The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-04-08

y IIlOI d1 d1A0 . pr AIudA SACdu-uI
campaign in Elizabeth City was
launched at mothers and min
isters' meeting under the aus
pices of the local w. C. T. u. held
in the assembly room of the Y
NJ. c. A. Wednesday afternoon
lust as national cleanup week
is going after tin cans, rubbish
heaps, dirty back yards and dis
eased humanity this week, just
so will the militant church folk
OF this gay old town go after
iazz-spirited girls, 1icentious
young men, back-sliding married
men and incontinent married
women. At the same time NOV
ing pictures are slated for a
slaughter. The campaign begins
with a mass meeting for adults
only at the First Baptist Church
in this city Sunday night, April
II.
The campaign was launched at one OF
the most sensational and unique meet
ings ever held in this city of sensations.
The meeting was prompted by the start
ling facts brought out in the case of L.
L. Winder, local real estate man, who
was indicted last week on several charg-
es Of improper conduct with girls in
shorts skirts. Winder's case is docketed
for a preliminary hearing in the Re-
corder's Court Monday morning, April
II. Winder's attorneys threaten to ex-
pose a terrible condition in Elizabeth
City and it is limited that the names of
other men will be dragged into the mess.
Winder is not only bold enough to face
the thing and fight it out, but will not
hesitate, it is said, to involve others in
an effort to destroy the characters of
the prosecuting witnesses and thereby
secure a mitigation of punishment for
himself. >
Ministers Hear Too Many Sex Stories.
That was a stHmy meeting at the
Y. NJ. G. A. Wednesday and the argu-
ments would make a volume of thrill
ers. It was brought out at the meet
ing that Rev. 81. z. Williams, pastor
of First Baptist Church has resigned
as President of the Ministerial Associa-
ton because to him Sthe Ministerial As
sociation had degenerated into little
more than a gossip club at which sex
stories were retailed week after week.
Pastor Williams said he was so tired Of
hearing stories of the sex life of Eliza
beth City people week after week that
he had resigned as president of the As
sociation. And then Mr.. Williams told
a story himself. He said that one Of
the older male members of his church
had told him that he thought he would
have to quit wearing his spectacles be-
cause the sights he saw of women IN
short skirts plagued his SOUL The poor
brother had seen one short skirt trans
acting business in a Bank, that was SO
short and so enticing that he almost for
got his own business with the bank.
Open that window!
Ex-Communication For Movie Goers.
But Pastor Williams was soon to be
eclipsed. Rev. Geo. Studson DeLano'
pastor of the Church of the Good Shep-
herd, took the floor and told them
few things. He said most of the I'M
morality in this town could be traced to
moving pictures and indecent clothing.
And before he got thru he said the
churches didn't have backbone enough
to fight the evils of the day and ac-
cpsed the churches of being more con-
cerned with diplomacy than with rel1g-
ion. He gave a bold and intimate de-
scrption of a young girl in short sklrts
and low neck dr0ss in the hot embrace
of giddy headed boy in hot ball room.
The contact of warm, excited and pleas
ure loving flesh was just too much; girls
in such situations were bound to go TO
Tie bad. Pastor DeLano has been a
youngster himself and he is graduate
il medicine. He says he knows.
And then he went on to condemn tne
c!othes of the present generatlon OIL
women. He says they are designed oy
and for Partisan prostitutes and we seno
10 Partisan prostitutes for our feminine
styles. Decent women in Paris would
nit wear such clothes" Pastor DeLano
saws he has lived in Paris and knows
What he is talking about.
But the moving pictures were worse
still. And Rev. DeLano brought OUT tne
startling fact that members OF MS
cs.r"h are asked to sign a pledge noI
, 90 to the Alkrama Theatre, and When
enc is discovered to have broken the
ledge he or she is ex-commun1cated IN
tanter and thrust into chaos and plack
I.ght He thinks every church IN, tne
rty should adopt thezsame drastic meas
IRE against the Alkrama Theatre.
Ia meantime the women were taking
solnetimes several of them all at once
Mrs. ]. W. Modlin, vigorous. militant
sad most positive in her utterances LOOK
The floor and demanded that the Alkra-
ma Theatre be closed up at once. Inc
time to do it was now, right now. ehe
lot