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Digital Commons @ George Fox University "The Crescent" Student Newspaper Archives and Museum 3-1-1914 The Crescent - March 1914 George Fox University Archives Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/the_crescent Recommended Citation George Fox University Archives, "The Crescent - March 1914" (1914). "The Crescent" Student Newspaper. 125. https://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/the_crescent/125 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Archives and Museum at Digital Commons @ George Fox University. It has been accepted for inclusion in "The Crescent" Student Newspaper by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ George Fox University. For more information, please contact [email protected]. /, I ‘1 I I-w Z° I I _j 00’ I,’. I I’ U WW I 1 Do It Now e uett irt rabuatc THE CRESCENT will Soon be having her inn ing—the days when carnations VOL. XXV. MARCH, 1914 NO. 6 and roses muse be tied with pink ribbon and a perfumed 1:jt jfloob tibe card bearing your name at I (The Oration delivered by Mr. Hubbard at Albany, and which tached. took first place in thot and composition.) In the solution of every great problem, history indi cates that three distinct steps must be taken before suc 3&tttr ço to cess is achieved. The first of these steps is vision. Some one must (raptjit @ffIce see the inadequacy of the old order to meet the needs of advancing civilization. To some one must come the at once and leave your order vision of the better way. The second step of progress is agitation. The people for cards and other commence must be led to see the undesirability of the old order, ment printing before the rush and the means by which the better conditions may be brought about. This may be a slow and difficult pro comes Ofl. cess. The agitator must first deal with men and women who think; then with men and women so engrossed with the affairs of the busy world that they have not DO IT NOW time to think unless virtually compelled to do so. It may even be necessary, before the problem can be solved, to rear and educate a new generation unblinded 4 2 THE CRESCENT THE CRESCENT 3 by the old evil and unprejudiced by the environment inarticulate voices from the home for the feeble-minded that it has produced. But eventually agitation will bring their powerful testimony. Every drink-crazed cause public sentiment to crystallize into a definite plan murderer writes in blood the indictment of this master that will commend itself alike to reason and to conscience. criminal. From the brothel comes the wail of our sunken Then comes the day for the third and final step, sisterhood, sacrificed on the Moloch-altar of drink-in without which all that has preceded is in vain. This flamed lust. Is there yet an intelligent man or woman final step is action. Theory must be put into practice. whose eyes are blinded to the gross evils of the drink Thoughts must he transmuted into deeds. traffic? The state of Oregon stands on the tiring line of civ And in very large measure the second step in the sol ilization, fighting out many a battle for the people of ution of this gigantic problem has been taken. The ques our own country and indeed for the whole world. Al tion has been agitated through so many agencies that ready she has led the way to the solution of some mo one can scarcely be uninformed Pulpit and press and mentous issues, and the position that once she held platform have dealt with the matter. The Woman’s alone has become the position of the main body of the Christian Temperance Union has carried on for years army of progress. Oregon ideas, once disdainfully dis its many-sided campaign against intemperance. The regarded or openly ridiculed by the conservative east, Prohibition Party has clamored incessantly for a politi are today so widely accepted that we are seeing the cal alignment on the issue of the annihilation of the fulfilment of Lowell’s prophecy, whole drink business. The Anti-Saloon League has “Her hopes, her wild dreams even, have become sought the union of all the church forces against the Part of the necessary air men breathe.” common enemy. Through education in the public Today our progressive state faces a great problem— schools a new generation has arisen that recognizes the the greatest with which she has ever grappled. What true character of this deadly evil. In our colleges and shall be done wit the liquor traffic? Oregon must universities thousands of young men and women under answer that question in 1914. the leadership of the Intercollegiate Prohibition Associ The first of the three steps in the solution of this ation have been conducting a systematic study of the problem has already been taken. The evil of the old subject, with the determination to reach a solution that order has been manifest fbr years to all who are not will result in the destruction of this traffic. blind with the blindness of those who will not see. And now the time has come for the third step, with Every drunkard reeling down the street to his wretched out which all the rest will be of no avail. Every con home bears maudlin witness to the evil. Every worse- sideration of self interest and altruism calls for immedi than-widow whose husband has been transformed into ate action. We have seen the great economic waste of a brute or a demon points her wasted finger at the sa intemperance; let us stop it now. We have witnessed loon, and cries, “There is your enemy!” The sighs from the miseries that attend it; let us prevent them for the the poorhouse, the shrieks from the insane hospital, the future. Long enough has the legalized liquor traffic 4 THE CRESCENT THE CRESCENT 5 flourished under our state’s protection; let us end the ground, making an opening through which his comrades business in Oregon for all time. rush to victory and freedom. Arnold von Winkeiried For the Pacific coast there is especial reason for had won the day, not by words but by action. immediate action. The Panama canal will soon be open, Shakespeare has said: and streams of immigrants will pour into the rich valleys “There is a tide in the affairs of men, of the Pacific slope. For our own sake, we must abolish Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. the saloon, which will be a far greater menace if it has Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries. the opportunity to do its work among the millions who On such a full sea are we now afloat, will throng the Willamette valley from the crowded And we must take the current when it serves countries of Europe. Where shall we find our safety if Or lose our ventures.” the saloon ig permitted Fellow voters, we are now on the fu sea cf ‘tle to debauch the incoming foreign 4 hosts? We must protect ourselves from the danger of fight aga nst the liquor traffic in Oregon, and I appeal European millions depraed and imbruted by the un to you in the name of freedom to take the current when American saloon. And for their sake we must prevent it serves. Now is the time to act or we may lose our the destruction that the saloon, if allowed to live, will venture. The tide is at the flood. If we will take it work among them. and push the campaign against the liquor power, it will The time has come for action. The forces of right indeed lead on to fortune, to peace and prosperity such eousness and good government are united in their de as we have never known. But if we let the tide ebb mand that the saloon must go. A proposition is before without our action, the future of Oregon wi indeed be the voters of Oregon for a constitutional amendment “bound in sha ows and in miseries.” abolishing the manufacture and sale of all alcoholic Now is the time to strike. We cannot wait until all liquors for beverage purposes. We cannot evade the have been convinced. We must not tarry till other issue if we would. We cannot now postpone the con issues of the presidential campaign blind our eyes to flict if we desired. The armies have joined battle and the importance of this problem. We dare not daily with they will fight to the death. The, day for argument has the evil till it has been strengthened by the influx of a passed. The hour for action has struck. throng of drink-fettered foreigners. Fate has offered See the contending armies on the battlefield of Sem to us L this year an opportunity to do a deed whose ef pach; here the proud, well-trained veterans ol the Aus fects no man can measure. Who knows when, if ever, trian phalanx, there a little band of peasants, marshalled such a chance will again be ours? in the cause of liberty. The bristling spears of the Citizens of Oregon, let us not seek to evade nor to Austrians form a seemingly impenetrable wall. But delay. Now, on this flood-tide of opportunity let Ore from the ranks of the Swiss rushes a peasant soldier. gon sweep to the place he should occupy among the “Make way for liberty!” he cries, hurls himself upon states that have thrown off the tyranny of the liquor his country’s enemies and bears their spears to the power.