The Weiser semi-weekly signal. (Weiser, Washington Co., Idaho) 1904-1911, 1905-05-20
Especial Correspondence

Especial Correspondence
Chicago, May 1.-THE enlistment If
young men and women for a life DUR
pose against the liquor traffic" is the
key word Of the college Prohibition
movement as represented by the In
tercollegiate Prohibition association.
whose busy national headquarters are
found at $50 The Temple, Chicago.
The monthly magazine exponent of the
association, the Intercollegiate States
man, is rapidly growing in popular es-
teen and now reaches a widespread
constituency of college young men and
women.
In Twenty States.
The college movement has already
spread among the universities and col
leges Of twenty states, from California
to New York aud as far south as Tex
as. 1t includes bands of students
studying the liquor problem and de-
batting upon how to remove it and pre-
pairing to have part in removing it
in colleges, universities, state UNIVERSE
ties, normal schools, agricultural col
leges, theological seminaries and some
of the higher grade academies and SEM
inaries in nearly all the leading states
of the country.
In the theological seminaries the
young ministers are studying the ques-
ton broadly and in a practical way so
they may be active leaders of their flu
ture congregations and speak to the
point against the traffic. In the state
institutions, the classical colleges and
other schools the students are prepar-
ing to be effective leaders In prohibit
ton sentiment and organization In
their future capacities as business men,
teachers, lawyers and wherever they
find field Of usefulness.
Eight Hundred Orations Last Year.
The association conducts the largest
system Of college oratorical contests
ever put into operation, and every ora
ton is solid Prohibition speech. They
are not mere declamations, but original
work prepared by the speakers. them
selves. Last year over 800 orations
were prepared by college men and wo-
men and delivered in this series.
Each orator many enter the local
league coatest, where cash or scholar
ship prize ranging from $40 to $50 Is
given. Then the victor enters state
contest, where the prizes are from 500
to $3.50 in cash and scholarships. These
winners then meet In three great inter-
state contests, eastern, central and
western, where larger prizes are offer
ed, and, finally, once in two years the
winners of these interstate contests
come together for national honors, the
highest honors now open to college men
in the United States.
The last national contest held at In
dianapolis, Ind, last June, was attend
ed by 5000 people and was won by
Walter r. Miles of Oregon, who de-
feated the representatives Of many of
the largest universities of the central
and eastern states.
Students In Summer Campaigns
The student movement accomplishes
the most with the work put into it, for
It is training leaders and workers.
Large numbers of men will go out to
do Prohibition work during the sum-
mer. The national association is con-
stantly receiving applications for men
for steady positions and is ready to
suDplv them with the best of trained
college men who intend devotlng their
life TO the overthrow of the liquor traf-
fc.
Only about one person out of every
1900 graduates from a college, yet
from this small number come over 6U
per cent of all our noted public men
the great leaders of social, political
and religious movements-those who
make public sentiment what it is. Tc
enlist these for Prohibition means an
early overthrow of the saloon.
1t has been said ''one-third of college
men are Just ordinary; one-third go tc
the devil; the third third rule the
world" The aim Of the intercollegiate
prohibition association IS 10 get hold
of the third third for Prohibition.
Carried ON by College Boys.
The college Prohibition movement u
carried on by college men. in th'
twenty states and the hundreds OF col
leges where It is now doing steaol
work the students conduct the oiices
both n the local league ana ID ID
state. They tbus get the training ma
makes them ready workers DID, 0ps'
acids later The Datopai assoeialiol
employ D few men of special aDllNl
MO arc but recently Qua " siuaen
ife as its fold and Office workers
qhe plans Of work Involve pfac'i'u
and broad study of ihe liquor piop''p
hi the ohiof aim. During ile pi'a'p
voar IA series III studios lp ,'lhe e9'lp
/ Domands F0r Prohibition paf pp''
eonduoiod M dle hundreds ~ i'aF.'
unaor mo- dilen supervision NJ M
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