The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-10-06
SHOULD B PRIEST OF CHURCH WEAR
 PINK NECKTIE??
Temperance Leader Says Guise May Be Means of
 Good.


 wear a pink nicktie?"
 Rev. Dr. Jamea Empringham, Ma tional Superintendent of the Episco- pal Church Temperance Society, asks the question of the lea ders of the Church's National-Wida Campaign, and proceeds to answer it himself with a qualified affirmative, thus:
 By all means-occa sionally."
 The crux of the matter, according to Dr. Emrringhem, is that the prob lem is not sartorial at all, but one of the practical results wk-ch may be achieved under cover of a pink neck tie. The late Henry c. Burner once wrote a story illustrating the adver- Using which accrued to ''The Man in the Pink Pants Putting a reverse English on the contention which was maintained in that story, pr. Elm. pringha1n contends that it is moral and altogether justtfable for man of the cloth seeking information which he might not obtain in his proper person, to camoufIage himself behind a pink necktie. For illus trauon, in the matter of prohibition.
 "A pink necktie and a Palm Beach suit" says Dr. Empringham, Will impart more valuable information than years of Hebrew. What chance would a man in a, cassock-vest ever have of getting valuable personal service from police magistrates anu other judges of the land? A cler1cal collar can drive a tin Lizzie forty miles an hour through every traf- ffc regulation and the grinning cops think it is 3 joke. But a pink tie teaches humility. It flattcns your ribs in the crowded car and nobody To F'athern''
 And then, having proceeded this far in his philosophical reflections, the altogether human Dr. Empring- ham comes down to cases with this:
 ''F'ettered by his conventional col lar, what chance has q clergyman of tapping the fountains of information that ceaselessly flow in a saloon A pink tie admits Q man to the bar. In the saloon, as in no other place, you may feel the pulse of humanity and that pulse, as it manifests itself just now in the brass-raiI oasis behind the swinging door is very feverish.''
 If it has not already been suspect ed, here is 8 good place to reveal the fact that the priest in the pink Ii, has been making some researches in the dry belt of New York as to the operation of prohibition for the bene- 1 it of the Every Name Campaign of ! the Episcopal Church. which is the | contribution of the Diocese of New l York to the Church's Nationwide | Campaign.
 Specifically, one of it's objects is to ] devise a substitute for the saloon. 1 Hence, Dr. Empringham and the l pink necktie. Attend closely.
 People are saying," says he, that i prohibition has made no difference in 1 the liquor business. That estimate is I false. In the first place, prohibition, 1 in my experience, has made it much 1 more difficult to buy soft drink 1 over the bar. Before July I never 1 experienced difficulty in getting a | non-aIcohoHc beverage in any saloon 1 except, perhaps, in some of the dry 1 states. If it called for ginger ale or 1 birch beer, the barkeeper got me the first time. Since July all has been 1 changed.
 1 Under the protection of the pink tie I saunter through the double swinging doors on Sixth Avenue or l Hester Street and ask for a glass Of l ginger ale or birch as a preliminary to mixing in with tf.e boys, but now no longer get the innocuous bever-
  1 aproned artist now invariably con strues my innocent request for ginger ale or birch as a euphonious cam oufIage for something more potent | And moreover, adds Dr. Empring- ham, Prohibition has also changed | the conversational atmosphere of the saloon. In place of baseball, the latest prize-fght or the ponies,' the | conversation now generally takes a i theological turn,' which is to say, l the saloon frequenters spend their l time denouncing the church and re- Ijgfon for having brought about the ] co4dition or state of being Of pro- 1 hibition.
 Which, finally, is what pr. Empring- 1 ham, from behind his pink necktie is i driving at. It is the opportunity of the Church. Having brought about | prohibition, and reduced the saloon | to useIessness under present condi- tions, he is putting right up to the 1 church the problem of finding a sub- 1 stitute for the saloon, and is asking the cooperation of the public in de vising such a substitute.
 Letters and suggestions along these i lines will be gratefully received by him at 124 East 28th Street, New l York City.