Rocky Ford enterprise., 1915-03-12
FLYING SQUADRON
IS COMING
Carrying MESSAGES of Nation
wide Prohibition
WILL INVADE THIS
CITY MARCH 20, 80, 81
Speakers OF National Importance
Will Tell Us of Fight Against
John BarIeycorn

VIII ieu Us OI right Against
John BarIeycorn
Regarded as thought provoking, con-
vincing and powerful force for Ma
tion-wide Prohibition, the Flying
Squadron of America, composed of
speakers of national Importance, will
invade Rocky Ford on March 1890
81. Deep interest is being manifested
by church and temperance people gen.
orally in the work of this organiza-
tion and it is confidently expected that
the forthcoming meetings will be
largely attended.
Headed by Rev. J. L. Weaver, the
local committe is now completing ar
rangements for the meetings which
will be held in the Presbyterian
church.
William Bradford, advance agent
of the Flying Squadron, was in Rocky
Ford Tuesday and after looking over
the situation and comforting with
number of prominent clergy and laity,
declared that in his estimation the
meetings will be productive of splen-
did results for the fight waged on
John Barleycorn.
"Broadsides against the liquor ira
ffic" he said will be fired by every
member of the Flying Squadron at
the coming meetings and the effect
will go a long way toward crystalliz-
ing the temperance sentiment of the
people of Rocky Ford.
He also points out that the Flying
Squadron is not being backed by any
sect or political party but consists Of
temperance workers who are imbued
with the desire to do something real
ly worth while for the cause.
Already about It's of the leading
cities of the country have been visited
by the Flying Squadron and every
where in the meetings, it is declared,
the speakers were received with q
cordiality which distinctly shows the
trend of the popular mind as to the
disposition which should be made of
the liquor traffic.
Professional singers and musicians
accompany the Squadron and conduct
the musical programs at all the meet
ings, making them, it is pointed out,
doubly attractive.
Former Governor j. Frank Hanly,
of Indiana, is the chairman of the Fly
ing Squadron, and is in general
charge of the direction of the cam
paign which is being fought from the
Atlantic to the Pacific, and from
Michigan and the farther northern
states to points in Florida and other
extreme southern locations.
Born in a log cabin in Champaign
county, Illinois, not many miles from
the old home of Abraham Lincoln, he
received most of his early education
at his mothers knee under her tutor
ship; attended school but few weeks
for several years, and then, at the age
of thirteen, started out to find his
way in the world, which led to the
governorship of Indiana at the age of
forty-one, together with other high
honors, upon all of which he turned
his back when the plan to aid man
kind in the fight for the suppression
of the liquor traffic presented itself
to his mind.
With Governor Hanly in his work
are Hon. Oliver Wayne Stewart,
former member of the Illinois State
Legislature, and temperance lee
turer, regarded as a man of intense
personality tnd deep enthusiasm; and
Daniel A. Polling, National Citizen
ship Superintendent of the United
Society of Christian Endeavor and the
youngest man who was ever a candi-
date for the governorship of Ohio,
where in 1912, at the age of twenty
eight, he reached by automobile eigh-
ty-six counties of the Buckeye State
in his speaking tours and was re-
warded by seeing the Prohibition vote
at the ensuing election raised 15O per
cent.
DR.. Ira Landrith, President of the
Ward Belmont college, of Nashville,
Tenn, Presbyterian and former mod
orator of the denominations general
assembly, the highest honor it can
confer, is another of the leaders work
ing with Governor Hanly in the Nat
ion-wide campaign. He was one of
the founders of the Tennessee Anti
Saloon League and is now member
of the State Executive Committee of
the organization, having been a lead
er of the work since its inception.
He was also president of the late
international Convention of the Y. M.
C. A., has served the Association for
twenty-one years as chairman of the
Tennessee State Committee, and is
also connected with many other ef-
forts of civic and religious nature.
DR.. Charles NJ. Sheldon, known
throughout the world as an author of
note and an earnest exponent of prac-
teal and livablc Christianity, is also
included in the list of speakers.
Known best by his famous book, SIN
His Steps" DR.. Sheldon has seen it
translated into seventeen different
languages and attain circulation of
millions of copies in this country and
Great Britain. He is now ministerial
large of the Central Congregational
church of Topeka, Kansas, with inde-
| finite lpnye of absence to "lecture