Albuquerque morning journal., 1915-03-31

manner in regard to the progressive
ness Of the city and its people.
The afternoon meeting was held in
the Woman's club building beginning
at 2;30 o'clock, and was presided over
by III. S. Lithgow who introduced the
speakers. The rooms Of the club
We're well filled and the audience was
thoroughly in sympathy with the pur-
poses of the meeting.
After song and piano solo, Dan
lei A. Polling was introduced Mr.. Pol
ing told Of the origin Of the Flying
Squadron as a body which was affil-
lated with no other temperance or
ganization but was in sympathy with
all and which had in its membership
men ana women of every creed and
political faith. The aim of those
composing the squadron, he said. was
to do the thing differently from the
way it had been done before-to give
the public something spectacular
something that would appeal to the
Imagination and would command the
attention even Of the enemies Of the
movement
Political Corruption.
The speaker called attention to the
alarming exposures Of political cor
ruption at various points in the Unit
ed States in recent years. especially
the conditions existing in Terre Haute
during the last national election, and
asserted that the corrupt vote of the
country is always in the hollow OF
the hand Of the liquor traffic"
The problem of child labor MT,
Polling declared. could only be solved
by striking at the causes for it. THE
drinking man. he said SIS always
the first man to be laid off and the
last man to be put on in the shops
and mills of the country, and when
the drinking man is laid off it is his
children who are put to work. The
reason that | hate the liquor traffic
with all my soul is because it stands
in the middle of the pathway of Am
erican childhood
The high cost of living was also at
tributed to the liquor traffic. Take
the more than two billion dollars that
is annually spent for liquor he said,
"and put il into the legitimate chan
nels of tgade, and the problem of the
high cost Of living will cease to eX-
ist." He appealed to the youthful
members of his audience, especially
the boys. by citing Connie Mack as
authority for the statement that the
sober ball player is always the most
valuable. and by quoting a statement
by John L. Sullivan that John Bar
leycorn is the heavyweight champion
of the world
When Mr.. Polling CONCLUDED, en-
velopes were passed among the audi
ence. the members of which were
asked TO invest in the movement,
The speech of DR.. sheldon and a fur
ther musical program concluded the
afternoon meeting
The Night Meeting.
Not since the sessions of the New
Mexico Educational association last
November has there been such
crowd In the high school auditorium
as the one which attended the night
meeting Practically every seat
downstairs was occupied and the gal
Iery was wei filled.
The program was largely the same
as that carried out at the afternoon
meeting. A. B. Stroup presided. the
same musicians rendered pleasing Sc
lections and the same orators spoke,
DR.. sheldon preceding Mr. Polling. The
audience was kecnly responsive ana
both speakers were accorded hearty
applause Two numbers by the Valck-
Wilson orchestra. a local musical or
ganization, were rendered in an eX-
cellent manner, and were well re-
ceived
DR.. ira Landrith, president of the
Ward Belmont college, of Nashville,
Tenn. and Dr. Carolyn Geisel, of Bat
tie Creek, Mich, will be the speakers
today. while Frederick Butler Will be
the soloist. The places Of meeting will
be the same today and tomorrow as
yesterday.