fHE FULTOn COUNTY NEWS. McCONNELLSBURO, PA. STATE HEWS BRIEFLY TOLD The Latest Gleanings From All Over the State. TOLD IN SHORT PARAGRAPHS Girl Incinerated In Reading Hotel Fire Killed On Way To Work To Raze Iron Works and Erect Silk Mill. Two now dilation for Industrial workers have been organized by the department of engineering extension of Pennsylvania Slate College. Em ployes of the Philadelphia & Heading Hallway, at Reading, will upend the winter studying technical subjects which will asslHt them to give better service to the railroad, and which at the same time, will Increase their earning capacities. Another class was formed among the employes of the IUdgway Dynamo and Engine Company, at Ridgwuy. These new classes were organized by N. C. Mil ler, who last year had charge of tho extension work In the eastern part of the State. C. F. Kopp, of Amite, Louisiana, has been added to the staff of the engineering extension workers, succeeding A. II. Spahr. Forester R. 0. Conklln received word from the State Health Depart ment that all camping permits on the water shed supplying Chambers-burg should be cancelled at once and no more granted for the present. Tlie order was issued In view of the fact that the typhoid epidemic at Sliippens burg has been traced directly to a tamp. Twelve crmps will be af fected by this order, among which are the Locked Antlers, Still House Run. Fayettevllle, Social Island, 'o!f, Clay Springs and Still House Camps. Skin grafting probably has raved tho life of Charles Warner, young son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Warner, of Mechanicshurg, who was Injured seri ously when an improvised firecracker on July 6 set lire to Lis clothing. A total of 191 pieces of skin have been planted on the boy's back, half of which are growing. School Auditors of Coaldale, Tama qua and West M.ihanoy Townships were before court on an inquiry as to alleged exee.-sive charge- made for auditing the accounts of these dis tricts. It was brought wct in court that there are nearly one thousand phantom citizens on the Coaldale tax li-ts. Gcorce W. Cowan, seventy-two years old, a Civil War veteran, wis found dead in his room in a house at Clifton Iloijhts, where the old soldier had lived an Isolated Hie. Heath was due to asphyxiation. Cowan evidently h.r.d been preparing to cook a meal on the gas stove, from which the fcas flowed. The iron works of John Mullen & Sons, Shamokin, were sold to J. H. and C. K. Eagle, New York, who will dismantle the structure and erect a silk mill to contain one thousand looms. The Iron works were founded by Mr. Mullen forty-five years ago and occupied two city blocks. Warren Is threatened with an epi demic of diphtheria, fourteen cases having been reported to the health authorities. Infantile paralysis also has Invuded Warren county, the dis ease proving fatal to Ilurdetta, three-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Morrison, of Fngundus. A fire In the St. Cloud Hole!, in the heart of the butdness district of Read ing, created (.reat alarm but caused little damage. Esther Firestone, tour years old, daughter of one of the do mestics, was burned to death. Colonel James A. O. Campbell, re ceiver, rejected a bid of $21.0nO for the plant of the S. and L. Rubber Com pany, Chester. The personal property was then sold in small lots, It bring ing 3,000. While on his way to work at the Luppert furniture factory, Williams port, Harry W. Hill was struck by a train on the Pennsylvania Railroad and killed. After miners In the Gimlet Colliery, Bhamokin, had ignited a fuse altached to six slicks of dynamite, John Bed narskle appeared on the scene as the dynamite exploded. He was blown many feet distant and Injured fatally. Rumors of a wholesale shake-up In the l lanagement of the Reading Tran sit and Light Company, operating traction lines and lighting properties, resulted In announcement of the resig nation of Norman McD. Crawford, as president and general manager of the company. The State Workmen's Compensation Board completed Its organization by the election of Lee Solomon, a Phila delphla newspaperman, a.s secretary, 8 position carrying the duties of eiecu live officer and a salary of 14,000. The Woman's Missionary Society of the Delaware Baptist Association, In semi-annual session at the First Bap tist Church, Chester, elected Mrs Frank G. Lewis, president One hun dred delegates from all parts of Dela ware county attended. Emma Stewart, of Harrisburg, died in a hospital there from injuries re celved In an automobile accident In which a car driven by Frank, D. Sher