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KILL ALL BOOZE
John Barleycorn is “no more," the papers say. He'
was tried, found guilty o’ wholesale waste «'! .bunt
supply of the people of the l nitod ' a es, an<. e.. ~
fenced to die.
It is true that John Barleycorn, or whisky, has been
put out of business, as far as the making o this kind ot
booze is concerned. I he closing of the distilleries loi the
duration of the war, as ordered by the food control bill,
means a saving of forty million bushels ol grain a year.
It is likely that John Barleycorn will never come back, al
though the selling of whisky will go on for some time, as
it is estimated that there are 200.000.000 gallons in the
United States and the normal consumption is loO,000.000
gallons a year. On this basis, the business lias a year and
a half to live at the most. Wholesale whisky dealers are
winding up their affairs, and inside of a few months all
will be oyt of business. They are not likely to ever re
sume, on account of the strides the prohibition movement
is makine. Most of them announce they are done for all
time and are glad of it. As for the distilleries, a great
many of them are busy now with Government orders, mak
ing alcohol for war purposes. Others are being converted
into factories for decent, useful work.
But it is not enough to kill off whisky. As has been
repeatedly pointed out in the campaign against booze,
there is no actual difference between the alcoholic poison
taken in beer or in whisky or in brandy or in any other
form of booze. The only difference is that more beer has
to be consumed in order to get drunk, but the man who
wants to get drunk does not object to that. Brewers and
distillers formerly worked together, but the beer makers
were naturally willing to leave the whisky makers to their
fate, so long as the breweries were not stopped. In this
the brewers had the aid of their newspapers. Whisky was
found guilty of destroying food. Beer is equally guilty.
Now that whisky has been condemned to death, beer
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should not be left to rob the Nation’s food supply and to
tempt the man who has a thirst and craving for alcohoi.
The next thing to do is to bury beer alongside its criminal
pal, whisky—for all time.
THOSE WHO COME BACK !
With the coming of mobilization, many families are.
unnecessarily distressed by exaggerated reports of the
, danger of service in modern war. Ihe Star had occasion
l a few weeks ago to recite the actual mortality figuies on
the western front. They are not nearly so bad as most;
persons suppose.
There are cities m the United States where nan as;
many persons per thousand of population die each year
as are killed in the lighting in Europe. There is one large!
' Southern city where the death rate is two-thirds that on
the battlefield.
These comparisons are not fair, since the population!
in a city includes babies and old persons, while fighting!
men are of an age with a lower death rate. But they in
dicate that the mortality is nothing like the conception of
our imaginations.
| Out of very 100 men sent to France ninety-six or
ninety-seven should come back. The man who goes to
! war does engage in a hazardous occupation. But he is far
from committing suicide.—Kansas City Star.
G. W. PALMER
KNIK, ALASKA
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