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AN EMPHATIC PROTEST.
Tbc Members of the National W. 6. T. U. 8ere
at the CoeamHtee of Fifty.
The National Woman's Christian
Temperance Union Convention, in ses
sion in Cincinnati, Nov. 18, unanimous
ly passed by rising vote the following
protest against the attacks of the
"Committee of Ffty" upon the present
compulsory teaching of temperance
physiology in the public schools of th^»
country:
Whereas. Certain self-appointed
persons under the name of "The Com
mittee of Fifty for the Investigation of
the Liquor Problem" have made and
circulated in one of their publications,
and in press reviews of the same, un
warranted accusations against the leg
islation which requires the study of
temperance physiology by the pupils of
every public school in the United
States against the school literature on
this subject and against the results of
this study and
Whereas, These unwarranted accu
sations are made with the avowed pur
pose of removing this study, as now
required, from the public school sys
tem of our country, and
Whereas, We believe that such re
moval would be a national calamity,
Therefore, be it Resolved, That the
attention of the public be called to the
following facts:
First—It is apparent that in seek
ing opinions upon which th'ey base
their objections to this study, the com
mittee of fifty misrepresented the
amount of time required for this sub
ject, making it appear that 250 hours
are required for the study of alcohol,
while in fact, only 330 lessons, (the
equivalent of about 140 hours) distrib
uted through nine years, is the maxi
mum requirement for the whole study
of physiology and hygeine, not more
than one-fourth of which is ever re
quired to be given to the subject of al
coholic drinks and all other narcotics.
Second,—The "committee of fifty
charges that the laws restrict teachers
as to methods to be used in teaching
this subject. This again is a misrepre
sentation. The most specific laws sim
ply require that the subject shall be
taught all pupils in all public schools
that teachers shall have adequate pre
paration and that teachers and pupils
sljall have the same helps, including
well graded books, as in other required
branches. The teachers are left abso
lutely unrestricted, just as in other
branches, as to how they shall present
the subject.
Third—The committee's main points
of criticism of the school literature on
this subject are. th^t it teaches that
^lcohol is not a food but a poison, and
that it teaches total abstinence.
An examination of the 800 pages of
the report of the committee shows that
the committee presents no evidence to
prove that alcohol is a food in the
sense in which this word is commonly
understood. They claim that alcohol
is a food because it Is oxidized in the
body and can furnish energy, but the
conclusion that this proves if to bef*
food is contradicted by such authori
ties as Professors Abel of Johns Hop
kins. von Voit of Munich, and Kuhne
of Heidelberg Universities, who point
out in this very report of the commit
tee of fifty that mere oxidization doet
not prove a substance to be a food
Other recognised poisons are oxidized
in the body, yet are never called foods
No evidence is presented by tht
committee of fifty to prove that alcoho'
is not a poison, according to standard
definitions of a poison, that is a sub
stance whose nature it is when absorb
ed into the blood to injure health and
destroy life.
No evidence is presented by the
committee of fifty that it has secured
the repeal of the natural law written
in the nature of alcohol which gives it
the inherent power, even in small
quantities, to create an uncontrollable
desire for more or that any one who
attempts the beverage use of alcoholic
drinks, even with meals after the day's
work is done, can be sure that he will
not fall a victim to the alcoholic ap
petite. In view of these facts, the
committee has not proved the indors
ed school physiologies inaccurate in
teaching total abstinence.
Fourth,—The public was led to ex
pect that the teachings of the indorsee'
school physiologies were to be tested
by the experiments conducted under
the auspices of the committee of fifty,
but instead, they are compared, for in
stance, with the conclusion of Dr.
Fothergill, an opinion written twenty
three years ago.
Was it because the investigations
Sixth,—Careful review of the ex
perimental work of the committee of
fifty shows that they have not proved
that the beverage use of alcohol in
amounts ordinarily termed moderate is
safe.
Professor Gruber and others hav*1
shown that whether or not one is sus-'
ceptible to alcohol can not be told until
it is too late. "He finds out only by
playing a game of chance with his life
which is a dangerous experiment."
Seventh.—The committee of fifty
looking for definite results from this
system of instruction, turns to old. so
called evidence, gathered from, five to
thirteen years ago. to sustain their
claim that 'there are practically no
good results. In 4°*nK so,
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sanitary laws imparted in the public
schools.
Large.
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the committee of fifty did not furnish
sufficient evidence to justify their ac
cusations of the Indorsed books, thai
they were compelled to compare the
latter with these old, exploded, medi
cal opinions?
