Owen Started

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    Was it for this the clay grew tall?
    MO what made fatuous sunbeams toil
    To break earth’s sleep at all?
    —Wilfred Owen (1893–1918)

    In 1869 he started his work for temperance instigated by three drunken men who came to his home with a paper signed by a saloonkeeper and his patrons on which was written “For God’s sake organize a temperance society.”
    —Federal Writers’ Project Of The Wor, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)