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The OREGON STATESMAN Salem. Oregon, Tuesday Morning, February 20,-1934
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i y , Army Planes and Air Mail
ARMY planes entering the air mail service do so under
great handicaps. They lack as experienced pilots as
the commercial lines, and they do not have the instruments
for safe flying which the private craft has adopted. So the
army officers are undertaking the task with considerable
dread. The loss of three pilots in the preliminary flights sent
chills down the backs of officers and men. Undoubtedly the
army will come through, and after a season of effort the
"work will flatten out into routine. The army also expects
to get more money both for planes and for equipment; and
claim it is lack of appropriations which has put them be
hind commercial planes.
It may be that the government will proceed to award
new contracts to commercial companies, free from any taint
of fraud. In that case the present commercial pilots would
change over to new employers. The pilots, at least, have
committed no offense, and do not deserve summary dismissal
from service. In fact the operating force of air lines ranks
as one of the most efficient organizations in the whole field
of industry.
There is no question that army aviation will receive a
big impetus as a result of carrying the air mail. The adver
. tising will be effective. If they have crack-ups or slow
flights the deficiencies Will be apparent and congress will
appropriate generously to improve the equipment. If they
have good luck and few accidents, the advertising value will
be great. People will be friendly to this arm of the service
and so will be generously disposed.
-': There is no doubt that the plane will be the modern in
strument of warfare. It seems foolish to expend hundreds of
millions of dollars on battleships and cruisers and then
skimp on air craft. Swarms of airplanes will decide the issue
in the next world war, with" dropping of explosive bombs
and gas bombs and propaganda bombs behind the entrenched
infantry lines. The prospect is not pleasing; but such is the
clear direction of modern invention.
Football Under Fire Again
THE Carnegie foundation follows up its onslaught of sev
. eral years ago with a fresh attack on college football.
The report is written by Dr. Henry S. Pritchett, president
emeritus of the foundation and is very severe in its condem
nation of the commercializing of football, singling out Notra
Dame and University of Southern California as "horrid ex-
,amplea The report compares football with German duelling,
to the advantage of the latter, where "a fatal encounter is
practically unknown and a serious wound so rare as to be
negligible."
. Dr. Pritchett refers to football as an "industry' and
regards it as "grossly demoralizing when developed into a
commercial show for the public".
., 1 The report confirms what the public pretty well knows
that football has been exalted into a Roman holiday with
costly stadia, elaborate paraphanalia, and over-emphasis in
relation to other college activities. Some day colleges may
wake up and deflate football, but so many of them are strug
gling with stadia debts they have to keep up the show. A
few years ago one school, Loyola in Chicago, we believe, an
nounced it was cutting out intercollegiate football ; and one
institution in this state, Reed, has run for years without
intercollegiate competitions in athletics. There is no demand
for general abandonment of intercollegiate contests, but
for getting back to a more healthy sense of proportion in
athletics.
Crumbling Rock
KING ALBERT of Belgium, who had climbed peaks
11,000 feet high in the Alps, lost his life climbing a
200-ft. cliff in Belgium. As Belgium is one of the "low
-countries" it is surprising to learn there are any dangerous
"peaks within its frontiers. The one the king was trying
to scale is the Rocher de Marche-les-Dames, near Namur, 32
miles south of Brussels. As he climbed the face of the cliff,
he laid hold on a jutting piece of rock, but it crumbled in
his hand and he plunged S6 feet to his death. It is as though
lie fell from a third or fourth story window.
Trivial as seems the adventure he was on the conse
quence Of the fall is as disastrous as though h had Inst hi
life in a slide on Mount Brenta.
applause of the world for his brave leadership of Belgium
during the dark days of the war is now succeeded by his son
Leopold. Albert was a pretty good king, as kings go; and
his people will grieve his death. Leopold is said to be popular
also, and democratic in his ways like his father. His wife,
who will be the queen of Belgium, was Princess Astrid of
Sweden and bears a fine Scandinavian heritage.
I"-: Belgium has been getting along nrettv well since the
war, and has escaped the disorders that have troubled other-
countries. It is to be hoped that the death of the king will
not plunge the country into riots and revolution.
