The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-26
This Is What DIR. Sheldon of
Flying Squadron Expects.
Famous Organization Here
Sunday, Monday, Tuesday.
QUARTER OF MILLION PERSONS
The Squadron Has Spoken Be-
fore Large Audiences.
DIR. Sheldon and Daniel Polling
To Be Here Sunday.

Dr. Charles NJ. Sheldon of the Fly
ing Squadron of America, which will
be in Topeka Sunday, Monday ana
Tuesday, in a letter written from
Beaumont, Texas. says that he Is eX-
pecting great time" in Topeka he
states that at the 165 cities visited by
the squadron 240, 600 persons nave
been addressed .
I'VE have had a great campaign IN
the SOUTH Doctor Sheldon writes
(which has exceeded our expectations
At Jackson. Miss, the capital OF the
state, the whole city was decorated
for the squadron. the mayor preSlded
and the whole town turned out AT
Baton Rouge and at New orleans we
had great crowds At New orleans
they said that never in the history OF
the city had they known anything Ike
the interest aroused by the squadron
visit.
1--WE have completed the first two
thirds of our schedule without miss
ing a single city out of the 165 and
have spoken every day twice and on
Sundays from four to six times, meet
ing more than 240,000 persons during
the campaign.
And everywhere we go persons of
all political faiths and all the church
creeds are shouting for national pro
hibitiOn. We anticipate being IN To-
peka and expect great time there
Speakers of Prominence.
DR.. Carolyn Gefsel of the Battle
Creek. Mich, sanitarium and noted
woman physician Oh THIS COuliIAS - u
be a speaker at the meetings of the
Flying Squadron of America on Mon
day in the city auditorium, and this
fact it IS pointed out, promises to
draw large delegations from the mem
bership of the various woman, church,
civic and temperance societies of the
city which have been watching with
interest this nationwide campaign
that the squadron is conducting for a
national prohibition amendment
OF particular additional interest to
the meetings of this day will be the
appearance as associate speaker with
Doctor CeiseI of DR.. Ira Landrith
president of Ward-BeImont college of
Nashville, Tenn, the largest instftu-
ton for the higher education of young
women in the southland, and former
moderator of the Presbyterian general
assent bly,. the highest honor the de-
nomination can confer. With DR..
Howard B. Grose, he wrote, at the At
lantic City convention. the prohibition
cam paign slogan of the great Chris
tian Endeavor movement, of which he
is one the international trustees. "a
SaloOnlesS nation by 1920. the three
hundredth anniversary of the landing
of the Pilgrims, the slogan which has
since been adopted by almost every
temperance organization in the coun-
try.
Alcohol and the Man Himself
Alcohol and the Man Himself is
to be the topic of Dr. GeisePs dis
courses in this city and during their
progress she VIII tell of the effect of
alcohol on the human body as she has
viewed it during years of investiga-
ton as z. pathOIOgist.
In the handling of this topic she is
regarded as one particularly well
equipped from the standpoint of train
ing. A graduate of the University of
Michigan, she later went to Petrograd,
Russia. where she took advanced
courses, after which she did much re-
search work at the Pasteur Institute
at Paris She holds three American
medical diplomas and has for some
years taken a deep interest in the sci
entific temperance phase of the liquor
problem
For many years a leader of the In
ternationaI Y. VI. C. A, DIR. Landrith
was made president at the last con-
vention of the organization. One of
the founders of the Anti-saIoon
League of Tennessee, he has for years
been a leader in the work of the or
the state executive committee. He was
also general secretary of the Presby-
terrain Brotherhood before accepting
the call to the presidency of Ward
Belmont college in the Tennessee cap
ital city.
With this group comes as soloist
Frederick Butler, of New York re-
in this country. Formerly leading
basso of the Alice Nielsen Opera COM
pany, he gave this work up to become
solOist for Rev. Dr. J Wilbur Chap
man, world evangelist. and after a
globe evangelistic tour with DR.. Chap
man. the evangelist declared him the
greatest evangelistic singer in the
world" Mrs. Butler will be the plan
ist for the meetings of this group.