Bema.
Bellefonte, Pa., June 28, 1918.
Sumasm—
Alcohol and the Laborer.
By Malcolm Yeager.
(One of the $5.00 prize essays in the W.
C. T. U. contest in Bellefonte High
school).
The great demand for efficiency in
the industrial world is accompanied
by a valiant fight against alcohol and
its attendant evils. Three of the most
essential qualifications of an efficient
laborer are: A strong body, a sound
mind, and moral courage. Alcohol is
a most powerfully destructive agent
of these qualifications.
No person can use alcohol and keep
a strong, healthy body. It is a poi-
son which takes the water from the
cells of the body, prevents the diges-
tion of food and proper nutrition. It
excites the heart to beat too fast,
which causes imperfect circulation of
the blood and often results in fatigue
and sometimes complete exhaustion.
Alcohol weakens the muscular tissues
of the body and impairs the entire
nervous system. All of these things
render the person unfit for physical
‘labor.
This powerful poison is not content
with the physical disability it causes,
but it weakens and may even destroy
the mental faculties of man. So great
is the evil effect of alcohol upon the
brain that people who are addicted to
the use of it become temporarily in-
sane while under its influence. If the
use of alcohol is continued, this insan-
ity becomes permanent. Alcohol is
responsible for about fifty per cent.
of the people in the insane asylums.
No laborer is worthy of hire who
has destroyed his efficiency as a la-
borer mentally and physically by the
use of aleoholic liquors. No employer
will advertise for such an employee;
no engine is safe with such an engi-
neer; no team is secure when the reins
are held by such a driver. The work-
man who drinks not only endangers
his own life but also the lives of oth-
ers. Over ninety-five per cent. more
accidents happen to the workmen who
drink than to workmen in general.
The man who drinks not only finds it
hard to secure a position, but to hold
one after he has secured it. “Every
employer counts the use of alcohol
against an employee.”
Alcohol weakens the will power of
man causing him to yield more readi-
ly to drink each time. It destroys the
power to resist other temptations and
to exercise self-control. Employers
find such men unreliable and . they
either force them to work for cheap-
er wages or dismiss them from serv-
dce entirely.
. The home of a drunkard is always
#@ pathetic scene. The temporary in-
Sanity caused by alcoholic drink often
Pnanifests itself in a desire to do harm,
#o destroy property, and often to take
gpuman life. Thus wives and children
mre often forced to suffer brutal treat-
' fine hands that should be to
@hem support and protection. The
shilgreRigbparents who drink moder-
ately are likely to inherit some phys-
ical weakness.
rer who uses alcohol, be-
ages are too small to support him,
il en seek to make a living in
0 dishonest way. Seventy per
enk~f the criminals inthis country
re.made so by the use of alcohol.
hoSe who are dependent upon him
fTor support must either suffer for the
"bare necessities of life or face the
world as “bread-winners” for them-
selves. Children are often deprived
of educational advantages because al-
cohol is used in the home. Poverty
comes into the home of a drunkard as
a natural result of the drink habit.
With poverty comes ignorance, dis-
ease and crime. Alcohol is responsi¢
ble for about sixty per cent. of our
paupers. :
After the first dry Sunday in Chi-
cago it was reported that only sixty-
three arrests had been made which
were one hundred and eighty less
than usual. On Monday there were
only thirty-five cases in the city
courts. Before there had been as
many as one hundred and twenty-five.
There were no murders. The banks
reported an increase in deposits. The
men took part of their earnings home
to aid in the support of their families
who had been entirely dependent upon
the charity societies. Employers said
that men were better fitted for work
on Monday morning than ever before.
Hershey, Pennsylvania, a town not
more than eleven years old, stands
out today as one of the most remark-
able towns of the United States.
There are said to be about three
thousand workers in this town. They
‘are prosperous, happy people whose
‘children enjoy the best educational
es.in- America. Hershey has,
iad a policemas > has ha
“rad an epidernic; it has never kilown'
.bovert SE. Aneaiployiment. ~The. sue-4
gcess of this town is chiefly ‘due to its
sfoundéty Mr. Milton IHershey, “Who
tudied tosbuikl-a town with drink
¢and its evils eliminated in order that
5 into ssur-
¢he might put his e
{roundings 16% e 5 Hore the
best possible to be obtained. is
abstinence to the laborer.
