The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1922-03-11
ASK LORD
TO GUIDE
CITY DADS
Prayer Is Weapon Used Against
Wine at The Mass
Meeting
BY HAROLD CROSS

BIT HAROLD CROSS.
The gray haired mothers OF prohibI.
ton last evening gently rebuked the
playful city dads OF Hammond who in
an ungusrded moment passed a reso-
luton endorsing beer and light wine
II was a meeting OF the woman's
Christian Temperance Union held in
the superior courthouse. Beside the
women there were clergymen. a few
husbands, and row Of young men who
we're there TO be emused and to scoff
The young men mad doubtlessIy
heard the ". G. T. L. ridiculed In the
poclrooms and on the streets as fanati-
cal busy bodies who neglected their
families to NEEDLE In other peoples af-
fairs. They were taken abash by wha,
they saw. Instead OF the militant and
rnascuI1Hs woman Of the cartoons they
found sweet-faced grandmother, her
hands knotted and back bent from low
ing toll for a family, holding the gavel
of the meeting.
Surrounding the chairman were other
kindly women. nearly all of them
grandmothers. They were the mo- l.
ers Of men, the blessed women that
every boy respects. And the things
they said were gentle and kind. for
mothers understand.
IN BoNNETs, sHAwLs AND CAPEs.
When these women--the members OF
the w. c. T. U.-rose in their bon
nets, shawls and capes their remarks
were the softest and most loving OF re-
buffs. The city council had acted
hastily and without serious thought,
they felt sure. just as they would say
that their boys were innocent even in
the face Of proof. They had come to
the meeting In the rain to make their
kindly criticism.
FEW YOUNG WOMEN.
Even the younger members OF the
W. c. IT. u, and they are fewer in
number. were not severe in their cen
sure 1t was left to the clergy and
the other men present TO call a spade
a spade.
The young men who came tc soon
went away sober of face and classified
Of spirit What man lives who can be
amused Il an old gray y-haired woman
bent 4; eyer. asking the Lord to give
HIS d.. blessing to the legions OF
men and women that are ngnuns the
evil of strong crink7
Never again Will thCsS ycoAS
sneak disrespectfully of the Woinan's
Christian Temperance Union. no more
than they would chide the veterans OF
the civil war because they stumble as
fhey march to the cemetery on Decora-
tton Day. Those women are veterans
OF war against booze and the politi-
cal corruption and misery that 1t ere
ated. They have fought against the
thing that ruined girls and debaucheo
men. that made novels Of homes and
urchins OF childres4.
The young men who came to soon
may have seen an individual here or
there at the meeting who they knew to
be something Of a hyrocrite but thai
would otly cause them to be even more
xvnapathetic toward the real mothers
Of ternpsrance those unworldly, easily
imposed upon women.
The young men who came TO scon
had no intention of participating In the
meeting but after tho opening prayer
hey Joined in the singing OF Ameri-
ca with shoulders thrown back and
faces to the front. because many OF
them were soldiers In the world war
There was one motherly old woman at
The meeting who knitted more sweaters
and socks thar any other woman In the
city during the war. devoting her en-
tfr. time 70 that work.