V Scrapping a Machine
SECRETARY ICKES further demonstrated his rigorous
standards of public service when he discharged all the
regional advisors and advisory boards of PWA in all the
states. With the money all spent or allotted there was no
need to continue the machinery. As a matter of fact, the ma
chinery never did work very smoothly. The engineer force
will be continued; and probably this will be all even if new
PWA money is v6ted.
The danger was that the administrative machine would
be continued with its expenses to be borne by the federal
government. Derhana made into a nnlitu! mnriifna fn "Ko.-
leyizing- the country. Ickes bravely scraps the rnachine and
ftays he has no more use for it No wonder Ickes is unpopular
with the politicians. He should rise however in general es
teem as one who wants to do a good job honestly,
- i Devers as Candidate
J. M. DEVERS will make a formidable candidate for nom
ination for congress from this district His work as at
torney for the highway commission, has brought him into
close contact with thousands'of people. He is a man of char
acter and capacity; and through, his long public career no
lie has imputed to him wrong doing. From a "publicity"
standpoint his name has been before the voters in the last
ir months more often , than that of Congressman Mott be
cause Devers has handled the work for the PWA loan on the
The monarch who won the!
Health Bits for Breakfast
By Royal S. Copeland. M.D. By R. J. HENDRICKS
PERHAPS NO other branch of
medical science has advanced as
rapidly as that known as endocri
nology'. This la the study of the
"endocrine
glands" of the
body. There are
several of these
so-called duct
leas glands, tha
most familiar be
ing the thyroid
gland.
Most of us are
familiar with en
largement of the
thyroid gland,
producing what
(a known aa "goi
tre". We may be
familiar, too,
with other dis
Dr. Copeland
turbances due to
an Increased secretion of the thyroid
substance. But few realize that cer
tain Important changes occur within
the body when there Is a decrease in
the secretion of the thyroid gland.
More Common in Women
This decrease or deficiency of the
gland secretion leads to an unusual
condition known as "myxedema".
This ts s disturbance found In adult
life, but is Identical with an afflic
tion occasionally seen. In infants and
known as "cretinism".
Though myxedema may be found
In males, it Is more common In
women, especially those beyond forty
years of age. The actual cause of
the disease has never been discov
ered but Its 111 effects are attributed
to an actual decrease in the glandu
lar substance of the thyroid gland.
Unfortunately, the symptoms are
often vague and misleading. For this
reason, the disturbance is frequent
ly overlooked or disregarded.
The victim of this strange and dis
agreeable disease has a dry and scaly
skm. The hair becomes coarse and
brittle and rapidly falls out. Though,
the patient may not actually gain
weight, his appearance- Is deceiving
and be seems to have added to his
weight. This can be explained by a
-swelling of the skin of the face and
legs.
Treatment Effective
Not so long ago I told you about
a special test known as the "bam!
metabolism test". Ton will recall
that this enables the physician accu
rately to determine that there are
disturbances of the thyroid and other
Internal glands. When myxedema la
suspected, the diagnosis can be eon
firmed only by a basal metabolic
test the basal metabolic rate being
markedly decreased. It gives evi
dence of deficiency of function In the
thyroid gland.
Tremendous advances nave been
made in the treatment of this dis
ease. It was only a short time ago
that the sufferer conld be offered any
avenue of escape or beneficial form
of treatment Today ss a result ot
out better understanding of the thy
roid gland and Us action It Is pos
sible to combat and cure this afflic
tion. This Is accomplished fey the ad
ministration or thyroid extract This
is made from tha thyroid glands of
animals. It Jan powerful medicine,
stimulating the thyroid and other
glands. But arace ft Increases the
work of the heart It Is Imperative
that It be given only under the u
Tervkdon of a physician. He will
Bret give very smaB dosse and grado
aUy Increase the onanUty If it Is fa
vorably received.
iCemrriokt. 1934, K. F. 8.. faej
five coast bridges. As the papers have had continuous pub
licity regarding these bridges, with Devers name attached,
he cannot but be a beneficiary of such repetition of his
name in print Devers has not been allied with any political
faction, so he can go into the race without readimade hos
tilities of special groups.
A news dispatch says that the new dealers are figuring on a
new systenfcot direct subsidy to airlines and boat lines. This merely
S(.!,r if V 8ndU- Why any subsidy at all? Grants
rrom the treasury always- promote waste and alotb. It is money earned
which, encourages clean business. Cat out ail the subsidies from
tha treasury and let industry survive or perish.
