Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 28, Number 14, Decatur, Adams County, 16 January 1930 — Page 5

>day Is Prohibition’s Birthday; Ten Years Old ——— - K Mn k-V by cLtgJS l) C( ?n 1 |Jp f i l ) !; , *'pH 7 'll Pn ‘ l ' ibi, ( i <’ n £ hereby prddbSl '‘ n "“ r > SU,MT ‘ i‘'. is<lidion (hereof for K l h( Congress and the several states shall have concurrent power to enforce bv appropriate legislation. 1 tnioicc ■- This artide shall be inoperative unless ii shall have been ratified as, an amend- ■ 1!1( . constitution by he Legislatures ol (he several slates, as provided in the Conn> within seven years from the date of the submission hereof to the Stales by the

M-. Ella Boole IM,'/ ■■ W omau's ('hrh .Hire t nion f "a- Unitrtl i'ress) the Pilgrims Hl, : . .'ll Hie first saloon American nnitin■ljfiL yeais tiia ■K.,,. . at >vi nt amt the a- ' tie ]wople lit this > knowll method |^K rt v■" ■" problems of the' :i>i c-ondnded thai |H- was ( ollipleteb |K- manufacture. vportntion and ini ■ alcoholic beverage jj, V- prohibition was -a ' |M Han home from Hut, and the drinx |M -, . Illi* ir mak. :! outlaw. ■ remain's. ami 'hiostered by tlio use K. I'lors whether t ,e. ’• 'L or illegally. Ta-' K 1 be destroyed : amt : . destroyed by total Gradual Proces » - />:bit ion came alrr.ii a • three states had at the time Un . became etfeetlve ■" ; - r cent of the people in . than 90 per cent of "t the United S\a'' .- ■|.. : '.e: some fonn of pro Many of the staje law liq tor were much more ■ national law - too. K. ■" .. "iotisly interested r 10 the conclusion

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t.i&t there Is no room for intoxicat-1 ing liquor in this country. As a nation we preach that conclusion for the name reasons that led the rail ' roads to adopt their famous “Rule; I G prohibiting liquor to all railroau employes. in the ten years of prohibition, the opponents of the 18th amend ment have staged a most violent attack on the prohibition idea, hav» 1 . promoted the idea that it. is patrio- , tic to disobey the aw if one does j not agree with it;; have endeavor ■ ed to elect a president who was in I direct oposition to prohibition, but ; have never put forward a dear cut ; | program as a substitute for the 18th ■amendment. The yhave attacked the legality of the 18th amendment ini more than 50 suits in the Supremo ! Court, only to meet defeat every I time. No amendment has been so completely upheld by the highest i tribunal. Social Changes In Nation However, the opposition to the. j 18th amendment seems to evade | I discussing the tremendous economic i and social changes in this country as a direct result of the 18th amend- • ment. The consensus of economists isl that the s2.tbMi,ooo,ooo a year one" . given across the bar to tile drink i 1 traffic is now invested and spent j in a manner which has.expanded . ■ Hie fundamental industries of the | 'country, increased home-owning | : and raised the standard of Ameri -. • lean living to a point far in excess; i of other lands. Expert approxima ! tions now place the increased buy- 1 ■ ing powers due to ten years of proi h'ibition at $5,000,000,0(8) annually. ' Surveys of social and economic con t ditions by men and women of repu-

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tation all point to the fact that there is a tremendous decrease in , drinking and the amount of money spent for drink: no economist has i in on found to disagree with proh!bi lion from an economic standpoint; I and it is highly significant that the Wets have never discussed the economic benefits of prohibition, much less denied them. It is easy to pick out 10 benefits from this decadg of prohibition. The saloons have gone. It has been said that the 18th amendment justified itself by closing the saloon even if it accomplished nothing else. Theie is less drunkenness. One can cross the continent and not see a drunken person. The survey’s of such men as Prof. Irving Fisher of I Yale lead inevitably to this conclu- ' sSon. There is less vice. The sajoon I was a gateway to the red light disItrtct. The United States is cleaner of commercialized vide than any | other country. There is vastly more wages. Al! economists give prohibition at least a I>ait of the credit. There is. in addition to a greater prosperity, a tremendous decrease lin the poverty from drink. Vast ■ slum areas have disappeared. There are happier homes. “The man brings his money home." Tttc ' intemperence of the wage earner created so much unhappiness in the , saloon era. There are more homes; during prohib'tion the number of families ! increased 2.308.0 W); and yet in that time we built more than 3,500,000 new homes. Ch’ldren are better off, and this ■is the official statement of the

