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Digital Commons @ George Fox University Northwest Yearly Meeting of Friends Church Friendly Endeavor (Quakers) 10-1932 Friendly Endeavor, October 1932 George Fox University Archives Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/nwym_endeavor Recommended Citation George Fox University Archives, "Friendly Endeavor, October 1932" (1932). Friendly Endeavor. 113. https://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/nwym_endeavor/113 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Northwest Yearly Meeting of Friends Church (Quakers) at Digital Commons @ George Fox University. It has been accepted for inclusion in Friendly Endeavor by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ George Fox University. For more information, please contact [email protected]. The Friendly Endeavor Volume 11, Number 10. PORTLAND, OREGON October, 1932. IS $100.00 WORTH SAVING? change of address, it costs us two t h e s o f t d r i n k s a n d d a i r y p r o d u c t s i n cents. If you notify us before we dustries because of decreased consump You are surprised to see tbis issue of send the paper to the old address, we tion due to increased consumption of The Friendly Endeavor, perhaps, or save that two cents. Send all changes liquor. maybe you think that we have been to Randall Dicus, 1082 East Salmon St., How could liquor bring prosperity sending out the "Wolf, wolf" cry. Portland, Oregon. when the industry pays so little out in When the last issue of The Friendly If you know of anyone who is not proportion to what it receives? A tab Endeavor reached you there was just getting the paper and should be getting ulation made by economists in pre-pro- 76 cents in the bank and half of the it, please send the name and address to hibition days shows that while such pro printing bill was unpaid. But for the Randall Dicus. ducts as boots and shoes, clothing, wool loyalty of First Friends, Portland, this en goods, leather, slaughtering, flour, issue would not have been printed. T H E " W E T * D E C E P T I O N etc., pay for materials and wages from First Friends raised its entire quota 72 to 92 per cent of the value of the during the past month to save the paper The pages of history tell of the many product, liquor pays for materials and from going on the rocks. times that men have been called upon wages only 41.17 per cent of the value If you get The Friendly Endeavor in to defend their countries against their of the product. November, some other society or group enemies. Today the United States is Then we are told that repeal of the of societies will have to rally to the threatened by an enemy as terrible as 18th amendment would give the farmer cause and send some money very soon. any that ever trod the battlefields; an an opportunity to sell his surplus prod We do not have enough money to print e n e m y w h i c h i s i n s i d u o u s i n t h a t i t ucts. This hardly looks reasonable in a n o t h e r i s s u e . strives to poison the minds of people view of the fact that in 1917. before Someone may say, why not discontin instead of fighting in mortal combat. I prohibition, the per capita consumption ue the paper for a time and take it up refer to the agitation for repeal of the of dairy products was 754.8 pounds, later. Now listen and we will explain 18th amendment. It is high time that while in 1929 the per capita consump that. After months of effort The we arose to defend our country as loy t i o n o f d a i r y p r o d u c t s w a s 9 9 7 . 5 F r i e n d l y E n d e a v o r fi n a l l y o b t a i n e d a l l y a s d o o u r s o l d i e r s . N o w i s t h e pounds. This shows a gain of _ 242.7 second-class mailing rates from the gov time for men to show their patriotism. pounds per capita in the consumption of ernment. Before this, the cost of mail I am well aware of the fact that those dairy products since national prohibi ing was over .$10.00 per month. With who read this article are heartily in tion. "The grain required to produce second-class mailing rates the cost of agreement with me and that any at the increased quantities of these dairy mailing is about $2.50 per month. If tempt to enlist your sympathies is un products amounts to 10,067,196,000 we fail to print just one issue we lose necessary. The excuse I give for writ pounds. This is approximately three our second-class mailing rates. When ing this article is simply to furnish times as much grain as was used all we obtained the rates from the govern ment they cost us nothing. If we lose you with some facts which can be used told in the manufacture of fermented for ammunition. You cannot convert liquors in 1917." This statement comes our rates now and have to apply for the liquor interests to the right side of rates again they would cost $100.00. from Herman Feldman, Dartmouth Col this question, but you can, and it is lege economist. In other words, our second-class mailing- your duty to give the correct facts to Furthermore we find that 34 pounds rates are worth $100.00 to us. We the many around you who have been of barley will produce 386 half-pint must not lose that. misinformed by the liquor interests. I drinks of beer, while 34 pounds of gram Of course, we could change the paper go further-, they have been lied to by and 86 pounds of roughage are required to a quarterly publication, but every the liquor interests. to feed a cow so she will produce 192 time we change the time of mailing The writer acknowledges the use of the government will charge us $10.00. half-pints of milk. In other wcn'ds, On the basis of 50 cents per copy facts compiled from authoritative statis the value of the farm products _ which tics by such men as Richard L. Stout, are necessary to produce a drink of received, the amounts due from the experienced newspaper man and inves milk is about four times that n^essary various churches are as follows: tigator of Washington, D. C.; Richard to produce a drink of beer. On this , F o r 1 9 3 1 F o r 1 9 3 2 H. Scott, President of Reo Motor Car basis does the farmer want to substitute Highland ,$5.00 $21.00 Co.; Joy Elmer Morgan, for the past b e e r f o r m i l k . S o u t h S a l e m 1 2 . 0 0 12 years editor of the Journal of the C h e h a l e m C e n t e r 1 . 5 0 Again we are led to believe that a National Education Association; Fran repeal of the prohibition amendment Shenvood 4*00 cis D. Nichol, of Washington, D. C., because of the tax on liquor would re Greenleaf 10.50 slso author of the book "Wet or Dry;" move our national deficit. Let us see. Middleton 3.00 2.50 Louis J. Tabor, Master of the National In 1919, the peak year in liquor tax re Rosedale 3.50 Grange; Thomas Nixon Carver, Pro turns to the government, the tax on S c o t t s M i l l s 9 0 0 fessor of Political Economy in Harvard Marion S^SO liquor amounted to $483,050,000. 'Uie Boise 18.00 University; Stanley High, noted news expected deficit this year is $1,500,000,- p a p e r m a n . 000. Does this look like covering the S t a r 1 6 . 5 0 The wets say that the repeal of the deficit? Then do not forget the loss Melba g.gg 18th amendment will bring back pros to the government in taxes on dairy V a l l e y M o u n d 5 i 5 0 perity. _ They insinuate that the de products, soft drinks and candy, the Newberg 28.50 pression is due to prohibition. We ask consumption of which must necessarily Second Friends, Portland 10.00 why we had thirteen other depressions decrease if liquor returns. S p r i n g b r o o k 9 . 6 0 since 1800, all before we had prohibi The wets tell us that there is niore B e t h a n y 3 . O O tion? Could not liquor have spared drinking today than before prohibition. Tacoma 8.00 u s t h e n ? All facts point to the contrary. In an Kelso 4.50 We are told that a repeal of the 18th official report rendered January 21st, Piedmont 20.00 amendment would give work to a large 1932 the National Prohibition Admin number of men in manufacturing li istrator, Col.