The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-02-13
SENT BACK CAKE
England's Customs House Did
Not Like Sheldon Action.
Wouldn't Allow Him To Send
Sweets to His Son.
WAS REPRIMANDED SHARPLY
Warned Not To Repeat Attempt
To Break Nation Rule.
Topeka Minister Replied in
Criticism of Liquor Sales.

Many things shocked DIR. Charles NJ.
Sheldon of Topeka during his recent
visit in London. He witnessed the
spectacle of England wantonly vast
ing grains by manufacturing liquor
and permitting the sale of liquor to
American soldiers, whether they had
cone from wet states or dry. One of
the perturbing events surrounding
Doctor Sheldon's visit to London is
told by the Christian World. a reli-
giors publication in England. which
relates the failure of the Topeka min
lister to slip a bit of cake by the Eng
lish customs and excise officers and
was rudely reprimanded for his action.
Doctor Sheldon's London expert
ences were varied. They covered a
angles. He went from pure and
drouthy Topeka right into the midst
or resorts where liquor is sold freely
and vice and sin are practiced wanton-
ly. He came home with sermons con-
corning the sale of beer to American
soiolers. He told how wicked. worldly
women lay in wait for the soldier bows
on their way to France. There were a
number of references in Doctor Shell
oons sermons which did not reflect
cred1t on Americas ally in the war
with German autocracy.
All the time Doctor SheIdon,s SCR
mons pointed moral lesson to
america to raise her standards high
ana neither wink nor look at sin in
any form. All the time Doctor Shell
don's sermons burned deeply into the
Enghsh system and condemned toler-
ance OF immortality in any and all
forms. Doctor Sheldon sympathized
WIN the suffering English people.
And all the fruit of his sympathy was
neaped In malediction on the heads of
the English official system.
They Didn't Like 1t.
one OF the features of Doctor Shell
oons visit was overlooked in local
sermons; Ihat is the feature brought
out by the Christian World which re-
counts the refusal of English customs
officers to permit Doctor Sheldon to
SEND bit of cake out of the country
TO mis- son in America. Nor did the
action stop with a mere refusal The
oIIlclai system of the island aroused
the greater, dlspleasure of the Kansas
minister when he was sharply repri-
manded by the customs department
ana warned not to repeat the attempt
to send foodstuffs from the country.
English customs officials seek dill
against the sending of foodstuffs
from England The English people
are not overfed on cake. Grains and
sugars are badly needed England
looks TO America for many of her
supplies. While in England, tho,
Doctor Sheldon sought to send a bit
of English fruit cake to his only son
in an American cantonment The
package was intercepted by the Gus
toms and excise office in Liverpool
and the package returned to Doctor
Sheldon with the reprimand and
warning not to try again.
Resentment against the English
system by Doctor Sheldon is shown
in the statement given in the Chris
tian World.
Doctor Sheldon" says the reli
gious paper, 'says he does not like to
carry back to America the thought
that 1t is an offense for an American
citizen in this country to send a bit
of cake to a soldier son whom he NAV
never see again, while the brewers Of
Great Britain may destroy every day
thousands of tons of cake stuff in
order to make Intoxicating liquor to
poison American boys who come over
to help Great Britain"