We are hero worshipers as much as other people. A careful reading of our early history shows that it was the hero-worship for Washington that carried the Federal Constitution through and created this Nation, and we have put haloes about the heads of Washing- ton and some of his contemporaries. Most people do not know how those men felt in regard to the use of alcoholic drink. It is well they should know that the greatest Americans, the fathers of this country, took precisely the same ground which the United States Brewers' Association has proclaimed for decades past. It is well they should be taught that those men stood for temperance, for moderation. And if they were to come to life today they would undoubtedly take the same position. Here are a few lines from an editoral in the Mans- field, Ohio, Shield, of Dec. roth last : Immoderate use of liquor wastes substance, dissipates fortunes, brings sufferings, causes crime, bloodshed and murder and often destroys its victims, body, mind and soul. But intemperance of many other forms has done these same things an hundred fold more. Intemperance in drink 155 The Rule of "Not Too Much." has slain its thousands and its hundreds of thousands, but intemperance in thought, word and deed has slain its mil- lions and will continue to do so until many zealots learn that