. Boforo tho bar of tho court Act IIL Boforo tho bar of tho prison. Act IV. Boforo tho bar of God. I .iflBHRk |