Norwich bulletin., 1918-06-03
TEMPERANCE SPEAKERS
 IN LOCAL CHURCHES Prohibition Field Day Here With Ad- dresses by Out of Town Men.

The field day of the Connecticut Temperance Union was observed in the Norwich churches on Sunday. It brought a variety of speakers to town whose object was to show the con- nection between our local needs and tn needs of the state in temperance matters. The speaker at the Central Baptist church had Rev. E. W. Pot ter of New Haven. Broadway Congre- gational had H. H. Spooner of Kens- Ington, secretary of the Connecticut Union. Prof. J. W. Wetzel of Hart ford spoke at the Greeneville Congre- gational church, Prof. W, E. Bailey of Yale university spoke at the Norwich Town Congregational and Rev. G. F. Richter of Darien spoke at the Uni versalist church. Rev. Walter Lan- phear of Hartford spoke at the Park Congrega tional church and G. T. Bocfman of Hartford spoke at the Taftville Congregational church.
 At Trinity Methodist.
 In the evening these speakers filled other pulpits.
 At the Trinity Methodist church Mir Lanphear said in part:
 In the providence of God and the progress of His kingdom this war is
 
 evil.
 That truth is most manifest on this continent. Followinf provincial leg tslation the whole Dominion of Can ada has adopted prohibition, to go in to effect in it's fullness in the near future. Twenty eight of our states, besides Alaska, Porto Rico and the District of Columbia, are already un- der or have adopted prohibition. In- rluding the "dry' territory in other states we now have more than 85 per cent of our national territory, with 1 more than 50 per cent. of our popu- I iatien.
 Forbidding the sale of liquor to sel- 1 diers and sailors in uniform tends to show that Mars and John Barleycorn 1 have had falling out while the same l thing is proven by the dry zones 1 around our army camps. Stopping l the distilling of liquors during the 1 war is the most unkindest cut of all from Mars into the body of his for ner booze companion.
 Many considerations demand full 1 wartime prohibition. In face of the need for food the brewers are stil using 40,000,000 bushels of barley (which could be used to release the more edible grains for human con- tsumption), 10000, 900 bushels of corn 2,000.0 900 bushels of rice. Last year the brewers used 54.934621 pounds ot grape sugar and 2,742,s54 gallons oi glucose.
 The fuel administrator of Ohio es. inmates that the brewers last year used 7,53o, ,395 tons of coal. It is au-
 thoritatively estimated that it took
 100000 cars to haul their material. IT
 view of our pressing needs these fig
 ures are volumes in their demand
 that we stop the brewing of beer.
 For the sake of an early victory anc i for the sake of Christ. our Lord. we must do our bit and do our best fol national prohibition
 At Federated Church.
 Mir. Bochman in his talk at the
 Federated church said:
 The liquor problem is no longer z
 moral or sentimental question: it is
 an economic question in every sense
 of the word. In the first place it is 2
 non producing traffic, but on the oth.
 CT hand wasting the products of thou. sands of other men. With help a.
 scarce as it is now it is crime tt allow this waste to go on any long.
 asking Uncle Sam for food to feet
 the millions of his people who art
 now starving, the brewers are vast.
 ing grain enough in this country t, relieve not only the need of Belgium but also the people of Serbia and Ar
 menia- s
 The people of the United State spent as much money for booze las year as the first Liberty loan and tn Panama canal combined. This mone, would have rendered a greater ser , vice invested in Liberty bonds t
 make bullets instead of beer. w
 cannot get men for our afrrns or fac tories, but the state has got to bull 8 new prison, two new county jails a reformatory for women and an in ebriate farm. The saloons and brew cries in Connecticut make these nee f essary. While more than million o cur finest young men are willing t 7 lay oown their lives in France t 7 make the world better place to liv in. are we going to allow the Ger l man American brewing interests t 7 waste our resources and prolong tn
 war at the expense of our boys at tn front?
 If we really want to win this wa we must all get busy and help in thi g great fight to elect legislature thi , year that will ratify the national pro