Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-12-11
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AMI sailors. Senator f. ]. Burl1ett viii
preside and speak and addresses will be
given by Richmond p. Hobson and others
The chief of staff of the army has
sent notices to Fort Myer and other mill
tary posts in this vicinity announcing tll-
afternoon meeting, and similar notices
have been posted by the commandments OF
the navy yard and the marine barracks
men to sign the pledge at this meeting, il
is explained.
In the morning Rev S Z. Batten viii
speak in the First Presbyterian Church
Miss Cora r. Stoddard in the Dumbartoi
NJ. T., Drs. 7. D. Crothers and l.. d
L. 4. MacNicholl in ST. Paui's Lutheran
In the evening Mrs. Zillar Foster
Stevens speaks in the Metropolitan NJ
E. Church, Rev. S. Il. Batten in Calvary
Baptist Mrs. Frances w. Graham in Cal
vary Methodist and DR.. G. Fl. Benton in
the Anacostia Methodist.
They will themselves organize total alb
stinence associations in the army and
navy such as have pledged to abstinence
20 per cent of the personnel of the British
army. Letters favoring such organiZa-
tons from Secretary Of War Dickinson
and Gen. Fred d. Grant will be read.
Meetings of the Week.
The meeting of committees at break
fast Monday will be followed by an au-
dience granted by the Secretary of State
to the official delegates of the United
States government to the twelfth interna-
tionai congress on alcoholism. The dele
gates in the city are DR.. Wilbur +.
Crafts chairman; Miss Cora F. Stoddard,
secretary: Mr. G. Rowland Munlpe, DIR.
T. D. Crothers, Surgeon r. l.. Pleadwell
delegates will speak a II o'clock to a
meeting Of preachers at the First Con-
gregational Church.
The delegates to the conference will
meet for collation. at noon. with after
dinner speeches, at 7Os 18th street, and
at o'clock, followed by a conference at
half-past ,. at which Commissioner Mac
farland will make the address of vel
come.
At o'clock Monday at the same church
there will be a special meeting for gov
eminent officials, employees and business
people, and at 7:45 q mass meeting, adj
dressed by Prof. Dickie. Mrs. Ella A..
Boole and Dr. P. A. Baker. A similar
program will be observed daily for the
week.
At 1920 o'clock there will be a hearing
on the .Burkett nti-gambling bill be-
fore the Senate judiciary committee. at
which: number Of delegates will speak.
The Senate committee on educa ton and
labor, Senator Borah chairman, will give
a hearing on the McCumber prohibition
bill Wednesday morning.
There Will be mass meeting next
Tuesday afternoon, at which Secretary
Ballinger of the Interior Department will
preside, and meetings Monday. Tuesday
and Wednesday evenings, There will
also be forty-minute meetings especially
for government officials and employees
and business people at ) o'clock daily
from Monday to Friday, at which ten
and five minute speeches will be made
by the famous speakers of the conference
on such topics as why Total Abstinence
Employees Are at Premium and How
Prohibition Helps Trade
At two noon meetings in the Chamber
of Commerce rooms Thursday and Fri
day business men will have opportunity
Wright W. J. Schieffeiin and others on
cocaine and opium. The public will have
further opportunity to hear the speak
ers Sunday next In some of the pulpits
and in the Y. NJ. c. A. and Y. w. c. A.,
and also in the Thursday prayer serv-
ices. which in some cases will be expand
ed to public meetings. Grant committees
will hold breakfast meetings daily at the
Y. W. G.. A. Cafeteria.
The mornings will be devoted to con-
gressional and executive hearings, except
Monday morning, when there will be a
meeting for preachers at II o'clock, to
hear ten-minute reports from six dele
gates accredited by the government to the
recent twelfth international congress on
alcoholism. Doctors and lawyers are also
invited as legal and medical as we'll as
moral experts of the congress will be
heard.
Discussions at Lunch.