Fifth,—The ^committee''of fifty's rec*
ommendation. that this instruction
should be confined to 'the-upper grades
would be to postpone it. in many cases,
until after cigarette and other bad hab
its have been formed, and would de
prive great numbers who have to go to
work before they reach the upper
school grades of any warning instruc
tion- on this subject. Such a policy
would be cruel discrimination against
the children of the poor and suicidal
for a government of the people.
they
the evidence presented by tb$'
sus, that during the pre*
years when the study of
and hygiene Had become
the average
United -Stole*
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ignore
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It is admitted in our own and other
lands, that the teaching in our public
schools that alcohol injures working
ability has contributed to the greater
sobriety of the American workman,
and to his consequent increased pro
ductive ability, which is one factor in
giving to our nation the commercial
supremacy it now enjoys.
Ifi the committee of fifty had ex
amined the internal revenue reports
before publishing tlieir report last
June, they would have found that in
the last eleven years during which tem
perance instruction became quite gen
eral, the per capita gain in the use of
alcoholic beverages was only one-third
as great as in the previous eleven
years, when the stidy was just beting
introduced. That there was any- in
crease was undoubtedly largelyjlue to
the more than 400,000 immigrant's who
came annually during those years, the
majority of whom used alcoholic
liquors.
The committee of ^fifty, in claiming
that there are no results from this in
struction has ignored testimony as to
its beneficial results upon individuals,
homes, and communities, shown by
careful canvass of one of our largest
states (New York), testimony which
was placed in the hands of every mem
ber of the committee of fift^ nearly
eight months before the publication of
their report.
In conclusion, It should be said that
the report of the committee of fifty is
an unjustifiable attack upon the sys
tem of temperance instruction that has
helped make our nation the admira
tion of the world, while the charge that
the teaching of the indorsed school
physiologies is unscientific is unsus
tained by any evidence brough for
ward. While .there is much valuable
natcrial in the experimental work re-.
orted by the committee, the attacks
upon, thjs instruction are unwarranted
by the facts and unjustifiable from the"
standpoint of principle. The defense
of moderate drinking by the committee
of fifty is subtle and sophistical. At
representatives of the mothers of the
children in the public schools under
his instruction, who know the good
it is doing, we utter our solemn aftd
imphatlc protest against any attempt
o mimimize or remove it. ,We agree
with the committee of fifty that they
will find it no easy task to do so, and
in such an effort they will be compelled
to reckon with the mothers and best
:itizens of the nation. ii
Lillian M. N. Stevens, President.
Anna A. Gordon, Vice:President-at-
Susanna M. D. Fry, Cor. Secretary.
Clara C. Hoffmann, Rec. Secretary.
Helen M. Barker, Treasurer.
Mary H. Hunt, Director of Bureau of
Scientific Tcmperance Investigation
and Supt. of Dept. of Scientific Tem
perance Instruction.
STAMPEDED FOR POLICE
"Intrigue was livelier than ey.er on
Tuesday night," Edward N. Vallandig
iam writes, in his story in The January
Pearson's of Polk's unexpected nomina
ion. "The friends of Cass believed that
le could be nominated next morning,
ind were struggling hard to win votes,
lut it was only natural that the Van
3uren men should be unwilling to see
he next highest candidate win, particu
arly as some of his supporters had been
nost eager to adopt the fatal two-thirds
•ule. The movement to Polk,
ndeed. seems to have been at least
's much against Cass as against Van
Buren.
"When morning came, the appeal from
he decision of the chair was not press
id. On the eighth ballot there were for
ty-four votes from New England and
he south for Polk. Van Buren had 104
and Cass 114. While the ninth ballot
was in progress the New York delega
ion asked leave to withdraw for con
sultation and left the hall just in time
to prevent a personal colloquy between
1 southern member and Mr. Young of
New York, who had spoken bitterly of
Mr. Calhoun as the Nero who was
iddling while Rome burned. When the
New Yorkers returned, Mr. Butler read
1 letter of withdrawal from Mr. Van
Buren. and the convention cheered as
New York then cast thirty-five of her
hirty-six votes for Polk. Then follow
ed the first of many stampedes in the
history of national'conventions. Dele
gation after delegation changed its vote
*:o Polk, and he was nominated almost
'jy
^cclathation. The south had won.'
SILHOUETTE PHOTOGRAPHY.
Pearson's Magazine for January has
an article on Silhouette Photography
that wilt interest all amateur photog
raphers. With the increasing preva
lence of the photographic fad any new
idea is welcome, and while there isj
verily nothing new under the sun, and
tips is only an old idea, revived, yet
soch progress has been made that it
might almost called it. new art. The
ItttMtrations »^ow what dainty and ar
effeet# be qtaafaed in $H
tes» -and some very good
the
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picnic »n^|i
rd Hurry, is tafltft
)th which he t»
Financial and Dietetic Vain* el* Growing
American Crop.
