The American Issue (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 9, No. 11, Ed. 1 Saturday, November 1, 1913 Page: 2 of 16
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ANTI-SALOON LEAGUE
YEAR BOOK
1913
What has liquor to do with the divorce problem? Answer: The number of divorces
m the United States, from 1867 to 1907, increased in just the same ratio as the amount of
liquor consumed.
What has immigration to do with the liquor problem? During one year immigration
into the United States increased 28 per cent; the production of distilled spirits in New York
state the same year increased 31 per cent, and the consumption of beer in that state in -
creased over 4 per cent.
What has the liquor traffic to do with education? The states that have total Pro-
hibition have 75.6 per cent of their children enrolled as pupils in school; in wet territory
the oercentage of children in school runs as low as 48.9 per cent. In New York state it is
only 69.5 per cent, in Pennsylvania 67.8, and in Rhode Island 66.4 per cent.
I he above statements are only three striking comparisons taken from the 1913 Year
Book. It contains 288 pages of valuable statistics, maps, charts and tables; it treats of the
economic aspects of the liquor traffic, the wet and dry area, population and wealth of all
the various states, the actual cost of the liquor traffic in cities, counties and states; the
liquor problem and politics, liquor and insanity, liquor and public health, liquor and crime
It gives a history of temperance legislation for the past year.
Sunday school teachers, make your temperance lessons vital and practical. One
page of the Year Book contains enough new material to revolutionize your class work. If
the temperance lessons have become tedious to you, because you have said the same thing
over so many times, get a new viewpoint from the Year Book—it will make your lessons
intensely interesting. Some of it is new truth, and some is just a new way of presentin'1
old truth—you need them both! Send for the book today.
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Cherrington, Ernest H. The American Issue (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 9, No. 11, Ed. 1 Saturday, November 1, 1913, newspaper, November 1, 1913; Westerville, Ohio and Oklahoma City Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc941415/m1/2/: accessed April 16, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.