The Monett times., 1922-02-10
IMMENSE CROWD
HEARS DIR. BANKS
Noted Lecturer Speaks for the World
League Against Alcoholism
At Monet.

AT Monet.
DR.. Louis A. Banks, noted Chautau.
qua lecturer and preacher, spoke to ar
immense audience at the Methodist
church Sunday night under the aus.
pices of the World League Against
Alcoholism. The church was crowded
to its doors and the large audience
listened with close attention and fre-
quent applause during the intensely
interesting lecture.
DR.. Banks has travelled all over the
wsrld, has spoken many times in
every state in the United States, has
been pastor of large city churches and
has been foremost in reform work for
half century.
DR.. Banks said that prohibition has
wrought wonderful economic change
In the country in the last two years.
Immense sums Of money, formerly
wasted in liquor are now going into
legitimate trade. This fact, said DR..
Banks, was what saved the nation
from disastrous panic after the war.
The speaker said that since prohi-
biton went into effect, the colleges
OF the country had doubled their
scholarship. Every institution of
learning is full to overflowing with
young people desirous of getting a
higher education.
Public drinking, said DR.. Banks, is
thing of the past. In no city in the
country is there public drinking
place. To get liquor one must sneak
around to find it and then tremble for
the consequences after he drinks it.
1t is becoming unpopular and is not
countenanced in good society.
The slums of the city are being
eliminated since prohibition went in
to effect. DR.. Banks was a member
of the board of directors of the Bow
cry Mission in the New York slums
for many years, and is still member
But the Mission is no longer a refuge
for drunks-there are not enough to
operate mission for, whereas, before
prohibition went into effect, the Mis-
sion was crowded every night with
human derelicts. So much has the
BoWery improved that the Mission
has been converted into a home for
working young men and the neighbor-
hood is decent enough for the home
to be operated in this place with safe
ty to the morals of the young men.
DR.. Banks says that the breweries
are now transferring their operations
70 China, India and Africa. If they
are allowed to carry out their plans
in these countries, the speaker said
that the whole white race will be i'm
periled by the yellow, brown and black
races. Liquor drinking, which deaden.
ed the higher impulses and feelings
and inflamed the base passions, !
through many generations, was the !
cause of the World War, said DR.. |
Banks. If the far eastern countries !
60 through this process, it is plain
to be seen what will result to the
other nations. 1t is imperative that
the whole world be purged from alco-
holism and to this end the World t
League Against Alcoholism is work.
ing.
Already steps for national prohi-
bition are being taken in many Euro
pean and South American countries.
Germany herself is working toward
such an end, and France has been
brought to realize what liquor drink
ing is doing toward injuling the
physical condition and lowering the
birth rate of the nation.
At the close of this most instructive
lecture, spoken with first hand know
ledge, the audience subscribed liberal
" toward the work of making the
world dry.