Current Events and Temperance Notes
Dow, Jones & Co., 44 Broad Street, New York City, publishers of the Wall Street Journal, have issued an "Atlas of the European Conflict." It contains detailed maps of the nations involved, and gives pertinent statistics of the contending powers, and also presents an analysis of conditions that led up to the present struggle. The maps are furnished by Rand and McNally, recognized as among the best map makers. The atlas is of convenient size, and may be had for 25 cents. IN 1912 Sisseton, South Dakota, for six years "dry," voted "wet," and adopted the municipal saloon, the net proceeds to go into the city treasury. In 1913, after the test of a year, Sisseton again voted "dry." Business men demanded it. $75,000 was spent for booze, $55 for every man, woman, and child, and proper and profitable business fell down correspondingly. Those who at first favored the municipal saloon, were afterward among its most active opponents. ABOUT 50,000 copies of the October Signs Magazine have been sold to date. This is the high-water mark for this year. A number of second orders were received from agents. It is comparatively easy to sell this magazine now, for it contains just what people wish to know. We bespeak a large circulation for the November number also, as its contents will commend it to all. L. ROCKFORD, Illinois, a "dry" town, expended in public improvements in 1913—$349,423.03; yet Rockford's tax rate is lower than that of any other city of its class in Illinois. License fees can never compensate the loss by the saloon. Every town that has thoroughly tested prohibition has found it profitable. THE only two foes prohibition has to meet are enslavement by appetite and greed. The one holds its victims in line, the other would sacrifice humanity for the dollar. And yet we hope that the victims of alcohol will, under the impulse of a subjected manhood, vote for freedom. THE great and increasing prevalence of drunkenness among the women of England is more easily explained by the cheap and abundant supply of beer than by the fact that wines are expensive, which some anti-prohibitionists cite as the reason. "THE North Carolina State Medical Association has denounced as unethical and unnecessary the prescription of alcohol in any form by the medical profession, and has pledged to discourage its use in the state." WHEN sinning, a man takes his life in his hands—and destroys part of it.