REINING UP FOR REIGNING OVER The International Sunday School Lesson For May 20 Is, "The Importance of Self-Control." Isaiah 28:1-13. (A Temperance Lesson). By WILLIAM T. ELLIS The international Sunday school lesson for May 20. is, "The Import ance of Self-Control." Isaiah 28:1-13 (A Temperance Lesson). By William T. Ellis Even the comic papers have learn ed that John Barleycorn is a war victim. Mars is apparently putting the finishing touches upon the fate oAthe liquor business. As we come regular quarterly temperance >esson of the Sunday school, which is to be studied topically, we find our selves in the position of a friend of mine who is a leader in American so cial service. Commenting a few days ago upon the condition of the tem perance reform he wrote, "Things are moving so rapidly that it is all one can do to keep up with the pro gress of the movement, much less try to lead it." The speed at which the saloon is being driven from trench to trench, from position to position, until it is now near to en gulfment in the watery sea of oblit eration, is bewildering and dazzling and glorious. War in speeding up everything. Re forms are being accomplished at a breathless rate. "The work that cen turies should have done, must crowd ! the hour of the setting sun." So wej read of blow after blow at the liquor trade, each severer than the last, and now the confidence pervades the land that the entire business is to be wiped out quickly, in the interest of military and economic advantage. J There seem to be no friends left fori John Barleycorn, except the men who profit financially by his continu ance. Fit For Fighting "Soft" and "Out of Condition.") have been characterizations heaped upon the nonmilitar.v nations of civilization. They were self-indul gent. Ease and appetite held sway. One of the most shameful Incidents of the early stages of he conflict was the refusal of a body of British churchmen to give up the use of liquor during the war. They liad wandered so far from the Christ principle of self-denial for the sake of others that they were not so much ! R ° willing to surb their appetites for the sake of God and country. The stigma thus placed upon Christianity has been remarked upon by the secular and religious press around the entire globe. In Canada, and ill the fighting zone of Europe, people are becoming more fit for fighting. They have learned the great self-renunciation which underlie all discipline of mind and body. Heal preparedness is a thing of the spirit, a state of mind. Success in war, as in all the other battles of life, strikes its roots back into the character of the individual. • So long as a people are self-pleasing, and accustomed to put comfort ahead of conviction, the state is in danger. Here we cbme directly upon the reason why the Sunday school should study a temperance lesson. We hear a great deal about the economic as pects of the fight against the use of strong drink; and not one word too much. Nevertheless, the issue is fundamentally religious. Its appeal is to the Christian spirit of altruism and vicariousness. Kor the sake of others the disciple of Jesus, like his Master, denies himself. The New Kind of Heretics The person who will not deny his own desires for the sake of his coun try or his God violates the very gen ius #f tha New Testament. They are pooi Christians indeed who have not learned to subdue an impulse at the behest of a principle. Their undis ciplined lives are doomed to slavery. l Only reined spirits reign. All Christians who are represented by those British ecclesiastics, men- i tioned above, who refused to abstain I from the glass during the period of the war, are real heretics. They are disloyal to the first principles of Jesus. Such selfishness is worse than doctrinal unsoundness. The world knows and cares little about a Chris tian's creed, except as faith is wrought out into life. But it clearly brands as unchristian all such self indulgence and self-seeking as has been indicated. The churchman who < ares more for his wine than for the name of the Master which he wears, and the business man who puts his dividends above his duty to his fel low men are alike traitors to their 1 land and their Lord. They have not! learned the first lesson even of tem perance, which is self-control, and i the art of holding things in propor tion. The Patriotism of Prohibition I have been trying to imagine the feeling nowadays of the veterans of the temperance reform movement— the Women's Christian Temperance Union workers and the "eccentric" prohibition advocates who, fifteen or twenty years ago, were but voices! crying in the wilderness. Few of i them dared to hope to live to see the fulfilment of their dream and desire. Now, statesmen and economists and educators and labor leaders are one in pleading with the nation to go the extreme limit of national prohibition. What would Neal Dow or Frances j E. Willard have said to having as an ally the president of the National City bank of New York, Frank A. Vanderlip, formerly, of the United States Treasury? Yet here