The Penn's Grove record., 1922-03-03
First Regional Conference

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First Regional Conference
At the First Regional Conference
of the New Jersey Moman's Christian
Temperance Union, held this week, in
Trenton, at which the State President,
Miss Esther H. Elfreth, presided, as
sisted by Mrs. Emma Bourne and
Mrs. Eva E. Gebhardt, five minute
speeches were made by Hon. F. w.
Donnally, Mayor of Trenton; Mr..
William ]. Beckett, Supervisor of City
Schools; Mr.. John H. Sines, Correspon-
dent of Trenton Times; Mrs. L. F..
Feickert, Republican Women's Clubs;
Mrs. Robert A. Irving, Democratic
Women; Mrs. Clayton ID. Lee, State
Federation of Women's Clubs; Miss
Florence Halsey, League of Women
Voters; Mrs. d. Leigh Colvin, Prohi-
bition Women, and addresses by Mrs.
Deborah Knox Livingston on "Chris-
tian Citizenship" and Mrs. Culla j.
Vayhinger on "The Stranger Within
Our Gates" At the Tuesday morning
session Mrs. Rachel Davis Dubois, of
Salem County, gave an outline Of
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Mrs. Isabella H. Demarest, of Bergen
County, and Miss Elizabeth H. Good
win, of Cumberland County, spoke on
claw Enforcement" In the afternoon
Miss Ida Lillian Page spoke on "Win-
ming the Children" and Mrs. H. A.
Frantz, President of Burlington
County w. C. T. u, gave Results of
Prohibition" The Tuesday evening
addresses were delivered by Mesdames
Vayhinger and Livingston.
The New York w. C. T. U. has
ordered $4,000 of the "White STAR
Law Observance window cards. One
club woman is putting them in all the
schools of her county at the cordial
approval of the superintendent of pub
lie instruction. "Serve America. Sup
port the Constitution"
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The Real News About Prohibition
What is the real news about prohi-
bition? Is it that a fast set of club
men in a big city, gathering for an
evening sport, deliberately and bra
zenly forget there is a Volstead
Law, and partake freely of illicit
LIQUOR? Or is it rather that thou
sands of men from the factories and
workshops of the nation are every week
taking home their wages, spending
them for the family and depositing
some part in the saving bank, instead
of squandering them at the saloon as
in anti-prohibition days?
What is the real Jews about prohl-
bition? Is it that certain lawiess,
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ages so largely impregnated with
poison that there is only n chance
in a hundred that they will not cause
the death of the one who drinks
them? Or is it rather that the past
year, the second under prohibition,
has been the healthiest year of the
United States; that the Washing
tonian Home and similar institutions
for the treatment of alcoholics, for
lack of patronage, are compelled to
reduce their business to almost the
negligible point; and that the ward
of Bellevue Hospital, New York, that
formerly housed alcoholic cases, is
now being used as the children's
ward?
What is the real news about prohl-
bition? Is it that men whose appe-
tites for liquor is greater than their
love for their nation, are boast ng
that "their b~ootleggers" are supply
ing them as abundantly with liquor
as before the Eighteenth Amendment
went into operation? Is it not rather,
that countless young men in the old
DAYS were constantly tempted by the
brilliantly illuminated, legalized sa-
looms on every corner, can now walk
the streets safe from the invitation to
drink?
If the law-loving people were as
diligent talking up the real news
about prohibition as are the lawless
in talking up the false news, it would
be far easier to ecure enforcement
of the law. Union Signal.
Warming From An Ex-Distiller
If the patrons of the bootleggers
do not believe the warnings that are
being given them from many of au-
thoritv, not the least among whom is
Chief Chemist Spear of the lnterna-
tional Revenue Bureau, who declares
that in 90 cases of 100, he who buys
LIQUOR from a bootlegger is buying
deadly poison, certainly they ought
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