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FACT is a real state of things. FALLACY is an appar
ently genuine but really illogical statement or argument.
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THE FALLACY of Prohibition is very sanely shown by a recent | ODftinDm A M
rrticle entitled "An Englishman's Experience of Temperance PROHIBITION
Reform," written by Cecil Chesterton. His views are well worth FALLACY
the reading —--—
Sii nf NO Saloons
AYS Mr. Chesterton: "One dogma common to all schools ot
'Temperance Reformers' in England is that the way to reduce |\ V L?rifftK.&ru j
drunkenness is to reduce the number of 'facilities for dnnking. It
was useless to meet this dogma by an appeal to human experience fa/y
as every educated and traveled man knew it. It was useless co f\\
I point out that in those places, which, according to this theory, J .
ought to be given over to a continual debauch of alcoholism in lal
g Paris, where whole streets consist of nothing but a long row ot |J/ M-l
'facilities'; in the small French country towns, where the inquiring 11 *-*>-4.
stranger is perplexed as to how any of the cafes can pay, since 11» # W
everyone in the town seems to keep one—that it v.as just in such " pi
places that one practically never saw a drunken man. |~|
/"ft EN of our European blood and civilization (from which the . "
ir~\ civilisation of America also derives) have always regarded
fermented drink as a part of the normal food of man. . . . We
find the old Puritans, for all the ferocity of their attack on human
. nature, never attempting to stop the consumption of fermented
drinks. They forbade men to drink "healths, but they never thought
°* forbidding them to drink wine or beer, presumably because it
I?;' Jhi* ' j had never occurred to them that these things were even luxuries,
ft' jf fit] They regarded them as normal to man.
<<Y%7HEREVER restrictive legislation approaches anywhere
* ■ near the point of Prohibition, which is its obvious goal, it
invariably tends to produce another set of evils. It does not sup
press drinking, but it makes it secret, furtive and thoroughly un- -JMI 1MIII „ IU
wholesome. By treating a normal human habit as a vice it really
often makes it one." n II 3 fi SI
MR. CHESTERTON concludes his article with a touch of fl n n n n
humor that does not lessen, but rather accentuates the "'[Mi ®j jgj §
FALLACY of Prohibition in the light of the FACTS he presents. 'lj?
He says: "I passed a few days in 'dry' territory, and couid not for- §j|g|Eailg=Ji [r3
bear to notice the number, size, prominence and luxurious appear- • n' p „p ( - Tnß pi
ance of the drug stores in every Prohibition city I visited. I sug- (fj- j»r
gest that this may be held to point to one of two conclusions. Il"'
Either these institutions do not exist solely for the sale of quinine ii 1•' -S1 [Mi K1 fofl V
and sal-volatile, or else Prohibition does not appear to improve the CJ *
health of tliose on whon it is enforced."
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\ Pennsylvania State Brewers' Association ==
OnUnll. —' —H-lmMmt-U-
PENNSYLVANIA
NEWS IN BRIEF
Interesting Items From All Sec
tions of the State.
GULLED FOR QUICK READING
News of All Kinds Gathered From
Various Points Throughout th#
Keystone State.
Newville wants a municipal ligut
and power plant.
President C. C. Ramsey, of the Cru
cible Steel company, died at Sewick
ley.
The oldest woman in Monroe coun
ty, Mrs. Eva Smale, aged ninety-five,
died.
•rne Allentown Turner and Lieder
kranz will build a new hall at a cost
of $20,000.
A Valley engine struck a deer
at Rockport, and rolled it down an em
bankment.
Carlisle's shoeshining and tobacco
store owners have been notified to
close on Sundays.
Lehigh and Panther Creek miners
are working more steadily than at any
time in a decade.
A five per cent raise, with overtime
for holidays, has been granted to Ha
zleton brewery workers.
The Reading Transit company, on
its Reading and allied lines, carried
38,500,000 passengers last year.
Berks County Agricultural associa
tion elected W. Harry Orr president
and Daniel .T. McDermott secretary.
In a collision of an automobile and
trolley car at Mechanicsburg, Wesle -1 *
Miller and the motorman were injured.
Lancaster's Penn Iron works, idle
ten years, will resume, rolling steel
and iron bars, under New York aus
pices.
Final steps are being taken to pro
vide for Adams county its first v<~op
tional high school, probably at Arendts
ville.
Incensed at the removal of their
health officer, Altoona doctors want a
law giving third-class cities power of
recall.
