Prohibition and Other News
THE states of Oregon, Washington, Colorado, Arkansas, Iowa, Idaho, and South Carolina, by prohibitory law, banished the saloons from their borders on January 1 of this year. California, which made a big fight for prohibition in 1914, has been successful in initiating a prohibitory law that will be voted upon in the fall of 1916. The proposed law is in two sections, and either one or both of them may be voted upon by the individual voter. One section of the law proposes the abolition of the saloon on January 1, 1918; and the other, if carried, will prohibit the manufacture of alcoholic liquors for beverage purposes after January 1, 1920. The friends of temperance in California are very confident of the success of these reasonable and righteous measures. UNDERGRADUATES and other men at Yale University will organize a field artillery company; and Major General Leonard Wood, United States army, will detail instructors to drill the student recruits, as a part in the general plan for national preparedness. ACCORDING to the reports just published from Charles G. Yale, of the United States Geological Survey, California mines yielded, during 1914, $20,653,496 in gold. This is the greatest output in thirty-two years. THE dispatches of January 4 announce that Emperor William of Germany is suffering from cancer of the throat, and is in a very critical condition. MEMBERS of the Chinese Republic Association residing in America have raised a million dollars to help in financing the growing revolt against Yuan Shi Kai's monarchy.