Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1921-10-11
EDUCATION ESSENTIAL
TO PROHIBITION
So States World President in an
Address Before the State w.
c. T. u. at Denville
tI;y Associated I'rcssj

Danville. Ky. Oct ll-Contin-
uation OF the educational pro-
gram of the Woman's Christian
Temperance onion is necessary if
the prohibition law is to do any
good. as it is intended. Nina Ai-
ans Gordon. OF Evanston. Illinois.
acting world president OF the or
ganization. and national president
ct the organization in the United
States. declared in an address be-
fore the annual meeting OF the
Kentucky Noman'S Christian
Temperance Union The law
cannot be expected to enforce
itself. she said.
''pruhibitiop victories bring re-
SponsibiliticS wcll-ni9h over
towering in the weight oi their
importance To the community. the
nation and the world. she said
~ prohibition victory places in
the hands oi lawabiding citizens
i weapon that only through con-
slant. .igorouS Use can TIC kept
brightly Furnished. We do not
expect tro.lcy car to make much
progress unless ii runs on 4 we'll
laid track and i supplied from a
central battery with electric pow
CT. Neither can we expect a
prohibition law to- enforce itself
The law must run on the well
laid track OF an educated public
sentiment and the power that
propclS ii must come from an
electric batter, OF fearless Lave
enforcing officials. Alas. that any
community should be lullcd into
apathy and Indifference by the
act that open saloons do not lc-
gallv exist in their midst. Woe to
the locality where prohibitory
law administers moral chloro-
form instead of PROVINCE tonic
to civic. rural and spiritual ac-
tivitics.
y sacred obligation rests IL; OF.
us to continue and brcatly en-
large our educational program.
We have assumed he RESPONSE
bility of hundred iuid extension
OF our national and international
activities. A. voting citizens,
enfranchised under the Nine
tcenth Amendment. that cman-
cipated twcnty-SiX million wo-
men. we must rally To the stir
ring call al the Eighteenth
Amendment. 1t has i'll its far
sounding buglc note the Same
mighty thrill that inspired the
early crusaders. when fUrtv-scv-
ne years ago. 4 crusade state
awakened our entire nation. To-
day our crusade nation must
awaken the entire world.
TODAY the United States is a
vast united laboratory whcr. the
finding, and declarations OF emf
ucnt European and American
scientists and sociolu%iSts CON
corning the dlngcrS OF alcoholic
drinks and the benefits OF pro.:i-
bitiun are being successfully test
cd. All the world i looking on
and will judge prohibition by the
brand that is labelled Made i'll
america" Today to cnlightcr
the family of nations. we must
help hold aloft the brightly burn
ing torch of a well enforced. sue
cessful prohibitory law. We rniist
still crusade. We must still dare
We must carry on" The liquor
traffic is-an outlaw and III every
large and small community aud
from this day forward in every
commonwealth shall be treated Is
an outlaw The heights OF ia
tional constitution prohibition
have been gained they must be
! triumphantly held. The minute
man of the old colonial day sad
Trust God and Keep Your Pow
der Dry" The minute women OF
the new prohibition day must
say Trust in God and Keep Your
Country Dry"