The use of alcohol!among! soldiers |
s forbidden in many of the best ar-
Bt destroys oMierincy of Spididrs. Joven
» Mr. George Baker, superintendent
Sof the Baker Stove company, just
‘ater an ordershadchean issued Drohibe
dting the use of alcohol by its four
{ ployees dnd “ddvising) the
tuse of milk Jistead said; #* ar
4 2% posing 45° proHiBibio 3 ba five
‘believe we can incr e i
Sof ol mon od Foden the ene
jaccidents i e ¥ 4 ed |
#o drink at Tene neh alley 9;
The laborer who drinks is excluded;
from the society of the good. =
‘comes an outcast from the best peo-
ple. His friends and associates are of
the lowest type of morality.
» His example and influence are in-
Jjurious to society as a whole.
lacks that b v
a successful ti
g If you re; rer or friend of a
daborer, if you favor better citizen-
ciency are enemie TOOL LIBOL
PRs fr
ard of morality; if you desire to les-
sen the expenses and thereby the tax-
es of your State, county and town; if
you wish to secure your own health
and that of your neighbor; if you
want life, liberty, prosperity and hap-
piness to abound in your country; if .
you desire to lessen the number of |
criminals, paupers and insane; if you
favor higher wages, better education
and more christian homes; if you are
interested in the general welfare of
all; enlist yourself as a volunteer
against alcohol and use your influ-
ence to eliminate this great evil from
our land. Use your every effort and
trust God to do the rest. Alcohol and
the laborer cannot agree. King Al-
cohol must surrender and the laborer
shall be free.
FEAR RECURRENCE OF PLAGUE
Government Experts Favor Extermina-
tion of Rats Also as a War
Measure for Saving Food.
Government experts are urging that
the rat be exterminated as a war meas-
ure for saving food. The waste each
vear due to the rodent is estimated at
%200,000,000. A full-grown rat con-
sumes more food than a baby. In
addition, the animal is a menace to
health.
The terrible scourge of the bubonic
plague in Europe and Asia was spread
hy rats and their parasites. When
the plague was carried by the animals
in ships to our Pacific coast, a cam-
naign for their extermination was con-
sweaters for the boys in the service, “Where did your watch come
of which over 500,000 were made by from ?” he asked.
the members of the local chapters. “A German gave it to me,” he ans-
You who know the difficulty of mak- wered.
ing sweaters can estimate the charac- | A little piqued, the doctor inquired
Ab f the high officials i ter of the work and the self-sacrifice | how the foe had come to convey this
nounced by one of the high officials In 1,54 the women of America are mak- ‘token of esteem and affection.
Washington that millions of people | ing to further the Red Cross mission| “’E ’ad to,” was the laconic reply.
are and have been for some months ; of mercy. —Toronto Globe.
working six days a week without a | =
dollar’s pay. This includes the mem-
bers of the local chapters and all oth- |
er employees in this country and
abroad. One significant item in this had beside him
is the fact that the Red Cross has giv- | foreign design.
en the army and navy over 1,000,000 ; was interested.
One Million Sweaters.
PRISONERS WENT ON STRIKE
Refused to Go Back to Jail Until One
of Their Number Was “Fired” by
Workhouse Superintendent.
Perhaps the queerest strike on rec-
ord was that of workhouse prisoners
in Delaware county, Indiana, recently,
when they refused to return to jail un-
less one of their number received his
freedom. And it was not that they de-
sired him to be free, either, but be-
cause they wished to be freed of his
presence.
“I had my gang of prisoners way out
by Yorktown, working on a country
road that needed repairing,” said
James Cole, workhouse superintendent,
according to the Indianapolis News,
“when I noticed, about time to load
them into the automobile and bring
them back, that the prisoners were
hanging back and talking among them-
selves. Finally one of them came to
me with the story and his demands.
“The boys here won't go back to
jail with you unless you fire Danny,
there,’ said the spokesman. ‘They won’t
ride back in the machine with him be-
cause he has vermin in his hair and
on his body. You either let him go or
no more jail for us. We've agreed to
make a run for it if you don’t, and
you can’t catch all of us.
“Of course, I had no right to allow
the man his freedom,” Cole continued,
“but the fellow jumped up and ,ran
The American Red Cross is the
greatest volunteer organization that
the world has ever seen. It was an-
A War Gift.
_ A “Tommy,” lying in a hospital,
a watch of curious and
The attending doctor
All printers among the Russian
prisoners in Germany are being kept
busy on propaganda books in Russian,
to popularize the Kaiser and every-
thing German.
ducted in the seaports at much cost.
