The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-08-02
'PUSSYFOOT" SAYS
DRY WORLD SURE
IN SHORT PERIOD
Noted AntisaIoon Leader Pre-
diets England Will Be
BcozeleSS Within Ten Years
Is Applauded Here.

England win go dry in 10 years. a
dry world Is not so much farther off,
and the stand America has taken on
prohibition Is doing more TO make these
rrophesies come tue than anything
else, according to ''pussyfoot" johnson.
who spoke in Memphis Sunday His
first address was made at st. Johns
Methodist church Sunday morning He
spoke at the Lyric theater in the after
noon, and the First Baptist church In
the evening All were crowded at each
lecture. and ''Pussyfoot" received a
royal welcome each time.
Preceding the address Of the famous
Antisaloon league worker, Dr. Madison
Swadener. of Indianapolis. urged I'M
ceasing work, saying that the work Of
the league had Just started, rather
Than ended, as so many people seem
TO think, He stated that the liquor
interests were fighting harder now for
the return OF ltuor than they did to
Keep it from being prohibited. and that
II Is the work Of the league TO see that
the United States Is kept free from
the menace He stated that II the
league was dealing with high minded
American citizens the continuance Of
the fight would not be necessary, but
that they are not, so the fight is neees-
Sary. dc said the vets are working
hard to install wet representatives IN
congress, so that they can pass another
aihehunicht MUMMY ing the EiGateenth'
or In event that this Ia impossible,
refuse the necessary appropriations to
carry on the work
Following DR.. Swadener's address. ".
E. tPussyfoot Johnson was introduced
amid applause. He prefaced his talk
with a short description of the way
he lost his eye for the cause, saying
that his glass eye had done more to-
ward making England dry than any
thing he could have said or done, and
saying that the English students who
were the direct cause of his misfortune
had no idea of injuring him. but merely
intended a little hazins party, and that
he held no grudge.
In discussing the invasion OF Eng.
land by the league, Mr., Johnson said
that they never went where they had
not been invited, but that when once
invited, they jumped in with both feet
and worked TO win. lie said that the
ment by the United states not only
benefited America, but the entire world,
and the ultimate result of this action
will be the making Of the entire civilized
world dry.
Mr.. johnson told his hearers of the
work the league had done abroad, and
of the work planned for the future.
In recounting bits OF anecdote relative
to the trip, applause was freuent, and
several of the anecdotes brought laugh
ter. He stated that the liuor interests
had worked hard to instill phrases into
the league of nations that would have
rulified any antiiuor law America
might have passed had she joined the
league and OF the hard work done by
the Antisaloon league to keep these
clauses out.
He also discussed the work being
done by his colleagues in Scotland, Eng
land, Denmark. India, Finland. Sweden
and other countries, saying that every.
thing possible should be done to make
the future generations safe from the
evil.
II recently delivered an address in
said, land in ii / said that | could
see through my glass eye the beginning
of a new era, one which will be bless
ing to mankind"