KANSAS.

White Ribbon, Volume 32, Issue 372, 18 June 1926, Page 17

KANSAS.

Kansas has never taken a backward step since prohibition became her fixed policy nearly half a century ago. Illiteracy is to-day less than two per cent. It lias on an average one automobile for every five inhabitants.

Thirteen distilleries in U.8.A., previously employing 1,000 men, now employ 4.000. making such commodities as industrial alcohol, flour. f, ane, syrup, corn oils, yeast, preserves, jellies, jams, and vinegar.— Exchange.”

June 12th, 3926. Dear Young People, Our Editor has asked for a few words of greeting to you from the National Officers, and I am glad to respond to the invitation, because it is to the young people we look to take up the work when we can no longer carry on. As we bid goodbye. one by one to tried and experienced veterans like Mr John Dawson or Mrs Johnson Wright, we should be well nigh hopeless if we did not recognise that you are bringing to the fight your youthful enthusiasm, and your consecrated powers ot thought and action. Much lies ahead to be done; you alone aui tackle the job and carry it through to a you must “hitch your waggon to a star.” aim at the highest and best you know, e* u take as the working principle of your daily and hourly living, the external fact that “(lod is working in us to will and to do of His good pleasure, therefore we cannot fail." With loving greetings, I am— Yours for service, KATE M. EVANS, Roc. Sec.