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I. B. Patton Cora Frances Stoddard Washington, February 28, 1 22. The hang-over of the bloody debauch of the twentieth century in its teens finds civilization nauseated, sagging and dumb to prophecy, except the never again of every debauchee with a personally conducted headache.1 That is the way with a debauch. It gets you nowhere.

Tt simply blows up and out and makes you sick and jumpy and feebly penitent. That is why it is roughly called "a bust. 1 Entered at second-dais matter at the postoffico at Westerville, 0.. under Act of March 3. 1879 Subscription Price One Dollar a year in the United States Notice to Postmasters All notices or mange or ddress should be eent to the Editor, Notices for State Editiona should NOT be eent to Westerville, Ohio, but to the addrese of the State Editor.

SATURDAY, MAY'13, 1922 John G. Woolleys European Letters G. Woolley, the veteran Prohibition warrior and gifted writer, is now in Europe commissioned by the, World League Against Alcoholism to make a study of the Prohibition situation in the various countries where the fight against alcoholism is being agitated. Mr. Woolley will also bear witness in these countries wherever invited to do so as to the Workings of Prohibition in America.

He will report his observations to the American people through the columns of American Issue. Mr. Woolleys renown as a writer is so 'well established that anything that might be said on that' point at this time would be superfluous. Every man and woman who knows anything about 'John G. Woolley knows that The American Issue readers have a great treat in store in his letters which are How appearing on this page under the caption, The Green Tight.

1 4 The world was Deutschland uber alles," full of beer and poison gas, running amuck. The Allies got caughj in it and had to dance to its music and pay the piper. But they were caught in it because they wece tuned to the uber alles wave-length too, and it will not work. America alone, preserved by luck or by Providence from the foolishness of the divine right of a two-spot to be a king, was able to go inon honor, with men and ships and guns and money, without greed or fear and with "the shout a king. For a.

just liberty to all mankind, no favorites, no secrets and no spoils! I would not say that she won the war, but she did yin the nomination to be the leader of the nations and she was already queen of the missionary spirit of the world. The missionary spirifis the sent-spirit. That is, the sense of trusteeship to strike a light in the darkness and go out to meet the need and the sorrow of the world the sense of to explore new fields, cast up new highways and pass on newly discovered helps to new communities. 3 The fall of man may still be mooted, but the failure of uber alles politicians is conclusive. There is no big, fine, inspiring outlook for any city, or any country, in the hide-bound littleness of local loyalty, manipulated by placemen and party ringmasters who say to seers: see not and to prophets: prophesy not, unleavened by the great law of kindness and kindliness in the breast of the common men and women of the race who, in the sunt, compost the soul and body of mankind.

In church, or state, or trade, the missionary spirit is the thyroid With it you have strength, stature and symmetry. Without it you have dwarfish weakness, ugliness and small mentality. The hermit nation dies at the bottom. The uber alles nation 'dies at the top. The new1 citizenship reaches out fro'm the home to the horizon, which is no barrier, but the front trench of infinite progress.

There is no such thing as a destination. The law of life is to keep going and keep giving. When Germany drank to der Tag she drank the hemlock of certain failure. By the law of kindness I mean the inherent working consciousness that are all the same kind, born to disciple each other and to go forward or go back, together. The messianic fiat on the subject was: Glory to God in the highest, on earth peace and good will toward men, not Americans, Britons, French, Germans or Japanese, not white, black, red, brown or yellow men men.

Glory to God is not psalms, sacrifices, creeds or forms. Peace on earth and good will toward men are glory to God in the highest thing that we can see or think. Foot-bound humanity that cart not march, brain-bound humanity that can not think like light in all directions and at all distances, heart-bound humanity that can not feel the beat of the great central motive On earth peace and good will toward men, stunted humanity pruned at the root and maimed to function only for locality or tribe, or set, or sect, after a thousand many thousand years of alienage, bigotry and war, as when Great Britain shot opium into China struggling to reform and as when Germany shot goose-step Kultur France, Belgium and Bagdad all in the name of uber alles patriotism has brought up in an all round fiasco. But in the present hectic and neurotic will to reform, new things are stirring in the brain pan of the world. One is a new appraisal of truth as a working and workable principle.