is an ex tract from a recent telegram by Mr. \'andel!p: "I believe we are facing a serious test of our national character and efficiency and am firmly convinced lhat a national prohibition measure would be of transcendent importance in its effect upon the national spirit; in conserving and Increasing our food supply and In raising the effi ciency of /he nation. The man-power released from the liquor industries could be directed into other produc- i No Idle Acres This Year! Dig Up the Dollars Buried in Your Back Yard. Make Sure That You Plant Schell's Quality Seed For They Grow Better They Yield Better They Are Absolutely the Best To Have a Good Garden, You Must Plant Good Seeds. We Have Them and Everything Else You Need For Your Garden Walter S. Schell QUALITY SEEDS 1807-1309 Market St. FRIDAY EVENING, HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH MAY 18, 1917. tive channels where the need for labor will be acute and thus be readily absorbed. The needs of the agricultural and industrial situation will make this a peculiarly oppor tune time to put through a national prohibition law with minimum shook to our economic machinery during the readjustment. The business in terests involved should be fairly dealt with, but many of the plants can be readily converted to import ant industrial uses. The plea that the government revenue will be seriously curtailed should not influence action, for prohibition will induce a national efficiency which will open new and far richer sources of revenue." The author of the Kebb-Kenyon bill, Hon. Edwin Yates Webb, wrote in a recent Sunday School Times: "The no-license or dry area now amounts to 2,500,000 square miles of our territory, or 86 per cent. Twenty five States are now dry, and, out 6f a total of 2,543 counties in the United States, liquor is allowed to be sold in only 305 of them." Tlie Pleas of the Empty Flour Barrel That same statement declares: "it is a national crime in times like these to have about one hun dred million bushels of grain de stroyed yearly in the manufacture of intoxicants, when food and other necessaries of life are so high that the average man can hardly buy them, and the poor are wondering whether they must go hungry or starve." Of all the recent allies to the tem-! perance cause the empty flour barrel j Is one of the most potent. When thel world is threatened with famine it is j folly—worse, it is a crime—to drink ! up eleven milion loaves of bread in j a day, with no return to the phy-1 sical strength of the nation. Seven j million men could be fed for a year | by the grain that now goes into booze I In the United States alone. On this point Mr. Webb writes: "There are about 300.000 people engaged in the liquor business in this country, supplying whisky to about I 5.000,000 drinkers. It is estimated j that our people spend every year! about two billion dollars for intoxl- j cants. This stupendous sum is yearly i spent for an article which in no way [ helps the people, but which actually destroys them In body and soul. "if this two billion dollars were | converted into other industries —and j it should be. especially in time of j war —it would give back to labor $500,000,000 in additional earnings and wages, and would give employ ment to 900,000 laborers." Ready For a New World Society's case against strong drink 1 has been proved up to the hilt. Wei know that the booze business de bauches politics (a large group of Pennsylvania brewers were indicted I a few days' ago for political bribing ! and corruption) and debauches life, j It does no real good and imparts no! lasting pleasure, its effects are en-j t:rcly antisocial. The one rallying' cry of the trade, that it provides em- I ployment for thousands of persons' has been turned into hollow mockery j by the war. which has created such a demand for workers and warriors that every man .-it present employed in the liquor business could find an other job within twenty-four hours. We need both the men and the grain Il^j All Advertise Cut Prices!! 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President Wilson's epochal address to the United States Congress assures that. The organised life of mankind In to bo lived on a higher plane here after. Democracy's demands are dif ficult. Its Implications of brotherhood and common welfare and united self- I sacrifice can bo met only by a now j spirit among men. The new world-life will be a sober I life, a self-controlled life, a life of I highest efficiency. And that can come i In no other way than uy the spirit | of Jesus. Expert Says Hoarding Is Mistaken For Thfcft New York, May 18. A warning to women of the United States not to mistake hoarding for war-time thrift has been issued by Charles; Lathrop Pack, president of the Na- ' tional Emergency Kood Garden 1 Commission. If business is thrown; out of its usual course by extreme : : limitation of expenditures disaster I to the country may follow, Mr. Pack ! . declared. "I meet people every day," said | 1 Mr. Pack, "who have missed the: < point entirely in this food crisis. The