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RESULTS OF PROHIBITION
To persons whose interest in the prohiibtion move
ment is largely impersonal, or rather academic, it seems
that the dire results promised by the liquor interests are
a bit slow in materializing.
Down in our neighboring State ot Washington, it is
true, some ante-election prophecies touching boot-legging,
and incidental scandals, have panned out as promised, but
the really serious troubles, such as the throwing out of
employment of \ast armies of wage earners; the closing
of schools and suspension of various other public (unc
tions for lack of adequate revenues when saloon licenses
disappeared; empty buildings and depreciation of prop
erty values; and all the host ot other disasters that were
said to be sure to follow a prohibition victory, appear to
have been based upon unsound reasoning.
The workers who lost their jobs were immediately
absorbed by the labor market: the schools are doing fully
as well as formerlv: while the buildings formerly hous
ing liquor enterprises are now used generally for vari
ous other purposes.
Among the new uses to which the old breweries, dis* j
tilleries, and wine houses have been put, the most radical
change is the brewery at Flint, Michigan, which was pur
chased by the Methodist congregation and transformed
into a church. Another brewery was made over into a
hospital, while great numbers are now used as ice plants,
cold storage warehouses, creameries, vinegar factories,
molasses mills, and canning plants. Coors’ brewery, in
(. olorado, has been changed by the owners into a plant
for the manufacture of fine porcelain, utilizing the great
ciav hanks near Golden. Two Washington breweries are
now successfully engaged in canning clams; the Spokane
brewery is making vinegar, the one at Olympia is turning
out dairy products, the Bellingham brewery was purchas
ed by the neighboring fanners and is now used as a co
operative creamery, while the largest brewery in the
State, at Seattle, is being fitted to manufacture a fine
grade of table syrup. Other former breweries are now
manufacturing moving picture films, varnish, yeast, dry
cells, soap, chemicals, paint, and one at least is supply
ing the thirsty with a fine brand of loganberry juice.
Saloon rooms are now used for businesses profitable
enough to justify the finest locations, and range from pic
ture shows to banks.
It has Income clear to those whose minds are not in
fluenced by interest or prejudice that new arguments are
UOfrCTT k Wins T06ACCO c£
They do what no
other cigarette
ever did before:
they Satisfy—
and yet they’re
MILD'
THE CONSCRIPT.
I Huoveai
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— Kirby in New York World.
necessary to successfully combat the prohibition wave
sweeping across the country.
COAL AND GASOLINE CONTROL
The food control bill gave President Wilson the right i
to also fix the price, quantity and condition of sale of coa ,
and oil is included with coal as fuel.
If you want to know what your coal should cost you,
take the price the Government has fixed at the mine from
which the coal comes, which is published by the Govern
ment; ascertain the freight rate in carload lots to
point, which is a published tariff open to everybody; add,
to this about $1.50 per ton for wholesale and retail profit
and cost of delivery, and you will have a fairly accurate,
line on what the coal should cost. Some people had con-'
tracted for coal, but unless this was mined and delivered,
by the coal companies to the wholesaler or retailei befoie
tiie Government set a price we are of the opinion that the*
control bill set aside all old contracts for either high or
low priced coal, altho no case has been decided b\ the
courts and the President has made no ruling on this point.
The intention in taking over the coal mines was that
everybody be treated alike, with no discrimination against
the small consumer as compared with the big consumer,
except where the heavy consumer by buying in large lots
would be able to negotiate a lower price. The price at the
mine, transportation and the wholesaler’s profit is fixed
by the Government.
As yet no final decision has been arrived at on the
handling of oil, which is very important as fuel, especial
ly on account of the fact that the gasoline made from oil
is used for automobile and truck power and in crude form
oil is used as fuel for warships as well as merchant ships.
It had ben thot by many that the high price for crude
oil would bring in a lot of new wells and that there would
be’ plenty of oil, but this is not the case. The Standard
Oil Company does not dig wells and produce oil; it only
buys oil and sells it again, in crude form or refined. The
great demand that the war has created for gasoline has
constantly increased the price of oil as it comes f rom the
ground and also the price of refined oil, but the advance in
price has not held down the consumption to equal the pro
duction. For nearly a year this country has been draw
ing from its stock on hand until the amount carried in
tanks at the refineries is getting so low that our Govern
ment fears there may be an acute shortage which would
handicap us and our Allies in the war.
It is believed by many well informed members of
Congress that it will be only a short time until there will
be a Government order for a suspension of the use of gas
oline for private use. This will lay up all the private au
tomobiles in the country and will be nearly as far-reach
ing as a suspension of mining coal, so great is the use of
gasoline for power purposes. If the war lasts until Christ
mas this is one of the things sure to happen. It will be a
hard blow for the automobile manufacturers, but will
save the public a lot of money, and the man without an
automobile will again be in style.
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The delaying amendments to the tax bills in the sen
ate must be “joy riders’' to some.
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Germany won’t go broke as long as she can collect
fines from captured towns that would rather pay them1
than be wiped off the map.—Macon Telegraph.
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KNIK, ALASKA
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THE HUMAN
We are distinguished as men by the qualities that
mark us different from the beasts. When we call a thing
human we have a spiritual ideal in mind. It may not be
an ideal of that which is perfect, but it moves at least
upon an upland level where the air is sweet; it holds an
image of man erect and constant, going abroad with un
daunted step, looking with frank and open gaze upon ail
the fortunes of his day. * * * Say what we may of the
errors and the degrading sins of our kind, we do not will
ingly make what is worst in us the distinguishing trait
of what is human.—Woodrow Wilson.
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Russian soldiers are paid six cents a day. But lots ot
them are not earning it.—Macon Telegraph.
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One of the peace terms should be an admission ot
guilt on the part of the nation that started the war.—To
ledo Blade.
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Prussian ingenuity, spurred on by the war’s necessi
ties, has already devised a number of substitutes for a
genuine and lasting peace.—Chicago Herald.
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A grand total of 943,141 volunteers actually under
arms for the defense of the United States will go to off
set the pacifist declaration that ‘‘the war is not popular.
—New York Sun.
There’s no chance of the Teutonic allies falling out
over the spoils for twTo good reasons: First, there will
not be any; and, secondly, if there were, Berlin would
take them all.—Pittsburg Dispatch.
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If a majority of Gennan-Americans are not pro-Ger
man at heart now the German-language press may suc
ceed in converting them to Kaiserism before the war is
over.—New York Morning Telegraph.