The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, September 7, 1918, Page 2

DRINKING IS CUT 80 PER CENT Sours For Sale of Intoxicants Reduced From 17 a Day to 51-2; Threatening a Thing of | the Past. > By HAROLD E, BECHTOL. (European Manager of the Newspaper Enterprise Ass’n,) London, Sept. 7.—KEngland has cut drunkenness 80 per cent during the war, by: : First—Reducing the hours for sell- ing intoxicants from 17 to 5% hours a day. Second—Prohibiting all treating. Third—Reducing the proportion of alcohol in all beer: ines and Hquors —taking out some of the “kick.” These facts are just made public with tables to back them up, by Lord Edgar V. D’Abernon, chairman of the British Central Liquor Control Board These measures have also reduced the cases of delirium tremens 80 per cent and the deaths from alcoholism 70 per cent. A Post-War Problem, The sole object of the restrictions was to increase the national efficiency for war, and, of course, the saving in shipping space and in grain contrib- uted to this increased efficiency, Lord D’Abernon stated. “From a standpoint of national ef- ficiency alone, our success makes it clear that the liquor question is one which must be ‘dealt with after dhe war,” the chairman added. “We can- not afford to go back to the pre-war slate of affairs.” Whether the war restrictions will continue after war, is a question on which Lord D’Abernon would not ven- ture a prediction, but he said the ex- perience of the war would certainly point the way, Intoxicants used to be sold in Brite ain from early morning until midnight —17 hours. Now intoxicants are sold only be- tween 12 and 2:00 p. m. and from 6;30 to $9:30 p. m.—5% hours. Consumption Decreases. Taking 100 as the andard of drunkenness before the war, the re- strictions brought it down to 2 ago and 20 now’ Those figures clude both men and women. The de- crease of drunkenness among men has been nearly 85 per cent and among women between 75 and 80 per cent. In bulk—that fs to say—in the act- ual consumption of liquid consumed, the consumption of all liquors and beer and wines is now about five- eighths of what it was before the war. But the amount of alcohol per gallon has been reduced also, so that the amount of actual alcohol now consumed is slightly over one-third what it was before the war. There are about 700 local boards under the central board, and labor is represented on every one. “Our showing is even better than the figures indicate, too,” said Lord D,Abernon, “because some of the good results of the decreased consumption of alcohol, particularly those partial- ly due to the advance of temperance; take time to make themselves~ man- ifest.”” ey w, o— L THE WEATHER ' hours ending at noon, Sept. Temperature at 7 a. m. Temperature at noon Highest yesterday Lowest yesterday Lowest last night Precipitation * Highest wind velocity Forecast. | For North Dakota: ‘Fair tonight and Sunday; warmer tonight east and south portions; cooler Sunday after- noon west and central portions. Lowest : Temperatures | Fargo a Williston b Grand Fo: St. Paul Winnipeg Helena .. Chicago . Swift Current . Kansas City E.'G. LARSO: Observer. Awaiting The, . "he Wonderful Music that Burets Forth’ “When the Stork Arzives, | 1 { {on the subject he: _News Barrage Americans Lay Down 720-Ton From Trenches | peditionary Force in France! ing in a farmhouse window. natorally black and white. ‘ STATIONERY A PROBLEM ByHAROLD EDWIN BECHTOL. (European Manager of the Newspa- per Enterprise ‘oetation.) London, Sept. 7- Inless the Ger- | mans,accept unconditionally all of the | terms laid down by President Wilson, | their coming peace offensive will be an attempt to PULL THE WOOL OVER THE, ALLIES’ EYES AND; SAVE THEMSELVES!” | That is the message Major James) H. Perkins, American Red,Cross com- missioner for Europe, sends to all of | ‘the allied peoples through the News- | paper Enterprise Association, as the Jerman peace drive draws nearer and | When the Germans start talking} peace,” the major added, “the allies} have got to ‘keep their eeys on the | ball.” i Major Perkins knows as much about | the German “peace-drive” method of | war making as any man outside Ger- | many. I asked him for an interview | use he watched; the result of made-in-Germany peace | propaganda in the acute stage in Italy | last year. And in France on more} than one occasion he-has seen the po-.| tency of skillful peace talk as a weap-} on,of war. ‘ H ' “There is no question,” said Major Perkins, “that the day is not far dis- tant when the Germans will start a! ‘when | great peace offensive. . 