Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-12-29
INAUGURATION Of
SALOONLEsS ERA
To Be Celebrated
Men and Organizations Who
ReIentleSSIy Fought for Dry
Nation TO Rejoice in Wash
ingtOn, January Is.
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Washington, Dec. 2S-The going
into effect Of national Constitutional
prohibition on January 10 is to be APP
proprately celebrated i'm the national
capital by a whole week Of confer
ences, banquets, and public meetings,
| Beginning January II. Il will be the
| time Of the whole year Tor moral re-
/ formers to meet their great leaders in
and out of congress and agree what
reforms they should carry OF" in
! 1920 as the best celebration of past
victories Most of the organizations
that will participate have already
| held their annual national conyen-
tions, and so will hold only brief eX-
ecutive meetings on this occasion.
But two organizations that make
this week their annual conclave the
| National Temperance Council and the
international Reform Bureau, will
use for public meetings without over
! tapping about all the time in that
week when no other meetings open to
the public are in session.
The International Reform Bureau
will begin its twenty-fifth anniyer-
sary on sunday, January II, with
meetings in the Foundry Methodist
First CONGREGATIONAL, and Mt, Vernon
| tsouthern) Methodist churches AT
these and later meetings senators and
representatives who are on the hu-
reau's board of directors, and other
eminent reformers will speak ON
January II, the bureaus superiutend-
emit pr Wilbur f. Crafts, and Mrs
Crafts will he "at home" in the bu-
reau's own building just east of the
library of congress, for personal con-
ference with visiting reformers. On
| January IL, IA, Is, the bureau will
conduct Informal institute studies Of
gambling and the social evil and
Dissertation and law enforcement, at
the bureaus main office and In near
churches some of these studies led
by Mr.. Henry ~ Pringle, the bureaus
law enforcement expert, who has Sc
cured 2,250 convictions for violations
of laws against commercialized evils,
and is expected to take a great part
as the head of a new Citizens In
spection Bureau in keeping local law
officials in big cities up TO concert
pitch in the enforcement of the new
est article of the constitution The
bureau will have two or three lunch
and supper conferences to bring to-
gether in war council the legislators
who sponsor reform bills and the
people who must drive" them
through by informing, arousing, and
expressing public sentiment. II is eX-
pected that next" in the legislative
program of these reformers will be
the Sims and Randall sheppard anti.
gambling bills to prohibit interstate
transmission Of gambling devices and
bets. The only executive meeting
of the bureau will be from Q to 1880
on January Is, when the directors
hold their annual business meetings.
The bureaus final supper conference
will be at $50. on January l6, just
preceding the prohibition amendment
celebration in which the week culmi-
mates
The meetings of the National Coun-
ell and National Legislative Confer
ence, which are substantially the
same, each of them representing all
the national reform organizations that
united to promote national prohibit
ton, will be held on the afternoon OF
the 18th and in both forenoon ana
afternoon of the 10th. The program
promises to be of special interest
Hon John r. Kramer, federal prom
bition commissioners, is to give an adj
dress. Expected speakers, presenting
the viewpoint ana Hethou " az
proach of racial groups, are Rev. e
X Hertzfeld, for the Jews Rev. r.
T.. Curradini for the Italians; Rev
John Bokmelder, for the Russians;
Rev, Chas A. Tindley and Rev. d. De-
witt Turpeau for the negroes; Mr.
William Hung, of the Chinese stu
dents Prohibition association, for the
Chinese, and others Mrs. Mary Clark
Rarnes will speak on methods of
temperance education among foreign
born women.
The supreme purpose of the whole
week Is to rally strong support for
our trusted prohibition enforcement
leaders, Attorney General A. Mitchell
Palmer. Internal Revenue Commls-
sioner Daniel c. Roper, and Prohibi-
tion Commissioner John +. Kramer