12 PAGES - w-- YEAR 84. NO, 116 REINING UP FOR. REIGNING OVER By William T. Ellis. Fiven the comic papers have, learn- ed that John Barleycorn is a war vic- tim. Mars is apparently putting the finishing touches upon the fate af the liquor business, regular quarterly temperance lesson of the Sunday School, which is to be studied topically, we find ourselves in the position of a friend of mine who fa a leader in American social ser- vice Commenting a few days ago upon thé condition of the temperance reform he wrote, "Things are moving so rapidly that it is all one can do to] keep up with the progress of the movement, much less try to lead it The speed with which the saloon is being driven from trench to trench, from position to position, until it is now near to engulfment if thé watery sea of obliteration, is bewildering and dazzling and glorious. War is speeding up everything. Reforms are being accomplished at a breathless rate "The work that cen- turies should have done, must crowd the hour of the setting sun." So we read of blow after blow at the liquor trade, cach severer than the last, and now the confidence porvades the land that the entire business is to be wip- ed out quickly, in the interest of military and economic advantage. There seem to be no friends left for John Barleycorn, except the men who profit financially by his continuance. Fit For Fighting "Soft" and "Out of Conditipn" have been characterizations heaped upon the non-military nations of civ- lization. They were self-indulgent. Ease and appetite held sway. One of the most shameful incidents of the early stages of the conflict was the refusal of a body of British church- men to give up the use of liquor dur- ing the war. They had wandered so far from the Christ-principle of self-denial for the sake of others that they were not so much as willing to curb their appetites for 'the sake of God and Country. The stigma thus placed upon Christianity has heen re- marked upon by the secular and re ligious press around the entire globe. In Canada, and in the fighting zone of Europe, people are becoming more fit for fighting. They have learned the great self-renunciations: which underlie all discipline of mind and body. Real preparedness is a thing of the spirit. a state of mind. Suc- cess in war, as in all the other battles of life, strikes its roots back into the character of the individual. So long as people are self pleasing, and accus- tomed to put comfort ahead of con- viction, the state is in danger. Here we come directly upon the reason why the Sunday School should stidy a temperance lesson. We hear a great deal about the economic as- pects of the fight against the use of strong drink and not one word too much. Nevertheless, the issue is fundamentally religious. Its appeal is to the Christian spirit, of altruism and vicariousness. For the sake of others the disciple of Jesus, like his master, denies himself. The New Kind of Heretics, The person who will not deny his own desires for the sake of his coun- try of his God violates the very genius of the New Testament. They are poor Christians indeed whe have not learned to subdue an impulse at the behest of a principle. Their undis- ciplined lives are doomed to slavery. Only reined spirits reign. All Christians who are represented by these British ecclesiastics, men- tioned above, who refused to ab- stain from thy glass during the per- fod of the war, are real heretics. They are disloyal to the first principles of Jesus. Such selishness is worse than doctrinal unsoundness. The world knows and eares little about a Chris- tian's creed, oxcapt as faith is wrought out into jife, but it clearly brands as unchris\ian all such self- indulgence and self secking as has been indicated. The churchman who cares more for his vine than for the name of the Master which he wears; and the business man who puts his dividends above his duty to his fel- jow-men are alike traitors to their land and thelr Lyrd. They have not learned the first even of tem- As we come to this; The International Sunday School lesson for May 20 is, "The Im- portance of Self-Control." Isa- jah 28:1-13. (A Temperance Lesson). { perance, which is self-control, and | the art of holding things in propor- tion, The Patriotism of Prohibition. i 1 have been trying to imagine the feeling nowadays of the veterans of the temperance reform movement the Women's Christian Temperance Union 'workers and the '"'cccentric" prohibition advocates who, fifteen or twenty years ago, were but voices crying in the wilderness. Few of { them dared to hope to live to see the { fulfilment of their dream and desire. Now, statesmen and economists and éducators and labor leaders are one in pleading with the nation to go the extreme limit of national prohibition. What would Neal Dow or Frances E. Willard have said to having as an ally the president of the National