The disease was thus stamped out as |
it. had been in the Orient, by th2 pound |
of cure instead of the ounce of pre- |
vention. |
The plague returns at intervals from
its breeding places in the overcrowded
and filthy cities of Asia. War, pesti- |
lence and famine travel hand in hand. |
A recurrence may be expected as a re- |
sult of the deprivations of war among
the impoverished eastern people.
Turks Sought British Aid.
“A relief from the atrocities of war
may be seen in the excerpt of a letter
irom a nephew of mine,” writes Val-
entine Robinson, 40 Wall street, New
York, in the Herald, who is in the en-
gineers’ corps in Palestine:
ert the grass and trees of were
very grateful to the eye. We soon had
a little brush with the Turks and some
of our men were hurt; we drove them
off and soon after a flag of truce came
in with three Turkish officers. They
wanted to borrow a doctor; theirs had
heen killed. Two of the officers, “ma-
jors,” were to remain as hostages for
his safe return. Devens volunteered
and when he came back had with him
two regiment wounded that
‘hey had given him in gratitude. The
two boys had been treated well, but
were glad to be back with their own
folk.”
Courtesy Was Wasted.
There is such a thing as wasted
urtesy and one encounters it almost
very day in the crowded subway or
lovated trains, observes a New York
«mrrespondent. Recently a man was
‘iding in a jammed train and when it
topped at the Forty-second street sta-
‘ion there was an inrush of passen-
roars. Among them was ‘a richly
dressed woman, who led a boy of
shout ten by the hand. She stood be-
fore a chivalrous-looking man who oc-
cupied a seat. With a touch of his
hat he arose to give the woman his
scat, when the boy broke loose from
her and jumped into the vacant seat.
The woman made no attempt to take
the seat for herself and remained
standing. What was worse, she made
not the slightest acknowledgment of
the man’s courtesy.
| for some of the highest prices of the
| one scare you into buying in anticipa-
«After the flies and sand of the des- ithe old basis of competition in sell-
away just then and I'm bound to admit
we didn’t try very hard to catch him.
Anyway, that broke the strike.”
Coal or kerosene? The government needs the coal. The less coal
used this summer the more there will be for winter when it’s needed
most. Every housewife can help by using an oil cook stove in her
Will you?
Safe Buying for Both.
Buying unnecessary supplies in al-
vance and hoarding food, both by the
‘housewife and grocers, was responsible
kitchen instead of a coal range.
last year. “Don’t be scared into buy-
ing,” the Interstate Grocer urges upon
its retail grocery readers. That is
just what food speculators desire. Nor-
mal buying of all groceries with a view
‘to quick and regular turnover will
keep goods moving in a normal way
at reasonable prices. “Don’t let any-
women who have them. They’re less trouble to operate than a coal range. Nothing
hard to understand. Simply strike a match, light the wick
and regulate the heat as easily as you turn a lamp up or
down. Isn’t that easier than carrying wood or coal and
bothering with the ashes every day?
tion of heavy advances, but force the
channels of distributioneto return to
Also, the results are better, for you have the heat at one
place, right under the pots and pans—not over the whole
stove and over the whole kitchen.
But for perfect results always use Atlantic Rayolight Oil.
Ask for it. Don’t buy unbranded kerosenes. They look
the same but they're not. Atlantic Rayolight Oil is so highly
refined that it gives the most heat and all without smoke,
sputter or smell. Go to your dealer now and ask to see
New Perfection Oil Cook Stoves. And then be sure to use
Atlantic Rayolight Oil.
THE ATLANTIC REFINING COMPANY
Philadelphia and Pittsburgh
ATLANTIC
Rayglight
ing. Consumers are not apt to buy
out any grocer, as most of them have
spent as much money as they could |
spare in canning and preserving their
own fruits and vegetables. If specu-
lators succeeded in creating a panicky
buying condition, unloading upon the
retail grocers at abiarmal prices, the
latter would be left h»lding the bag.”
EY
“Coal Savers”
Various preparations ar¢ extensively
advertised in this country at present
which are presumed to contfibute con-
siderably to the heating power of coal
when applied in the prescribed doses,
writes Consul General Robert P. Skin-
ner, London. The director of fuel re-
search, in answer to an inquiry as to
the value of these preparations, states
that these proprietary substances have
been in the market a long time, but
that there does not appear to be any
genuine scientific evidence in support
of the claims of their manufacturers.