The terrible story of
the Whitman massacre:
a S
(Continuing from yesterday:)
"For Spaulding and family he
gave 12 blankets, 12 shirts, 12
handkerchiefs, 2 guns, 200 balls
and powder, 5 fathoms of tobacco
and some knives.
"a
"The night after the Indians
received their pay they held a
war dance in the fort, and I do
not think that anyone who has
heard the savage yell when he
Was hungry for blood will be mis
taken when he hears the genuine
chorus as we heard it that night.
"On the 3rd of January, 1848,
we left the fort in bateaux to go
down the Columbia'.
"The ground was frozen and it
was snowing some when we left
We had been gone but a short
time when the Cayuses, hearing
that the volunteers were on
their way up, came to retake us.
"The boats had to be unloaded
at night and drawn ashore to
keep them from freezing fast in
the ice. You can imagine some
thing of the trip.
"When we arrived at The
Dalles, we met some of the volun
teers, for there were no regular
soldiers on this coast then. We
met more at the Cascades. They
helped us make a five mile port
age. The boats had to be carried
on men's shoulders. Every child
who could walk and carry a bun
dle had to do so. Not much of a
pleasure trip, yon will say, but
there was gladness in our hearts
when we made the oortaee.
b
"We were out of reacch of the
hostile foe, and now, remember,
we were hostages of war and
had to be kept together until we
were given over to the Kovernor
of Oregon.
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"When we arrived whftre Port
land now stands, for there were
bnt few cabins there then. finv.
Geo. Abernathy, with 25 volun
teers, stood on the sloping bank
wnere tne Asa street dock now
is, to greet us.
"They stood with arms present
ed until our three boats came un-
aer tneir guns, their flags float.
ing over them. They tired over
us, took off their caps and gave
three cheers. I wish I could Dic-
ture to you as I saw it the scene
waen Mr. Ogden stepned aahnra
and he and the eovernor of Or.
gon clasped hands under the good
old Stars and Stripes as it float
ed gently in the breeze. He took
out his papers, handed them to
the governor, and, turning to us
he said, 'now you are free peo
ple. You can go where you
please.'
"Much has been written of the
heroes and heroines of the west,
but the halt has never vt bn
told. Most of yon have doubt
less heard of the heroic ride of
Dr.'Whitman which gome have
tried to dispute, but cannot, and
it la not strange. It was not
disputed until men began to hon
or blm. But from What I har
read and heard, he did co to save
Oregon and we see now what he
did accomplish.
And here we are todar on and
in sight of the old Kes Perce and
Cayuse camping grounds over
which he often traveled.
"I feel like saying, 'Plowmen,
spare these trails. In youth they
guided him, I'd like to save them
now.' '
S
So concludes the paper. That
pioneer reunion was indeed on
historic ground; on a spot hal
lowed by sacred memories, where
Christianity and civilization for
the part of the old Oregon coun
try east of the Cascades had
their beginnings. Some explana
tions are needed. They follow:
S U S
As to the Sagers: Henry Sa
ger and wife were in the '44 cov
ered wagon immigration from
Missouri. First the father and
then the mother died of camp
fever on the plains. Their seven
orphaned children were brought
as far as Waiilatpu by William
Shaw and wife, the latter a sis
ter of Col. Cornelius Gilliam, he
roic figure of early Oregon his
tory; and numerous members of
the Shaw family prominent i n
many ways. The first of the Sa-
ger children were boys, John
and Francis, aged 17 and 15. They
were both slain in the massacre.
Hannah (or Henrietta), the
youngest, died of the measles, as
shown hitherto in this series. The
four other girls, Catherine, Eliza
beth. Matilda J., and Louise, 15.
13, 10 and 8, respectively, at the
time, became maternal heads of
leading Pacific northwest famil
ies. Stanley, the painter, was John
Mix Stanley, the noted painter of
Indian chiefs and other notables
and historic scenes and charac
ters, whose chief works are 1 n
many famous galleries. The re
cord (historical) shows that on
October 24, 1847, he was at the
Tshlmakain mission of Cushing
Eels and Elkanah Walker, arriv
ing there that night. He came
by way of Okanagan. He left the
Eels-Walker mission, near where
Spokane is now, Nov. 22, after
dinner, on his way to Waiilatpu,
where he expected to paint por
traits of Marcus and Narcissa '
(Turn to Page 7)
The Safety
Valve
Letters from
Statesman Readers
To the Editor:
I would like to take just a little
more of the space in your paper if
you win let me as I have a little
more to say on the sales tax that
I couldn't put in the letter I wrote
last week.
