The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1917-05-01
.NATION-W|DE
DRY LAW DRIVE
On At CAPITAL
Governors of All States Rally
to Washington Tor Historic
Conference on Issue.
GOV. HARRIS ISSUED CALL
Many Have Petitioned Wilson
And Congress Already For
Legislation TO Save Grain for
Food During War.
GOV. HARRIS ISSUED CALL

washington, April 3O.-Ihe war
time drive for national prohibitions
found open expression here today.
The Governors of several dry
states are now here and have joined
forces with the leading agricultural,
lists i'll urging that the millions of
bushels of grain that is used yearly
in the manufacture OF liquor be used
for food.
Several bills to combat the growing
menace of a world famine are ready
to be introduced in the Senate.
A memorial was, presented to the
President signed by more than one
thousand men of the character of
Luther Burbank; Ebert GRAY. chair
man of the United States Steel Cor
poration; Darwin p Kingsley pres
ident of the New York Life Insur-
ance company; John D. Rockefeller.
Ir.; F. A. Vanderbilt president OF
the National City Bank of New
York; Frederick Frelinghuysen. pres
ident of the Mutual Life Insurance
company; w. J. Harahan. President
Of the Seaboard Air Line Railway
company; Howard Elliott, President
of the New York. New Haven and
Hartford Railroad; John Wanamak
er, the merchant; Ray Stannard
Baker, author: P, P. Claxton, Uni
ed States commissioner of Educa
ton, Herreshoff, famous yacht biuld
er; Dr. Haven Emerson, Health Com
missioner of New York; Roger Bah
son. the financial authority: Albert
J. Stone, vice president of the Erie
Railroad; J. M. Gruber. vice presi
dent Of the Great Northern Railroad
A. w. Harris, president Of the Harris
Trust and Savings bank of Chicago
DR.. Irving Fisher. professor o.
economics, Yale University: Booth
Harrington, the novelist. DR.. George
Blumer. dean OF the medical depart
ment. Vale University; William Jer
nings Bryan. andl Professor Winfield
Scott Hall, department of Physiology
Northwestern University, Chicago.
The list of names includes the lead
ing representatives oi big business,
education, science. medicine. and re-
search of all kinds. It is the most
formidable array ever enlisted for Z
cause in Ameria.
Gov. Harris. Of Georgia, has call
ed conference of ofc.ssyernors. to con.
slider this question. IT will meet in
Washington City. May 4th. The fol
lowing telegram to the President
signed by Governor Arthur Capper, OF
Kansas. is typical:
Hon. Woodrow Wilson President OF
the United States, Washington
u, c.
The people of Kansas are mobiliz
ing their agricultural resources in the
defense of the nation and in the aid
of o,f allies abroad. In view of the
dire need of the world for food.
respectfully suggest to you, in the
name Of the loyal people Of this
state that you recommend to the
cong'ess the immediate prohibition
of TIE waste OF grains and other food
stuff in the manufacture of alcoholic
beverages.
With the nation at war and ever,
/ possible source Of food production
certiin to be strained to the utmost
we have neither men nor war ma
terias to waste in continuing an evi
| ageley Millions Of bushels of graiy
are used annually in breweries anS
distNeries. The hundred THOUSAND
IabGers wasted in the bushes.
shodd be farming or ready to fight.
i All Kansas regards this as an im
Der.five war measure from an eco
| nenkc and patriotic Standpoint, leav
ing DIT moral asnects.
ARTHUR CAPpFR
Governor.
j Iaresponse tota letter Sert Ont b.
] Co 4spor Capper only two goyer
fanoi4opposed 3rohibisicn for the war