He concludes: “The nature of the
substances makes it highly improbable
that they have any effect whatsoever
on the combustion of coal or other
fuels when they are used in the quan-
tities prescribed.”
Tenants Wanted.
“I thought that apartment house I
put up last winter would prove a sure
winner,” said the owner.
“Doesn’t it pay?” asked his friend.
“No,” replied the disgusted owner,
“it’s a flat failure.”—New Haven Reg-
fster.
They Come Back For More
Has it.” occurred to you that. the growth of a bus-
iness depends as much on the return of old customers as
on the acquisition of new.
We pride ourselves on
the fact. that, our list, of cus-
CHAUTAUQUA IN WAR TIME
Chautauqua is peculiarly an An
Nobody invented it.
Its idea is that of a free assem!
a king, every man looking upon the problems of the world, its governments
and its morals, with a disposing eye.
The American people are always at school.
not as the privilege of the few, but as the duty of the many, not alone for
gentlemen and scholars, teachers and the learned professions, but also for
Every Man, Every Woman, Every Child.
In War Time Chautauqua may be of invaluable service.
not only won by soldiers at the front, but also by the spirit of the people
Equipped by long preparation in times of peace, the Chautau-
qua camps allZover the country are new prepared, as is no other agency, to
‘maintain that intelligent patriotism, that |
e fighting. for, that indomitable resolution: |
“Fo Twin and that cheerfulress and courage which are needed in order to |.
make America one-bundred-per. cent efficient fn her gignn
at home.
Jeep. the home, fires burning,’ to
clear unde ding of “whit ‘we
ing the world safe for democracy.”
President Wilson" justly terms
national defense.”
Never, before
#
5 i He
gas oO erman propaganda.
1 te of“our people into a sturdy
The hosts of Chautauqua this, year will
“hy, ju no, riieforical sense, but with
vor
Serririi To»
1] sdi lt . ° Going on he
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pa orBvery hone An] the land has Hee
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Ww
ob reorganized oof
Ei suaddenlys OF |
n9]CIWelfgre cfdgencies; and institulion
now struggling with an additiongl b
HE UIW SW DMIs 21
fhe Home CASUALTY LIST: |
| Children neglected and gone Jast
Homes broken under strain
Sickness and poverty grown
‘0 i ration to rgcei
at o hy x: reconstmficti
Are the nine-tenths7of! tts why m
intelligently ?
Ww
ac
ship, if you approve of higher stand:
| and doing it
PPA 0 NOE IU NTA IRS
It was not devised.
Its roots run deep into the American character.
Chautay
Chautauqua meant what it is“going to mean in 1918,
py Ge rein of discussion will be blown away the subtle poison
ro 8 Here the great Common Péople will bé lined
up to support, not in blind subseérviency, but in discriminating loyalty, the
government. Here will all good causes find reinfor¢ement.. Here will sthe
est Crisis that ever was imposed upon the World be made'to fuse the
“Marching asito War, 415 aor
With the Cross of Jesus: - + A eve
Y, . 5 . ’ ’ ei fet
Ah rin “ed add in $ 4 3 503 15:
ost /In® every défhinuiity the custimady methods of action and control mus¥
I dane and far-reaching measur of collective effort have . had to be :
tomers keeps pace with our
mailing list; and the old names
continye to appear season
after season.
AT BELLEFONTE JULY 18 TO 25.
1erican institution.
It just grew
lage of a sovereign people, every soul
We mention this simply
because to us it, is an indica-
tion of sound business and if
we had in mind the purchase
of new clothes, we would in-
cline toward an establishment,
that. could boast. of selling
the same men, season after.
They conceive of Education,
Battles are
i
With no less pride we feature
Hic ART CLOTHES
for they to have the faculty
of bringing men “Back For
More.”
Cad ng eo Pe) fel ed
loyalty. :
come to their places of assem:
true and earnest reality. ;
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x affected by the requirements of ne!
Once wear a “High Art”
Suit, and you will revise your
) opinion of ready-to-wear
that hefore were overloaded, are
pudieh: ‘inding TOV houuee clothing standards—favorably
$ yp tun 1 : ‘ of course.
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aval an3t pl
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& must be kept E§/Iow! as Ipogsible.
the handicapped returned soldier?
maf - - rtatblid
t remain at home doing our utmost,
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