man left the road during a heavy foj and went into Spring Creek along th city parkway. CHILDREN MAY REMAIN AT WORK The Governor Believes Employers Also Will Keep Faith and Aid In State Plan. Harrisburg. Governor lirumbnngn issued the following statement regard Ing the d"fIslon of Attorney General Brown ou employment certificates held by minors: "The fear expressed in some quar ters that children now legally employ ed in our Pennsylvania industries, but who do not possess all the standards of fitness fixed by the law that be comes operative January 1, 1916, will be required to return to school to com plete the sixth grade, happily has been dispelled by the wise decision of the Attorney General. "Tho Slate has a contract with Ihese children which It never Intend ed to nullify. We shall keep falih with these children and we believe tho employers also will keep faith and retain them in the Industries of the Commonwealth. We shall not compel them to return to school, and the em ployers, if wise, will not return them to the streets. They, of course, will work only fifty-one hours per week ifter Januaary 1, 1916, and attend the continuation school for eight hours per week. To this humane and im portant decision no one in ll.terest justly can object. 'These children are the wards of the Commonwealth, and It will not allow willingly any harm or distress to come to them." To Appeal Broomall Ruling. Tho Attorney General's Department announced that the State immediately would enter an appeal to the Supreme Court from the decision of Ju-'R' Broomall, of the Delaware County Courts, that the Commonwealth can not collect for maintenance of insane persons who have estates sutlicient to maintain them. The Montgomery and Northampton County Courts have ruled that the State can collect. Attorney-General Drown issued the following statement regarding the case : "The decision of Judge Broomall in Delaware county In which he denied the petition of the Commonwealth for an order on the guardian of Walter Clarence Arnold, nn inmate of the Norristown State Hospital for the In sane, for the amount due for main tenance from January IS, 191", to De cember 1, 1911, does not touch on the recent Act of June 1, 191.", and Is con trary to the decisions of Judge Stew art, of Northampton county. In the case of Lillian M. Repsher (24 dist., rep. 15) and Judge Swartz, of Mont gomery county, In tho case of Annie E. Thomas (24 dist., rep. SI) both of which affirm the Commonwealth's right to recover. Judge Broomall's decision will be appealed to the Su preme Court nt once." Stock From Illinois. The Pennsylvania Live Stcck Sani tary' Board issued tho following amendment to the State quarantine regulations against foot and mouth disease, to be effective on and after Tuesday : "No cattle, sheep, other ruminants, or swine, which originate in any part of the State of Illinois, under Federal quarantine, will be permitted to be un loaded In Pennsylvania for any pur pose. Cattle, sheep, other ruminants, or swine, which originated in the State of Illinois, under Federal 'restricted' quarantine, handled in accordance with Federal regulations will be per mltted to be shipped through, but not unloaded In Pennsylvania. No cattle, sheep, other ruminants, or swine, which originate In the State of Illi nois, under Federal 'closed,' 'exposed,' or 'modified' quarantine, will be per mitted to enter or pass through Penn sylvania for any purpose." State Urges Vigilance. Following a conference between Governor Brumb.Migh and Commis sioner of Labor and Industry Jackson on the panic attending tho Pittsburgh box factory fire, the commissioner Is sued special Instructions to all State Inspectors and department employes to call attention of owners of build ings and employers to any fire hazards and solicit the aid of the residents of communities in the work of securing improvements. Olllcials of the depart ment t-ald that tho fire and panic Act of 1909 removed from the Jurisdiction of the department the regulation of fire escapes and fire exits In first and second class cities. Commissioner Jackson said he felt that the Pitts burgh disaster would result In re newed vigilance In municipalities. Present Swords To State. Two swords carried in the Civil War by General Alexander von Schlm melfennlg, wiio commanded the Seventy-fourth Pennsylvania Volunteers were presented to the State by his dausliter, Miss Bertha M. von Schlm melfennlg, of Brighton, Mass. Organize Account Board. The State Board of accounts, whose appropriation was vetoed last spring, was organized, the Auditor