The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-12-07
Plans Perfected for Con-
vention of A ctive
Workers on Dec. 8
$50 LEADING
MEN OF STATE
Prominent Americans to
Address Immense Mass
Meeting of Citizens on
Worldwide Campaign

Especial to The Richmond virginfan.)
Greensboro, N. c.. Dec. S.--~Ar-
rangements have feen perfected for
a statewide convention at Greensboro,
Tusday. December 2, of active work :
erS in the Law enforcement and world
wide prohibition campaign, organt-
zatior Director Harvey Hollernan
stated here today.
Sessions viii be at West Market
Street Methodist church from $3.50
A. NJ. intern1ission at one o'clock
where delegates Will be guests OF the
central organization ut turkey din
ner served by the ladies OF the church
in the annex.
Eighty OF the 100 selected dele
gates, one from each county have
notified State Director Mehane Of
their coming. and with large rep
resentAtion of The state advisory
board, the meeting will include over
$50 Of the states leading men and
women Besides these win be the fol
lowing distinguished visitors who
have made positive December 2. AS
tho date of thet. attendance.
DISTINGUISHED VISITORS
Wayne E. Wheeler, counsel z. H
S.1GfH tuk toU- EtsIf[IdL AGt1AS VA tAhN
world league against alcoholism; J..
Sidney Peters, prohibition commits
sioner Of virginia; p. a. Baker, gen
eral superintendent of tbs Anti
Saloon league Of America and Bishop
James Cannon, Jr., of international
fame for prohibition and church
social welfare work. They Will make
lfla4 addresses n IL apnference and
~ Whit win ei N audiences Of
61M. }ople- G. e Rickett wired
regrets that meeting pf southern gov
ernofs at savannah Tuesday. pravent-
Cd his presence and aestgnAted state
Nf0ok1, ~ m fepr3 9l1xatarA.
Heavy emphasis ID being made In
correspondence 10 headquarters here
for law enforcement. and the meet
ing here promises to be tire ons.
DEEPLY INDIGNANT
r. III. Eikins. editor and proprietor
OF the Silcr City Grit, made famous
by the son Of Henry A. London who.
rs senator from Chatham, introduced
and advocated the first prohibition
law ever submitted the voters OF
North Carolina Is most pronounced
in his views. In fact he Is red-hot
with indignation as the following in
dicates. and no sends It out he says
tot t1fSs NuSeN WOHAd W ICAu
1T Ia necessary to enter into de-
tailed account Of the Unlawful manu- :
ia cture and sale of whiskey in Chat
ham county: il Is sufficient only to say
that the gauntlet was thrown down
ono day last week when certain gus
pected offenders shouldcred their
guns and offered on atrocious at
front to peaceablc and iawabfding
residents in Hickory Mountain sec
ton.
1T was an outiaw challenge to
every selfrespecting. redhiooded citi-
zen OF Chatham, and To every man In
the state who stands for .schoolhouses,
churches, peaceful homes, inncccn,
children and womanhood asains!
ribald ruffianisrn. 1t Is mob law and
bolshevten in a way, that exists. and
II must be met through orderly pro-
cess OF law for to meet It in like
form would he to step at once into
s2vagery. This challenge from these
law violators must be met by those
who permitted its development and
growth In our midst: by US innocent
but spinc4css neighbors who have
allowed this reptile to grow into q
poisonous death dealing monster.
THE RESPONSIBILITY
THE responsibility b on us and on
every one VINO has not been active IN
trying to bring this offender to Jus
tfce: on every church organization
that Ii at Ease in Zion", on every
Respectable" man IN every town n
this county or this state who patron
! i2cs these hootieggers and every mar
or firm that seils sugar. molasses
meal or any supply to known
moonshiner; on every man, who
either In or out OF tho court room
has tried to minimize the guilt OF
guilty ones. or who pleads for leni.
ency at the judgement bar. gu,
courts meet regularly and proceed
In the usual way with few road
sentences and many 6ncs, which
amounts to license, for even a large
finc hurts not m offender who car
quickly make II back selling his STUFF,
at $40 quart What we need Ia e
30 arouse our dormant pubic opinion
that this outlaw whiskey business
be broken UP.
get lawAbiding citizens properly
aroused to the need OF their service
then the courts and 1uries WIN apply
the remedy In m orderly way.
when We are all heart and SON
for cutting out tho moonshfnc.' then
| and not until then, viii II be cut ont. >