1 _}that convinced tHe Italians that peace} yhtaaat rare ». | ore—in Italy last year. “The Germans conduct peace offen-| sives just as thoroughly and their methods are as well planned “and as} >| well considered as their military op-| erations. “Already we have seen the result of | . I suppose it can be safely sai that the German-Austrian victory in| Italy. was 70 to 80 per cent propaganda arid only 20 to 30 per cent military. “The Germans simply riddled Italy with propaganda;, stories of. peace | Was at hand. This went so far that certain troops were ready to 50 home, and the’ people were preparing to re- cei the. . “Undoubtedly the Germans 4 are was such an army of letter vs he ‘, ox. Camps, and if they we whters as the Americin Ex- ov. would strip them bare during the first ten minutes of the morn- ing. So tho Y. M. C. A. has tackled the job of supplying the writing miterials—and it has bitten off a P= July 20.—There never not on If the thing keeps up, and it bids fair not only to continuc, but to increase, we shall have to add writer’s cramp to the list of hor-- man's size mouthful. rors of war, for our soldiers have been bitten by the writing microbe; they can no more resist the sight of pen and paper than a hungry when .2 truck load of hobo can resist an apple ple cool- Next to getting a letter from most. exhilarating indoor pastime in France, the soldier enjoys writ- ing to the folks and teUing thém all about. it for page upon page. them at war prices. He is seeing a heap of new things and meetin® with a heap of new experiences, which boil around in- side him and make him mighty un- comfortable, until he can unburden them to pa and ma and Jenny got to put it down in One of the biggest jobs over here is furnishing him writing paper and envelopes. Stationery stores are By CLARENCE BUDINGTON KELLAND every stock. BEWARE THE GERMANS. That’s Message Major Perkins, U. S. Red Cross | Chief in Europe, Sends America all the allies want. “I believe the kaiser has said that he has it‘in his power to bring about | peace whenever hé wants to. TWO. PAGES Walter Hines Page, American am- corner of trenches, nor even back at base e the Amex Bitten by Homewriting Microbe, Soldfers in France Will Use 120,000,000 Sheets of Paper and 60,000,000 Envelopes Within the Next Year in Y. M. C. A. Huts Alone—All Europe Combed For Stationery Your soldier wants sweets and he wants tobacco and he wants canned peaches and cookies; but x supplies crawls up a camouflaged road under cover of darkness and stops before a Y. M. C. A. hut, the first run is home, which is the greatest and on writing ‘paper and envelopes. They are given to the soldier free of cliarge, but he would use just aa much of them if he had to pay for SOLDIER EAGER TO WRITE “Hear the truck came up to- night,” says a buck private in a canteen that has been under con- stant shell fire and gas attacks for Jones, back in Keokuk. He's just weeks. “Fetch any writin’ paper?” “Wads of it. Go to it!” The soldier makes a grab for & handful and then looks qver the He arms himself with a package of cigarettes, a bale of be 720 tons. cookies and a can of peaches, and twenty tons of comfort and news crowds himself into a space at the for\the folks back home. ~ and enthusiasm. Tickety table., There he eats and settles himself to composition. There are, severa] soldiers in France—several! All of them write, which means considerable when you check up. . “Lemme see, i got to write Ma and Aunt Loo and Nell and Sill Wilkes to-night,” says the soldier man, and he goes to it with vim When you stop te figure that some officer in his company must read, all those let- ters and censor them, it looks as though that officer were going to have to consult an oculist before this war ends.; sige TONS AND‘TONS OF PAPER During the next year, the Y. M. C. A. estimates it will be. required to give to the soldiers from /.000.- 000 to 10,000,009 sheets, of paper per month, and. from 3,500,000 <o 5,000,000 envelopes. One order was recently placed for 50,000,000 envelopes ,and 180 tons of writing paper, which runs 250,000 shcets to the ton. : This vast quantity ot paper is acquired at a great. expense of time and labor, and with the vt- most difficulty, It must. be, col lected from all parts. of Europe— England, France. Spain. The paper comes in huge tolls and must be cut up and printed Paris by the. Y. M. C. A. This means that in Y, M. C.sA. huis alone our, soldiers during the nett year will write home to the folks on 120,000,000 sheets of paper and 60,000,000 envelopes. The totai weight of paper and énvelopeés will Seven hundréd and “I can conceive of the possibility ~ {of the Germans saying: é “We will give up Belgium and i France and part ‘of. Alsace-Lorraipe. prosecute the war to a successful-con- clusion, and there is no sense iti pro- longing the agony.’ “Dressed up in the proper clothes,- ;such a proposal would look favor- lable io the people of all allied coun- tries, Because mone’ of , the allies | they are offering the allies practically} Wants to continue the war a minute longer than is necessary, , Remember, too, that France has been invaded fir four years; that'there are miore than two million refugees scattered over the country; remember that, and you have some idea of thé favorable color such an offer, with“its prothise of all France evacuated afd a large part of Alsace-Lorraine back, would assume. <{ mention ‘this. to. illustrate that it is. going; to take firmness - and foresight by: the allied peo- ples to keep contantly in mind | that no peace is effective that ; leaves the German: system intact and feaves in German hands a large portion of Russia. “I have absolute confidence that the Frengh and Italians and British and Ameficans all have the vision to rec- ognize this, and that they will fight ou until an effective peace can be me of the most difficult things | Hebrew Rabbi From Fargo Here celebrated by both orthodox and re- formed ccagregations sundown Friday. The observances in ; the homes and marks the beginning of the most im- pressive holiday season of! ish year. ducting the services here. the cycle known :§ the 10 days of re- pentance, ending with the holiest day of the year, the day of atonement. Bible the day of memorial and is al- so called the day of the blowing of the trumpet. The ram’s horn is sup-| posed to Isaac. / servance of the day begins at the pre ceding sundown and in ‘the orthodox; pected to come from Germany before long. We must carefully analyze every statement emanating from a German source. “I believe that the great majority of | the people of.France and Great Brit-j| ain and Italy, as well as Americ: stand for the propositions that Presi-| dent Wilson has set forth. | “My experience with the French sof- diers and people has convinced me that there is not a man in the world whose word carries the weight Pres- | ident Wilson’s does. “I am most optimistic about the willingness o fthe allied nations to see this thing through to a successful conclusion, and I believe this atti-/ tude has been ‘made possible by the} arrival of the fresh, determined Amer- ican soldiers in great numbers. . “But it niych be. constantly borne In. mind that Germany will séek to ‘trade’ as Tonz as she cai, and the allies must keep--their eyes right on the ball, so they will nt. be tempted to make any peace | other than a peace that will last. | That fs a it ing that cannct be compromised, | “Aud it might help some of the folks at home to know that this is the sen- timent of the soldjers. They're not talking compromise. They're not thinking compromise. They. say they are out there to fight it out and make | the Germans ‘come clean!’ BUY W. 5. 8 JEWS OBSERVE. _ NEW YEAR’S IN ORTHODOX WAY to Coriduct Service for the’ Faithful The Jewish New Year, known among the Jews as Rosh Hashanah is being | begining at; synagogues today the Jew-/ Kabbi J. Klitzner of Fargo,is con-4 Rites Begin at Sundown. Rosh Hashanah is the beginning of \ The New Year day is led in the! refer.to the salvation of { As with all Jewish holidays the ob-| ATA of the LADDER relieved in @ 24 HOURS Each Cap, sule bears the name 47 ¥ rawareofcounterfetts| of us‘to ‘do is to keep our minds centered on’ the fundamental fact, in. the face of skillfully prepar- ‘Writ for our booklet showing splendid advah- adetherese tet for telegraphers. | | 608 First Avedus North, Misnespelib; Minn. | ‘orament.ts using thousands of women | servi the The Gov- in its tele- » Iqwill | give. liberal: reward for any information that will lead to artest and conviction of party; who took a bob sled | out. of my machine shed last “ pees We about to try out the sate kind of : a ‘was léased ‘Modern residence, faved amouflage on the allies. The danger | bassador to England, has tesigned be- pate bak pT ease cated: reasonable if pata T see is this: éause of ill health, and Thomas Nel-|| atid occupied by Miller at that ence. Phone 389X. A. 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