Evening journal., 1914-01-12
WILL CLEAN UP
SALISBURY
Next Thursday Set Aside As
Day Of Fasting and
Prayer
CHURCHES In THE
FIGHT AGAINST LIQUOR


ter Salisbury" was issued yesterday
for a meeting of the Woman's Chris
tian Temperance Union at the Meth
odist Protestant Church Thursday
evening. The women are asked to
set aside Thursday as a day of fast
ing and prayer for Salisbury, the
State and the country.
The day was originally selected as
a day Of prayer for the prohibition
amendment to the Constitution. The
leaders have now decided to make it
q day of prayer for Salisbury as well.
10 Work For Anti-Shipping Bill.
In eveW church yesterday the min
istors prayed for the move for a
cleaner. better Salisbury" At AS
bury Methodist Episcopal Church the
members indorsed the petition where
in the Legislature is asked to pass
an ant-shipping liquor law for
Wicomico county. and the county rep
rosentativcs are called on to work for
such a bill.
At the Presbyterian Church the
Rev r. W. NJ. Beale made an urgent
appeal for his members to back the
Law and order League and to Support
the Ant-Shipping bill Another
petition was circulated and signed at
this church
The churches were thronged and
the attendance of men was larger
than in years.
Another raid in the vicinity of the
Old Mill was made Saturday night.
The authorities announced Saturday
that additional arrests will be made
and that those caught in the poker
raid last week will be brought to
trial tomorrow
The private detectives employed
have returned to Baltimore. They
will be brought back to testify in the
various cases in which they secured
evidence. but the local authorities feel
confident that they have the situation
well in hand
Mayor Kennerly and others feel
that wrong impression as to condi-
tions in Salisbury has gone out as 4
result of the clashes over the trial
Of the cases. It was pointed out that
Salisbury is a typical country town
Of from 1000 to 5000 inhabitants, that
conditions had grown up so slowly
and silently that few persons realized
them. that suddenly the citizens awoke
TO conditions. which exist in prac-
tically every country town. and deter
mined to make Salisbury a cleaner
better town.
The Record Of Arrests.
A report of the arrests made up to
date and given out by Mayor Ken
nerly is as follows:
Crap shooting 10 men and boys.
Disorderly house raid, four women
and three men.
Poker game raid, seven men, boy
and a woman
Proprietors Of FIVE poolrooms and
one bowling alley.
Second crap game raid, seven men
and boys
Resort keepers, two women.
Street walkers. four women
Bootlegging raids. (.go). nine men.
Disordcrly house raid. nine per-
sons
Speaking of the situation. Mayor
kennerly said.
Salisbury will now be the clean
est. best own on the Eastern Shore.
We simply discovered that Salisbury
was not 'spotless town and started
in TO clean up. Conditions were un-
boarable. not because the town was
80 wicked. but because no town ought
to allow them to exist hope every
town in Maryland will do just what
We have done.
1T takes courage to face the sit
luatiOn In town the size of Salisbury,
but when once the residents realize
conditions they will be a unit in
lremedying them
Salisbury has demonstrated that
the small town Is able TO recognize
its perils we'll as its blessings. ]
have greater faith thar ever in my
home town."
/ VIII Proceed With Trial.
Today the city attorneys will pro-
ceed with the prosecution Of CO.
lnelia Beauchamp. who is charged
with keeping a disorderly house. I'm
mcdiatcly after her trial tina. of the
seven poker players VIII were
caught IN her house will be held.
One of the results OF the agitation
possibly the most far-reaching out,
side of Salisbury-is the s-ntimeni
which has sprung u for an anti.
shipping bill. 1t appears TO be the
/ first move in this direction in the
dry counties of the Eastern Shore
and there is possibility that il may
spread far and wid,.
This town has suffered greatly IN
Illicit liquor selling because of its
proximity TO Delaware. There is an
lanti-shipping law in that State, and Il
has become a custom for many ne
groes and others to drive over tC
Salisbury and receive LIQUOR shin
ments. The possession of liquor by
this class has led. naturally to boot
llegging and similar violations Of law
which have grown in extent until The
people became aroused.
Il has been charged here that town,
and shipping points near the Della
ware line have become important de
pots for liquor shipments intended
for persons living in Delaware. TIL,
Rev. George Zones made the state