The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-09-17
Prohibition Petitions
Are Warmly Wei
coined Everywhere
$4,000 NAMES IN
WAYNE EXPECTED
Work of Organizing
County Is Getting
Under Way

f1Ity tuOuseuu eiehoeuico Al
wayne county to the iintiatory pc
tition Tor statewide prohibition
that 10 the hope Of the Rev. Edwin
ampson. superintendent OF the De
troit district Of the Michigan Anti
Saloon league.
II make no prediction" said Mr..
Simpson. Thursday. II merely state
the hope that Wayne county will
turn In $4,000 signatures. We need
only t4.04S In the entire state. and
n we can make such a showing In
Wayne, II will answer the argument
that Wayne county and Detroit do
not want prohibition"
But II the showing In other parts
Of the state 10 any criterion. II may
be possible to secure $4,000 sigma
lures In Wayne county. MAJ A. p.
Loomis. who 10 In charge OF the
state campaign. has written to Mr..
Simpson. showing the progress OF
the work In several counties.
In springport township. Jackson
county, where the total vote In 1912
was 839. tho cAnvassers have secured
2ss signatures, or $40 per cent Of
the total vote. In Parma township.
jackson county. they have secured
z1S signatures where the total vote
was 2s6, a percentage OF 1872. In
Clayton township. Arenac county.
the vote was l76, and there are al
ready 1874 signers. In Surrey town
ship, Clare county. where the vote
was 1874. there are 1879 signers. In
Liberty township. Jackson county.
the vote was 100: the signers to
date are 1873. In River township,
jackson county, the vote was 276;
the signers number 1875. In Green
wood township. st. Clair county. the
vote was 22l, and 1870 men have al
ready signed the petitions,
Mai. LOOMS has asked Mr..
Simpson TO try TO make az good a
showing In Wayne county, and Mr..
Simpson Is out 10 show Maj. Loomis
that II can be done
The work in Wayne is just get
ting under way All the townships
have been organized except six. but
Detroit il still In the early con-
structive stages. In the townships,
the plan OF organization contem-
plates a director In each quarter
section, with eight 70 10 men under
him. each pledged 20 secure eight
or 10 signatures.
In Detroit, two districts have al
ready been organized. One com.
prises the section east OF Wood
ward-ave., north Of Forest-ave.. south
Of Mt vernon.ave.. and west OF M
Elliottave. The other takes in the
territory east OF Mt, Elliott-avc., 10
the city limits.
On Sept. 81. the district south o
the Michigan Central tracks. on the
west side. will be organized In q
meeting OF representatives from u
churches OF that section. in thu
rort-st. Congregational church. On
the following evening. tho section
north OF Mt. Vernon-ave. will be
organized, under tho auspices OF the
church federation. That will leave
the district south OF Forest-ave. and
the district north OF the Michigan
Central railroad and east TO Wood
ward.ave. still TO be organized.
Mr.. Simpson does not believe In
Aid. Burton's scheme for a new fed
eral census.
IL don't see what good 1t would
accomplish" he said. "All indica.
tions are that the saloons Will have
to go out OF business In 1918. Such
q census would merely aid. temper.
arily. an illegal business which IL
an enemy to our schools. our
churches, citizenship, and does
all II can to unnake what our in.
stitutions are striving to make"
Mr.. Simpson says that the whole
state ought to be thoroughly organ.
ICED for prohibition by February,
and that by June campaign directors
will be named for every county or
group Of counties. and the campaign
for the passage OF the dry" amend
,u~.s u.t,i h< a, full ewing