The Union Fire company, of Lan
caster. has celebrated the one hundred
and flftv-seventh anniversary of its or
ganization.
The Lehigh Coal & Navigation com
pany is taking out many short curves
along its road between Lansford and
Tamaqua.
George P. Wilson, Philadelphia, has
resigned as chief of the bureau of
rates and tariffs of the public service
commission.
Mrs. Jane A. Kern, of Slatington.
dropped dead just after reaching
from attending the funeral of a friend
at Neffsville.
Fully one-third of the twenty-seven
applicants for license in Cumberland
county face hard fights with the no
license forces.
Stricken while shaving a patron,
Grafton Zirn. a Carlisle barber, died
a few minutes later of heart d.seas\
aged twenty-five.
" The state treasurer nii' S7»V
500 to members of the le : atur? a
first installment on thMr ■*: *:es r
the session of 1? IT.
SUPER-AEROPLANE CAN CARRY ELEVEN
Photo by American Press Association. „
This |20,000 Curtiss air cruiser has two 100 horsepower engines. It Is designed to cany fire persons, bst sisTSO
can occupy it It is flftj feet long. •
Angered by wholesale "flunkings,"
Wathington and JefTerson college stu
dents, at Washington, Pa., hanged a
professor in effigy.
Gilbert Greensburg, of Huntingdon,
prominent in the State Firemen's asso
ciation, has been appointed a deputy
state fire marshal.
Harry Peters, aged seventy-three, of
Marorsville, near Kittanning, was kill
ed when struck by a train on the
Pennsylvania railroad.
With a mill already employing 1500
hands at Hazleton. the Dauphin Silk
company will build a four-story ad
dition. 68 by 100 feet.
Work on the construction of thie
Wheeling Coal railroad, from Wheel
ing. W. Va., to Marianna, Washington
county, has been started.
Hazleton has entered into competi
tion with Weatherly for the acquisi
tion of the proposed new Lehigh Val
ley railroad repair Ihops.
Mauch Chunk schools tfiis year will
get $16,000 from taxes and state ap
propriation and $7lOO from the Cum
minsrs and Packer estates.
Allentown's smallpox scare Is over,
as it has been found the victim of the
supposed pest is suffering only from
a severe case of chicken-pox.
Edward Bailey, of Harrisbure:, has
been named receiver for the Williams
port & North Branch railroad, with
general offices at Hughesville.
A consignment of 500 barrels of
flour, the first of a large order from
the British government, was shipper
from Martinsburg to London.
Charged with complicity In the dy
namiting of the safe in Lawler's store,
James Thornton was arrested by state
police at Frackville and jailed.
Union hod carriers at Pottstown
adopted an eight-hour working day
and an advanced wage scale, from
forty to forty-eight cents an hour.
Thrown under a train when
brake stick broke at Frackville. George
Fretz, aged thirty-five, a Reading rail
road brakeman. was crushed to death.
Thomas F. Smith has been elected
president of the Citizens' State bank.
Williatfisport, to succeed Charles W
Weis, resigned to go into manufactur
ing.
The Montour county grand jury has
returned a true bill against Robert
Pursel, of Danville, charging him with
the murdor of Mr. and Mrs. Johr
Kern.
York council reconsidered and in
creased the tax rate one mill, to
mills, to afford $27,000 additional reve
nue for sewer and street improve
ments.
Enough orders until January, 1918,
are in sight as a result of the war de
partment giving a contract to the
Jeanesville Iron works to supply small
shells.
Preparations are being made for the
opening of the Wilkes rolling mill at
Sharon, after being idle for three
years. Two hundred men will be em
ployed.
Mr. and Mrs. Lafayette Churchill, of
Leroy, celebrated their seventieth
wedding anniversary with a dinner in
the Grange Hall, to friends for miles
around.
Surrounded by many friends, Miss
Hanna Griffith, of Hazleton, and Albert
Reese, of Nesquehoning, were wedded
In Mahanoy City by Dr. Sorrs, of Phil
adelphia.
Gas from a cellar furnace probab'y
would have killed the family of Wal
ter Filing, at Shippensburg, had not
the baby's cries awakened Mrs. Filling
Just in time.
William Daufenbach has resigned as
deputy warden and executioner at the
new penitentiary at Rockview, Centre
county, and has been succeeded by
Fred B. Healy.
