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THE SOWER
A Weekly Department of Religious
and Secular Thought Contributed
by REV. JAMES A. TURNER,
Pastor, M. E. Church, Patton, Pa.
THE PATRIOTISM OF
STOPPING WASTE
The idea has been widely broadcast
that an imperative duty of patriotism
in the United States is to stop the
waste of our natural resources. This
is emphasized particularly in connec-
tion with the gigantic waste of the soil.
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| is wasted or worse.
| back in spite of all loud promises that
| it would not come back.
| back in a worse form than before, for
| nearly
store in the country into a liquor store.
A dread word has been etched into
our minds “erosion,” Our soil is
being washed away by floods. It is
being blown away by storms. It has
been wasted by careless treatment, If
our future generations are to have any
land they can call their “native soil,”
there must be a tremendous soil saving
movement,
Long ago Patrick Henry said, “He
is the greatest patriot who stops the
most gullies.” Stuart Chase warns Am-
ericans: “If we cannot afford to me
to terms with nature we can't afford
to go on living here much longer. We
shall end in the bankruptcy courts of
a destroyed and ruined land.”
Three centuries after the Pilgrims
landed at Plymouth Rock, government
experts soberly calculate that half of
| the original fertility of America has
vanished. But the lost soil is only a
part of the waste of America.
There is also a tremendous preven-
table waste in human and spiritual re-
sources, in physical and financial
strength, through the traffic in alcoho-
lic liquor. The patriotism of stopping |
waste applies to the stopping of this
great waste also.
Some short sighted and indifferent
people imagine that in some myster-
ious way the repeal of the prohibition
amendment did something to settle the
liquor problem. Nothing could be far-
ther from the truth. Look at what has |
happened in the six years since re- |
peal. We are told by the brewers and
distillers to look at the big revenue
from liquor taxes — about a billion
dollars in 1938.
We are told that every dollar of
| that revenue represents three or four
dollars of private expenditure which
The saloon is
And it is
it has been carried into places where
| it never got before. It has a glorified
{ name
and has patronage under that
name which never went to the ugly
name “saloon.” It has transformed
every drugstore and grocery
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It has failed to produce “temperance”
to such an alarming extent that even
the distillers are making an effort to
“preach temperance.”
There is a shocking waste of life.
Consider merely the toll of life and
accident due to alcoholic driving. In
1938, 39,700 lives were lost in motor ac-
cidents. Not all of these were due to
liquor, of course; but the president of
the American Motorists Insurance Co.
bluntly says that “the primary con-
tributing factor (in these accidental
deaths) is the almost complete
sence of regulation of the strong liquor
traffic since the repeal of prohibition.”
He finds that the number of drunk- |
en drivers has increased fourfold since
1929. As a sample of conditions the
Iowa Liquor Control Commission re- |
partss lthat driving-while-intoxicated
cases increased 40.4 percent in Iowa
from 1935 to 1939. In view of this sit-
tuation the Journal of the National Ed- |
ucational Association declares that
there are twenty-six million reasons
for abstinence. By that is meant that
there are twenty-six million gasoline |
automobiles and trucks. Each is a com- |
pelling reason for abstinence.
| There iss also the loss to legitimate
business.
on milk,
that making liquor gives.” The ans-
wer to that is the fact that for each
dollar of capital invested, the distill- |
ing and brewing industries employ
far less labor than the clothing, shoe,
lor food industries.
There is also the appalling waste of |
the greatest of any nation’s assets —
character and personality. To say noth-
ing of the sight of a drooling, driveling,
disgusting drunken man or woman, — |
to make no mention of the loss of char-
acter and personality in the part of a
person whose brain and nerve centers
are muddled, ,messed and mutilated
until he is unfit for even the most
elemental of human tasks, — listen to
the words of Judge F. H. Taft, of the
Los Angeles Superior Court: “The part
liquor in the home plays in contribu-
ting to juvenile delinquency is hydra-
headed. It unfits or tends to unfit the
user as a parent to maintain family
discipline. It often leads to poverty,
want, and serious family dissensions.”
The words of Abraham Lincoln, spo-
ken at Springfield, Illinois, on Febru-
ary 22, 1842, are still challenging and
rtinent to this waste of the human
resources of our country: “Of our poli-
tical revolution in ’76 we are justly
proud. It has given us a degree of poli-
tical freedom outweighing that of any
other nation on earth. Turn now to
the temperance revolution. In it” we
shall find a stronger bondage broken,
a viler slavery manumitted, a greater
tyrant deposed; in it, more of want
supplied, more disease healed, more
sorrow assuaged; by it no orphans star-
ving, no widows weeping. How nobly
| distinguished that people who shall
have planted and nurtured to maturity
both the political and moral freedom
Luccock.
PATTON METHODIST
EPISCOPAL CHURCH |
James A. Turner, ,Pastor
Church School 10 A.M. Preaching 11
A. M. and at 7:30 P. M. every Third
Sunday. Epworth League 6:30. Mid-
Week Bible Class, Wednesday, 7:30
PM
Dr. Elbert E. Moffat, misssionary of
Episcopal Church in
India, will be the guest
at Trinity Methodis Church,
on November 27,
speaker
E. M MOFFATT
Dr. Moffatt first went to Lucknow,
India where he was engaged in ed-
| ucational work in the School of Com-
| merce, as well as in evangelistic ser-
| vice among the Hindustani people of
| the city. He was also manager of the
| Boys’ School at Dwarahat.
| During recent years, Dr. Moffatt
| has been in charge of the Inter-Mission
| Business Office in Bombay, handling
much of the financial work of a large
| number of mission boards and societies
| in India. He is also the Executive Sec-
| retary of the Central Conference, held
{in Kansas City, at which session the
| three branches of American Methodists
: | were united into one body.
| Dr. Moffatt was born in LeSeuer,
fii | Minnesota, and received his education
[in Dartmouth College and New York
| University. He served for five years
|in India as secretary of the young
| Men's Christian Association before re-
| ceiving appointment for service under
the Board of Foreign Missions.
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to miners’ local union printing.
ab- |
Every five dollars spent on |
whiskey is five dollars less to spend |
on shoe, on clothing. Some- |
one may reply, “But think of the work |
Dr. Halford E. |
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Thursday,
November 23, 1939.
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Almost simultaneously with the first
heavy snowfall, which occured during
the November 4-6 week end in the
north central couties, the tourist ana
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tion that some mountain resorts have
completed arrangements to entertain
large groups of winter sports fans dur-
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