General's Department arranging to meet the ex penses'. L. F. Hess, Luzerne, was selected as secretary. Eclectic Medical Meet Ends. M. V. Hazen, Tltutville, was elected president of the Eclectic Medical As socistion of Pennsylvania, at the clos ing session of the forty-second annual convention. Johnstown was selected for next year's convention. Society Charters. An opinion was given to the Insur ance Department by Attorney General Brown In which he simplifies methods of obtaining Incorporation papers for mutual liability associations which nay be organized by employers. In stead of each subscribed acknowledg Ing the papers, one person may be designated as attorney-in-fact. Irvln Brandt, thirty-five years old employed at the Baker Quarries, wn killed when a cur weighing three tout fell upon him, caur.lng Instant death. UNITED UPON THE BALKAN HEIGHTS Historical Meeting of the East and West. SERBS STILL FIGHTING Historical Event In Serbia Celebrated By Teuton and Bulgarian Allies With Parade In Fortress Taken From Their Enemy. Berlin. The Austro-Hungarlan, Bul garian and German comrades have met on the Balkan heights. In the twilight of October 26, In the rugged Dobra voda mountains, where the patrol of the allied powers were looking out for each other, there suddenly appeared two Bulgarian olllcers and 25 men. According to the Cologne Gazette, all were splendid soldiers and well equipped, A majority of them wero veterans who had fought in tho Balkan War against Serbia. They were led by Lieutenant Gateyev. They were given an enthusiastic reception by the soldiers of the Central Powers. The military commanders Bnd the Duke of Mecklenburg hastened to the place, northeast of Brza Palanka, near the town of Mllutlnovitch, where the historical meeting of the East and West took place. Later there was a brilliant parade in the conquered Serbian fortress of Kladovo. Resounding cheering and tho na tional anthems were heard from the opposite bank of the Danube, where the Roumanian population listened to the celebration of the Inauguration of the new passage from Germany through Austria-Hungary and Bulgaria Into Turkey, which touches only ter ritory of tho allied powers. The Frankfurter Zeitung, in com menting on the Balkan situation, de clares that the campaign against Ser bia may now be considered won in its essentials. "Serbian troops are still fighting in tho northeastern corner," says the newspaper, "but their country must soon yield to our pressure. The day when the German and Bulgarian armies united will be an important date in the world's history." 19 YEARS IN FEAR OF ARREST. Man Gives Himself Up To' Find He Is Not Wanted. Chicago. For 19 years Joseph Cun ningham wandered in various cities oppressed with the fear that Federal otlicers were pursuing him for the theft of $50 taken in 1S36 from the Alexandria (Ind.) Postodico, where his brother Will was postmaster and he a clerk. Tired of the haunting fear of detectives, Joseph Wednesday sur rendered to the Hammond (Ind.) po lice and discovered that no olllcer had ever searched for him. Postmaster Will Cunningham had made good the shortage and has wel comed the lost brother to the old town. NOT ALL PROSPERITY WAR-MADE. Much Of It Due To Domestic Revival, Says Big Canner. Chicago. George E. Stocking, presi dent of the Western Canners' Asso ciation, which Is In session here, ex pressed the opinion that considerable of the prosperity u! the country at present credited to war orders should be charged to a domestic revival. "Take our Industry as an Instance," he said. "We are canners of fruit and vegetables. Little of the product goes abroad, yet we did $100,000,000 worth of business last year, and that's a lot ir.ore than we did the year be fore." CAPTURED BY WARSHIP. Six German Officers Who Escaped From Norfolk Caught At Sea. New York. The six officers of the Interned German raider Kronprinz Wilhelm who escaped from Norfolk, Va., October 10, on the yacht Eclip.'o, were captured at sea by a British war ship, according to information in a letter received here. The letter was sent to William Wolff, a New York manufacturer, by his mother-in-law, who was a passenger on the steamer Bermudian, which left New York for Hamilton last Wednesday. RUSSIA BUYS CLOTH IN U. S. Gives Contract For 5,000,000 Yards For Uniforms. Boston. Contracts have been signed by William M. Wood, president of the American Woolen Company, for the delivery of 5,000,000 yards of uniform cloth to the Russian Government, it was anounced here. The order Is said to be the largest ever phu-.ed at one time in the history