City Bank of New York, Frank A. Vanderlip, formerly of the United States Treasury? Yet here is an ex- tract from a recent telegram by Mr. Vanderlip: "I believe we are facing a serious test of our national character and ef- ficiency and am firmly convinced that a National Prohibition measure would be of transcendent importance in its effect upon the national spirit in conserving and increasing our food supply and in raising the efficiency of the nation. The man-power released from the liquor industries could be directed into other productive chan- nels where the need for labor will be acute and thus be readily absorbed. The needs of the agricultural and in- dustrial situation will make this a peculiarly opportune time to put through a National Prohibition law with minfmum shock to our economic machinery guring the readjustment. The business interests involved should be fairly déalt with, but many of the plants can be readily converted to important indusirial uses. The plea that the Government revenue land imparts no lasting pleasure. | | has been proved up to the hilt. We know that the booze business de- bauches life. It does no real good Its effects are entirely anti-social. The one rallying cry of the trade, that it provides employment for thousands will be seriously curtailed should not influence action, for Prohibition will, induce a 'Natiotal efficiency which will open new and far richer sources; of revenue." The author of the Webb-Kenyon | Bill, Hon. Edwin Yates Webb, wrote in a recent Sunday School Times: "The no-license or dry area now amounts to 2,500,000 square miles of our territory, or 86 per cent. Twenty- five states Are now dry, and, out of a total of 2,643 counties in the United States, liquor is allowed to be sold in only 3056 of them." Plea of Empty Flour Barrel. That same statesman declares, "It is a national erime in times like these to have about one hundred million bushels of grain destroyed yearly in the manufacture of intoxi- cants, when food and other necessar- jes of life are so high that the aver- age man can hardly buy them, and, the poor are wondering whether they must go hungry or starve." Of all the recent allies to the tem- perance cause the empty flour barrel is one of the most potent. When the world is threatened with famine it is folly----worsg it is a crime--to drink up eleven million loaves of bread in a day, with no return to the physical strength of the nation. Seven million men could be fed for a year by the grain that now goes into booze in the United States alone. On this point Mr. Webb writes: "There are about 300,000 people engaged in the liquor business in this country, supplying whiskey to about 5,000,000 drinkers. It is estimated that our people spend every year about two billion dollars for intoxi- cants. This stupendous sum is year- ly spent for an article which in no way helps the people, but which ac- tually destroys them in body and soul. \ "If this two billion dollars were it should be, especially in time of war--it would give back to labor $500,000,000 in additional earnings and waged, and would give employ- ment to 900,000 more laborers." »" ---------- for a New World. Society's case against strong drink converted into other industries, and | of persons has been turned into hol- low mockery by the war, which has created such a demand for workers and warriors that every man at pres- ent employed in the liquor business could find another job within twenty- four hours. We need both the men and the grain that the brewery and distillery are diverting from the vital channels of the nation's life. Most of all, the world needs the new crop of boys who would be destroyed by | the saloon. There is a new note in all discus; sion of the temperance question to- day. For it is clear that we are now entering upon a different world or- der,' President Wilson's epochal ad-! dress to the United States Congress adsures that. The organized life of mankind is to be lived on a higher plane hereafter. Democracy's de- mands are difficult. Its implications of brotherhood and common welfare and united self-sacrifice can be met only by a new spirit among men, The new world-life will be a sober lite, a self-controlled life, a life of highest efficiency. And that can come in no other way than by the spirit of Jesus. IN BRIEF FORM Tidings From All Over Told in a Pithy and Pointed Way. Manitoba's population has increas- ed by 21,884 since January, 1913, and is now 553,860.. Rev. A. M. Hamilton, minister at Winterbourne, Guelph Presbytery, for 40 years, has resigned. The British Government has taken a definite step in the 'direction of ! State control of the liquor traffic by breweries. The Grand Trunk Railway Board of Directors opposes nationalization of the G.T.R. System, though willing to let the G.T.P, go if reimbursed for its outlay upon it. ® It is said that an exchange of offic- als will be consummated between the Delaware and Hudson and the Canadian Government Railways, whereby F. F. Gutelius will change places with C. C. Sims. Chatham City Council urges a monster deputation to demand that the Government seize wheat crops and stores if necessary to keep flour prices from going. any higher, also that it stop the use of grain or sug- ar v7 manufacturing liquors. 