Life — January 30, 1919 — page 17: what you’re looking at

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that will be accepted by all reasonable people. OT what effect this drastic dose of Prohibition will have, meanwhile— get it—Heaven knows remembers that olishing vodka, but it got the abolition habit and can't st to shake it of. It abolished the Czar ell enough, and then K Everybody Russia which was rensky, and so on and so on, a hot ew prosperous, nor even happy, ngh it seems to have got vodka come very much by negation. If we are to thrive and be happy must have new in- lerests a ns of ainment Mcohol has done and is doing a great than it for, to make people contented with life. A ente! got credit eat many people drink more or less ally, with- When it is gone it will be considerably larly or ovea and to a good many people life may seem quite dull. Nobody knows how this deprivation will work, but there is story in the Bible about a man that a devil was cast out of, and who neg- and along finding 1 in him, so that in the end himself, and refill seven. him lected to devils came empty res it was admitted that he was. unim- proved by treatment When the last 5 f rum has been cast out of 1 floes the Anti- Saloon League design to provide to be cur occupant? HAT League, by the way, is said to have sent its business represen ive, Colonel Musgrave, to Paris, to urge Mr. Wilson to urge the ‘ess to urge the abolition of alco- Peace Con hol throughout the world 3nt Mr. Wilson comes of stock too recently derived from Scotland to take kindly to that suggestion, The World reports that it docs not interest him drys in Eu The only long-time have been the pd they a standin; nor in good just now, any help to the ca men who got to France a country 1 bever- Our fightin; time in where red wine is the nation , and doubtless have experimented and have lived for a abundantly with it) themselves, have observed the consequences of its use on the people they live know more They y hors will who stay sibly their experie to the cou MI the ican bishops (Me the Peace Council to endorse the but have a plan dollars “ for hibition principle, raise a hun the exte Methodist Episcopal influences in Exropean countries now largely Catholic.” That is an ex: the Uplift dreds, yes, thousands, of peo} mple is uy of what war work and more or less conse by their are ficial activity raids on the public purse labors for public new extensi of bene- anil them, new The war Amer- ash when oppor- and. disclosed how hountifully the ican fiseal rock can tunely smitten. T was revealed, an way to smite it w every organizer rks he can do it, of reform or relic! th particularly. she. The sulting prospect is rather ominous. looks as though the competition he- s needed for the m nd the tween the f support of life c required for its improvement risk indeed, the more so because the cost of food is so high, and because overnn some mon ent threatens still to want comicbooks.com