Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-12-04
National Temperance Fedora
ton Meets This Week.
FEATURES OF CONFERENCE
Measures to Curb Liquor Traffic to
Be Considered.
HOBSON TO BE ONE OF TAKERS
Other Prominent Men to Address As
sembly-Three-Day Meeting
to Be Held.

| Addresses by men ana women prOfnl-
nent in the war against alcohol" and
consideration of measures to curb the
| liquor traffic in the United States are
planned as features Of the conference OF
the National Temperance Federation in
this city next Friday, Saturday and Sun
day.
| The sessions, which will oe -.eld in the
assembly hall of the Y. NJ c. A building,
will be attended by representatives of the
! following church denominations: Baptist,
Disciples of Christ, Evangelical Lutheran
of the general synod, Methodist Episcopal,
Presbyterian, Unitarian and reformed
] Presbyterian.
Hobson to Be Heard.
| The list of speakers includes not only
clergymen, but laymen from various
states who are prominent in the tenn
perance movement There will be two
| sessions given over to popular addresses,
which the public is invited TO attend, that
on Friday evening, when Representative
Richmond Pearson Hobson of Alabama is
| scheduled to talk, and the meeting which
will close the conference Sunday after
noon.
! This meeting will be held in the Calvary
Baptist Church at 2:4o O'Clock, and Oliver
| w. Stewart of Chicago is scheduled to
make the principal address. He will be
| followed by Robert G. Valentine, COM
missioner of Indian affairs, on 1.-The
Governments Policy of Protecting It's
, Indian Wards From lntoxicantS." Satur-
' day afternoon President Taft will receive
the delegates at the White House.
Fha fny- thn fn. I,ac
been mapped out by Edwin c.. Dinwiddie,
superintendent of the national temper
ance legislative bureau. Friday morning,
December 9, the convention will be open
ed with prayer by Rev. Peter Ainslie of
Baltimore.
I Informal greetings will follow, and at
$50 o'clock addresses Of welcome on be-
/ half of the Lutheran committee on tenn
| perance and on behalf of the ministers
/ of Washington will be made by Rev.
John Weidley and Rev. Dr. Charles
| Wood, pastor of the Church Of the Cove
nant Joshua lowering of Baltimore will
respond to the felicitation.
Address by c. F. wishart.
At 1910 o'clock Rev. C. F. Wishart of
Pittsburg will make an address on "A
Revival of Total Abstinence-A Crying
Need Of the Day." This address will be
discussed by the delegates.
From 1910 O'Clock until HAS O'Clock
the reports of officers will be discussed.
Committees will be appointed just before
| the noon adjournment.
The afternoon session Friday will be
opened at o'clock. Rev. ]. Spencer
Simon of Hagerstown, Md, will make
the first address. and his topic will be
Platform and Press Defense of the
Saloons" Alcoholic Liquors and Life
Insurance" will be the subject of an
address by representative of the
| New York.
At 3:45 o'clock the topic Arms of
| the Temperance Service will be dis
| cussed by Rev. Harry G. Hill. Rev. c.
p. Wiles. Rev. Harvey Wood of New
York, Rev. J. M. Croker, D. D.: Mrs.
Frances E. Beauchamp Of Lexington,
KY, and Rev. c. H. Mead. D. D., of
New York.
Friday evening the session will open
at 8 o'clock, with an address on wan
f1ict," by Prof. Charles Scanlon He
\ will be followed by Representative
Hobson, who will make a brief address.
Program for Saturday.
| The program for Saturday follows:
| S:45. devotional service; 9:15. What
! the Medical Profession Knows and Ought
to Teach About Alcohol address by L.
d. Mason, NJ. D., Brooklyn, N. Y, vice
president American Medical Society fol-
| the Study of Alcohol and Other Drug
Narcotics: 9:45. tactics and strategy In
temperance reform, Richard P. Hobson;
intermission Of ten minutes; 1890, THE
| Utility Of UNCONVENTIONAL Temperance
Committees and Their Cooperation" ad-
dress by Rev. John Mayhem Fulton, d.
| D.; H. O5, The Sinews of War in Tenn
pGance Reform DR.. Homer J. Hall;
| l1:2J, reports of committees, resolutions
! nominations, announcements.
Saturday afternoon-1:5O. Prayer:
200, THE relation of the Saloon and
Intemperance to Other Reforms" adj
dress by Rev. T. H. Acheson, d. D., LII.
D.. Allegheny, Pa; 2:30. Reception by
| the President at the White House;
| $780, THE Illinois Lincoln Chautauqua
| is it's Naturalization Possible" Mr..
1 A1onzo E. Wilson, Chicago.
| The officers are: President, DR.. Sam
uel Dickie Of the Methodist Episcopal
Church; vice president. Joshua Lever
| ing, Baptist; corresponding secretary,
| Prof Charles Scanlon. Presbyterian:
recording secretary. Rev. Charles D..
Fulton, United Presbyterian; treasurer.
Dr. Homer ]. Hall. Disciples of Christ.
and superintendent Of the bureau Of
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