of the bvid-i. TYPHOON KILLS 170. Eight Hundred Injured In Southern Luzon, In the Philippines. Manila. The typhoon In Southern Luzon killed at least 170 persons and Injured 800. Damage to property and to tho hemp and rice crops Is esti mated at 11,000,000. A heavy land slide Involved a portion of the volcano of Mayon. WIFE OF GENERAL GREGG DEAD. Descendant Of First Speaker Of American Congress. Reading, Pa. Mrs. Ellen Frances Gretrg, wife of Gen. D. McM. Gregg, the latter one of the few surviving great comma; tiers of the Civil War, died here. Mrs. Gregg was 77 years old. She was a descendant of Frederick A. Muhlenberg, speaker of the first United States Congress, and great granddaughter of Joseph 'Wester, at one time Governor of Pennsylvania. DOCTOR KILL JOY Vx I J" J Ct "- raw )" i "I'vritcm i 20 CHILDREN DIE li SCHOOL FIRE Exit From Burning Building Blocked By Cripple. MOST OF THE VICTIMS GIRLS Crippled Child Believed To Have "Fallen and Tripped Other Chil dren Pressing On Be hind Her. Peabody, Mass. Twenty children, most of them girls, ranging In age from seven to 17 years, lost their lives in a fire which destroyed St. John's Parochial School. Another girl has injuries which are regarded as prob ably fatal, while others were less severely hurt. The 00 children had entered their classrooms for the morning session, when the lire was discovered and al though a majority of them were guided to safety by Sisters of tho Order of Notre Dame, who were their teachers, panic seized a large number as they neared the front door, and in their rush to escape they lost their looting and their bodies blocked the exit. It was in the front vestibule that nearly all the bodies were found. Mother Superior Burned. All of the sisters escaped, but Mother Superior Marie Carmelita was seriously burned. At the convent house it was said that her Injuries probably would not prove fatal, al though she is prostrated by the dis aster and the suffering of her charges. How the fire started may never be known. An early theory that a boiler explosion caused it having been dis missed, the state police officials are of the opinion that a storeroom In the basement, where a gas meter was lo cated, was Its source, but Investiga tion of the theory was difficult as the place where the storeroom had been was entirely burned. Alarm Follows Prayer. The first word of the fire Is be lieved to have come from a tardy pupil who smelled smoke and reported It to the Mother Superior. The chil dren had Just finished morning prayer when the gong sounded for fire drill. Mother Marie hurried to tell the sis ters of the actual danger, and the movements of the fire drill were quick ly started. A few days ago, In a prac tice drill, the building was emptied within two minutes. It would have been cleared in almost the same time today, In the opinion of Rev. Nicholas J. Murphy, pastor of St. John's Romar. Catholic Church, but for the falling of a child believed to be a cripple, in the front vestibule. Over her body child after child, fearful of the flames, and pressed on by the crowd behind, stumbled and fell. The opening was choked and further escape was In this way stopped. RUSSIA SEEKING LOAN. Wants $50,000,000 To $100,000,000, To Be Spent For Supplies. New York. Agents of the Russian Government, It was reliably reported here, are seeking to establish a credit loan in this country somewhat similar to the recent $500,000,000 Anglo French credit loan, although no bond Issue Is contemplated, of from $30, 000,000 to $100,000,000 and more, if it can be obtained. Details of the proposed loan were lacking, but In one quarter it was reported that the Rus sian Government was willing to pay as high as 9 per cent interest for a loan of this size. EDISON GOES ON EXHIBITION. Lets School Chlldden "Sec Him" and Spends 14 Hours In Bed. Los Angeles. Thomas A. Edison answered an Invitation to let school children "see him." At a high school Mr. Edison smilingly placed himself on exhibition in the auditorium, but refused to make a speech. Mr. Edi son also broke a record by spending 14 hours in bed and appearing at breakfast at 8.30 A. M. MEXICAN KILLS AMERICAN. Cattleman Taken From Train By Villa Troops and Executed. El Paso, Texas. Charles Boone, of Rodey, N. M., an American cattle man, wus taken from a Mexican Northwest ern train by Villa troops at Guzman, Chihuahua, and Colonel Hernandez, commander of the troops, executed him, James Welch, of El P-iso, Boone's partner, was on the train and was a witness to the shooting. He arrived here tonight. mm DEFENSE F President to Discuss