Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-12-17
a Real Work in Colleges.

Shaw, eastern secretary of the Inter-
collegiate Prohibition Association,
gives his hopeful view of the Maine
field and has awakened new interest
in what the |. p. A. is doing in other
states Perhaps of first interest is the
courageous battle for civic righteous
ness in the last election contest in
Ohio. The Intercollegiate statesman
for November said:
At least $50 students from eighteen
Ohio colleges, 80 Of them college young
women. took part in the tremendous
drive" of anti-liquor sentiment IN
that state. which eliminated, Novem-
Der >. in the capture of one-haif OF
the enemy's line of entrenchments-in
the reduction of the $4,000 majority
vote of year ago against constitu-
tional prohibition to ma ority not
exceeding 10000.
This healthful. steady. year-byyear,
business like and scientifically man
aged advance by the forces of civic
righteousness. all the more scientific
because of the enthusiastic reserves
now coming into it from the colleges,
is reducing and threatening to con-
tinue reducing. the pro-liquor ma
iorities of the great cities of that state
of many cities. until the vanishing
point is reached.
AS go the colleges today. so goes
the nation tomorrow"
The slogan of the l. F.. \. is: Train
ing for service. and then service
And this leaven is now working in
more than go of the leading colleges
and universities of the country. II
enrolls more than $500 year in its
study classes. with 600 men and Wo-
men in its system of oratorical con-
tests each year. 1t carries on sys-
;ematic campaigns against long estab-
ished drinking customs in many of
our large educational institutions
customs that would never have been
acquired in the home environment of
many unfortunate students and which
has proved and is proving their life
ruin.
Perhaps in no one field of possible
ity in social uplift and permanent
to be far reaching.
For several years the |. P. y. has
aided movements seeking to do away
with drinking customs at banquets.
class functions. big game celebra-
tons etc, at certain large UNIVERSE
ties where the social approval of
drink, hoary with college tradition, is
yet very dominant. At California,
Cornell. Harvard and other large
schools. student leaders are begin
ming to take a strong stand against
these ancient blighting TRADITIONS
The l. =. A. is the largest student
civic movement. Its activities are d
vital force in most of the large UNI
versities as we'll as the Independent
and UNCONVENTIONAL colleges. In
many of the big eastern schools,
versities of the central west. in the
best schools of the south. and in every
state of the western coast it is or-
sanizing, equipping, training. develop
ing and consecrating students for
prohibition service. In nearly every
state and in all the great anti-liquor
organizations its men are found. help
ing to bring the national prohibition
movement To a focus.
Like all good works the one need
uppermost is funds to extend it. Thou
sands of earnest collegians have al
ready consecrated themselves to the
service but they are handicapped by
lack of money for expenses in carry
ing on the work.
Men who worse than throw away
hundreds of dollars year indulging
their personal liberty" have not a
dollar or a good word for these young
men and women who are giving their
time and money for the benefits of
generations to come. Thus it becomes
a problem for those who live for a
purpose and for the fathers and
mothers who have sons and daughters
in college or that they hope to send
10 college.
Do you wish this work to go ono
Are you raising your son for some
one to turn into a drunkard?
Are you raising your daughter for
the liquor interests to deprave?