The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-17
SPEAKERS STRESS LAW ENFORCEMENT AT CELEBRATION
Liquor Dealers Organization Formidable Today, Declares Dr. Stuart-LaW Enforce
 ment Is Urged

Work for emf force m n t
 where you are, chorus, sung
 by the choir and large congre-
 gation that assembled yester-
 day afternoon at the Southside
 Baptist church to celebrate the
 first nationwide prohibition, is
 to be the battle-cry of the ad-
 vocates of prohibition. Prohibition law enforcement was stressed by Mrs. Chapel Cory, first vice
 president of the State Woman's Chris
 tian Temperance union; Dr. J. E. Dill
 lard, pastor of the Southsids Baptist
 church, who presided at the meeting, and by pr. George A. Stuart, who were among the speakers.
 Others who snoke briefly were Mrs. w. c. Sibley, who was referred to as :" ihe Crusade Mother;" Mrs. L. F. Harris, president of the Central Woman's Chris tan Temperance union, and Rev. | Brooks Lawrence. Mrs. Mary T. Jeff fries, president of the Alabama Wom- ans Christian Temperance union was present and was introduced to the audi ence, but did not speak.
 Dr. billiard declared that the biggest problem Of the age was to determine whether the saloon was dead or only sleeping.
 Mrs. Chapel Cory, after calling on the teachers tomorrow to impress upon each child the necessity for law enforcement, declared that this is really the biggest job We have had yet
 A special song service, during which hymns stressing the then and now'' of the white ribbon crusade were sung, was a feature of the celebration. PROHIBITION REVIVED 1 After reciting the blighting effects oi "the demon rum,' the speaker traced the history of the various organizations that had played q part in bringing national prohibition to this republic. The first of these was the Sons of Temperance, which | had sought tc dissuade men from drink l ing, and was ineffective, because If | you turn the calves in the lot where the cows are, they are going to suck" The next was the Good Templars, then 1 the Bluc Ribboners, led by Rev. Francis Murphy; then the Woman's Crusade. led | by Mother Stuart; then the w. c. T. | U.; then the prohibition party, and then the Anti-Saloon League.
 pr. Stuart spoke of the failure Of the earlier temperance movements, because | they sought merely to influence pupilt sentiment and not to control the liquor | traffic by inhibitory laws. It was only when the Woman's Christian Temperance union came into existence and Howaro Russell had the vision of organizing the I whole Christian world into league | that the liouor forces were routed, he declared.
 1 DEALERS DISAGREE 1 Another factor contributing to the sue | cess Of the temperance drive was the dsa greement existing between the wine manufacturrs the brewers and the dis tillers. the speaker stated He told how these interests finally came to reaii- zation of this fact and organized the | Iiouor Dealers association, which was declared to be more formidable today than ever.
 .The Iiuuor Dealers association is as perfect today as it ever was, salu pr Smart Ut controlled both of the na- 1 tionaJ conventions It is functioning to- ! day. It's got as much money as it ever ! had. Whats more, it's got liquor IT bonded warehouses. What's more, II selling it. You must keep every l1sti' tuition for fighting this traffic organ | ized. You've got to meet the enemy al Washington and Montgomery. The mex five wears will be the biggest years 1n American history" At the conclusion of Dr. Stuarts ad- dress a collection for temperance pur- poses was taken.