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Life Saver. Patrick Henry Callahan, paint and varnish man of Louisville, Ky., oldtime friend of William Jennings Bryan, ardent Dry Catholic, indefatigable letter-writer and publicist, told the committee of the lives Prohibition had saved. His statistics: alcoholism, 26,400; cirrhosis of the liver, 42,300; Bright's disease, 62,100. Declared Mr. Callahan: "With undisputed statistics I have shown from merely three diseases where prohibitionists have saved more [U. S.] lives than were lost in action in the Great War.* A hundred thousand lives are not to be sniffed...
...committee moved its hearings back to its own quarters because not enough Wets had been present fortnight ago to fill the House Caucus Room (TIME, Feb. 24). The small committee room was crowded with 300 ardent spectators. Its air grew hot and sour. Thirty newsmen scribbled rapidly to keep pace with the flowing testimony of Wet witnesses. Idaho's Dry Senator Borah dropped in but, after hearing the audience applaud a particularly violent denunciation of the 18th Amendment, hastily withdrew. He, like others, knew that all the Wet noise would not sway a Dry Congress into relaxing...
...women who believe as I do on the matter of empire trade to join a crusade to further our objects. Already a hundred thousand men and women have enrolled as founder members and I receive daily from every part of the country and the empire letters revealing ardent hopes and intense enthusiasms inspired by the free-trade policy. It has aroused new hopes among people who were beginning to despair of ever being offered a straight forward constructive policy as a remedy for our unemployment and poor trade." In point of fact the Beavermere scheme for "Empire Free Trade...
Wellesley girls, for an undetermined reason, are ardent devotees of this unusual oracle, while other similar neighboring institutions have an ample quota as well. At the present time male undergraduates, especially of Harvard, have not been much attracted by this source of information, but this is no doubt an indication of the utterly care free or utterly hopeless frame of mind in which the Cambridge undergraduates exist...
...examinations draw nearer, there comes the usual hectic period of feverish study in the small hours with the aid of large quantities of coffee and cigarettes, and despite ardent, resolutions to the contrary this situation seems to be practically unavoidable. Nor can it be said that the fault lies wholly in the weakness of the resolve...