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NOVEMBER4♦44444444NEW FRONT TO FIGHT.lit William T. Ellis.The International Sunday' School Lesson for N'ovemher 10 Is, “World’s Teinperance Sunday.” Hosea 7tendencies and tastes which alcohol 41 represents. Primarily, these ara 41 purely social; and there is no great-4 jer problem confronting the church 4! of today than that of providing un* 4 j hampered and yet wholesome social 41 relationships for the young people 41 of our generation.4j Beginning at Beginning.Now, to come to the point of thi» whole temperance question: How44One of Ptmbi4444444444 + 4444 may the reform hope to win? LetOnce a year the nearly 30,000, 000 members of the Sunday-schoolsgive themselves to the study of the temperance question. That simple statement points the way to a profound and portentous truth concerning this world-wide reform. It means that the Impressionable minds of youth are getting fixedus look at it rationally and from the standpoint of those who believein the feasibility and desirabilty ofa world without intoxicating liquors. First of all, and manifestly, there must be a new mind in the youth of the world. Public opinion must be changed at its springs. New minds must precede new laws.automob:suiminds or youtn are . /• . i J( «,ideas upon the use of intoxicants. Only a nation of abstaining Individ-i imlo /*an r*n a V a a a KcHnnn ooThe leaders of the churches, teach ers and preachers, are themselves at this time making a fresh study of the question. The whole subject •is brought into review at least once a year as a real concern of religion.Each person, from his own agle, la making out a case against the use of intoxicants. The aggregate influence of all this is stupendous,immeasurae-able, unthinkable.This is a good time to get right down to bed rock on the whole subject. Instead of presenting unre iated incidents and interesting stories, and statistics that should stagger it is better to deal with the fundamental question. Where does the world stand on the temperance question? What are Christian people going to do about it?The Temperance Mistake.Words of soberness are in order here, if ever. In the face of this prodigious human problem, sound thinking is demanded. No teacher of temperance should go faster or farther than any Intellectually honest person can follow. All exaggeration and over-statement are to be avoided and decried. For, admittedly, the most serious defect of the temperance propaganda is its intemperance.When an ardent advocate of temperance teaches a boy, as myriads have done that everybody who drinks cornea to poverty; and that all successful men are sober men; and that the great men are all abstainers. that boy eventually learns If he has any wit. whatever, orany experience of the world that these statements are simply not true. Therefore he throws over not merely the fallacious extremes of the temperance teaching he has received, but likely as not all the teaching, the sound with the unsound. It is perilous to tell children anything that the ripeness of maturer experience wPl not vindicate. No permanent good, and usually real harm, comes from any teaching which does not square with the truth.If fanaticism is ever excuseable, j let It be said in extenuation, this is [the occasion. ' The extreme state-i ments of the one-sidedness of many temperance advocates is scarcely to he wondered at, as the) have looked upon *hls monster evil, whose insatiable maw Is hourly demanding a fresh glut of young life. This is scarcely the time for cold calculation and nice deliberation. The intensity of the spirit, of love for mankind is doubtless the explanation of most of the unrealities and ill-balanced teachings and artificial atmosphere which may be detected in a great deal of temperance propaganda. Still, the cause itaself is so important, and the issues involved, so great, that they should command extraordinary self-restraint on the part, of all advocates. All temperance teaching should be able to stand the tests of the tempests of time.“Better Not.**Even when all possible admissions called for by scholarly fairness and magnanimity to this worst of foes have been granted, it can he shown that there are a score of varied reasons why boys and girls, men and women, would “better not” drink. The abstainer is on absolutely safe ground. In the case of youth, this is the onlysafe ground. The witness of even* saloon-keeper and every man of the world now living can be secured to the fact that, “where there's drink there's danger.” Physiology,! economic efficiency, social stability. iHruistic effectiveness, and essen-:lal Christianity all argue for abstinence.The old-fashioned and sensible method of pledge-signing, when pledges are deliberately and intelligently taken, is being revived by the Sunday-school leaders. This i*to be commended. The temperance war is not to be won by grand campaigns: the issue will never be settled until it is settled by each Individual for himself.The Grafted Tree.Another step is Inevitable, and It is being taken. Negative teaching Is not the best teaching. The social opportunities of drinking must be supplanted by other more wholesome forms of human fellowship. Life must have some expression, j There is a grafted pear tree in my yard which I have watched with great interest. It has shown a constant tendency to throw out shoots of its old life from every portion of the tree's trunk. These have to be eliminated, and tho sap confined for expression to the new branches which make for finer fruit. The tree is