"FOLLOW THE KING"

Evening Star, Issue 15968, 23 November 1915, Page 9

"FOLLOW THE KING"

[ Published by \branc..;:'. ■.-'_/ Have you cigned yet u,j y riotic pledge? It would do you ■■_„.'.; your country good to sign it. Emulate- His Ilajc-s----ty's shining example. This is the LOYAL AND PATRIOTIC PLEDGE: " In order that I may be of the greatest service to my Country, and carry out the wishes of the King at this time of national peril, I promise until the*fend of the war to abstain from all intoxicants (except when such are ordered by a doctor), arid to encourage others to do the same." (Signed) WHY WILLARD WHIPPED JACK JOHNSON. Jess Willard gave a good name to a bad business when he became a- prizefighter and won the world's championship, hi the serial story of his career he accorded sobriety whatever of success be _ has won. " Keeping away from whisky has brought mo everything in life that's worth while." he freely testified. " Drinking and smoking usually go together, and if I had gone 'in for drink and tobacco as a youngster I wouldn'thave Had the strength aiid endurance to whip Johnson.. And being a: teetotaler," he continued, "earned ivic mv first big money. -I only got £2.690 for winning the championship of the world, but I got £5.200 for telling the youngsters-of the nation how I won the championship without whisky or tobacco. " Sometimes I think that if I had Billy Sunday's gift of words and his magnetism." Willard 'went on in the closing of his last article. " I'd take vn the fight against whisky in good, hard" earnest." Hut he cari't- talk; he srws; so he has written. "In every article." he declares,_ " I've tried to 'ram it home that whisky is a losing game. It dors nothing for you. and it does evervthinc to you. It takes health and strength rind courage away, and gives in place of them a weakened heart, smashed nerves, a burned-out stomach, and a crippled determination. That's what whisky does to thd'-tlrinker himself. What it does to cithers is almost as bad. Think of the mothers whose hearts have been broken, the wives who have been made to walk a living hell, and the children who have grown up in poverty and ignorance and crime through the" drunkenness of their fathers. . . . And the best part of being champion of the world is the chance it has given me to say these things to the kids who are going to lie tho citir.-ann and- fathers of to-mor-row." i