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THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL, ' PORTLAND, . SUNDAY , MORNING, JANUARY 21. 1912, 4 FSIUES OF liEN It 1110 DRINK I i -ri 1 111 1 ir ) Protective - League f orV Fam u Hies Try toStop Habit by - Appealing to MenV Bet- - ter Nature. j.dayv 1910; a woman, poorly clad, and .with face swollen with weeping, came to the home of Mrs. Stella Masters, In the fashionable east end district of : Pittsburgh. .-, "I saw your name in the paper and bow you were working to help people .'."made, poor by drink' she said between sobs. ,, "I didn't go to my pastor be-v-cause lie' couldn't do anything, I'm ,.afratd ny husband wouldn't listen to ' , him. My husband makes 18 a day in the mills, but he spends It aji for drink and today Christmas day, just think ' ' of It ha drove our six children but on the street and beat me. He was drunk. . 7ls yiere nobody who will do something ', for drunkard's ' wives? Can you help a , met" he grew hysterical. ; i Mrs. Masters, W. C T. U. and church - worker, club woman and suffragist, said she was taken aback by the woman's 1 appeal and she realised that the 14 years of her- work.' along charitable lines, had somehow failed to hit the ? mark. Right then and there-she made the i resolve,- "I'll do something' for drunkards wifes and children." ' "i A short time later the Protective ' league for the Families of Drunkards, -- the most unique organisation of its kind r. in the country; was Jormed,:. ); -"Fledges Are Jokes." , Mrs. Masters laughed when she was "asked whether the league, of which . she Is president, - had secured any 4 -"swearing off pledges. r We don't do things that way," she said. "Most pledges are jokes. They're ; made only to be broken. ' , " "First, we appeal to the saloonkeeper and then to the erring one himself. It ' neither of these two appeals does any 7 'good we go to, the courts.. ' f "Our work Is broad in scope We have monthly meetings, but we have no paid treasurer .or secretary; Our dues are only 25 cents a year. . We banded our selves together like tie Crusaders of old . and aim to do just what our name lm plies "protect drunkards' ..families.' f) 1 ' During the year wa have helped 50 JfatnllieB. That is, we were -successful f.fln that many instances in weanlnsr ,. 'away supporters of families from thel cu rs of.atrong drink. Involuntary Inhalation of this poison o j nw ...... " j iier. of Texas, and Austin of Tennessee said tncy iniena 10 me siey. m . . . . . . 1 ..I. 1. )... Til.. trlct of Columbia of the kind of heater WUlch IS supposea 10 De especially uau gerous In connection -with this gas. 1 BEGINS AT PENDLETON Fifty families sounds small and in- i consequentisi, doesn't HT But. Isnt it I: a remarkable thing when only one per I son. is turned 'into better pathsf We don't assume things, or go by hearsay. y Our : members go into saloons thera selves, right up to., the bar if Jieces-'.-sary,vrr-;i- .';'-.'.... :v'- Work With Saloonkeepers. , 1. 'W, are the saloonkeepers' . frlenda and they are our friends. We work to i .gether. .They know now that we realise they have a legal ' right, at least, to r make their living as they do, and the 1 better class of saloonkeepers welcome 4 our aid in ' conducting respectable houses. - . . ; "Most saloon keepers aren't bad at -heart and then we always have the law J to back us up in our demands. Li censes are hard and expensive to get if ' protests are filed in license court But j we make no threats. We talk it over ? with ; the saloonkeeper and give him a chance to mend his ways. A second t offense means more " drastic-methods." Here is how the league goes about. its jorfcTatrtety-TmilnmaswTtr 'A drunkard's wife or mother or some - 'woman of the family writes te the (T' league, asking for help. " - 'T'1 Doing Fractioal Work. - One of the members looks - into the . ?. case.. This' woman detective: gets the t names and addresses of the places where the husband or son spends his. money j for drink. Then she goes to the saloon keeper and talks the matter over with ,,. him, 1 " ...... . . If he" refuses to act at the first ap . pealwhich usually falls on deaf cars the league member tries a talk with , the . drinker , himself. If this fails a printed notice is given the saloonkeeper, " warning him -hoi to1 sell to' "John Poe" whot Is, a, person of intemperate habits. As. copy of -the 'liquor laws 'of Penn : eylvajiia goes with .the notice and the ' saloonkeeper has learned ' by this time that failure to comply with the notice - means trouble . getting a new . license -next -year."