like a human life: self-expression It must have if it Is to live. The concern of theman responsible for it is to see that It expresses itself along the line if Its highest opportunity and ability.Mere argument against the use of Intoxicants will never win the temperance war; there must be provl-i sion made for the fulfillment of theMrs. WeropliSufferingFace mi Mother mHter from 1The folio Mr*. Georgit Lloyd De C daughter of Wemple, of day mornif “Mies Eli Georgia We Sixty-Ninth face disfigui suit of inji accident Sadriven by AEighty-Firsing which railroad tre throwing ox “Miss W; pital with c head and * recover. O Carrie GrEigbty«Sevlt;ed back an “Mrs, W pital with i body conti No. 2186 lt;another vi hospital w lacerated •• Teare esca Mrs. Wlt; jured girl, ed a lettethat her inuals can make a total abstinencenation.The homely phrase is worth repeating that “the first saloon for a man to close is that which does business between his own nose and chin. Without abating one jot or tittle of its restrictive or legislative work, the church must create in youth a sentiment in favor of temperance which the years can not change. To make a nation of nondrinkers we must begin at the bottom.Temporary Expedients.“Half a loaf is better than no bread.” Not everybody believes that. Some good temperance folk are determined to starve to death, or else have a full course dinner. Itseems more reasonable that while waiting for ideal temperance conditions we should accomplish whatever we can. Pending the winning of the war, let us accomplish as many minor victories as possible.The amelioration of evil conditions will probably have to precede their annihilation. Thus, by pure food laws the quality of the liquor sold to the poor may be rendered less injurious. Even the man who drinks has rights; and it is a part of sane temperance progress to see that hebe not poisoned. .. CjeV€A whole scheme of regulation of tfaem the liquor traffic must antedate the * removn. of tho tram. The hours « when saloons may be open; the sale of liquor to minors, to women and to intoxicated persons; the separation of the saloon from politics; and: even minor details like the removal1of the screens from the doors, all make for temperance progress, and should not be disdained by any who are enlisted in the big fight.The Ultimate Goal.The audacity of the total abstainers’ program is not so staggering to a fair mind as it once was. Thiscontemplates the absolute extinctionof the liquor traffic, it hopes ultimately to remove this public enemy from society’s midst. The Christian Endeavorers have raised the battle-* cry, “A saloonless nation by 1920.Pending that “consummation devoutly to be wished for,’ the territory wherein liquor Is sold may berestricted as rapidly as is consistent with honest and permanent progress. Local option, which has found such amazing favor throughout the United States, should be extended over as wide an area as localsentiment will support. To put on the statute books laws which can not be enforced is a mistake; it stillher home.BUSLewis G MPLEADSTThomas 1 from Does NWhen Itecelv Report Glad stre day nigh the office they fou i a badly t mediatel: Lewis G\further imperils the disregard for li€rgka ,the enactments of the state which Is .. — -one of the grave evils of our western life.The fact may as well be faced first as last, that no reform can go ahead of the will of the public. Steady, intelligent pressure must be brought to bear upon the minds of mien until all have come to substantial unity upon the subject, and the land shall be free of that blistering, blighting curse which has shorn strong men of their strength, has broken the hearts of women worse than widowed, and has nipped the flow’er of hope from the life of innocent little children.liquor a Peljarev: the righibroken When bi Tuesday to a cha $25 and ing an among 1MRS. JOSHUA SHAFERDIES IN HOSPITALHer Death Follows Operation Mon*day Morning.Mrs. Joshua S. Shafer, of Rochester. Indiana, who came here, last Thursday, to be operated ». the Marlon City hospital for cancer, died at the hospital, Mondayat 10 o’clock. She was seventy years old, and is survived by her daughter. Mrs. William Wagnc, No. 2PS south' Main street, and two sons, Roland and Elmer Shafer, ofRochester, Indiana.The remains were shipped to Rochester, Monday evening, for interment in that, place.It dev Harhin, police, S ter frNm never slt; until Cb informal the fedlt;received ton. Tu had ne given hwas noSTAR!PatrickFIVE ASPHYXIATEDIN A TOLEDO HOMEPolice Find Man, Woman and ThreeChildren Dead.Toledo. Nov. 5.—The police, at noon today, discovered the dead bodies of a man, woman and three children at No. 31S5 Maplewood avenue.Coroner Henzter returned a verdict of death, due to asphyxiation.Louis her. Undied in life in ' a cart 1 became reslgnei he bees and finwhich 1Kalb his estbrotherrick K ter her a boan man.CENT£An Attachment*Monday, the Big Four railroad company, through its attorney, Fred L. Car hart, brought suit In the ^ourt of Justice Charles W. Haberman against John M. Shaw and attached certain of the defendant’s property. The plaintiff seeks to recover $3 from the defendant from the shipment of sheep from Syracuse, New York, to Marion.WillPeau de suede, a fabric with the dull finish of suede and the softnessof silk, is a favorite this season. AAt I the bo churcheven inthe prlt;educatroom fosttlon the be that, e be bet this pi ■were IThefirst M
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Sat, Nov 09, 1912
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