p. 21 | Are You Interested in Temperance? by Editor

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Mar 30, 1916

Are You Interested in Temperance?

By Editor

ARE you a parent or guardian? Have you a child in whom you are interested, anywhere from three to fifteen years of age? Do you want that child to grow up to be a clean, temperate man or woman? Do you know that however carefully he may be guarded and shielded, some day he may be subjected to temptation to smoke or drink, and that he may yield?

Do you appreciate that even though your child may, as far as you know, have absolutely no inherited tendencies along these lines, he may still yield to temptation?

Are you willing to spend time and money to help educate him to love the true and beautiful and to loathe that which is filthy and evil?

If you have no boy or girl who needs such instruction, are you willing to help some other boy or girl?

It is not necessary for us to delineate the evil and startling effects of intemperance. Enough has already been said on this subject for older people and for the young people. It is the children for whom we are now pleading.

Two years ago we printed a Temperance number of Our Little Friend. It was our first effort, but it met with a good degree of success. Fifty-five thousand copies were printed, and after these were exhausted; more than two thousand orders were turned away.

This year we are printing another Temperance number of Our Little Friend. It will contain sixteen pages and have a colored cover, and the contents will be entirely devoted to the subject of temperance.

Now you may say that we already have the Temperance Instructor, and expect soon to have the Temperance Signs of the Times weekly, and we do not need a Temperance Little Friend. But please remember that Our Little Friend has a field all its own.

The children are sure to be interested in and enthusiastic over some of the same things that the parents and teachers are interested in and enthusiastic over, and in this Temperance number we aim to give them something to work for, which they will be able to comprehend.

It is not necessary to study the counterfeit in order to know the genuine, but by studying the genuine we shall know the counterfeit. It is not necessary to know all about all the evil in the world in order not to be corrupted by it. So our plan in this Temperance number of Our Little Friend has been not to impress on the tender minds and hearts of our children many of the evils and hideous effects of intemperance, but to present to them some of its dangers, and portray before them the beauty and the strength of temperance.

Even the older people will enjoy reading such articles as “Danger Signals,” by Mrs. George Rine; “The Story of the Corpies” (blood corpuscles), by Mrs. Vesta J. Farnsworth; “Fire Water and the Alaskan Indians,” by Earle Albert Rowell; “The Temperance Parade in Los Angeles, and Dandy, “the Temperance Horse,” by Lolita Leadsworth; an interesting article by Dr. Belle Wood-Comstock; and various other entertaining articles the titles and authors of which will be announced later.

If we want our children to grow up right, we must lay the foundation right. If our State is dry, and our nation should go dry, we want to keep it dry; and it is those who are now children who will prove a strong factor in doing this.

Remember, too, that however much we, as publishers of our children’s paper, may endeavor to do to educate and train the children, we must have your cooperation to make our work a success. What will you do to help us to help your children.

When our last number was issued, a subscription was taken up among the business men in one town to place one copy of Our Little Friend in the hands of every child in the public schools, and even intemperate fathers were interested and subscribed to the fund.

Will you help to save the children? This number will sell for five cents a copy, or ten copies for twenty-five cents.

EDITOR OUR LITTLE FRIEND.