Evening journal., 1915-06-03
FLYING SQUADRON
AGAIN BOMBARDS
Rev. DR.. Ira Landrith and
DR.. Carolyn GeiSel the
Speakers Yesterday
MAYOR HOWELL AT
AFTERNOON SESSION

Despite the rain yesterday and last
night, both meetings of the Flying
Squadron in West Presbyterian
Church were well attended. DR.. Ira
Landrith and DR.. Carolyn Geisel, of
the Battle Creek. Mich. sanitarium,
we're the speakers. Mayor Howell at
tended the afternoon meeting and
made a short address of welcome to
the members of the squadron. Fred
erick Butler, soloist, sang.
Today will be the biggest day so
far of the meeting. The principal
speaker will be Ex-Governor J. Frank
Hanly, of Indiana. oliver W. Stewart,
former member of the Illinois Legis-
lature, also will speak. Miss Vera X.
Mullin will be soloist.
In the course of his address yester-
day afternoon, DR.. Landrith. the
Nashville Presbyterian clergyman
and college president, the only south
ern speaker in the three batteries Of
the Flying Squadron took what lie
playfully termed "a crack ut crea-
tion," confidently predicting that the
legalized liquor traffic in America
would be a grewsome corpse in ten
years because, since God is Omni-
potent the saloon is not immortal" :"
he quickly passed from prophecy to
history, told the story of Tennessee's
regeneration from distillery protec-
ton to home protection, all because in
that state the church of God had de-
stroyed the saloon of the devil" carl
catured the pious old fraud who prays
for nf hay n
year and votes for license on cleo
ton day; and urged that mo Chris
tian man can afford to belong to any
political party-he should merely be
a member of it-and when his party
is wrong he should quit it and stay
right until his party gets right, as
1t will surely do if all self-respecting
men will act upon this patriotic prin-
ciple."
"A man ought to be so loyal TO his
political party" he exclaimed, that
he will rebuke its rottenness. He is
his partys best friend who stands by
II when II is right and defeats II
when il is wrong. Any other attitude
toward ones political party renders
the partisan a traitor to his govern
ment and will result in converting the
party itself into a reasonable insti-
tuition richly meriting federal ami
hilation
political parties are just as bad
as the good citizen let's them become;
and they would be just as good as the
resolutely right-minded would make
them. Either of them would adopt the
decalogue as its platform and the
Golden Rule as its campaign slogan
If it we're sure that thereby IL could
get Woodrow Wilson out of the White
House or keep him in It. But it Is only
the brewer, the distiller and sheiI
hired serfs that are uniformly inde-
pendent in politics. They always vote
as they pray Thus far enough OF
us have been praying for prohibition
and voting our straight party ticket
to enable the liquor traffic to have its
prayers answered. 1t is past my find
ing out how a man can always vote
a straight party ticket and not be
crooked himself"
In the course of her address on THE
Business of the Home" DR.. Carolyn
Z. Geisel spoke in part as follows;
"It is a woman's business TO raise
men. The saloon interferes with her
business. Has the government the
right to license the manufacture and
sale of poison that ruins this busi-
ness?
America doesn't need more lands
more mines. more minerals or more
money-she needs more men, and the
American home can produce men
when the business of the American
mother is protected by the American
government
Awake, ye careless women! The
punch bowl and the alcoholic medi
cine bottle are feeders for the .aloon
the devils kindling wood Shall We
continue to destroy our sons with oul
own hands?
Teach the sacredness of self; fol
il the body is reverenced as a vehicle
of the Creator it will be kept fret
from shame.
prevention of the marriage of th'
unfit; a clean bill of health with thu
marriage license: better baby con
tests; child conservation studies; an
ti-child-labor laws-these and al
other plans for combating race de
eeneracy are but means for correct
ing the ruin wrought by rum.
1--WE have reached the third stag
of race degeneration. Out of ever.
two persons born into the world, on
dies before reaching maturity Re
move the cause and save the nation.