Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-07-08

the task they have themselves pledged
$4,000 a year for five years. Many OF
them can i'll afford to give.
However, the true worth OF the
movement is beginning to come home
to wealthy men and others glad to
help but unable to take active part,
and it is quite probable that the col
lege men will find abundant financial
support in the early future.
At the close Of 1s14-15 the Intercol-
legiate Prohibition Association is &C
lively at work. having 264 chapters
or leagues in 260 colleges and uni
versities Of 81 states. In addition it
has conducted work in IS colleges
where there are no local branches,
making a total Of 2s5 schools now di-
rectly or indirectly connected with the
movement.
Among the number are all but few
Of the largest universities as we'll as
the middle sized colleges Of the coun-
try. Ohio has the largest number Of
local branches. II leagues at 16 Of the
most important schools Of the state.
Kansas, most effective Of prohibition
states. has the same number Of or
ganized schools; Illinois. Iowa and
Pennsylvania each have fifteen.
AS an example Of what the college
men are doing, let us look at the case
Of Ohio A year ago the liquor men in
Ohio opened booze training school
for young men in Cincinnati. Young
lawyers, students and others who were
willing to enter the campaign in favor
of state wide whisky were given
three-weeks' course in preparation for
speech making. At the end Of this
period they were sent out on the stump
and into the streets in behalf Of the
brewers amendment and against pro-
hibition.
These young men were offered and
given a due consideration-s5 per day
while in training, and SO per day
while at work. ~
This year there is another state pro-
hibition campaign in Ohio. The de-
feat Of year ago is to be followed by
a heavier drive" on the liquor en-
trenchments than ever. To this new
campaign the Ohio Intercollegiate Pro-
hibition Association has added its re-
serves. The eighteen organized col
leges of the state, led by State Presi-
dent Earl F. Baum of Ohio State Uni
versity, in sympathetic cooperation
with the Saloon League. are to
have a vital part In the campaign Of
the early fall months.
The plans involve the sending out Of
300 teams of students from the vari-
Gus colleges, including speakers and
singers. They are to be fully equip
ped, each on a definite phase Of the
argument that will count most in the
effort to drive saloons out Of Ohio. A
year ago Ohio colleges sent out sixty
two such teams without concerted eff
fort; this coming year, with careful or
ganization, a much larger number is
assured.
In this campaign the students will
go out for their expenses; they give
their services for the good of the state
at the time Of vital need. Unlike the
paid agents of the liquor traffic they
will not receive IS to SO per day.
Mark r. Shaw, secretary for the
eastern states for the I. P. A. has
been in Maine and passed several days
in Augusta He will come again in
few weeks and will push the work of
organization and attempt to interest
prominent Maine people in the cause.
We hope he will find encouragement
and assistance, for when college men
turn from the social follies and plug
uglyisms that play SO large a part in
college life, to engage in serious work
for their fellow men. they deserve en-
enlargement and prompt support.
The Way Lumber Did It.
In an editorial in it's issue of June
17tb tho Christian SoioDce Monitor