Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-09
URGE PROHIBITION |
AS WAR MEASURE
Great Campaign Will Be Open
ed Here Tomorrow Night by
DR.. Crafts and Mr.. Howard

"As saloons are closed in a riot.
much more should they be closed in
war. as in Russia; not alone for eff
ficient mobilization of troops and eff
ficient manufacture of munitions. but
here for the additional reasons that
we have had bread riots and peace
riots, and may reasonably expect race
riots and draft riots, If saloons re-
main to promote the contentious for
which liquors have been noted since
the days of Solomon"
This is the argument for immediate
statutory enactment of national pro-
hibition as a war measure by major
ity vote in Congress. as a part of moral
preparedness. which is the motif of
two weeks campaign by Clinton N.
Howard and DR.. Wilbur f. Crafts. un-
der joint auspices of the International
Reform Bureau and various local
churches and welfare associations,
which will open here tomorrow.
Other meetings will be held in Bal
timore, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh. York,
Lancaster and Coatesville. The details
of the moral preparedness that will be
asked of Congress will be left to the
National Legislative Conference" rep
resenting all temperance forces, which
is to convene in Washington on April
II, of which both Mr.. Howard and DR..
Crafts are members. This campaign
was previously undertaken for the
"bone dry" national prohibition, which
DR.. Crafts assures. "all temperance
leaders save one regard as not less but
more in order because we are moving
into the world war, in which the su-
preme victory has been Rusia's peace
full revolution, which would not have
been possible If vodka had not been
previously dethroned." Triumphant
democracy in China" DR.. Crafts re-
calls, "is also built on prohibition, and
March 81, 1917, he thinks, was cele-
brated as China's Independence Day.
because it marked the time when John
Chinaman and John Bull buried John
Opium by the termination of the Brit
ish opium treaty, despite vast sums
offered by the Opium Combine for its
extension.
Scraping skeleton Bone Dry
Prohibition in the worlds two larg-
est republics will be made dynamic for
the completion of the anti-liquor war
in our oldest republic in an entertain
ing double-headed lecture sometimes
described as "Scraping the Skeleton of
John Barleycorn bone dry in the joint
funeral and wake of John Opium, John
Barroom and John Barleycorn." Back
of the famous humor of Howard and
the swift survey of DR.. Crafts of
Trenches won on many fronts" the
central prophetic strain of the cam
paign will be: "In the name of The
Only King the liquor traffic must
die"
The addresses will be at p. M, ex-
cept when otherwise stated, on prayer
meeting nights preceded by half hour
of prayer for national preparedness.
The meetings will be as follows: April
10, Harrisburg. Grace Methodist; April
IL, Philadelphia, Temple Lutheran;
April IL, Baltimore, First Baptist;
April 13, York. First Presbyterian;
April is, Washington, $50 p. m, First
Congregational: 7.30 p. m, Foundry
Methodist; April 16. Coatesville. First
Methodist; April IT, Lancaster. st.
Paul's Reformed; April Is, Philadel-
phia, Goodman Methodist; April 10.
Philadelphia, Arch Street Presbyterian;
April 20. Germantown, First Presby-
terian; April %, Pittsburgh, $50 p. M,
East Liberty Presbyterian.