Diplomacy has got too proud to lie. Sincerity shies at secrecy. -Another is respect for law sadly needed in America and showing only faintly yet in the growing indignation of the law-abiding. Another, is the comity Gf nations. patriotism shouting: We ourselves, is giving back before a certain urge toward world-wide considerateness and even sympathy.

Philadelphia North American. Not In the Market For Gold Bricks That American Legion Post of Albert clearly demonstrated that it had the number of the outlawed liquor interests agents who were endeavoring to put the post on record in favor of booze, when in refusing to become a tool of the brewer it declared The ex-soldier has been gold-bricked and has been the object of hand-shaking long enough and has had the wool pulled over his eyes on too many occasions. sponsibility of destroying American Prohibition at all hazards. The very existence of these organizations is a ringing challenge to every dry voter to do his best. The goal of the liquor interests is to reopen the corner saloon those cesspools of moral filth, crime and murder.

The first step to the realization of this program is the election of a wet Congress. This is necessary to the amending of the Volstead acts definition of intoxicating liquor so as to permit the manufacture and sale of light wines and beers. Should they succeed in this, such liquors may be sold on Sundays and to minors and drunkards. Absolutely the only hope the wets have of carrying out this project is to catch the drys napping. They have found this true in many instances in the past.

Will it be so this time? It is up to you Our tried leaders in temperance warfare expect every voter to do his whole duty. The present is no time to higgle over fine points. Support no candidate in the primaries or election who is not known to be reliably dry. i I JU Sweedish Wets Fear Womans Vote The Swedish Parliament has' asked for an expression of opinion from the voters as to whether a Prohibition amendment should be written into the Constitution. The vote will be taken some time this fall.

The Constitution of Sweden grants equal suffrage, but the liquor interests under the leadership of Dr. Bratt, originator of the Mottbok system now in vogue in Sweden governing the sale of intoxicants, succeeded in writing a clause into the resolution calling for a plebiscite on the question of constitutional Prohibition, providing for a separate vote of men and women. Dr. Bratt argues that inasmuch as the men are the drinkers it is up to them to decide whether they want the privilege of buying liquor taken away from them that it is a matter that ought not, concern women, majority vote by the men in favor of of the Bratt sys; tern would no doubt be used. byAhe liquor; interests as an argument against the enactment of the needed, legislation by The dry forces were at first somewhat dismayed when the separate vote provision carried, but now they see where the proposal will probably work toLtheir It is another instance, of where the liquor interests over-reached themselves.

It will not be the present Parliament that will receive the mandate on Jhe ProhiT bition question from the people. A new Parliament is to be elected and the women have equal voting power jwith the men in selecting this Parliament. The women are greatly aroused over the action of Parliament in requiring a separate vote and it will occasion no surprise if a number of Senators and Representatives who decreed that a womans ballot is not of equal value with a mans, will discover the error of their judgment in the parliamentary elections. It was early discovered in this country that the liquor interests were the most bitter opponents of womans suffrage. It is interesting to note that this same rule holds true in Sweden.

The prop- pects for the success of total Prohibition in Sweden are bright. 1 1 Drugs and Licensed Saloons A special Lbndon dispatch to the New York Herald of April 22 says The widespread traffic in dope in Londons night life district, illicit drinking aqd deplorable social depravity were exposed in the adjourned inquest into the death of Frieda Kempton, a pretty dancing instructor who committed suicide by taking cocaine. The testimony showed that she had openly obtained drugs in many forms in ta'xicabs, anterooms and even dance halls. The authorities suspect that a powerful syndicate is in operation which lias complete control of its agents. Attempts to track down this syndicate have failed thus far.