1 i ; i | ie di ate i hai a . PAGES 9-12 TQ » have a Shell Committee whose mem- ~Special Photograph N. X. 1. Service This picture was taken when members of the British war mission visited West Point and when Lieutenant General G. T. M. Bridges, military head of the mission, told the cadets that the men in the allied trenches in Europe are eagerly awaiting the arrival of an American army on the fighting front. The picture shows Lieutenant Bridges and Colonel John Biddle, superintendent of the mili tary academy, and grouped behind them are the ofcicers of their respective staffs. BY H. F. Ottawa, May 17.--An interesting train of thonght was taken the other day when several members of parlia- ment discussed informally what the United States Government would do to win the war if it followed the ex- ample of the Borden Government. To begin at the ginning, it would, instead of adopt selective con- scription as it has y-decided to do, go in for a sydem of recruiting which would permi; of considerable juggling with the figures. For exam- ple, it would "authprize'" the recruit-| ing of five hundrel thousand fight, ing men and then jroceed to explain that the five hundfed thousand was not a promise to deliver that many men at the battle front, but a limit set by the Government beyond waich recruiting should mbt go. Somewhere in the midst of the en- thusiasm, when recruits were pouring in at the rate of 4 thousand a day, the Government would issue orders to ease up and whex questioned about the matter, would express great sur- tary spirit had petered out. They would frequently give voice to their wonder that recruiting was not up to the old mark, ignoting, of course, the fact that it could mot recover from the chill they had thrown into it. Sticking close te its distinguished example the Unityd States Govern- ment would. then do a lot of clever things with the cqunting. It would point out, for instance, that there were some 402,000 names on the list and that, consequently, the Govern- ment was well witlin sight of the five hundred thousand they had promised. They would not emphasize the fact "that these lists werp padded with inef- fectives and repeafers and that regi- ments which were supposed to have recruited eleven hundred marched away time and agdin with only eight hundred. 2 They would not mention out long that fifty thousand ineffectives, who should never have passed the doc- tor, were kept on the pay roll for a year or longer, many of them getting as far as England before they were sent home, and costing the country fifty million dollars or more. They {would gloss over the fact that many {of the superior officers were only de- : coy leaders who had no inten of endangering their lives in the fight- ing line and that many colonels, pas. se adian Expeditionary Force, ang aw of aghting, ) hy the idea of drawing pay for them separation allowanebs for : i g sot i Bist E2§ il dit] if 5 & ¥ Fgeges Hh 5 E Ottawa Glimpses prise and dismay because the volun-| GADSBY 7 od Home Guard." He would tell them they would not have to move out- side of their country or do anything that would interfere with their reg- ular business. All the Government asked- was that they should label themselves yellow for a dollar a day, .and not go any place where {he bul- lets were flying--except, perhaps, to the rifle butts, and that only. in fine weather. Following up the bluff, Uncle Sam would send the Editor of Vaterland out to recruit among the German- Americans, this peing strictly analog- ous to the Borden Government's ac- tion in sending Blondin to recruit in Quebec, where he is known best as the man who would shoot holes in the Union Jack. Incidentally, before the Home Guard was taken up as a device for marking time, Uncle Sam would issue registration cards which would look like the preliminary motions of general conscription, but would mean nothing at all, the Government | meanwhile atllvertising in the Can- adian papers that intending settlers had nothing to fear in the way of compulsory service, To keep in line with its model the United States Government would A TAGS, HEADS, i ¢ bers would make so much money that they would be afraid to cut-a melon of thirty million dollars sim- ply because they couldn't eat any more. The Shell Committee would be succeeded by a Munitions Board which would hand out contracts to the customers of the chairman's fav- orite bank and would go so far, let us say, in its treatment of United States business