It With Chairman Kitchin. WILL NEED NEW REVENUES Issue Of Panrma Canal Bonds, In crease In War Tax, In Wool and Income Rates Proposed. Washington. Legislative problems of financing the Administration's "na tional defense" program, It is under stood, will be the object of a confer ence which President Wilson arranged for November 16 with Representative Kitchin, of North Carolina, the new chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, which originates the revenue measures in Congress. The "national defense" program calls for total appropriations of ap proximately $500,000,000 for the army and the navy, an increase of upward of $200,000,000 over the normal sums made available for the two fighting arms of the country. Means must be found to raise this money and it is said that the President desires to have a full discussion with Representative Kitchin over revenue plans. The be lief is also expressed that the Presi dent will incidentally discuss with Representative Kitchin his reported opposition to any plans calling for large increases in tho army and navy Not Agreed On Revenue Plan. So far as can be learned the Ad ministration leaders have not agreed upon any set plans for raising the ad ditional revenue needed for Increasing the army and navy. As matters now stand an Impression seems to prevail that the plan will embrace the follow Ing: Panama Canal bonds to the amount of $100,000,000, already author ized by Congress, will be issued; the so-called war tax will be continued and increased about $25,000,000 or $50,000,- 000; the tariff on sugar will be main talned, yielding about $15,000,000; an attempt will be made to raise the tariff on wool and to stiffen the Income tax rate. There Is also conrlderable discus sion of imposing an inheritance tax Representative Cordjll Hull, of Tenn essee, father of the income tax act, is working out such a plan on the House side, while Senator George W. Norris of Nebraska, is behind legislation of this kind on the Senate side of the Capitol. It is declared that a 5 per cent, inheritance tax would yield from $50,000,000 to $100,000,000 a year. It Is stated that there would be no diffi culty about collecting this tax, as all wills must be probated In the courts and the obstacles encountered In reaching Incomes for taxation would not be experienced. Experts here estimate that something like $3,000, 000,000 changes hands through death every year and that at least half of this amount would be in sums which would fall within the scope of the pro posed law. All the indications are that the conn try is squarely behind the President in his plans to strengthen the army and navy so that this nation can be prepared to resist an Invasion by a foreign foe. This sentiment, which reaches the White House through many different channels, is taken to mean that the nation Is prepared for extraordinary methods of raising reve nue In order to provide money for na tional defense. TYPHOID FEVER "ACCIDENT." Wisconsin Court Admits Claim For Compensation. Madison, Wis. The Supreme Court of Wisconsin, in an opinion given in the case of the New Dells Lumber Company vs. Venner, held that ty phoid fever contracted through drink ing water furnished by the employer and resulting in the den'h of the em ploye is an accident and within the meaning of the Workmen's Compen sation act. BANKER CONVICTED OF FRAUD. Disappeared Owing 12,000 Depositors $378,000. Scranton, Tn. Adolf Blau, whose private bank closed last June owing 12,000 depositors $378,000, with no money in the bank to pay thorn, wus found guilty on a charge of embez zlement. There are 17 other indict ments against him. Blau fled the night before his bank closed and was ar rested at Chattanooga, Tennessee. PROBLEM WAY 10 TURKEY CLEAR 10 TEUTONS To Send Aid to Constantinople's - Defenders. GERMANS GAIN AT DV1NSK nvadlng Armies United In Serbia. Entente Allies Arranging To Send Big Force Against Them. London. Tho German Army which crossed the Danube at Orsova has Joined hands with the Bulgarians, who Invaded Serbia near Prahovo, and the Central Powers now have an open road through Northeastern Serbia and Bul garia to the .iKgean Sea and Constanti nople. They are thus In n position to send guns and munitions by river and rail way to their Bulgarian and Turkish allies, who will be greatly strength ened thereby. Fighting Continues In South. The invasion of the northern por tions of Serbia by the Austro-Germans continues apace, while Bulgaria is put ting forth a strong effort to secure con tral of additional sections of the Bel-grade-Salonlki Railway. So