--' - :.;. ---4- : A particularly hard fight' was put up on Christmas and New .Year's day last '' year , to, .close all prices; where strong drink is sold. f.. . r . . The' court' refused Mrs. Master's re tjuest on the groUrid that it Could take no action within the bounds of law,. f Xiooklng After Brag Stores. - Nothing daunted, Mfsr Masters and her "colleagues icarried':thHmatter"-to j.' the liquor dealers' association.. The ' . dealers were ready, to promise if ail the "speak easles and one-man clubs closed' frlso.; But tlte women haven't given up the fight and mean to accomplish their aim . ' before another year. 1 ; While .Mrs. Masters reluctantly ad ' mits it's rather Utopian, she is pushing a fight to have women bared at all i - tiroes from alt places where strong drink is dispensed.' The work is beginning to T attractcountrywlde attention and let- ters .'. are pouring In,- asking for in formation relative to organizing leagues in other cities. - CONGRESS MAY PASS STRINGENT GAS LAWS (Wathlnrtos Burou of The Joarul.) Washington, .Ian. 20.-How many lives are sacrificed every year to pay i dividends - to holders of gas company J stocks, can, not be determined by the statistician... Only a day or two ago a 1 beautiful young girl Was smothered in 5 her batb in this city, and the announce- . : inent was made that she was one ;f ;.' the ;many victims to carbon monoxide, t the' deadjy' but cheap ingredient in II , lumlnatjng gas. ' In 1809 Congressmai f Smith of Michigan introduced a- bill regulating?' the , proportion of -carbon monoxide that might lawfully be a constituent of illuminating ' gas sold in the district, and limiting it te 10 per cent. This was after Dr, H. W.. Wiley, at the request of the president, had con ducted experiments which determined the quantity pf carbon monoxide in the ; gas used in Washington at 20 to 20 per . f c-nt, -while, ordinary; coal 'gas contains but ( per cent of the poison. , The chem ' f lst reported that carbon monoxide is -t "on , of - tbe most' poisonous gaseous , prod nets .known." Many supposed casos of ntrifl, are probably 'the result of (Stieclal to Th lonrnal.l Pendleton, Or., Jan. ?0.Monday morning will see the high school stu dents of this city housed in, their tem porary quarters in the old Fendleton academy building. At the same time the work of demolishing ine structure which has served as a high, school for so many yearswill' begin. Since the contract for the high " school building was let last week to the Advance Con atruction company of Portland, haste Is being made to get the site ready for, operations. ' The Portland company has requested that the ground be cleared by 'February 10 and a large force of the unemployed men' in: the city will be set to .-work at ones to tear down the old building.' By Its contract with the school board, the company must have the new high "school ready for ocoupancy by October .!. . LITTLE STORIES OF REAL: LIFE THAT ARE TOLD IN NEW YORK ;.;"CTi' j "' (United rress' tewA' Wlrs.) ' - - . -New Tork, Jan.. JO. Mrs. Petra Bor ensen, "boss", of the. steamship Cather ine Cuneo, according .to the understand ing .of the Cuneo's crew, is in port again on the voyage that completed her 00, 000 miles at sea.- . . ' "r'l.'i -y.-f Mra Boreneen IH the' Wife and con stant companion of Captain 8. P. 6or ensen, nominally commander ; of , the Cuneo.. She has been his wife longer than she has been his constant com panion, for the first five or- six years of their married life,; SO years ago, Mrs., Sorensen kept away from the sea. But after , tryihg shore lire-that long Mrs., eorensen "shipped" with1 her husband, and since that time -he has never gone- faring' forth upon the blgn a that ahe waa not on board his ship. She has made her home on two sailing .. vessels . and two steamships with her seafaring husband. - "But we are getting tired of the sea,' said Mrs. sorensen. "At least, -1 . am getting tired of it, and that means that my husband 'Will have to quit, when I do. . Four years more will wind us up. have been, all over the world with my husband; 1 00 not oeiieve mere has . been a- port whloh wa have not visited.- I like St. Petersburg best. and we probably will make our home there." . Mrs. Sorensen, during her years at sea, has become. an efficient mariner and could navigate a sailing ; vesstA arounq the world.' ?' .-.-' " A1 man ' safdr. "Hello, .'little'.' .one." to Miss Enisabeth Bulbert as she walked home through West Thirty-sixth street. Frightened, the pretty young miss fled). The man .followed. '- He. : stopped her again Just outside her door. - Mrs. Sul bar t, matronly dame of; S00 pounds, heard her daughter's story and dashed out of the house. -The masher took it on the run, but Mrs. ' Sulbert was speedy as well as ; hefty. She caught him and sent him crashing to the pavement with -a well aimed right book to, the Jaw. Mrs. Sulbert calmly sat upon him. until a policeman arrived. Mother and daughter appeared against Michael Campbell - in court. ' His eyes were 'closed and variegated. Jn their hues.