After taking forty-five ballots the
Snyder county commissioners have
elected P. Scott Ritter, of Middleburg,
to the new $lOOO sealer of weights
and measures job.
Alfred Cathers and Nervin Coombe,
of St. Nicholas, crashed into an auto
mobile while coasting at Suffolk and
were badly hurt.
Managers of big coal companies in
the anthracite fields welcome the opin
ion of Assistant Attorney General Kel
ler that nurses have the legal right to
administer anesthetics.
Fire believed of incendiary origin
destroyed the hosiery mill at Middle
town of H. A. Bomberger, of Philadel
phia. The loss is $150,000, ineluline
$40,000 worth of yarn.
During 1916, 3820 arrests were made
in New Castle. Of these 3308 we-e
made since the first of April, when
the city an 1 county went "wet" after
a "dry" period of six years.
Agents representing the Italian
government are going through the an
thracite fields to induce reservists of
that country to return and enter the
army.
The historic old Gettysburg Presby
terian church, used at the time of the
battle of Gettysburg, as an army hos
pital, is undergoing repairs and reno
vation.
The past year brought 131 new fac
tories to York county for the manu
facture of cigars and other forms of
tobacco, and now there are 1500 in the
county.
The trustees of Allentown College
for Women, now located at Cedar
Crest, have sold the old college build
ings in the city to A. D. Gomery for
$28,500.
An explosion of gas blew a section
of the wall out of the Ward apart
ments, in Altoona. Mrs. George Slea
mond, aged twenty-six, was perhaps fa
tally burned.
Caught between a tank and shaft
wheel, Frank Salinko was crushed to
death and Joseph Galinsky seriously
injured at Lehigh C. & N. water shaft
No. 6, Tamaqua.
' Two hundred and fifty employes of
the D. M. Bare & Co. paper mill at
Roaring Spring have been notified of
a ten per cent increase in wages, ef
fective January 1.
Josept Pisko. aged seven, son of
John Pisko, of Meadowlands, died in
the CHy hospital, in Washington of a
fractured skull, received when he was
kicked by a horse.
Drawn into a sand crusher, a hand
and arm of Roy Bixler, aged twenty
five. of Mount Holly Springs, were
caught in the fork and mangled and
torn off at the shoulder.
Archibald Johnston, of South Beth
lehem, has notified the public service
commission of his acceptance to the
chairmanship of the committee to
bridge the Bethleheftis.
Caught beneath a fall of frozen
earth at the concentrator plant of the
Bethlehem Steel company, at Lebanon.
Raymond Donhower, aged nineteen,
died of internal injuries.
Virtually scalped by an assailant
with an ax, Wassil Fatalowitch, of
Sandy Run. walked into Dr. Richard
Truckenmiller's -office at Freeland for
first aid and twenty-five stitches.
William B. Wilson, secretary of la
boT; Congressman J. Thomas Heffiin,
of Alabama, and John J. Reardon, of
Philadelphia, were speakers at the
Jackson day dinner in Williamsport.
All the salaried employes of the Le
high and New England Railroad com
panv who have been in the service
one year have received a bonus, the
amounts varying according to position.
Dr. J. A. Tweedle, of Weatherly, a
civil war veteran and Mason for over
half a century, enjoys the distinction
of having shaken hands with every
president from Lincoln to the present
day.
Allentown merchants have been
swindled out of several hundred dol
lars by a man who got checks cashed
by showing a bogus bank book which
indicates that he has a large balance
on deposit.
Hog cholera has made its appear
ance in the Perkiomen valley for the
third time within a year, and William
Debert, of Zieglerville, has lost eight
hogs through the disease and twelve
more are dying.
Charging that the defendant bea
and abused her while serving papers
at the farm of her husband. Mrs. Au
gusta Redmer. of near Hazleton.
started suit for $25,000 damages
against Constable John W. Smith.
Runaways from an institution near
Chambersburg, Hannah Kline, aged
eighteen, with her hair trimmed and
dressed as a boy, and James Jones,
aged twenty-seven, were arrested in
Shippefisburg while starting for Cali
fornia.
Pennsylvania's postmasters recently
appointed were confirmed by the
United States senate as follows:
Frank Clancy, Conneautville; Joseph
L. Infield. Fredonia; Edward F. Paist,
McSherrytown: Katharvn McCellan.
Marienville.
