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AN EXCELLENT MOVE

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Pacific Press Publishing Association

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 7, No. 30.

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AN EXCELLENT MOVE.

DR. R. H. MCDONALD, President of the Pacific Bank of San Francisco, has placed at the disposal of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union of San Francisco the sum of one thousand dollars, to be disposed of as follows: eight hundred dollars to be distributed in the public schools of the city as prizes for the best essays on the subject of the "Twin Evils, Intemperance and Tobacco;" two hundred to be awarded in the high schools of the State as State prizes for essays on the same subject.
The Union prescribes the rules under which the essays must be prepared, and suggests the following schedule of topics concerning the "twin evils:"
  • "1. Brief historical sketch of each evil.
  • "2. How do they affect the wealth of individuals and nations?
  • "3. How are they enemies to health and cleanness?
  • "4. How do they affect the intellect?
  • "5. How are they related to crime?
  • "6. How do they affect home-life?
  • "7. Illustrate the above as much as possible by facts from history and observation."
This will come before not less than 32,000 children in the city, beside all the high schools of the State, and their study into the nature and effects of these "twin evils" cannot fail to be productive of good. The Temperance Union recommend that a similar plan be adopted in every town in the State. And we recommend that it be adopted in every city in the United States.
Temperance Societies generally ignore the subject of the evil of tobacco. We are highly pleased that this execrable nuisance is to have its demerits so thoroughly examined.