Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-02-16

have given their lives for the ser
vice of the Cross. Americanization Of
foreign tongued emigrants who come
here to be assimilated by our body
polite, the problem of the southern
negro, the problem Of the emigrant
groups who as an unchurched body,
are constant menace to law and Or
der, foreign missions and the work of
evangelizing those great groups in
the European and Asiatic fields wl.o
have been cast adrift from all re-
straint by the World wars after
math-these were some of the ways
in which, she suggested, the Baptists
are striving to answer the call of
their Savior to the responsibilities Of
stewardship.
There is also the Matchmaking of
| education, which has hitherto been
local, or statewide at the broadest,
but which under this plan brings the
academies and colleges which the
denomination has helped to estab-
lish, under the broad plan of nation
al importance and aid as a source
from which must come the men and
women who are to influence the world
and do the work when the present
generation has passed away. Maine
is among the most favored Of the
states, having within her borders
five of the 20 institutions being so
benefited through the New World
Movement. Already the results of
this very wise plan, said she, are in
sight and from having to struggle
along with such spasmodic support
as could be secured locally, now these
colleges and academies are backed by
the entire denomination of the north
ern states, from the Atlantic to the
Pacific. with its membership of
100000 communicates.
Mrs. Deborah Livingston, who is
about to start on mission to South
Africa sopke on world wide prohibit
ton. She said that just as we have
found in this country that we
couldn't protect our states unless all
the states were dry. One Of the les
sons of the World War. she said, is
that we cannot enjoy splendid isola-
ton, we are tied one to the other and
the conference in Washington has
proved that we have place among
the nations of the world.
Referring to the close connection
between countries Mrs. Livingston
said that it is a matter of treaties
Finland is a prohibition country and
is building up trade with France.
She wants to sell lumber to France
and France wants to force upon Fin
land its wines and this is an illustra-
ton of the situation regarding many
foreign countries.
Mrs. Livingston said that in her
many trips abroad she found that
the appeal for prohibition In Great
Britain is Il purely economic matter
In the ship building operations on
the Clyde they realize that a
drunken workman cannot compete
with a sober one in the United
States. With France it is not the
economic structure but the man
power that is the problem. France
will never feel safe from Germany
until she can rear enough men for
another army, and anything that is
detrimental to the rearing of man
kind must go. In Scotland, where
is located the best distiIleries in the
world, a large part of the country
is dry by local option law. In New
England and Austrilai, at the last
plebescite the country went dry.
they lost by 10000 votes, showing
that the whole British Empire is
feeling the impact of the prohibit
ton cause. Japan is having scienti-
fic temperance instruction in it's pub
lie schools, as the foundation of
prohibition in that country, and the
future generation will be prohibi-
tionists. Mrs. Livingston said in
closing that national prohibition was
not put over the people but it was
put into the constitution because it
had to be federal law to be eff
fcctive.