The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-12-19
More Than 1000 COllegians
Here Dec. 2o.Jan. 1.
PROF. E. 0. EXCEL IS LEADER
Famous Hymn Writer Will
Have Charge of Singing.
History of the Washburn Col
lege Branch of /. p. A.


collegiate Prohibition association. which
will be held in the Auditorium. De-
cember 29-January l, is being adver-
tised widely all over the country, and
more than one thousand college stu
dents are expected to attend. The pro-
gram will be a brilliant one. as some
Of the most noted speakers Of the coun-
try have been booked.
The speakers will include the fol-
lowing well known persons: Congress
man Richmond p. Hobson. the Spanish
war hero and a peerless orator who is
at the present time fighting the consti-
tutional prohibition amendment through
congress; DR.. Ira Landrith, president
of Ward-Belmont college and president
of the International Y. M. c. A.; DR..
Charles M. Sheldon, "Catch-my-p ar'
Patterson of Belfast, Ireland. who is a
giant in the transatlantic liquor fight;
Rev. Elmer L. Williams. the Fighting
Parson Of Chicago: DR.. Purley A.
Baker, of the Anti-Saloon league: Dan
A. Polling. one of the big men in the
Worlds Christian Endeavor; John p.
st. John, the first prohibition governor
OF Kansas. and once a candidate for
president on the prohibition platform;
Virgil G. Hinshaw, national chairman
OF the Prohibition party; William Allen
White. now in the thick of a magazine
fight against liquor; DR.. Clarence True
Wilson; Bishop w. o. Shepherd. of
Kansas City, Mo-, who heads the Meth
odist church forces; DR.. David Paulson.
Governor-elect Arthur Capper. Mrs.
Frances E. Beauchamp, Harley H. Gill,
Henry J. Allen, H. G. Mccain. George
H. Hodges, governor of Kansas, and e
number of other nationally known lead
ers. If his health permits. DR.. David
Starr Jordan will be here.
Convention Subjects.
The topics of speakers will center
around the convention themes: THE
College Student and Civic Life" THE
Challenge of Patriotism THE Chal-
lenge of the Present Prohibition Move
ment to the Colleges and Universities"
The Challenge of Service to Human
ity,' "At the Heart of the Conflict in
the Great Cities,'' 1.-The Relation of
the Movement to the Coming Profess
sional Man, Physician, Lawyer, Jour-
nalist, etc." THE Woman of Today"
and 1.-The World Wide Anti-Alcohol
Movement are some Of the suggestive
subjects.
Kansan in Contest.
Many college students. of Kansas
will be here to hear Aura G. Nesmfth.
the Kansas Wesleyan orator, who will
represent the central section Of the
United States in the grand biennial
tercOllegiate Prohibition association,
on tho night Of December 20.
In this contest Mr.. Nesmith will be
pitted against six other interstate win
ners chosen by a series of elimination
contests from over LOO college ora
tors in all parts of the United States.
| One of these will be a young woman,
Miss Ethel L. Bedient. of A1bian col
lege, College, Mich. winner of the
1914 eastern interstate contest and
the second woman who has ever quail
flied for a national contest.
| Writer OF Hymnal Here.
| The convention music will be under
the direction of Prof. E. o. Excel
whose soul-stirring hymns have been
sung round the world and are familiar
to every Christian household. For
many years he has conducted the
music at some of the foremost
religious, reform and semi-political
conventions of America.
Washburn 1. p. A. Branch.
OF the Washburn organization OF
the intercollegiate Prohibition as
ISOLATION, the Washburn Review has
| the following to say:
The local branch of the Intercol-
legiate Prohibition association has
had an interesting history. 1t made
it's first appearance as an active or
ganization in the school year of 1910
IL. Benjamin Franklin was the
president that year and Roy Painter
represented Washburn in the state
prohibition oratorical contest. In the
second year Franklin again headed
the organization, which had grown tt
be one Of 70 members. Ray Brook.
occupied the treasurer's job. In thi.
voor WaShh11ru reached itS hfDh