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...take the full measure of itself. Now each pilgrim takes back a piece of his heritage, something that was overlooked when the possessions were divided before the move took place. (Here is a yellowed card, signed on Feb. 12, 1911, confirming membership in the "Abstinence Department of the Anti-Saloon League." It pledges abstinence, saying further that intoxicating beverages are "productive of pauperism, degradation and crime.") Faded photographs are particularly difficult to reject (this one has them roller-skating in Central Park during the Depression), as are imperfect potteries, one's own juvenilia. Each visit becomes a sort...
...personal code. "If there were any sound arguments to be advanced on behalf of the use of alcoholic beverages," Kresge once said, "I wonder if I might not have discovered them in all these years." On those grounds, when Prohibition arrived he gave $500,000 to the Anti-Saloon League, and personally organized a National Vigilance Committee to help enforce the 18th Amendment...
...company owes much of its unique character-as well as its profits-to Kresge's farm-bred frugality and his stern Methodist morality. He once donated $500,000 to the Anti-Saloon League, said that "I never gave a dime to any church the pastor of which uses tobacco." Kresge men and women, mindful of old S. S. dictums, still eat separately in company cafeterias, habitually snap off lights when leaving washrooms-although managers complain that switches are wearing out. Yet when President Cunningham in 1961 urged that the chain fight discounters by opening its own discount "K-Marts...
...Vernon, Ohio, whose first speaking experience was when he used to bring cows in at night from a dark wood, and "to keep up my courage, I talked out loud to them." That was not necessarily the road to eloquence; some years later he made some speeches for the Anti-Saloon League, "and every county I spoke in went...
Prohibition: "I was always against it. I was one of the leaders for Repeal and faced the best political maneuverer I have ever dealt with, Wayne B. Wheeler, of the Anti-Saloon League. He produced an absolute miracle...