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Show Patriotism and Beer SINCE we have the agitation at Washington for drafting of 18-year-old boys into the armed forces, the moral forces and the parents of America should have a right to be heard and to insist that proper moral safeguards be thrown about these youths. They should be given a reasonable chance for returning home as clean as when they went away. The brewer's Digest states: "One of the finest things that could have happened to the brewing industry was the insistence insist-ence of high ranking army officers to make beer available at army camps. Here's a chance for brewers to cultivate a taste for beer in millions of young men who will eventually constitute the largest beer-consuming section of our population." popu-lation." An advertisement of Charles S. Jacobwitz Company said in the Brewer's Bulletin: "Ten million GI's have learned to know and like beer much earlier than they would have as civilians. For five years there has been no need to sell. Uncle Sam has been sales manager and the best customer you ever had." Mr. Edward Kandlik, in the Chicago Sun of October 28, 1945, said: "Some veteran brewers assert that beer consumption consump-tion during the war received greater promotional impetus than it would have received in 20 normal years. This they attribute to the fact that 10 million soldiers in army camps became accustomed to beer and that a large proportion of them will continue to be consumers in civilian life." We hear a great deal in the press and on the air about "making America strong." It is high ime that we cleaned out the .parasites that would weaken, degrade and debauch our choicest young manhood and fasten a habit upon them that is worse than death. If our America is to be strong, she must be a clean and a sober America. "Righteousness exalteth a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people." Sheridan (Wyo.) Press. |