12 "DRY" AMERICA AMAZES WORLD The International Sunday School 1 jesson For November 2 Is A Tem perance Lesson—Jeremiah 35:1-8, 12-1 la, 18, 18 By WILLIAM T. ELLIS Often during the present year my fellow traveler and I have talked t together of the incredulity which we | found in the old world concerning j America's adoption of a nation wide prohibition law. We have Bought to understand why foreign friends could not comprehend it. Much amusement we have had out of our countless conversations with these bewildered inquirers—and al- ; so much food for serious reflection. [ Practically every English-speaking person we met talked about this ! wonder of the world. It was more 1 consistently a theme of discussion | than the Peace Treaty, the war itself ) or the influenza epidemic. 1 can tes- j tify that all the civilized world is [ deeply interested in America's go ing "dry." Many men, especially Briuth offl- j cers. Were sincerely concerneS lest there should be a revolution in America! They fully expected "Vie ] working classes" to rise up in arm-, ed protest against being deprived of their beer. Their basic assumption j was that certain weird reformers, and fanatics, possessed of sudden un accountable authority, had taken ad- j vantage of the absence of the sol diers from America to put this ter-1 rible prohibition law upon the stat-' ute books. And what would become NAME "BAYER" ON GENUINE ASPIRIN Safe and proper directions are in every "Bayer" package "Bayer Thblets of Aspirin" to be genuine must be marked with the safety "Bayer Cross." Then you are getting the true, world-famous As pirin, prescribed by physicians for over 18 years. Always buy an unbroken package of "Bayer Tablets of Aspirin," which contains proper directions to £ *& *10 toJ IS at a Saving of jSrSZSk. It isn't simply the LOW PRICES that have made WON DER CLOTHES famous J throughout the United States. /\ >. Y It is QUALITY. 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The thing roots deeper than I the difference between the drinking I habits of America and, say, Great Britain. The sophisticated old world could not understand our prohibition measure, enacted from a self-deny ing solicitude for the common wei ! fare, any more than it can under stand our motives in entering the J war. To this day. there are millions ! of persons east of the Atlantic who | are waiting to see what the United 'States will get out of the war: and iwho, in the meantime, attribute all [ sorts of ignoble motives to her. They I think that Canada and Australia, j who share America's ideals, somehow "had" to entej- the war, because they ' "belonged" to the Empire. If we faced this difference in view • points frankly we might get farther ,in understanding the present world conditions. Idealism seems to be in j?> peculiar degree the possession of [ tho newer, younger nations. The simple noighborliness of pioneers has | worked out in a real spirit of broth erhood and social service. Bigger Than Booze ' There is no denying that Europe has been given a jolt by the drastic safely relieve Colds, Headache, Toothache, Earache, Neuralgia, Lumbago. Rheumatism. Neuritis, Joint Pains and Pain generally. Handy tin boxes of twelve tablets cost but a few cents. Druggists also sell larger "Bayer" packages. As pirin is the trade mark of Bayer Manufacture of Monoaceticacidester of Salicylicacid. !temperance legislation of the United < | States and Canada. And the Moslem <. i East has been arrested in its nt\y t i following of the European fashion of 1 alcoholic indulgence. The frantic r manner in which advocates of strong t drink are defending it is one portent t of the not-distant day when the i whole world will be "dry." After 1 1 the British home folk have heard < the full truth about the part that; ? I whisky played in the tragic loss of j i I certain great battles and positions,, S they will take measures to prevent p lat least the higher officers from cap-|l j itulating to the bottled enemy who 1 1 | is always a powerful ally of every s ;i other enemy. Back of this all lies an idea that i' |is greater than the liquor question..* [That is the notion that whatever il [hurts a person's efficiency, or a na-k jtion's, is not to be tolerated: and!' j that whatever makes for selfishness ] land unbrotherliness is fundamen ' tally bad for efficiency and for life. I I We cannot run this world on a "look -11 out-for-nuniber-one" ba'sis. We are ! all too tightly tied up in the one j bundle for that. Nowadays we are 1 1 glimpsing a vast significance in the j interpretation of the fulfilment of j Christ's principles as we read: "Bear [ye one*another's burdens, and so ful -1 till the law of Christ." We are out ! laws from the Kingdom Of Heaven so [long as we are not sharing the otl-.