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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Star, 1926-11-04, Page 2•
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Ju ol tl 111 In muumI•I l loco
o
saw ewe their mantal disorder to tis
a w et alahei-"
Was th.ag* in this rossertioa
even than this is the fart that akohoi
Is a racial or proto-plrsalle Pelson
',thele. mortgage it places ulkst 011e naborn is
I orations. It is responsihle for a
large proportion of the blinds'ss and -
other s whir} iMidien, who should
into the world "trailing clouds
.l
of glory," come blighted by terrible
handicaps, To alcohol, too, is to be
Ms
P attributed that slaughter of the inne-
cents seen do the high death rate of
i all drinking committees.
3. But the evil which the Chreit;an
Toe instinct saw and stirred itself ',bout
long before advancing science had .m•
!sealed u1r,,,ti ht, Trends and delicious,,, veiled the physical havoc drink works.
or industrial development head shown
,.... _ -'-'-'",•"1"- the economic all which is its ati'come,
Is that of a dulled conscience and a
DRINKING ACCORDING TO LAW bl'ghttatnlas: thtllsrix teato and t:
^+. a with sorrow to the
trial of wrecked home's andanleave oken
Jefferson Sunday Evening in Victoria St. hearty:
best, shackle them with worse than
iron chains, land them too often in
Sermon Preached by Rev. Rea, Sea y felon cells, bring town grey heirs
United . Church
Now though these last effects are.
• - not seen so glaringly es once they
/�
•
r were, for the simple reeson that the
UrgesCahn andThoaght%i Consideration a Question ba
r.raom hat' been banished, yet are
they, when found, far and away the
worst phase of this threefold Whet-
Giaes Premier Fergus:;ayUtm0s Credit for ooy of Rel'll
of Purpose
the itquar trade.
11. But we ere all, in all liken.
hood, in genersi agreement as to the
evil of drink, even brewers, distiliers
n d. era
dpi k themselves agree, in the
That, Precisely, is what is proposed him or to her to make for the closer main, with us here. Indeed they all
as the condition cf Ontario under coming of that Mustiest).seem anxious as +ourselves, these
Government Control,'. And the same i,This, at any rate, Is the repeated days, to do away with liquor's ills.
enol as was in, Shushan long yeave declamation of Presbytery after ;?res- The only question is how. And, for
agree the degradation of wssnnnhood; bytery of the United church. Our the moment, brewer', distillers. and
the unreasonalblc rare of manhood, own Presbytery, Meeting latelyat drinkers aialte are apparently agreed
and kindred ills are like . to follow, hayfield, urged that we "rise clear that these are to be gotten rid of on.
Drinking here today, under the O.T.A: above all party allegiance in such ly by Go iernment Control—the '`p-
is contrary to law. But the law is euprenie ' loyalty to God as sear, patently new and sure-to-be•suceese•
tantinuoualy and scandalously brisk- above all else, the triumph of moral lid Plume*. •
tn. they say, Those who like liquor issues:'' .. Here, however, is a simple question
Vet it easily anyhow, makingvthenm. ' This doesnot mean• that there can of historic fact it should not be difti•,
solves thus low -breakers asnen 'ts be no honest difference of opinion pa cult to deal with.
drinkers; so that it were better every- to the way of winning such triumph, Government Control, let us get,
;vay, we aAe told, tolegalize the tea- It means, rather, that we each must clear, fa no new discovery. It is real»
tie by some ayatem - of Governtnent seek to understand the issue, give it 1y the oldest of all- save one of the
Vontrol, the "ealm, and thoughtful cnneidera- varied ways of attempting to deal
That, then, le the issue confronting tion" ouch "great question" calls for; with the liquoir traffic. The oldest of
tie today.. Some ttcunsei silence . on then, free, from all party prejudice. all is to leave this truffle, abeolutcty
the, subject, elleince espe sally by min- east our ballot wholly and solely in alone, to let any make, and' any sell,
inters of .the Gospel. And, ,personal. the interests of the moral issue s e na we and any drink who will. That is the
ly, one *would prefer aurh silence. It see it. - way o primitive peoples, But •gra.