One medical writer says:
The more mellow apples one eats the
bettre, provided they be taken at meal#
time. It is best of all to eat fruit be
fore meals, and as freely as you like.
This will prevent loading the system
with a heavy weight of less digestible
food. Senator Vest says that 1 if a m^n
wishes to live long, and be able to keep
up his work, he must eat not less than
one apple with every noon lunch we
are not sure but he said half a dozen.
The 110-breakfast fad tells us that we
must not only go without the morning
meal, but that we must live much more
largely upon fruit. Some of its disciples
insist that the apple may be taken in the
place of the Ordinary breakfast. John
Wesley once referred to apple dumplings
as an illustration of the alarming ad
vance of luxuries in England. Charles
Lamb quotes a friend who says that "a
man cannot have a pure mind who re
fuses apple dumplings," and Dr. John
son speaks of a clergyman of his ac
quaintance who brought his family up
almost altogether on this Anglo-Saxorf
combination. We have recollections of
dumplings which might accord with the
opinion of Lamb and then we have rec
ollections of other dumplings which
might have
bckn
ro
the origin of Calvin­
ism. It must be borne in mind that the
ideal apple is one that is fit to be eaten
raw. yet the glorious old Spitzenburg
is only fit for the cook—in whose hands
it becomes the very perfection of pie
apples. The nineteenth century went out
with a marvelous evolution of new sorts
of fruits of all kinds, but there was noth
ing in the list to exceed the delicious
juices of the Northern Spy, the Macin
tosh Red, the Shannon, or the Stuart's
Golden.
There is nothing in the world to ex
ceed the beauty Qf the apple blossom
while the air is laden with an exquisite
perfume that has charmed a hundred
generatibns—has added to the poesy the
love and the comfort of Greek, of Ro
man and Briton. But if there be any*"
thing more beautiful than the apple in
blossom it is the same tree loaded down
with crimson and golden fruit. Then
it is that the apple touches human na
ture and wakens in the housekeeper the
highest conception of the science' and
the fine art of dietetics.
CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY.
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STATE CAPITOL EXTENSION
Office of the Capitol Commission,
Bismarck, North Dakota, Ne
^yember 16th, 1903.
NOTICE TO BUILDERS.
Sealed proposals will be received by
he Capitol Commission at their office tin
the capitol building at Bismarck, N.
D., until 1 o'clock p. m., Tuesday Jan.
t2th, 1904.
For the erection and completion of
the proposed North Wing to the State
Capitol also making certain changes
tnd alterations in the old building.
Separate bids with certified checks
tccompanying each, will be submitted as
follows:
First—For the general contract for the
new building check $5,000.00.
Second—For the general contract for
the old building included in above.
Third—For the plumbing, $500.00.
Fourth—For furnishing and installing
ne passenger elevator. $500.00.
Fifth—For the electric wiring, $300.00.
All the above checks to be made pay
tble to the order of Frank White, gov
ernor and chairman of the commission,
ind will be given as a guarantee of
jood faith, that the contractor whose bid
ihall. be accepted wili enter into con
ract at the price named in his bid.
And also that he will within a rea
sonable time furnish a good and ap
proved surety bond, in a sum equal to
he amount of the contract price and in
trict accordance with chapter 133 of the
.aws of 1901, of the state of North
)akota, for the faithful execution of
lie contract, otherwise the check to be
rfeited.
Contractors will have until 'Dec. 1st,
which to complete all con
tacts.
Plans and specifications are on file,
tnd may be seen at the office of the
capitol commission at Bismarck, N. D.
\t the office of the Builders' Exchange,
it St. Paul, Minn., and at the office of
.VL E. Beebe, architect, 618 First Ave
lue North, Fargo, N. D.
The right is hereby reserved to reject
my and all bids. By order of the capi
o)l commission.
FRANK WHITE,
Governor.
F-
PORTER,
Secretary of State.
H. L. HOLMES,
Auditor.
Capitol Commission.
(9. *5, '03 to Jan. 11. '04. Inc.)
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DEPOSIT OF STATE1
Bismarck, N. D„ Dec. i, 1903.
The state board of auditors will con
iider, January 13, 1904, proposals in
accordance with the Ofoviftions of Sec
cion 237 of the Revised Codes, from
in* national or state bank oi the state
frij^hes to be a depfri^tory for
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