men, that it would award some of the most profitable contracts to friends on the other side of the boundary line. This would be on all fours with the action of the Munitions Board in handing the whole shipbuildink business on the Pacific coast over to the Foundation Company of New York. Of course Uncle Sam would have his war scandals. He would have his Col.. John Wesley Allison and would wrap aim as long as he could in the Stars and Stripes to cover him from his persecutors. He. would probably have to fire one Congressman for selling drugs to the Government in contravention of the Independence of Congress Act, and another Congress- man for unloading ancient and spav- ined chargers on his beloved country, steeds of such a prayerful mood that once down on their knees they had to he raised with crowbars. Uncle Sam would probably spend ten millions or so on a rifle that wouldn't work, his excuse being that he had to stick to the old contract. And when the party of the second part to the contract would say that he had no wish to stick to a contract that was detrimental to his country the Government would expropriate the factory and throw-two thousand people out of work--all this at the tail end of war. Likewise he would spend a million or two on a Camp Woodrow Wilson, located among the sand dunes and black flies, In the matter of taxes Uncle Sam would so manipulate the tariff that all the food pirates, whether in sug- ar, meat, flour, bacon, potatoes, or any other necessary of life, should each have his turn to get rich at the expense of the public. In fact, the only person who would'nt have his turn would be the consumer. The consumer is the goose that lays the golden egg. He gets the work and the other fellow gets the egg. To carry out the resemblance the United States Government would of course pass a War Measures Act, which would give them power to stop anything but the full moon, and then they would put it away in a vaul§ where the Opposition could not get at it and that would be all that would be done to the food prob- lem, except the appointment of a few dilatory commissions, who would report or not as they saw fit. And then, at the fag end of the war, the United States Government, COND SECTION Was Troubled With Shortness of Breath. When the heart becomes affected, there ensues a feeling of a choking sensation, a shortness of breath, pal- pitation, throbbing, irregular beat- ing,. smothering sensation, dizziness, and a weak, sinking, all-gone feel- ing of oppression and gnxiety. Thé nerves hecome unstrung, you iread to be alone, have a horror of society, start at the least noise and are generally fatigued. On the first sign of the heart be- coming weakened or the nerves un- strung, Milburn's Heart and Nerve Pills should be taken. They are just what you require at this time. They regulate and stimulate the heart, and strengthen and restore the whole nerve system, Mrs. C. M. Cormier, Buctouche, N.B., writes: "Since two years ago 1 was troubled with a shortness of breath, and sometimes I could hardly breathe. I went to see several doc- tors and they said it was from my heart and nerves, but they did mot seem to do me any good. One day [ got one of your B.B.B. Almanacs and read of a case similar to mine, "I bought a box of Milburn's Heart and Nerve Pills, and after taking it I noticed such a change that I ken on taking them until I had used four more boxes, when | was cured." Milburn's Heart and Nerve Pills are 50e¢ a box, three boxes tor $1.25, at all dealers, or mailed direct on receipt of price by The T. Milburn Co. Limited, Toronto. Ont NINN NA NINN NNN itil have that takes three years to make up--the United States Government, I repeat, would start out to perform a few eleventh hour miracles with the high cost of living-- price con- trol, regulation of exports, food dic- tatorship and such. In other words, the United States Government would wait until the people had been shak- en down for the Jast dollar by its food profiteering friends and then it would promise to be good, being pushed intg it from the outside by its Allies, H. PF. GADSBY. Dissolution of the Saskatchewan Legislature was announcod Monday evening, and writs have been issued for a general election on the 7th of June, nominations a week earlier, Soldiers representing eleven of the fifty-eight constituencies are re-elec- ted by an act passed last session. An extra, edition of 25,000 copies of M. Viviani's speech to the Cana- dian Parliament on Saturday has been issued, in French and transla- ted into English, to meet the great demand for it ,and more will be or- dered if that is nol sufficient. Ambition is a feeling that you had had, say three years to make up its mind--and what a mind one must remedy for STATEMENTS, TICKETS, ETC. want to do something that you know you can't. A ge? 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