is -painful to me to deal with this mat. But this h involves that each one of dualiy�..as efvilizaation tiara, It is felt
I , I tlW i l .Ili
TIlt`1 Sli#Y, NOVEMBER Mk ON
ran that sees w premie* a as no t bet the rsesriaseence .f a vary old
longer desired where he lad taken idea win hos already bees triad set
Ms Arlt dr1s . Than rhe Aid thee,* almost emery iseaginahie way, *sty
saloon became s nrtaessity to the high to prove Is every ease a total failure,
class hotel keeper himself; fur lie How is snick likely then to be sweetres-
nsust have somewhere to aveoramo- fid in Ontario a
date the hrman refuse ,+•hich had drat To prove its failure do so tar as it
gone wrong in the palatial place. So his prole already tried sarong us ae
he teas forced into hand and glove re. Canadians one might turn here to
Istionship with the keepers e,f the statistics. Bet statistics may be so
low•dotrta dives. easily juggled with, that another act.
1!y and by the bright ides i ttuek in other hands, might easily made to
some that if you could only eliminate contradict what we affirm. That ill
privet. profit from the trade, set men lbs eontasian in the satind of the
of such extra "high repute" to enter average American across the border
as, going into it, not for the sake of who tries to decide the question by
making money, but really to lessen st&tietics; for there, in figures, wet
drinking, men who would be content and dry in endless contradiction op -
with fair interest cnly on the money pose each the other.
invested, turning all 'excess profits Two options are before us in this
over to community improvement, that respect. We may get for ourselves.
than the problem would be in fair ii yrs ranat the original sources of
way to be solved. statistics in Government Rltte Books,
guch men were actually found; and Customs Returns and otherwhere; or
Lit ides was riven an honest try -nut we may make up our mind as to just
in the *Bowls;
and Samlag systema of whose statistical findings we will
Norway and Sweden, but it too failed base our conclusions upon. Shall It
and was discarded; the appetite fork be an the flndings of bxevrers, distit-
drink,"on the one hand, and the greedilers and their friends, sontetimea even
for money' on the other, proved too their �� clerical friends of "high re,
much for men of even the highest re;- pate, or shall it 'be an fife flndinga of
puce. tar and '"way' the greater number of
Then there came forward those those Christian leaders in our lane;
who argued that if the !State, itself who are out Slane for tt'vth azad ptn-
took direct hold of the business ittftY end progress T
could do what private persons of even For my own ;tart I have no hesitaw
the highest repute could not do. And tion, I accept the statistical findings
great were the expectations of many of the Social Service Department of
at the prospect, ender this Advanced' the United Church of Canada, find-.
system of Government Control, as loge made by competent, disinterested
they Iooked forward to just such tax and absolutely honest men. These
reduction as is promised us, as they findings are that in every Canadian
looked forward to schools end cul area where Government Control has
leges and all sorts of philanthropic, been tried it has failed. Government.
progress from the turned -over protite controlled liquor is as intoxicating as
of the trade, • is nay other. Drinking has intens.
Russia tried out such control on ed, and in its trail .the inevitable! ills
toll
vastest scale,—with tragic results. of drinking have followed. Instead
More :: nearly approaching, though, of decreasing the illicit . traffic, . Gov -
what is promised us, was the South ernment Control has increased it ev
:Carolina •Dispensary System of eon- eryway, Bootleggers flourish in ,Que.
trot. • - bee, in British Columbia and in our.
We az'e promised "a Commission of Prairie Provinces as never before
competent members of high iepute to whilst the boasted revenue from the
control the operation of the proposed trade is, as a New Zealand cartoonist
measure," a Commission with "full lately allowed,; like the lifting by some
authority to use its discretion in mak- toy balloon of the monstrous vie -
tug regulations and exercising its phautine f°fm of the liquor trade and
powers with the object of securing all its ills. • LOeten to a speaker- at
non-partisan administration of the one of the great conventions of the
act; and in the interest of tetnperassee United Church held lately, a man
improvement." This •Commission so' from British Columbia itself, a man
to -"have authority to issue to alt clef-. therefore who knows the situation at
zena over twenty-one years of age, first hand: "During the lest year of
who desire to purchase spirituous or prohibition in British •Columbie," he.