- jer person's load. Not to have a load on our shoulders declasses us. as it , [were; puts us out of the good soc:- , ! ety of the good. Looked at in the | large, the liquor question is more than an economic question and a so- i cial" question and a physiological i question: it is a religious question. Celebra tion-Ju bilee For decades the Sunday Schools have observed what they call "World's Temperance Sunday." i This lesson recognizes that anniver sary; that is why we treat it topi cal.y, rather than textually al though the Rechabites are well . worth studying about. There will be the note of jubilation in thisj year's celebration: fof we have wit nessed the greatest demonstration of the advantages of the suppression of the liquor traffic the world has ever seen. Some drinkers are still grum bling. of course: but they are not drinking as of yore, so who minds I the grousing? ■ Queer stories of all kinds are cur rent since the United States went "dry." Thus, the House of Correc tion Farm in Philadelphia has not had enough "d. d.'s" —"drunk and disorderly"—to carry on its farm, or to run the plant which supplies the community with gas; and both of these calamities have been heralded !as evils of prohibition! Mr. Blythc ! tells in "The Saturday Evening ! Post" of workingmen who now are !so sober and "flush" on Monday morning that they do not care ! whether they work or not: they j have money, so why labor? In the • old days, the beneficent saloon kept . J them so poor that they had to work. Also a steam laundry complained of | being swamped with business, be s j cause so many wives are now using J I the husband's booze money to pay - i for the family wash, instead of do r 1 ing it themselves. r [ None of the dire prophecies of the brewers have been fulfilled; and the - I people generally are better off and happier with this one avenue of ex penditure closed to them. Best of all, the men who used to drink regularly are finding themselves in better health and spirits than be fore, and they have quickly adapted | themselves to the new conditions.! : The only organized protest against j | the new law has come from the liq- i j uor dealers, and in sober daylight, they find few friends. They weie [ not the "good fellows" many thought them; but only a crowd of selfish, I unscrupulous money-grabbers. I-if ting Life's Level Nobody with a clear brain should [suppose that the temperance battle! ' has been won because the saloons I have been put out of business in the United States and most of Canada. 1 Far from it. Negations create noth ! ing. We have to build a new and I nobler spirit of human relationship Jif we are to make this old world : the livable p'.ace it should be. Our j sober society should breed inciters , and inspirers to brotherhood. Life's ! level must be lifted. There is a j message for the day in Marguerite ' O. B. Wilkenson's poem: "He set his hand to the plow one day. j While yet his years were few, i Resolved to mark a distant field | With furrows firm and true. ! His arms were strong for the toil of i life, His heart was all afire, j Till a neighbor laughed, and turned him home, Rebuked his desire: •You are too young, you are too poor, you are too weak," said he. •Best leave sucli tasks to the rich and great, and strive to oe like me!' ' "Then rosy love brought grand largesse i To his very cottage door, i A maid of mystery and of charm God never gave before; ! And the lad held out dumb hands j | of hope ! To the mighty fires of peace, i Till the neighbor passed with tongue > i in cheek. And then he sought release. I 'You are too dull,' the neighbor said, j ! 'to shine by such as she. i'Find you a girl of common clay to! wtJ, and be like me!' "So time sped by, till the fading day' Could bring but one last chance To break the bonds of a sordid life And conquer circumstance; And, well-nigh spent, he sought the road To the heights where life it great. Eager to reach one shining goal, But his neighbor whispered, 'wait— ' You are too old to do it now—it is far too late,' said he. 'I could not do it myself, you know, | and you are just like me!' " A Menace or an Opportunity Of course there is law violation in "dry" territory: somehow, the whole miserable business of booze seems to beget lawlessness. Just now, the intelligent men who are committing these breeches of the. enacted statutes of the land need to do a bit of sensible thinking. Disrespect for law is the world's greatest contemporary evil. in Russia JJt has produced Bolshevism; in America it has blossomed in lynchings and riots. Law is law, and sacred, if civil ization is to stand. The man who breaks the law concerning liquor has no case against the man, several stages below him in the intellectual scale, who breaks the law against making and throwing bombs. Law lessness is anarchy; and honest minds know that the present out break of lawlessness at the bottom is the legitimate child of years of lawlessness at the top. For the sake of the integrity -of our own thinking let us not forget that Czarism begot Bolshevism; and that an era of law less capitalism cannot disown its off springs, an era of industrial violence. The hour is here' for facing.all the facts and accepting their implica tions squarely. The new liquor laws are not a joke; they are law, and as indifferent to individual opinion and HJURRISBUnRO