Three barns were burned and three
residences were damaged, causing ;
total loss of $5500 in Applewold, acros
the Allegheny river from Kittanning
The buildings burned were those o
Mrs. t Holtzhauer, Herbert Booher an I
M. A. Millron.
James A. McMillin, aged seventy
eight, of New Castle, died after an ill
ness of a week. Mr. McMillin was
twice elected county commissioner of
Lawrence county. He was a veteran
of the civil war. He leaves one sor
and one daughter.
William Savres, stable foreman at
the new penitentiary at Rockview, ha?
been missing: 6ince December 26. His
pocket book, containing $9.75, and hfs
gold watch were found in the barn at
his home near Mt. Eagle, though he
he has not been seen near there.
Fearing arrest in several small
thefts, Joseph Macovitch, aged four
teen; Michael Gaby, twelve, and
George Gaby, thirteen, ran away from
Hazleton, but were captured, armed
with a revolver, in the storage house
of the Weatherly candy factory by
! Chief of Police Auchey.
State Zoologist J. G. Sanders, of tlie*
state department of agriculture, in an
estimate made public, says that re
ports show a loss of $25,000,000 a year
to farmers, fruit growers and market
gardners due to insect pests. The
cereals were damaged to the extent of
$10,000,000, and fruits about $8,000,-
000.
After starting an investigation of
the death of Mrs. Mary Ahmer Adon
na, who was found murdered in her
home on the Three Degree road.
Bredesville, near Butler, the state po
lice apprehended Tom Ahmer, a broth
er of the dead woman, and are hold
ing him as a material witness. The
police are also looking f»>r Charley
Ahmer, another brother, whD has been
missing since January 4.
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In view of the* increased cost of foo.f
York court has Increased' the compen
sation of Sheriff Haas for feeding pris
oners in the county jail from thirty •
four to thirty-five cents a day.
Philip Leblang. fifteen years old, of
Pot tat own, gave twenty-seven square
inches of skin from his legs and arm*
to he grafted on his first cousin, who
was hadlv burned in Pittsburgh.
Fire of unknown origin threatened
destruction of the business section of
Greensburg, hut was finally overcome.
, The loss, mostly sustained by L. S.
Neish, a grocer, is about $lO,OOO.
Charged with stealing the automo
bile in which he was traveling, Emmet
Resencrance, Binghampton, N. Y., wan
arrested by Constable Stevens, Stev
ensville. and jailed for extradition.
Tacitly admitting conspiracy in re
straint of trade, thirty-two master
plumbers were fined a total of $3460
and costs at Pittsburgh.
Absent in Colarado forty-one years,,
J. W. Bradley was recognized at once
by his sister when he returned to
Ebervale, near Hazleton.
A shortage of water exists at Mill
heim. near Bellefonte/ since the pipe
line that carries water from a reser
voir two miles away froze up.
Yuan Tsai, of Hongkong, China, is
Bpending three months at
visiting the anthracite coal mines and
Investigating modern mining.
A Christmas check for $lO,OOO has
been received by directors of the In
diana hospital, in Indiana, from Miss
Georgine Iselin, of New York.
Work has been begun on tearing
down No. 2 stack of the Eastern Steel
company, at Pottstown, which will be
rebuilt in most modern lines.
The Herald, Titusville's only news
paper, has increased Its subscription
rates to twelve cents a week, and ad
vertising rates ten per cent.
Playing with matches near an open
kerosene lamp at Mahanoy City, Jean
ette Janosky, four, was so horribly
burned that she cannot recover.
State Education Superintendent N.
C. Schaeffer told the American School
Peace League at Harrisburg he op
posed schoc* military training.
Asphyxiated through a broken pipe,
Hezekiah Dailey. aged seventy, a night
watchman, was found dead in the base
ment of an Easton trousers factory.
K*NDNEBB.
When we consider the i eeulta ;;
| it bringe I wonder why it la we
I!| are not ail kinder than we are. :![
:: How easily it is done! How in- :!!
:: stantaneously it acts! How in- :j|
:| faliibly it is remembered!— :
Drummono.
Professional ffiournere.
In ancient times funerals were frt
owed by professional mourners, who
imulated the appearance of the wlld
st grief. The custom survives In the
valley of Sondrio, in the Alps. There
the women <lo not follow the ftmeral,.
but they group themselves at the en
trance to the cemetery and burn, in
honor of the dead, candles which vary
in siaccording to the remuneration.
They are as prodigal as were the
mourners of ancient times in their siix>
illation oi . .vccs.sive grief. London
Spectator.