far as the north is concerned, Serbia, it is feared by her allies, is doomed, but in the south, reinforced by the British and French, who are now fighting by her side, Serbia is using all her strength to throw the Bulgarians back. After the French victory at Krlvolak the Serbians, ac cording to the Athens report, were able to reoccupy Veles, an Important railway and road Junction Just south of Uskup, where a big battle Is still in progress. Reinforcements Coming. It is argued here that if the Bul garians can be held in the south until Anglo-French reinforcements which are now on the way arrive Bulgaria may yet be robbed of Macedonia, on which she has set her heart. But the Allies will also have to make an at tempt to block the German road to Turkey and their big attack may be directed elsewhere. The internal situation of Bulgaria, which is reported serious, may have some effect on the campaign. A mili tary conspiracy against King Ferdi nand, Athens dispatches say, has been unearthed and the lenders have been shot. Many of the inhabitants of Bul garia are said to be still loyal to Rus sia and showing disinclination to join the colors. PORTER CHARLTON GUILTY. American Given Six Years and Five Months For Murder. Como, Italy. Porter Charlton, who was found guilty of killing Mary Scott Charlton, his wife, will be set at lib erty on November 21 next. Imme diately after the verdict President Sciacca sentenced Charlton to a term of six years and eight months. As the young American had been In jail five years and seven months, he will have to serve only another month because of an allowance of one year granted to all prisoners by royal decree at the beginning of the war. BANK ROBBERS USE GUNS.- Shoot Bookkeeper, Force Cashier To Open Safe. Marble Falls, Texas. Two unmask ed men held up and robbed the First National . Bank here of $2,000 after fatally wounding Robert H. Helnets, bookkeeper. The robbers escaped to ward the Colorado river, pursued by half a dozen posses of citizens. Hei netz, was shot through the abdomen when he attempted to reach a pistol under his desk. . The robbers then forced Walter Page, assistant cashier, to open tho safe. AMERICAN CONSULATE MOVES. Follows Serbian Government From Nish To Tehatchak, Washington. The American con sulate at Nish, Serbia, has been moved to Tchtchak, according to a dispatch received from American Minister Vopllcka, at Bucharest, Rou manln. The American consulate moved with the Serbian Government and all other foreign consuls and mis sions. $5,000,000 MORE BRITISH GOLD. First Of Numerous Shipments For Morgan & Co. In. New Y'ork. Five million dollars In gold sovereigns from Canada were re ceived by the Assay Office here, the lirst of numerous anticipated ship ments of about this size. The money was for the account of i. P. Morgan & Co., and is only about one-fifth the slz of recent gold shipments made hero from Canada for their account. KILLS MAN SHE WED 7 TIME3. After Repeated Divorces, Indiana Woman Uses Pistol. Sullivan, Ind. Holding her baby to her breast, Samantha Bennett shot and killed 'her former husband, Wil liam Bennett, aged 30, when, she said, Bennett attempted to force open the door of her home. The Bennetts were married and divorced seven times. LAYS AIR RAIDS TO BELGIAN9. Notify Enemy Of Buildings Housing Troops, Says Governor. Amsterdam, via London. General von'Blsslng. the German governor-gen oral of Belgium, has issued a proclama tion, according to a Brussels dispatch to the Telegraaf, accusing the In habitants of that city of notifying tho enemy forces of tho location of build Ings In which German troops no housed, thus causing many air raids. (Conducted by - he National Womnn', iimsuan Temperance union.) PROHIBITION VICTORIES. (Excerpts from the address of Ml. Anna A. Gordon, president Natlonn Woman's Christian Temperance union before the forty-second annual conven tlon of that organization, held In Se attle, Wash., October 9-11, 1915.) Looking backward over the pan twenty months and forward to the year 1916 one might epitomize the tcmporanco movement In retrospect i a movement of victorious yesterday. and confident tomorrows." Then, months chronicle an unprecedented numbor of prohibition victories. Th temperance transformation of Russia the antlllquor measures in effect Ir, German, French and English military circles; the complete abolition of i cohol in tho United Status navy an' in the Panama Canal zone; the cat lawlng of the liquor traffic in Virginia Colorado, Oregon, Washington, Ari zona, Arkansas, Idaho, Iowa, Alabama and South Carolina; the