There is strong ground for the belief that efforts are being made to encourage the desire for narcotics by popularizing certain types of sweets filled with extract of mint, sugar and linseed or chlorodine lozenges not to cure cough but for the enjoyment of the narcotic effect of the sweet. Cigarettes have been found treated with laudanum, which the police say designed to establish the future success of, the cocaine traffic. It is estimated by the authorities that the traffic is now greater than at any time in Londons history and has become a public menace. There have been many prosecutions in the past month but still the source of the supply has not been exposed although Scotland Yard believes that it is on the trail following the Kempton inquest. The testimony at this inquest revealed that it is easier to obtain drugs than drinks after hours, and this has caused a spirited campaign of suppression which threatens to result in legislation against the commoner clubs which have been advertised as brighter London clubs.

What now becomes of the theory advanced by the publicity agents of the liquor interests, that suppression of the liquor traffic means promotion of the traffic Jn habit-forming drugs? These agents hav maliciously circulated the neport throughout England that a veritable flood of habit-forming drugs swept this country immediately following the advent of Prohibition of 'the liquor traffic. Wet London newspapers circulate false reports in spite of the fact that they' have been, refuted by evidence which shows that there has been an actual decrease in the use of in the United States since the saloons were closed. These wet newspapers and wet publicity agents would do well to look to London where war-time restrictions on the sale of intoxicants have been lifted and coincident with this loosening of the regulations comes an increase in the use of drugs which according to the report in the New York Herald' has become a genuine menace. It is also worthy of note that the Herald report refers to the illicit drinking. London birrodms are closed during designated hours but evidently liquor sales continue in spite of the law, during the prohibited hours.

The evidence is conclusive that the lawless liquor sellers and the peddlers of prohibited drugs are in the same camp and prosper most under a liquor license regime. The Lincoln-Lee Legion A correspondent to American Issue writing from Barbadoes, British West Indies, raises a point in connection with the activities of the' temperance forces of the United States that deserves consideration. He says that Barbadoes is a very wet country, especially the port of Bridgetown, a city with suburbs of about 50,000 population. Barbadoes is full of rum shops where the. blac people, the great majority of the population, get their liquor, and where the floating sailor element gets drunk.

A large proportion of this sailor element is from America. But the point American Issue wishes to emphasize in our correspondents letter is this. He says that among the worst drinkers now seen on the island are Americans. Apparently their purpose in visiting the island is to satisfy their thirst. The behavior of these Americans in this regard gives support to the generally accepted opinion among the natives that Prohibition in the United States is artificial, a matter of compulsion.

These natives say, See how the American drinks when he gets the chance. Of course Prohibition was forced upon the United States. The question is asked by our correspondent if the drys of this country are giving the attention to the moral suasion side of the Prohibition question that they ought the appeal to the individual to abstain. It would appear from this observation that here is one very good reason why the activities of the Lincoln-Lee Legion, the total abstinence department of the Anti-Saloon League of America, ought to receive the whole-hearted support ofall friends of Prohibition I1 i New York, March 1, 1922. The Washington conference did not make peace nor insure it.

But it did seek peace and pursud and by the forthrightness of its endeavor and the cosmopolitan courtesy of'its atmosphere it did pour oil on the stagnant slough of which in time, and no long time, will cover the whole lush and treacherous waste with a film in w'hich the rising larvae of war can not breathe. But merely to smother the var carriers is not enough to plan for in the present chastened and desperate reorganization of the scrapped and mutilated world. Other international conventions must be held and will he held looking beyond mere negations in world policy and mere intervals of reason and decency to affirmative and constant courtesy toward the efforts of nations not only to keep the peace but also to improve and reform themselves. In this as in many another different matter, Prohibition has become a kind of master key; for it has already brought together in the best hearts and brains in Amer-j ica, in the greatest debating society ever known. It is the best organized and best advertised effort toward peace and good will that wac ever put forth and the most stinging and complete rebuke to the law cunning of politicians that has held back so many good movements and that at last has got itself recognized and despised in every country.

The American people affer a hundred years of agitation, preaching, teaching and thousands of political pitched battles, have put the prohibition of the beverage alcohol business in their Constitution. It was done openly and regularly by a joint resolution of the Congress ratified by forty-six of the forty-eight state Legislatures. The great bulk of the citizens desired it and still desire it. It is alrerySy enforced better than the decalogue and in a good deal the same way. But smugglers from other countries, co-operating with our own native and adopted criminals, have formed an international society of bootleggers which defies the law and opens new schools of crime along the borders.