malt liquors' for their own use, do an- says, "they held theirhands up in
Huai permit upon •which shall be en- holy horror and they said, "Why we
tered each purchase, and which may are spending $990,000 in drink -..a
hesuspended oe -cancelled at 40 time terrible_ thing, that. Thatis not pro
for abuse or etiscondect " htbttion at all:' Last year in British
• The Commission is further to have Columbia under Government Control,
Power to make. liquor easily aecessiblc Which is supposed to be better than
to nit permit ,users, It is to have prohibition, .*15,000,000 was spent in
"establish at such places ter ,drink. . I want to say that fay.
power to
it may select," other than the well•. ernment Control in British Columbia
ewn local,, option centres," dispen-
is recognized to 6e a farce."
ltn
starlet for the gale of spirituous and l III.. And now I want to press,. in
Malt liquors.in sealed . packages ;to c
o osing, another, and, to me, weight -
persons holding official permits." ler. consideration than any of th,s
Alt this reminds us: of the °Saatth .foregoing against the pt.'o;,'osed legis:
Carolina experiMente. There the sal, Iution. •
eon was to .be, abolished and its piste(' What, let us ask, is or ought to be
was to be taken- by dispensaries. my attitude age; a Christian to the
• ter at alt tonight. But *Mite, as us endeavor •leo nee the issue from our that the governing authorities must
you know, I have not only avoided opponent's standpoint, as well 48 for society's sake, tyke' hold the pro=
•all party politics In this pulpit, I have front aur own.' And in so doing, who- bleat... They 1Q not want to destroy
even refrained'. from discpssing them soerer our opponent be, that We give or pr habit ,drinking altogether: That
either in the home oron the street. I hint credit for the Mame honesty' of were to kill the cobra; and somehow
have tried, the rather, to keep eloap; -purpose we claim for ourselves, Let they feel they cannot afford to, do
in alk public miniaatrtations; to the uss give the' Premier of this Province, that. - All they seek to 'do is to ex.
great central verities, of our Faith. especially, • such credit, crept for the tractth
But ]sere is matter of such moment co trades poison.tangs, seek
, utmost hnns+stiv of belief and Integrity to control. it. •And the.earlieat effort
natter so closely "voncerning the,.of purpose* In springing thus the.. such pro-- I control was to .license such
•Eitrr;lain of God, that Avory Christian poitition'af Government Control. upon."rade
minister, every. •Christison Haan and - . y o many •lien, azul' these
us this time. 'Still more, as wege, only Bauch as the- authaorities chose,
woman in our province, should take th oogh the coming weeks, let us keep , wore allowed to sell.
interest therein, and seek to the ut'tour spirit's free from bitter. feelings
termoet to swing the decision, of the 'knowing that, whoever wins, wo aasc But such simple toms of Govern
-
we election to what appears to:if words leap forth we would fain re.: meet Vontrol were soon seen to be
"`""`';call, err if; bitterness of'/spirit _ ,tiaoit : utterly ineffective. Then more come
raft• ;within pli'ctsted and more -carefully' 'Guarded .
Largo Red pimples. +psi persc t y. ways were tried, F:Y apecially ,bright
In dealing thug then with the team were, the *spelt- of man when first
Covered Her. Face before us I rail ettention,'to three High License was, euggetited Only'
r fteitts ' gets» Points. . men of money:and f "high repute," it
yr
y g° the esaential.evil of the triflic In alca-
eis Iaxge •-p pi trade; And rfai it was argued,
tried .,ell kind of asltatments and ; hoiic- tttiuvra fur beverage*. purpast�: -- ' �-- �-----�nios�'`Y 'b I 'e - -�" L .
a p y g a, a uout- 13ri es poi
Sometimes1 thought they were golsg. ria • s-roachlttg; as we know but there , not only
bask , ROC themselves high clan's" hotels but they
Mr* Rippe r �.A , Omsk., 1. Briefly as may be let note ltas:�-•"A.. lac at my' face was
, a wAs thought, would then.go into 'the
verett' itUb ` -reel fan _ es, ---1
' Such evil is manifold, complicated, ,their licenses 'w uld l
- b keep
affray, but they Ovals canto
again, 1 read ,of is the . easily understood and rentiem would •a Co it their o
bered .A 11 C • et It all.ee , for t of own sakes,
1. Thee is the econot 'c evil of shat the usual ]otin town saloon would
There 1i1 go, Things- did not thus 'Work out
drink, that aspect <f it to ;}vhich the however: • It was• found that' a' young
tmi 'strinli worldis awaking. and giv- pfeallaowampigahcfe, letaren tsoo sd.fkttyingosotmheinnemphasis
1t' not only employs Ies31e labor and
Misys lesswages in its' manufacture, - .