They say they have a sales tax
in Mississippi and it works fine,
but for whom?. The negroes and
poor whites I understand work
for one dollar per day and pay the
tax and the aristocracy owns the
land. The negroes and poor whites
own nothing and never win, yet
even so often you will hear the
cry, "Buy property, own your own
home." But how?
Any person that rents is paying
a property tax Indirectly. He pays
through the landowner and when
yon force a sales tax on a renter
you are making hint pay. a double
tax as the sales tax goes, so they
say, to reduce property tax, so
while the man that owns the pro
perty gets a cat. the man that
rents v has bis taxes doubled or
maybe more, depending on the
size of his family. A sales tax
places an additional tax on the
head of every baby born In the
states that adopt it. It places
Americans at a disadvantage with
foreigners as most foreigners hare
a lower standard ot living; So
8YNOPS13
Taut and beautiful Staalty
Pain loses fear fart one through
market specalatlea hut a harder
blow cesses whea her fiance, the
fascinating. irrespeasiblt Drew
Armitire, tells her U would be
aaadneaa-ta marry ea his lac
ana- leaves ttva. Penniless and
broken-hearted, Stanley refuses ts
seek aid ram her wealthy friends.
Desiring tar make her vara way.
Stanley dreps ant sf her exclusive
circle and rests a cheap furnished
room. After a week af loneliness
and trying ta adapt herself to her
paar saTreundiags. Stanley cans
a Nigel Stem, on af her society
friends, and asks his aid la secar-
Ing a pesUiea. Nigel sages her ta
marry tha haadsssse and wealthy
yoang lawyer. Perry Devereat. wha
hns laved her devotedly far years,
bat Stanley's heart Is with Drew.1
Nigel saggests that aha think It
aver, and then, if she stiff wants a
poeitiam. he will try ta place her.
Stanley does net ga hack ts Nigel
realising it weald mesa meeting
all her aid friends. On day. whan
Stanley is mere lenely than asnal.
she meets Jean Harmon Nortnrip.
a street-Bag ywaag aathae. ami m
teached by hm sincerity. Stanley fi
nally prectrret a pomue sad grews
cariensly content Then, ton; hav
las John Harmon waiting for her
at the end ef the day. helped make
things brighter. He and bis ready
ami la became very important ts
Stanley.
CHAPTER TWENTY -THREE
k They talked a lot about John
Harmon's book. The first half had
already taken shape but the real
plan of the book was still in the
making.
"You know, Stanley," John Har
mon would say, sitting up abruptly
on the sand, his eyes excited. "I
can figure the thins all out before
hand have a definite idea in view
a real plot to follow, sequence,
form, all that sort of thing but
when I get to writine. it doesn't
work out that way at alL The peo
ple simply won't do or ssy the
things I planned for them they
take the story and walk away with
it upset the applecart completely.
Pm perfectly helpless, once I've
created a character, to make it be
have!" Stanley, slim in a scarlet bathing
suit her dark hair pushed off her
forehead, her eyes shining and com
pletely absorbed, would rush head
long into the conversation. "That's
why the stuff you write is so real.
the people in your stories aren't
you, saying the things John Har-
mon Northrup would say, doing the
things John Harmon Northrup
would do. They're themselves, each
one individual and clean-cut Some
times they're so different from you
I don't believe you really under
stood them yourself. Sometimes I
think you're amazed at them or dis
gusted or even utterly disillu
lioned!"
"I ami" John Harmon would ad
mit honestly. "And a little bit
scared of them, too. They play the
very devil with my originality-
sort of discard it as so much bunk
and go ahead and write the story
themselves. Now, take Gloria, for
Instance " and he would plunge
into an hour's discussion of why
he had done a certain thing, re
acted to a certain situation in ex
actly the opposite way from what
he had intended. "And the deuce of
it is, there's nothing I can do about
ttl" he would conclude, with a shrug
of bis shoulders, smoking furiously.
one hand miffing his damp, brown
hair.