TELEGRAPH desire as all other law. FYiends of I civilization will look upon the situa tion as an opportunity to honor the ' law, and to put into it the noblest and most positive significance. Ret us help men to love self-control and clcar-heudedness and efficiency and idealism and altruism. It is a day to glorify mankind and to thank God that the desire for the common good is strong enough to register itself In this advanced legislation. Suppose we try to convert the man who loves liquor to n love of life's higher things; so that he will will ingly sacrifice a measure of his per sonal liberty for the sake of man- i kind and the Kingdom of Heaven, whose King "emptied Himself in i order to save' the lowest and the least. Sailors and Marines Available For Service on Land in Strike Washington, Oct. 31.—Sailors and marines will be available for land service in any emergency arising from the impending coal strike. Sec retary Daniels said. If called on by the President, the Secretary ex plained, sufficient forces would be landed and ordered to attach them- S eS to " 1e m '''tary commanding officer of the area in which there was need for their services. Philadelphia Gets Elkins Art Gallery Philadelphia. Oct. 31—The rnagni gallery of the late George \\ . Elkins, which includes the fa mous Alma Tadema, "a Reading f j s bequeathed to the cit> of Philadelphia in his will. Mr. Ljlkins died a week ago. , tate is estimated to be worth $40,000,000 or more. A trust fund of $500,000 is de vised for the care and maintenance 01 the art collection, said to be worth millions. 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Out in front of our store on the sidewalk is a piece of this floor covering cut from one of the rolls in our regular stock. Thousands are scuffling over It and pounding their heels into it. It will stay there all this week through sunshine and rain. Examine it! After thousands have walked or/ it, notice how surprisingly bright and fresh looking it is. SEE HOW WELL IT LOOKSWHILE BEING USED IN THE LOBBY OF THE MAJESTIC GLOBE OAK, BEAVER OAK and BANNER HEATERS JL We have a selection of different sizes from Qr| three of the most reliable manufacturers of heaters. All our heaters are the latest models —very plain, with just enough nickel trimming FsigaSri to make them attractive. Single Oak Heaters, as low as $13.00 Double Oak eaters, as low as $53.50 ** an £ es as * ow as with pipe shelf and Combination Gas and Coal Ranges as low as, * $Bl.OO Furniture, Stoves, Carpets, 70THEKT Everything to Furnish Washing Machines the Home LIBERAL CREDIT LIBERAL CREDIT SPENT MILLIONS FOR HOUSING Uncle Sam Expended $46,- 000,000 Making Homes For War Workers Philadelphia, Oct. 81.—Uncle Sam I spent approximately $46,000,000 in; housing the war workers of Penn-j sylvania during the two years of the | Great War. according to informa tion so far in the hands of the Penn sylvania War History Commission, j The sum represents the amount | spent in this State by the housing; commission of the Emergency Flecl i Corporation and the United States, Housing Commission, each organi-J /.ation expending about one-huif the | total sum. The facts and figures are mado| GOOD TIDINGS FROM i MOTHER IN EAR EAST; i "Your mother is getting stronger' every day," writes relatives of S. , Bhagwan Singh, 1345 Vine st., Phila., from Hindustan, East India. | "That medicine you sent fixed her i up in two weeks." Mr. Singh, a student here, said: J "Several months ago I had trouble • with my stomach. I was advised to 1 take Tanlac. I got such wonderful ' results that when I received word: that my aged mother lr.- India was; ill and run down. I immediately sent j two packages of Tanlac to her. I i am mighty grateful to Tanlac. 11 feel that it has saved my dear moth- j er's life." The genuine J. I. Gore Co. Tanlac ! is now being introduced here by all j leading druggists. public to-day by the commission as a part of State History Week ac tivities and as an Incentive to more history-digging by Pennsylvnnlans. For the plant of the Westinghousc Company at Essington, $1,220,000 United States Grain Corporation Will Sell Flour to Wholesalers and Jobbers The United States Grain Corporation is prepared to divert from its flour purchases, and to sell and deliver to wholesalers and jobbers straight (either soft or hard) wheat flour, clean and well milled, packed in 140-pound jute sacks, (gross weight) basis of $10.25 per barrel, delivered in carload lots on tracks in territory east of the Illinois and Indiana line, and east of the Mis sissippi River, from Cairo to the Gulf. Wholesalers and jobbers in purchasing flour from the United States Grain Corporation must guarantee not to sell at more than seventy-five cents per barrel additional, and the wholesalers and jobber in turn must require a guarantee that the retailer will not sell at more than $1.25 per barrel over the wholesaler's prices, in original packages, and at a price not higher than seven cents a pound for broken packages of any size. 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