Children's Bureau, a part of the United States Department of Ijtbor. There is better health: the U. S. Census shows that the general deatii rate Is lower. And in general there is n happier United S.utes of America. The war against liquor will never cease until it is eradicated from the world Knowledge of its inefficiency will go a long way to tln.t end. Uy Ernest H. ('herrington • Litt. D., LL. D. General Secretary World League Againet Alcoholism, Director Department of Education of the AntiSaloon League of Amieriea. and GenAral Manager of ilts Publishing Interests. (Written for tl»e United Press) The tenth anniversary of the 18th amendment, finds the Anti Saloon League of America preparing for a greater and more extensive program tihan ever before in its history. Probit ion is not the tbial somHon of the beverage alcohol prob lem. It never whs intended to be the final solution, for the adoption of legislation never fully does away | wi h the evil against which the legislation is directed. Prohibition | in a means to the end sought which i 's the freedom of the nation from the effects of alcoholism. There remains y.-t a vast amount of work to lie done in competely settling the alcohol problem. Prohibition has made the final solution possible, by airing away legal sanction and governamental protection from th? liquor traffic. The Anti-Saloon League was organ'zed at Oberlin, May 24. 1893. Prior to its organization the activity of temperance organiza.ion had been (largely of a partisan charatcor Thie purpose of the organization is very definitely stated in the constitution of the organization to be “the extermination of the beverage liquor traffic.” Its methods from the first have been education — the creating of sentiment against all forms of alcoholism; organization—the crystallization of sentiment into public op nion; legislation — the translation of public opinion into law; and administration —the enforcement of law. Temperance Sentiment The first work of the Anti-Saloon League was the organization and correlation oT temperance sentiment in the United States. Little of the sen intent actually had been ranslated into effective legislation at the time the League was organ ized. The Anti-Saloon League always has been interdenominational and non-partisan. It began with small beginnings, indeed. It first sought pa sage of local op ion laws under which villages and townships might vote on whether or not they should banish the liquor traffic. The league worked through individuals, not political parties as stich. and with men and women representing all church denominations. As fast its progressive seiMrtment came on the I.eague recommended an <1 fought for legislation increasing .he size of the local option unit, until that unit finally became the county and Iljen the state. Not until sentiment had been sufficiently developed and crystallized did the Anti-Saloon League declare for national prohibition and engage in a campagn for that outcome. The organization then fought for B'ie election of Senators and Congre.-wauca who would vote fc” submitting a prohibition amend meat; it took its part in the program for ratifification of the amendment and for The passage of supporting laws, both federal and state Finally, in 1928, the I-eagne and other temperance organizations en ered the presidential campaign solely on the prohibition issue. Through all the activities of the League since its organization whatever the issue of a part'cnliir cam paign lias been that of education.

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In its plana tor the future the most important part of the program is to give even more emphasis to educational work, in the effort to get across to Hie people th» truth about the nature and effect of alcohol, the truth altout the varlobi methods employed for tile solut'on of the alcohol problem, and the truth übc'Ut pt < Mlbltion. Work At Capitals In the second place, a very definite pa t of the lacague's program, rapre.-entln< as it does, a large potion of the tflmrch group and the moral forces, is to stand on guard at every state capital and at Washington ready to sound the alarm against insidious efforts to undertn ne prohibition laws and to inform Ms ■coiMtltuency and the public as o the needs of additional legislation t.om time to time, for adequate enforcement. Third in the program is to help to back up every national, state and local public official who seeks to observe his oath of office and enforce ths law; and, what is even more important, tttoe creation of wholesome sentiment among the people for the observance of the law. There never was a day in the History of any great social evil in which theie was such a wide and ■xien -ive p. opaganda as that now being made use of by the foes of prohibition. There never was a time when a great social evil had such a remendoius fiinancial backing as has the liquor traffic at this present time w hen a great social evil had such an international backing as the outlawed American liquor ttalfic has today. Nobody will affirm that prohibition has ceased to be a major issue in Amei ica. Until it does cease to be < majoi ssue, the Anti-Saloon League has a task to perform. Important as have been its efforts in ■he past, the services which it will be able to render in the future are >f even more importance. The Anti-Salcon* League of America is governed in all I s operaions by a board of directors, members of which national board are elected by the several state boards of trustees. These state boards

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elect and employ their own state off.cers and state worker*. The sta'e boards, In turn, are composed in the main, of representatives of state religions denominational groups, directly elected by the several denominations and responsible to those denominational Plan Wide Observance The department of publishing in erests which includes the Am-ericen Issue ruWishing Company at Westirv.ile, Is one of the very impor tant departments of the League. For 20 years it has printed periodicals, tracts, booklets, posters anti other tempeiwnce literature, some of H in several languages, which have not only been distributed throughout all of America, but have gone too, to every civilized nation on earth. During the twenty-year period just ended the plant has put out in literature an equivalent of 9,000,000,000 bookj.-ges. In round numbers equal lo 20 times around the earth, if lahl edge to edge. The national president of the Anti-Saloon League of America is Bishop Thomas Nicholson. Met'ho11st Episcopal church, Detroit area: general superintendent, Rev. Dr. F. -Scntt Mcßride, Washington; director or rhe educational department,

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Ernest H Cherrlngton, Westerville; recording secretary. S. E. Nicholon, New York City; honorary treasurer, Foster Cojieland, Columbus banker; attorney, E. B. Duniord, Washington;; general manager or publishing interests, Ernes: H. (Jherrlngton. All over the United Slates the friends of the Anti-Saloon League and of prohibition are planning to observe in a fitting way the going'

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Into effect of national prohibition. In many places the church bells will be rung at high noon. In other places speeia.l meetings will be held The 28th national convention of the Anti Saloon League will be held at Detroit next week, and that con ven'-km vlll give peelaJ emphasis to the anniversary on January 16. o_ •• re. Mhwlt —■» rinr »» Horn*