On rainy Sundays, they would
aavs dinner at one of the little
eating places in the Village per
Jiapa a little French restaurant
'where there was music and good
food and one met informal, inter
esting people who sat long ever
their coffee and cigarettes. Or per
haps at a little nlace called the
either the Americans will have to
adopt the lower standards or stop
rearing children.
That makes the sales tax Just
another step toward race suicide
for the American people.
If you people who vote for the
sales tax want to make the U.S.A.
a country of foreigners that is a
good way to do it
Any time big business comes
out with a scheme -to help the
farmer or working man you want
to watca out because things aren't
always as they seem on the sur
face.
And the sales tax is just an
other way to make the rich richer
and the poor poorer.
EARL SHARP,
785 N. 20th St., Salem .Ore.
Mini
JPIISF
"Copper Kettle" where tha tables
wore bright red aad white check
red tablecloths and on ate dt
udously cooked food served on
thick crockery in aa atmosphere
made cheerful by warm yellow
walls and mellow candlelight.
Sometimes Valerie was included
en these occasion but usually she
went with a crowd more to her uk
Ing a crowd of pretty, restless
girls, expertly well-dressed, expert
ly weQ-inforxned.
"A girt like me," Valerie ex
plained one day, curled op at the
foot of Stanley's bed, wrapped in a
flame-colored coolw coat, 'can give
just so much and ne more. Can
feel just so much and no more.
We have to be hard, hard as nails.
Coin! What I wouldn't give to in
dulge in one real honest-to-goodness
emotion but it wouldn't pay. Take
Jimmy, for Instance. Well, I dont
go out with him any more, I dont
are. I eonldnt be hard about
Jimmy, so I keep away from him.
"But if you liked him, why not
go an? Let yourself care?" Stanley
looked up a-bit puzzled, from where
she was drying her hair by the
open window.
"Because I-can't afford to care
for a boy like Jimmy. He's a ship
ping clerk on a salary smaller than
mine, and sooner or later it would
mean marriage, and marriage be
tween us would be hades." Valerie
spoke unemotionally, evenly, with
the quiet finality ef one who has
figured things eat carefully
and reached an irrevocable de
cision. "I've seen the sort of mar
riage ours would be. Seen it all my
life m my own heme, in my own
street, everywhere. You give op
your youth and your good looks
and your health, and what do you
get? A few months of being happy
and then years of being miserable.
of being poor, of being always tired
and dragged out When you start
in. you're in love and you're young
and you think you've got the world
by the tau. You get married with
just enough to live on and no mar
gin and something happens.
You're sick or you lose your job or
your mother-in-law has to have an
operation and there are always
children when you can't even take
care of yourself and you go un
der. You forget you were ever
young or pretty or in love. You get
bitter and discouraged and admit
you've made a mistake but you're
caught and you've got to keep on."
vaiene stopped, smoked hard for
a moment "No, it's no good, I've
doped it all out Love is a luxury a
girl like me can't afford. That's
why I take my pleasures lightly
and pay little for them. I can't
afford to have any real feelines.
They call gida like me gold-diggers
and I suppose we are always look
ing for a ritzy date, always mere
interested in our dinner than our
dinner partners. But why not?
We've got to have something to
make up for all we can t have."
"Ive heard someone talk like
that before about love and mar
riage. I mean they seemed to have
about the same idea." Stanley spoke
quietly.
"I know that man you were en
gaged to, I suppose. He wouldn't
give up the luxuries of life I won't
give up the necessities." Valerie
wrinkled her forehead, stared at
Stanley reflectively. "You still love
him a lot, don't you?"
"I expect I do, Val ."
"Even when you know he isnt
worth it?"
"Even then."
"How do you feel about John
Harmon?"
"I don't know he's very neces
sary to me.
Did you ever think he might be
in love with you?"
I've thought of that, but I don't
think he is. He's never said so."
He never will, not as long as
you love this other man."
"But we've never discussed him."
"Yon dont need to. It's there in
vour eves, in vour smile. John Har
To the Editor:
The liquor problem up to now,
is, methinks, like that of the
anxious mother whose children
have all in possession of wheels,
John on a motorcycle, James on
a bicycle, Helen on a tricycle, and
Fred on a coaster; seeing them
all mounted on their wheels, she
says, "Now children, have a good
time, enjoy your wheels, but don't
go anywhere, stay right here."
