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Show How Evil Flourishes Increase In Liquor We are reliable informed that the alcoholic drink con. -sumption for 1941 will be 4,000,000 gallons more than in 1940. That shows the trend, and that trend is, to say the least, quite trag;c It m -ans that there will be many more drunks who will dissolve their children's hopes and opportunities in distilled distil-led damnation; who will furrow the cheeks of suffering wives with tears of sorrow and break thein with heartache that shortens life. One r f the saddest of all human sights is to see the trusting wives at, home, toiling and struggling, caring for the little or big brood, and figuring how to make the few miserly dollars she get-i to keep the souls and bodies together, hile the drinking man makes merry in ine saloon and furnishes furn-ishes all the things for th saloon keeper's family which has bpen denied his own. If the veil could be lifted and the community com-munity and church leaders made to behold all the wreck and misery and sin and damnation that is wrought by hell's chief agent, the liquor traffic, they would throw up their hands in horror. Who will act? Who will do something to help youth and middle age kill this fell destroyer, which is worse than Herod of old, or any other destrover of humanity? |