Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-04-02
FOES Of RUM ARE
HERE ORGANIZING
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looking place tells that "John, in a
no-license town, found it easy to save
one dollar a week, and at the end of
twenty live years he had saved enough
to build this home
The convention was called to order
at l o'clock this afternoon by Charles
L. HUSTON. The Rev. J. b. Mark.
ward, pastor of the Bethlehem Lu-
theran Church, this city, conducted
the opening devotional exercises. I'M
mediately thereafter Mayor John X.
Royal delivered an address of
welcome, and the presiding Of
ticer thereupon outlined the aims
and objects of the meeting. He
stated that it was the pur-
pose of the gathering to effect an
organization that would be just as
competent as any of the organizations
would develop into a businesslike. ef-
fective lighting machine. Appoint
ment of committees followed.
Right from the jump the anti-liquor
forces are setting about to perfect an
effective organization. At this after.
Moons session John H. Cole, West
Chester, intercounty and Chester
county secretary, spoke on How to
Organize Other speakers this aft
n.
Nyce, st. Peters, Pa, who will speak
on publicity; DR.. George w. Hull.
Millersvlle, Pa, on Literature; the
Rev. w. NJ. Woodfin, Swarthmore,
president of Delaware county no.
license campaign, on Public Mass
Meetings and Finance; the Rev. j.
Elmer Campbell New Castle, Re
monstrance Work.; District Attor-
ney r. G. Miller, Washington, Pa,
Legal Work. A general open con-
ference will follow.
Two Mass Meetings
At this evenings session two mass
meetings will be conducted at the
same hour in different churches, the
Ridge Avenue Methodist and the
Fourth Reformed, Fifteenth and Mar
ket streets. Addresses by prominent
State temperance workers will be
made at these meetings. Devotional
exercises at the Ridge Avenue Church
will be conducted by the Rev. J. c..
Spangler, pastor of First United Breth-
rem Church, Harrisburg and at the
last named meeting by the Rev. Dr. J.
Ritchie Smith, pastor of Market
Square Presbyterian Church.
The convention will continue all day
tomorrow with morning, afternoon
and evening sessions, and will culmi-
nate in monster street parade to-
morrow evening.
Big Temperance Dinner
A symposium on the liquor traffic
and its relation to many phases of
moral. mental and physical life of to-
day Will feature dinner to thirty
guests of DR.. S. c. Swallow at the
Commonwealth Hotel this evening.
The dinner will take place in the pri-
Vate dining room at $50 o'clock. Pa
pers will be read by seventeen of the
guests and these papers will afterward
be printed together in pamphlet form
and widely distributed.
Topics revolving around the relation
of the liquor traffic to material, social
and moral phases of life will be taken
up as follows The High Cost of
Living" James w. Barker, Harris
burg; General Education" Professor
r. E. Downes, superintendent of pub
lie schools; THE Church." the Rev.
John III. Daugherty, pastor of Ridge
Avenue Methodist Church; Our For
eign Population" d. G.. Fenno; 1.-The
Manufacturing Interests" Charles l..
Huston, Coatesville, iron manufac-
turer; The Law" James A. Strana-
han; THE Home" Mrs. S. c. Swal-
low; .'The Press" Willis Geist New
bold; "Woman's Suffrage" Mrs. Mabel
Cronise Jones; Social Vice." the Rev.
DR.. Jay c. Forncrook, Maclay Street
Church of God; "Heredity and En-
vironment," Mrs. Thomas H. Hamil-
ton; "Pennsylvania State Courts the
Rev. DR.. e. W. Mckinney, Coates
Vile; Banking AL. K. Thomas;
Really and Insurance, Wilmer
Grow; Our Game Laws,p Joseph
Kalbfus. State Game Commissioners;
Political Parties Dr. S. c. Swallow,
the host of the evening.
Several out-of-town guests are ex-
pected TO be present andt will make
informal addresses. So