majority vot for state-wide prohibition In botl branches of Utah's legislature; th. triumph of the enemies of the saloo: in a largo number of counties sn: cities; the upholding by the United' States Supreme court of the constltt tlonnllty of the prohibition provision of the Indian treaties making one fifth of Minnesota dry; the victorious prohibition elections In forty-five or Minnesota's counties; the battle roya for prohibition in the District of Cc lurabia; the total abstinence rules en forced by many Industrial and rallroa! corporations; the decrease at the rat of $1,250,000 a month of the Internal! revenue collections on distilled spirit despite' the fact that wines are paying high tax as a result of tho emer gency war tax enacted by the last cor gress; the enactment In prohibltlcif states of stricter enforcement lawn the discussion of total abstinence anS prohibition by press and popular mail ozlnes, and the marked decrease tholr liquor advertising; the growl of antlalcohol sentiment in the m' leal world these, with the imlorsi ment of national constitutional pro hibition by hundreds of Influential c: ganlzatlons and tho outspoken deck rations of men promlneut In the oft rial and political life of the Unltp States and other nations In favor ul prohibition and total abstinence, hat given a marvelous impetus to th-i movement for the banishment of Joh: Barleycorn from the business, the v rial, and the political lite of tho civ llzed world. Tho majority vote on th Slienimrd-Hobson bill in the Unite States house of representatives of December 22, 1914, even though It fp short of a decisive victory, was a; triumph for nntlon-wMe prohibition, j Because the alcohol disease Is tin (Vvpo.Bt-Boated, most chronic organij disease known to the body politic an J body social, the permanent cure nn!- bo not only organic state legislation but organic national legislation. Tht object of a national prohibition amend ment is to destroy the agency tna debauches the youth of the land. Th W. C. T. U. agrees with Congressman Richmond Pearson Hobson when h4 asserts: "The liquor trust Is N enough to know that It cannot pfl petuate its sway by depending on d handling grown people, so It uses organic method of teaching the your to drink. Wo apply exactly the sair, method to destroy the traffic. We d not try to make old drinkers stc drinking, but we do aim to put a stoi to the systematic, organized debauch) Ing of our youth through thousam and tens of thousands of agenclf throughout the land." It is not difficult for the student of temperance history to account for tl doeD conviction and the earnest wort of many men and women who toda are foremost In the great strugi aeainst the drink monopoly. The Ik1 who two score years ago was faugh by a W. C. T. U. mother at the ti light hours to offer his childlike pra er for the temperance -cause, as hand rested tenderly upon his lltt'1 tianil la tndnv a temnnrance warrM hotline- aeainst home's most relent los foe. Boys and girls who twent five ar.d thirty years ago were tnup by whlte-ribboners to Bhout, "TremWj King Alcohol, we shall grow up: " whose heads, hearts, hands ana i" received temperance training In pul lie school, Sunday school, and Lo) j Temperance Legion, are grown and are rapidly dethroning King AUt hoi. ThA hlntnrv nf nnr reform prOV't that it la wnll.nlph ImnnRSlhle to Ukf prohibition from a state conatltutiej when once placed there by the vpij of a commonwealth. Constitution nrnhltiltlnn la tint rinnendcnt UP party politics. Unlike a staMtol law it is not at the mercy of eaco r coming legislature. The liquor traPJ constantly defies the laws of the pr hlbltlon states. Nothing short of "J tlon-wlde prohibition will give to ml stutes the power to effectively enfor their prohibition laws. STARTLING DISCOVERY. fn a mnnllfnptlirlnff town SU C1 ployer,. one Saturday, paid to lj workmen $700 in crisp new bllH '"j had been secretly marked, on " rinu tjr.n nf liB Identical bills W deposited in the bank by the salorf keepers. When the fact was ut trnnit-n tha wnrbman were 80 StStl by it that they helped to make i Hj place a no-llcense town. Templar. iwrocAccn nconeiTA. to Hi wnrlrl nnnthnr nrnnf that prohibit'1! nfnnmtAfl I fin flti an -lnl nrosnerlty 01 state. When the state ond natlo" bajiks were asked in June to m statcmont of their condition, the ' ' . iriv bu'i or me Kansas dbiiks were j lxg with money. Their books shol combined dcnoslts of $226.G6.6J;'( ...... ,. n nvt ! an increase or i4t,i;&i.3o-" . deposits reported on June 30. 1"
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