The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1922-09-28
MRS. E. P. ANDERSON
SPEAKS TO VIC. T.U.

III LHAO ~ W. ". L. ".
Fargo, N. D., Sept. 23.-"It requir-
es a higher grade of courage to hold
ones ground in the face Of scatter
ing shell fire than it does to make a
spectacular dash for victory" So de-
clared Mrs. Elizabeth Preston Ander-
son, for 20 years president of the
Women's Christian Temperance Un-
ion in North Dakota. Mrs. Anderson
sought to Undue her listeners with the
need Of "holding victory" an ''achieve-
ment greater than winning in the
first place.
"The enemies of prohibition were
never more active than they are to-
day and the election this fall is the
most critical we have faced since pro-
hibition was enacted. There are thir-
ty-five organizations actively oppos-
ing the Eighteenth amendment.
"Yet the seriousness of the situa-
tion does not lie so much in the acti-
vities of these wet organizations as
it does in the fancied security and
consequent inaction of many who
worked for the prohibition law"
"Who is asking the repeal of prohi-
bition," asked Mrs. Anderson. She
answered her own questions.
"The business men Of the country
demanded prohibition, they are salts
fled with results. They report it ben
efcial to workmen and to business
a safeguard to property and persons
of employers and employees, drunken
ness decreased, accidents reduced;
conditions of workmen better, loss OF
time from accidents decreased, in
some instances 68 per cent, employees
happier, better homes, bank accounts.
Labor is not asking for the repeal
of prohibition. Hon. John C. Cooper,
labor's representative in congress,
says he finds number of labor lead
ers strongly IN favor of prohibition.
J. H. Mcllvenny, officer in Brother
hood Of Locomotive Engineers, says
in his section Of the country IS per
cent Of railroad men would vote dry.
The National Women's Trade Union
League has endorsed prohibition en-
forcement. Warren S. Stone says:
drunkenness has decreased at least
IS per cent among the workers.
"Bankers from all sections of the
country testify that savings deposits
have increased under prohibition and
prohibition promotes thrift.
doctors testify prohibition pro-
notes health. DR.. VIM. A. Evans,
former Health Commissioner, testifies
that accidents have been lessened;
heat prostrations numbered 535 in
summer of 1916 in Chicago and in
1921 only 26.
H. w. Williams, statstician for the
State Board of Control of Wisconsin,
says insanity is decreasing.
"Mothers Of the nation, says Mrs.
Maud Wood Park, president of the
League of Women Voters, are no
more likely to vote for repeal of pro-
hibition than to demand cultivation of
typhoid germs.
Farmers are not asking for it;
neither are educators, ministers, COM
mercial clubs, benevolent and frater
nal charities.
''There is no class of men asking
for it's repeal except those who in
some way profit by the business or
who would crafty their own appetite
at the expense Of community"
| Illustrating her point by gasoline
pumping engine which when the belt
had slipped "made only great noise
and wasted gasoline Mrs. Anderson
drove home her point that "what this
war-torn, tempest tossed, distressed
old world most needs is more rei-
gion."
IF the belt of faith, love, commun-
ion and prayer" she said, that links
US with God, has slipped, we may
make good deal of stir, noise and
buster, but results are not following
the water of life that makes the
desert to blossom as the rose is not
flowing"
''They said the grass would grow
on the streets of Fargo in ten year:
when North Dakota adopted prohibi
ton. 1t had a population of $3.50
then; it has $4,000 now
GERMANY DENIES RUMOR