--'1' He said he had meant no insult but he paid his $5 fine. ' " The black-eyes, .the magistrate told him, were . the only things , that kept him from having to pay a higher fine. .- Now that .women will be making ar rests, 'there Is some question about what' will happen when ..women serve as Jurors, listen to the evidence and settle the fate of prisoners; arrested by women deputies. - "Why should not' women make good jurors?" demanded Dr. Emma V. San ders, distinguished 'young lawyer and writer from . Holland, who 'is lectur ing In New .York, "Of '. course, ' the responsibility of deciding' a human . be ing's guilt or innocence, Ufa or death, is "an extremely, heavy one. But, who can deny that a woman is Just as cap able of deciding (a'rly as, a man? ' -v ; ' "Women o they aay will' be more apt than men to be. guided by emotion than by the naked truths. . But women are not so 'soft as men believe. You roust realise that if women abhor vio lence, physical suffering and pain more than men, they will Just for that rea son, be found severer than men in pun ishing , criminals who have. been, guilty of these acts, v l'c-. v-t.., ; "Do not men give way to tears when a lawyer is pleading before them for the life of his client and do not these same ' men convict, that same prisoner to death? Women' might be moved to tears, too, and they would be . Just-, as severe if the evidence warranted a con viction. -. .:.":..:. v : The Canadian farmer who started out to' crowd 390 words on a single grain of wheat is not accomplishing a very difficult task, according to -NewrYork-ers. The art of crowding, they say, is best known here. . . , Why, in this man's town, there are chorus girls who, can crowd I worth of Ttco paint on their faces in an after noon. . There , are many, bibulous per sons in our midst who can crowd bait a dosen bottles of wine Into their In terior, departments in one sitting.. Borne of the girls, believe us, can crowd in their, half dosen lobsters after the theatre. One man claims his wife can crowd a : 750 werd "curtain lectttre into three and. a half. mlnuras. Another is sure .his, wife 1 crowds .a- 40 .Inch figure into a 26 Inch corset and a No. 'li foot into- No: 'shoe ahort-TOtnpr-at -that Some actresses here can, crowd their en tire costumes Into a small pill box-antl there. Isn't a family. In .an apartment house In Gotham' whd-canndt show the Canadian, farmer s, something , In -' the crowding line.;,' Ahd.- more than that, and perhaps the acme pf It all. the high, polite , and . dalioately; gentle subway guards can' crowd about 6000 persons more or less Into a ten oar train dur ing the rush hours which is crowding some. ' (J . ,, ' t , 1 " , ' The New Tork police force is willing to admit that it can go M. Bertlllon one better , on his finger print Identifica tion system, - which, by , the- way, ..was invented by the Chinese a few thousand years before M. Bertlllon became a ter ror, to the French- rogues.v - . -' On' the strength Of the finger, print, they have arrested a' man they know was guilty of a' crime, but whose face no person ever, saw, : The,re was a swell gambling house up town in which the proprietor waa more effectually , hidden than "the Man in the Iron Mask." IT remained In : little room, which he entered from n-other-house, No one ever saw him; not . even his employes., ; Alls business was tranxaoted through a , little ' wicket, ' through which his voice might be heard but his face never seen.' When a play er wanted to' bhy cards' or chips, he passed ,-hls monsy : through the wicket and got his cards and chips but never saw ths proprietor. When he -wanted to "cash in,"' he passed his chips through the wicket ' and got his ; money but never sao the proprietor. - ' ; The nimble wits of the police depart ment wanted to "pinch' that man, but they couldn't "get the goods on ;hlm." Finally, however. Detective f Charlea Stelnert gained entrance to the placo, pushed his money through the wicket and secured a lot of chipsand cards. . He. put them,, in his pocket and took them to police ' - headquarters. iFrom them he took 1- lonumerable linger prints," left thera by the unsuspecting gambling house, keeper. These he com pared with the finger 1 prints 1 in Urn rogue'a ssUrr.v,v. .-.rjv? ri-H"3f :r." . ' - That evening he arrested a man on the streets and charged him with con ducting a gambling house. - And the queer part of it all Is that the polio are sure they will convict him, though no person can.be found who ever actu ally -"saw,"., the man In the gambling house. 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