in .proportion to .tli't raw atiaterial
it also so impairs tni:eatdustr'ial out- '
put .that the leading. °industrial peo-
ples of the world, those of the United . -
and that let T teaidd ter Ito and after States, Britain and Germany, for in.
using a #battle, :I rerw that r had toe' stance, are all seeking, in -their otv�t
proved greedy and after I had tool way, the. most adyanced possible'
tete secontl one my pimples bad all - temperance legislation.
tliaappesre,t tad,1 ltt:t°e never bpd say 2. , Then there id the physical evil,
Once.' of alcoholf'nt;. .
Yat op only by The T. Milburn i)o., Time wanand not `so very. long
heated, Tomato, Oat. ago, So hard. does prejudice die, that
�+► liquor was esteemed "a good creature
of God," and pried for its nutritive
or food value. In backward quarters
some near still to think of it. Rut
there is no.longer question in the
RUN Down MEN • - , minds? of the great majority of seien-
• 'Ellira s - title investigators, So sure, indeed, -
are their findings that these have
come to have. place • in the common
00:t'T MISS THIS *cheat text bloke, Read pages 98 to
----•- 104 ., in the Ontario Text, Book of -
You're behind the times if you don't Health,: and you will tend that our .
'knots' that Cod Liver Extract is one of children, thank God, are being taught
"tire greste*C . flesh :paedueers in the that "even email quantities of ateohol
'world. , rause ai man to lose the fine eoordins-
Decnmaa it contains more vitalising '(ion of sal his movements:" that "a
vitamins* than any toad you ran get, person under the influence of alcohol
You'll be glad to know that Mc. l becomes dangerous, fust as a'speedinR
Coy's Cod Liver Extract Tablets corns motor is daitigerous when its brakes:'
In tuner costed foam now, ao if you' ere nut of repair." -
rsalb► want to part 10 or Al pounds of i The fact is, akohol is coming to
ant34, healthy teak on your bones and . common recognition as a narcotic
feat well Auld strong and bay. a earn.; drug Long before the coarser ef.
pinion that people will admire -oak' fecta of its use are seen in loosened
may druggist for a box of McCoy's tongue, ataggerinlr feet and dread,
Cod Liver Extract Tablets. 1font doings normal manhood shrinks
Only 10 cents for 00 tablets and if from, Injury has leen done to the de.
ring don't gain ern pounds • in Bel days ;irate organism of the brain. "Even
your draaggist is authorised to hand the moderate use of alcohol;' out
rocs bat* the money you paid for text book goes an to say, "impairs the
Branae, 1ludakment, wilt power and vigilaante,".
11 isn't anything unusual for a per.. No wonder then that this same book
aaeat to gain 10 pounds in 30 days, and points out to our children "that mare
he aid .14 people with fool:4m a over. than twenty per tont. of the *lei .
taking thaw► they work woad rs. . admitted to the asylum, for the ins,
used, t pn'itlmost any other industry;
SKINNEY MEL
Doctor's
onderfail Discov
v
and patina alb instantly
A Ctaasaeadlu ',Owe, .sites' mrsdkal pe.eeessa'seemliest weer e
lard of IS yssre sok o iwtd . a1.e1aM ewer eve. , :.! -
' ismarallostos wars ataaarr tssefat for a
• _j cassis sand• Ta Tis` ( poc ty est ter. dk ried wads as (umeste •
-M-/iesa ireOw.hworth se *hi pr'aww�n ha ItifMssO pease.
.. 21 acrd sw a aar�seaps, ewe."ptugt t.ewe."l.. *a, rc 1,
Ali& sea ham low smile wM 11.
-J sea -tai #C�s+� is la gena slit' 1 ager
.' * l *ss
1 eta d tar she biro when they woo to sera tafaari ad
KilloaleteartUe
1»••1+ p•'lw+•_J. latawat+�warr., sae
swan 1Ma
3
a
acrd meow sirtsarw /wed Mr'reiiia owl le aeeore.
