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HOW LONG WILL THE NATION
T1SU) TO THE POWER OF
TOR LIQUOR TRAFFIC!
It fu, we think, entirety unfair to
' the Feed Administration to throw
Won Mr. Hoover the responsibility of
the qsestkn of national prohibition
daring the war. Mr. Hoover’s busi
ness is to proas upon the attention of
tMo country the groat importance of
the conservation of food. Wo think
hk position is satiroly just la saying
that if the American people want ab
solute prohibition of the entire liquor
traffic it should bo done by legislation,
and that ho should not be called upon
to decide that issue.
With that position we fully agree.
I We boBevs, however, that President
I Wilson has mads a serious mistake in
.{not meeting the issue by taking Ugh
ground In favor of the prohibition of
the manufacture, sale or distribution
of el) intoxicating liquors during the
war. It would ha a mistake, aa we
vkw the mat Ur, to prohibit the pro.
dnetkn of boor and yet at the eases
time leave the vast amount of whisky
open to the drinkers of the toon try,
for ms would simply be intensifying
the euree ct the whisky traffic.
. { We believe that the brewery boel
naro should bo completely stopped
I’add that’the whisky traffic shook
cease, and that aationa! prohibition
should include the obsolete prohibi
tion of the manufacture, the sale end
the transportation of intoxicating li
quors of aO kinds, certainly for the
I period at the war.
| It kM beta dabaed that the «wk
Ingman demand that the Hqoor traffic
•Ml not ha suspended, hot at Spar*
rewa Mad, where the vast operations
at the Blrtlilkw Steel Corporation
are being carried on, there haa bom
abaolata prohibition of the Hqoor
traffic since that community was sa
te Wished aa an iron sad steel center
mere then a quarter at a uoulmj ago.
1'It haa always bees the law of that
eommualty that aa intoxicating drink
should be sold with la three mi lea at
the sorter of the town. The Bethle
hem Steel Corporation finds it pood
Ms to carry on its vast iron sad steel
ead shipbuilding operations Just aa
where- ffia Hqoor traffic hi prohibited.
• It la traa tost pro-Germans may be
demanding the eonttoaeace of the tt
qner traffic through the maintenance
at the brewery industry, but shall the
batten tall it» soul to the pro-Oor
T Shall H permit the pro-Orr
la thda country to dominate the
demand the continuance
which lessens our power
light, which destroys the morale at
and brings all of its long
flcwsr* i*eM
Dooeve rraaiaent Wilson should
take v the high ground that ho would
not yWd to tko claim of those who
Ml they roproooot tho laboring men,
bat who do not represent tho better
element of the laboring intcreoto of
i thee oontry, and that in doing this
’ ha ohould demand tho aboolato pro*
hihittoa of tho oatiro liquor traffic of
tha eouatiy fat ovary ramification
from mow until tin end of tho war.
If Frmidoal Wilson will not taka tide
pool tko, than wo believe It la inenm
baot upon Cong ram to stand before
tho world oadoanted by any. Iiiflawiin
h behalf at tha liqnqr traffic and to
•1 ' prohibition moaoarr
. etoao tha oatiro
_i of the oouuUy.
Tho Iroa and otool people and tha
ham aU iacuod state
national prohibition as
a war moooara Tho ooal pocpla ham
■aid that they could iacraasa ooal pro
duction from 10 to 20 per coot, oven
with present labor, if proUWtioa was
mdudtsal. Tho iroa and steal pooplo
ham said that they eould largely ia
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R. E . LEE
Laurinburg, North Carolina
W. S. S.I
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_GOVERNMENT_
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First National Bank,
Of Laurinburg.
A. L. JAMES, Pres. T. J. GILL, Ctchter.
W. H. NEAL Vice President
Kaiser With
Fire
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Every man counts.
Every dollar counts.
Buy War-Savings Stamps every
weejt.
There Are Two Ways To
Conduct This War.
Comfortably—and perhaps
loose it
Uncomfortably—and surely win it
Tour comfortable dollars are
needed by our boys in France.
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