Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-03-14
METHODISTS RAP
GRANT OF LICENSE
Score Court Action in Case
of Michael j. Burke's
Saloon
CALL DECISION OUTRAGE
Conference Picks Three Men to
Attend Local Option
Hearing

Action OF the License Court IN granting
a license 10 Michael J. Burke. OF Sixtleth
street and Lansdownc avenue. was de-
nounced this afternoon in resolution
unanimously adopted at the opening session
Of the 13Oth annual meeting Of the Metho-
dist Episcopal Church at Goodman Church,
Twelfth street aud Lehigh avenue
The decision OF the court was character
ized as an outrage on the property and
personal rights Of the people ia the neigh
borhood Of the Burke saloon.
The resolution continued:
I'VE protest against the presumption that
the destruction OF a saloon building in the
central part Of the city creates "A demand
for its removal to some other section. This
decision serves to emphasize the inadcquacy
Of the Brooks High License Law"
The resolution was presented by a com
mittcc headed by Robert T.. johnson, who
has taken a prominent part in the fight
against the Burke saloon.
Prior to the adoption Of the resolution
Bishop Henderson, who presided. outlined
the plans of the meeting and indicated that
every possible step would be taken TO have
harmonious results. Every layman who had
suggestions, he said. would be welcome. But
ercise A fair degree of courage when IT
came to making appointments
The conference also decided to continue
the war on rum by sending three men 10
the hearing on the local option bill to be
held in Harrisburg March II.
Rollcall Of the 322 ministers and officers
In the Conference followed.
Business sessions will be held every
morning at $50 O'Clock in tho auditorium
Of Cookman Church. Sectional meetings
and anniversaries of various auxiliary or
ganizations will be held in the afternoons
and evenings
This afternoon the women's Home Mis-
sionary Society will hold its anniversary.
Addresses will be made by the Rev. DR. d.
w. Howell. corresponding secretary Of the
general deaconess board. and by Mrs. May
Leonard Woodruff corresponding secretary
Of the National Womens Miss 'onary Soci-
ETY.. Pentecostal services will be held at
O'Clock in charge of the Rev. DR.. c. NJ.
Boswell.
The anniversary Of the Conference claim
ants endowment fund in Goodman Church
tonight will be addressed by the Rev DR.. j.
ID. G. Hanna, campaign manager, and the
Rev DR.. Joseph b. Hingeley, secretary OF
the board of conference claimants
At the same time the anniversary OF the
Epworth League will be held in the West
York Street Church, Seventeenth and York
streets. lne keN. lDr ian ID bTuHinlllt'
editor of the Epworth Herald. will speak.
Tomorrow afternoon the women's For
eign Missionary Society will hold its ami
versary. DR.. Belle J. Allen, Of Baroda.
India, will speak The Rev. Dr. d. ID. For
syth. secretary of the board. will make an
address at the anniversary OF the Board OF
Home Missions and Church Extension at
night. The twenty-flfth anniversary jubilee
dinner of the Laymen's Association will also
be held tomorrow night
the conference follow: Address by Prof.
Francis Harvey Green, of West Chester
State Normal School, at the joint anniver-
sary of the Tract and Freedman's Aid So
cieties Friday night.
Addresses by Wesley L. Jones. United
States Senator from the State of Washing
ton. and the Rev DR.. Clarence True Wilson,
secretary of the Board of Temperance. Pro-
hbltion and Public Morals, at the anniver-
sary of the Conference Temperance Society
on Saturday night.
Conference sermon by Bishop Henderson
Sunday morning. Evangelistc services by
the Rev. DR.. G. NJ. Boswell Sunday night
The Laymens Association will meet Fri
day morning, afternoon and night in the
Lehigh Avenue Baptist Church. Twelfth
street and Lehigh avenue. The night ad-
dress will be made by DR.. T. II. Lewis
president OF Western Maryland College OF
the Methodist Protestant Church