i . other day a woman told me she had discharged her chauffeur and sold i her automobile. She said she was I trying to save. "1 told her she was doing her level j best to damn her country. Now, | suppose all the women stopped wearing flowers in the! rhats or bits! of lace about their necks. Do you' know what it would mean to the' i workers of the country and to the j grocers they buy from?' It would ] mean ruin. i "Our Allies do not want the flower; 1 from a woman's hat or the lace I from her neck. They want just a ' little of our food. That is the placet j for conservation now. i j "Let's all go to it as never before 1 j and keep business going as usual, I for that is a mighty good slogan, i [ The National Emergency Food Gar- I den Commission wants to help 1 housewives produce food f. o. b. the < kitchen door, and thus relieve theil railroads, in order that they may do i ! other things for the government. j "Do not let hysteria and hoarding! I be mistaken for thrift in so far as the food uqestion affects us." WILSON'S UNCLE DEAD Columbus, Ohio, May 18. Chas. | Scott Woodrow, aged 67, an uncle of President Wilson, died to-day at the j home of his son, Thomas J. Wood-' row, on Cline road, Briggsdale. a j suburb of Columbusl. President Wil-1 son's mother was Woodrow's half sister. He was a native of Coluni-j bus. • | ( Your eyes ~are worthy "of the best attention you can give them. Bel singer glasses can be hail as low as $2.00. Optometrists 212 LOCUST ST. Next Door to Orpheum Theater j Examined No Drops J Presbyterian Church Is Near National Union By Associated Press Dallas, Texas. May 17i • With the election of Dr. J. Wilbur Chapman, of Jamaica, N. Y., former Evangelist, as moderator, late to-day, the 129 th general assembly of the Presbyter ian church in the United States of America, took a step which .many of the delegates said went a long way toward furthering prospects for union of tho two branches of the church —the North and'South. Many delegates contended that Dr. Chap man us head of the assembly would exert an Influence toward a reunit ing of the two factions which was promising. Two other candidates were nomi nated for the moderatorslilp. Dr. Harlan G. Mendenhall, of New York, and Dr. John B. Kendall, president of Lincoln University, Lincoln, Pa. The vote was, Chapman. 590; Ken dall, 139, and Mendenhall, 121. The election was made ynanlmous by ac clamation upon motion of Dr. Robert Johnson, of Montreal, Can. Only one ballot was taken. Just when, and In what form the proposed reunion of the two church factions will be broached, prominent men of the assembly re fused to predict to-night. Action looking to that end might be taken to-morrow, they said, and it might be delayed until later during the nine-day session of the assembly. SfokctUoum Get the Round P-ickage * Ask For and GET s UADI lA|/*e rtffl'JlflPta THE ORIGINAL jMSZjEI MALTED MILK Made from clean, rich milk with the ex i . njffljj tract of select malted grain, malted in our IA own Malt Houses under sanitary conditions. Infante and children thrive on it. Agree* with X 'CjL Tc A weakett ttomach of the invalid or the aged. V /A Need* no cooking nor addition of milk. Nourishes and sustains more than tea, coffee, etc. ~ Should be kept at home or when traveling. A nu tr't'OU3 food-drink may be prepared in a moment. ' A glassful hot before retiring induces refreshing K tO. ®leep- Also in lunch tablet form for business men. . I * , Substitute® Cost YOU Same Price ... 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We were his guests at Windsor Castle, and found that no wine, beer or spirits of liny kind were now being used In the King's household. "The fare at the table has been re duced to the utmost simplicity, and waste Is being avoided. For in stance you cut your own bread. There is the loaf and the knife, and you cut what you want. This Is done to prevent waste. No toast is al lowed, because • bread once toasted cannot be used again in puddings or other ways known to cooks." FIELD MARSHAL DIES By Associated Press Nice, May 18. • Field Marshal Radomir Putnlk, the former chief 11/^ ||l I Iff Business is Good Sil II ill! j]B 3 And why shouldn't it be? It is a well known Mil j 11|| II llljj'l if fact that when it comes to choosing • ■ II)I 1/ SUIT 2 COAT /I IlliillllV B or other garment most people come here K l||||||| I If B ~ because it is here that we sell clothes that are ■ f I ||| ll Guaranteed |J| |||j| J( and by that we mean that what you M I 111 WE MAKE GOOD /I V Jl -and to make it more convenient we do not ask ■ Jj If Jf you to pay cash - iust choose what you need and ■ I I If CHARGE AH I 111 la B Make you rown terms regarding payments B I 11 |fl YOU PAY LESS HERE II if Clothe The /l I 36 North 2nd St. ll | of general staff of the Serbian army and former minister of war, Is dead. Field Marshal Putnlk was with the Serbian forces when they retreated Into Albania. Ql had been living* at Nice, where lifted Buffered from a serious Ulricas tor considerably time. 7
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