We were sure to have such a combination, we can not expect better things of it. But if the neighbors, Great Britain, Canada, France, Spain and Mexico, were to issue proclamations exhorting their nationals not to traffic with known criminals, in contempt of the American people, it might not greatly check the trouble but it would greatly please the best elements of our people and make for increased good will. The whole earth needs such a lesson in broad and fundamental comity, not only as to things that tend to cause war, but also as to matters that simply affect the atmosphere of human relations. We shall enforce our will better and better, at any rate. To oppose the Iootleggers we have twenty million children iru the public schools learning that alcohol is poison.

We are in the midst of a great revival of common honesty in the administrative personnel and a great revulsion against civic neglect. But by such means as I have here suggested and by all possible means the pe9ple of the countries must be better friends. For none of them can solve their own problems perfectly alone. They must pay more attention to each other and know each other better. We must quit sniffing at "foreigners.

Dago, Chink, Sheeny, Jap, and Wop must get out of the vocabulary. We have made good beginning. Truth and courtesy were the keynote of the Washington conference. The World League Against Alcoholism, is the same note made permanent, not only to prevent war, but also to make the common life, more abundant and better. We of America do not intend to meddle with the affairs of our neighbors.

But we do intend to let them know what we are doing how and why we do it and how it works. And particularly we intend to let our people know the other countries, their customs, law and difficulties, and in time we expect to form an interlocking directorate of ways and means to a better world. Wf hold by the Scripture that our citizenship is in heaven, that it does not mean a postponement of duty nor a mere promise of future felicity, but is a statement of present, practical fact for the broadening of our vision. Heaven is the sky, the blue, mysterious unsounded depths of infinity, with the sun set in it, or beyond it, and other stars and unutterable dreams, and wherever it bends above us we own and claim a citizenship. is where I come back.

I had retired, scarred and weary, after a long lifer of struggle hard to live, to spend a few sunset years with my gifted and beautiful Mai? Woolley who had given and borne as much as I for the great reform. But just when we got settled in our big chairs at lifes west window, with a book between us, she was snatched away and the sphinx made us sign. I have no child that needs me, nor any business that demands my time, and so, I take the field again, not as a fighter any more, but as an old minstrel, with a battered harp, to go from camp to camp telling the soldiers of heaven oa earth about each other, inthe interest of them alU Heres a Sample While politically dry and likely to remain so, the present Congress is personally as wet as can be; that is, there is as much if not more liquor being drunk in Congressmens offices than at any time in the countrys history. When the saloons were open there was no reason for whisky in a Congressmans desk. It is otherwise now.

Naturally these wet Congressmen are not going to vote dry any longer thin they have to. The Liqcoln-Lee Legion is doing splendid work and has been the means of greatly promoting total abstinence in this country. Its task is by no means finished merely because we have written Prohi-bitioirinto the Constitution.4 Its task will not be finished until a situation is set up where such an indictment as now comes from Barbadoes can no longer stand against us. It is sincerely hoped that every Sunday school superintendent and every pastor will respond to the appeals of the Lincoln-Lee Legion to' co-operate in the great work that the Legion is doing in the interest of total abstinence. This from the New York World Is a sample of the stuff appearing in wet newspapers.

If Congressmen would 'ignore their oath office and the sentiment of their constituents aid legalize beer and wine, and kick the Eighteenth Amendment over the back fence, the World and other newspapers of that stripe would hail them as patriots and saints. As it is, these papers engage in mud-slinging and in innuendoes which have no foundation in fact. You will note the World does not attempt any proof of its statement. The Committees Call Elsewhere in this Issue appears the call of the National 'Anti-Saloon League Legislative Committee to all friends oi Prohibition to put forth their utmost effort to nominate dry candidates for Congress at the approaching election. Everything indicates that the crisis in the battle for Prohibition is at hand.

The saloon interests have organized more than thirty associations charged with the re- A fool and his money are soon in the hands of the undertaker and the bootlegger respectively. Chicago Daily Journal. 1.