•
•
where Iiguor fur
only be obtained •trade et $11.? "The problem is, in.
in bottles for.9 consumptson off the deed," as -the Premier says, "a prat -
premises." There las not even pro- tical one. It can serve no purpose
vision for anything in the nature of to theorise about the situation, Tho
parlors: where "the sale of Beer by canditlons must be faced and serious -
the -.g is . tables" . ,might be Imre ly dealt with;" And .in facing these
The Act was guarded, iideed, iir eve, y Gond ana -let . us clearly _recognize
e t
possible way;, "and great was the lis-, th t he kernel of such.: conditions 'ia
appointment 'Of the people of Sauth: the hard unquestioned'and. unquest-
Carolina at its failure. tenable fact that .• the traffic in fntoiti-
•Government, Control, • then, is : no rating beverages is at evil thing by
new thing �uihder :the' sun. And the whomsoever that traffic may be ad.'
experiments its Quebec, British Col -ministered. What_ most then be my.
umbia and the jwa1rie provinces ore attitude to this traffic as such^; must
NAND TAILORING
Naw is the time to place yarn. order at
BLACK'S
dor ata frit or Overcoat,. where Fit, Style and
Finish ere guartmteed.
READ Y- TON WEAR
our Roady.to-Wear and Special Order
Departments are Knock.Onts.
11,1EN'S FURNISHINGS
all real selection in our Men's Furnishings,
HATS—The Brock, the Viralthstueen and the
Horton, at $6, $5 and $4. •
Chas. Black
The Leaxling Tailoring and Men'sc$nnaart Wear
Phone 219 - i North. Side of Square- -
I seek simply to control it or must my creasing traffic, multiplied ears cry
attitude be one of ceaseless and un- l out to all and sundry that they keep .
relenting opposition, --a steady un-; the rule cf the road. Personal fiber- -
swerving purpose not simply to pull ty gives wayy before the larger liberty
the fatnga of this tragic but, to the `- of others. So in the greater inter -
utmost of my power, to prohibit it .ani eats of life, and for the sake of tlaat
hour's longer life? - liberty of the race which makes the
'lye are fon est # e : ti a when i best, possible, to all, personal Melts/.
e g p h m
evil
we niaythat compromisegoodmay cowithe, evilBat,—dotet •__.
! (Continued on page 6)
m.._.a _;.,,
'eek simply to control °this thing is to RaOOPING, FLUORIN E,
STORM WINDOWS
trolet by *Nuts of peruse
compromise with it, to seek simply
ter: eon ' r a'PFRTY ow\s7aA HaTAenaa.PstaN ill"'
Company or Commission, is to .become aytuirvaits snarrb worry iia ucn
partners in the business, ie to helpFto entre ',Termor F:
put a bottle to my brothers lips, `
olooziI)A C'()Itll'A 'Y. LTD.
And to use the profits of such busi= , �0 1
ness to pave our streets. to built; our •d x C 93 Hamilton. Ont.
'schools, colleges and philanthropic in-
stitutions is to build them with blood. .# -
Those may do this wiles can. As for - MEN'S SHEEP -SKIN LINED,:
us we cannot. There is one only aim
ure of prohibition obtainable, with the COATS at 9.50
for us. and that:is the. utmost meas- S
`
idea ultimately of absolute. prohibi- Made 0 heave brown
tion. duck, sheep -skin lined;.
We may not be able - ICcj s-
tain ail. we seek, . Neithateronce wereto auatr 1`UllittelYlltl belt,leeves; 3sizes aIto
"-
men able, in the early days of the
greet ' war, by - the laws of- eivilized
warfare, to sweep the tide of iliv ta-
ion back. But at.any rate .the en Id
•die tryingea to do.: There -,
w no
eo r
m m t'
0
iso with th theq
enemy n
hose Y Made of -heavy •illacki-
testing times nor any unworthy ways riaw C1Qths 111 dal'k gl'ey
f rt Neither for us in: .this - moral conflict. Our , and brown Checks all,
O. T. A. m•ust be. sustained; or if we t
" round pelts sizes 36 t+a.
46 "at $9..50 - •
MEN'S .MACK!NA't"i�"
COATS at $6.50
o warfare. + ; ei er must aueh be - I
fan, we must fail with face tn 'the ' 46'.
foe.:fighting fair.. • -
But were not "this to. piny the -tyre ~ - Special -464/
. " ,.
-.dilpkns_.l�naay: please them .. - COATSant, a seeking to rob others ot their BOYS' MACKINAW
liberty, their right to buy or :ell Il or
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