Why palter and dicker and barter with that which spreads poverty and want and disease in time of peace and disaster and defeat in time of war? Weakens All It Touches
"Mr. President, when we think of the fact, the indisputable fact, that drink weakens and demoralizes everything and everybody it touches, that it dissipates the energies and shatters the nerves of workingmen, that it causes indifference and carelessness and thereby brings on accidents with fatal blow to the enemy which has vexed and cursed us long enough. Let us strike now. A few for a time may complain, but countless millions throughout our land, in their happier homes, will bless the act and count it among the compensations of this great war."
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DISCHARGING BETTY
By ISABEL FROST.
Curzon had definitely, positively made up his mind to discharge Betty. If discipline was to be maintained in the office at all, that was the first step toward it. In the first place, she never should have been employed in such a place as the "Benzinger Iron works. She had walked through the outer gates one early spring morning, the last of a line of applicants, and had asked the first worker she met what the superintendent's name was.
"Frank Curzon," she was told. Therefore, instead of waiting her turn, Betty had marched valiantly up to the bookkeeper's desk and had asked for Mr. Curzon quite as if she were paying a little afternoon call. And she got the position. 