Prohibition is out; there is no
thou shalt not" to make us want
privileges and take them to prove
that "prohibition dont prohibit."
We have been told to consider
ourselves tinder no restrictive law
relative to staking our thirst, to
enjoy our" victory, etc., but to
please be good and not abuse our
I USED TO BE JUMPY AND
NERVOUS. THEN I STARTED
ON CAMELS. THEY NEVER UP
SET MY NERVES AND, BOY,
HOW GOOD THEY TASTE I
iwi wmm
mon knows hell always know."
"I suppose you're right. VaL
"Of course, I'm right I havt to
be right I can't afford to be
wrong."
Stanley had written ta Ellen
twice during the summer. Brief,
affectionate letters, telling little,
promising to go and 'see her in the
falL
"Not Just jet, Ellen the wrote.
Fm not sure enough about things
bnt later, after I really know what
it's all about. 111 come to you."
Her real reason for not going
was fear fear that the poor food
and the stifling heat and the long
hours at the office had worn away
her resistance and made her sus
ceptible to the rest and physical
comfort Ellen would offer, even
urge upon her. Stanley' had ne illu
sions about her courage but she had
a very real desire to see this tiring
through, somehow ta find herself
and get her feet aa the ground. She
wanted to do this, she wanted to
do It alone. And so she .kept away
from Ellen and contented: herself
with brief letters.
Jfee had a letter from her aunt
"I must say roa art behavior in
a most picturesque way. 1 can't
imagine why you choose ta be.se
utterly fantastic. If yoa care to
come over and try your luck at
matrimony. I can manage to finance
you Tor hair a year. I think you are
absolutely idiotic not to see the ad
vantages of this plan. At least if
you insist upon earning your owe
living, do find a more comfortable
and suitable berth with your con
nections, this ought to be asy. 1
must admit I have never been able
to understand you but I am fond
of you and feel a certain respon
sibility."
From Perry Oeverest had come
rather long letter, an oddly serious
surprisingly adult letter.
I can't help feeling. Stanlev
that if you had never met Drew,
when the crash came you would
have married me and we would
have found happiness together. 1
realize this can probably never hap
pen now, but neither that nor anv-
thing else can ever change my feel
ing for you. If you could see yout
way to letting me come to you,
Stanley, I promise on my real love
for you to respect your love foi
him. If you could let me give you
the further protection of marriage.
wouia ask nothing from you ex
cept the pleasure of taking care of
you, of kLoring that you were safe
and, if not happy, at least not alone
and uncomforted. If you can do
neither of these things, then at
least write and let me know how
things are with you."
She had answered this, writing to
Perry as she would have talked to
him.
"I wish It might have happened.
Perry I think you are probably
right and that it would have hap
pened but for Drew. But there was
Drew and ft didn't 1 have noth
ing to give anyone and no one
can give me anything. I've got to
get over this alone. I wish I could
feel differently about this, that I
could turn to you for the courage
and comfort and balance that 1 so
terribly need. But it's no good, my
dear; peace won't come that way
not through you, Perry, not through
anyone. I've got to find it in my
own heart I'm stiU floundering, but
at least I'm not sinking and to let
you come to me now would be ex
actly that an admission of defeat
a stop to tired mind and a
weary heart It might be respite
for now but later on it wonM k
hades. So I'm going on alone and I '
Know you'll understand."
This letter had been written .
week after her visit to Niwl St
Since then she had beard no word
from Perry she had not exmvtPH
to. She thought of him sometimes
and alvays affectionately.
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privilege; I, a. to "enjoy our
wheels but-jdou't go anywhere;"
The revenue lax on liquor will go
far to lessening the tension of
these times. Doubtless the rev
enue tax will mount np into the
millions but will it cancel the
overhead expense of operation of
the arm of the law relative to the
"handling" ot the cases of those
who "forget to be good," those
who "abuse their privilege," those
who under- the Influenza Af "ctiA
-John Barleycorn" destroy homes.
oreaa nearts, slay their fellow
man. Is the power less, the ef
fects different of alcohol now. to
day, than It has been since the
foundation of the world?
A SUBSCRIBER
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