The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-12-04
DRYS URGED To HOLD
FAST TO PROHIBITION
VICTORY ALREADY WON

Anti-Saloon league field day was OBJ
served in churches in all parts of
Wayne county Sunday, when special
speakers from the State Anti-Saloon
league headquarters at Indianapolis
addressed the congregations at the
morning and evening church services.
Rev. e. S. Shumaker, general sec
rotary of the state organization to
stamp out the liquor traffic, spoke
Sunday morning at the First Presby-
terrain church here, and in the even
ing at Grace M. E. church. Other
speakers at other churches in the city
are as follow:
Morning Services-First Baptist, E.
A. Miles; First Christian, S. p. Nc
Naught; West Richmond Friends, DR.
M. Swadener; Second English Luth-
eran, G. J. EVerson; First NJ E., r. c..
Minton; Third M. E., II. w. Baldridge;
Reid Memorial, j. E. Martin.
Evening Services-First English
Lutheran, S. p Mcknight; st. PauPs
English Lutheran, DR.. M. Swadener;
United Brethren, r. G. Minton; Econ
omy M. E., II. W. Baldridge; Williams
burg union service, J. e. Martin; Dub
lin M. E., e. A. Miles; Fountain City
M. E., C. ]. Everson.
An optimistic outlook on the prohi-
bition situation in Indiana was noted
In the. address made at the United
Brethren church Sunday evening by
r. c. Minton, representative of the
State Anti-Saloon league. Mr.. Minton
stated that in the last election every
candidate who was suspected and
known to be in favor of light wines
and beer and running on liquor plat
form was defeated.
Wants Liquor Banished.
DR.. Madison Swadener, formerly pas
tor of the First Methodist church here,
spoke for the Anti-Saloon league at the
West Richmond Friends church Sun
day morning. He gave plea for the
eradication of the menace of alcohol
ism from the entire world.
Speaking at the Reid Memorial
church Sunday morning J. E. Martin
of Indianapolis, attorney and World
war veteran who saw service with the
Seventh division in the Toul sector, re-
ferred to effects of drinking of alco-
holic beverages which he had, observed
in France. He stated that liquor forces
are strongly organized in the nation
and in Indiana, having organization
headquarters in Terre Haute, Evans
vile, Fort Wayne and indianapolis.
Tells of Vets.
The efforts of the "wets" to defeat
the will of the American people as ex-
pressed in the Eighteenth amendment.
were reviewed in the sermon preached
by Rev. E. S. Shumaker, general secre-
tary of the Indiana Anti-Saloon league,
at the Grace M. f. church Sunday eve
ming. He also reviewed the proposed
program of the "wets" for the next
few years. He mentioned the fact
that only four or five national 'wet''
organizations were in existence at the
time of the passage of the Eighteenth
amendment. but that now there are
3S under the leadership of the Asso-
citation Against the Prohibition Amend
ment. which, in spite of the Eigh-
teenth amendment, are seeking to
make the country wet" again through
the legislation by congress of the
manufacture of beer and light wines.
Points to Investigation
Rev. Schumacher also spoke at the
First Presbyterian church Sunday
morning, his text being Hold Fast
That Which Thou Har.,s from Rev.
3:11. He called attention to the in
vestigation which has been made in
the past Is months by Clifford Gordon
of Melbourne, Australia, in America in
regard to the wet and dry situation
and the results of prohibition which
he has written into a pamphlet en-
titled Hold Fast, America" He also
cited an article which he read in the
October Hearst's International, by
Frazier Hunt, entitled World Wal
IN DooZe"