The Cordova daily times., 1922-12-01
ASKS AMERICA TO ANSWER CRY
 OF ARMENIA

PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 1-Women
 of America should so arouse public
 sentiment '4hat America shall more definitely answer Armenia's cry" said
 Miss Anna Gordon, president of the
 National w. c. T. U., in an address here today before the convention of the union Let us earnestly ask our
 Government speedily to devise way
 by which Christian America can CO
 operate" she continued, with the all lied powers in putting stop to atroc- ities and in giving protection to Ar
 menian lives and homes"
 Miss Gordon flung back to the vets their rallying cry, '"The Liberty Bell
 must ring again." saying, We here
 by remind the Association Against the
 Prohibition Amendment thattheLiber- ty Bell did ring again on January 16,
 1919, when the proclamation for con
 stiutional prohibition was written. In
 wonder Independence Hall, liberty had it's birth. How eminently appropri- ate, it is that Philadelphia the voice
 of representative motherhood of the worold should interpret to the farthest
 corner of this alcohol-sick world the true liberty, the real freedom that yet shall come to all the world-a freedom from the subtle, scheming
 enemies of home and childhood; of health and business prosperity.
 "The health commissioner of New
 York, Royal s. Copeland, declares, Prohibition has no doubt played very important and no uncertain part in the health condition. In a broad way, anything that is generally help full to groups of people is specifically helpful to public health.'
 woods Hutchinson, M. D., enthusi- astically supports prohibition. It has been my own estimate he says, that the actual amount of liquor consumed < by the whole community has been cut
 down fifty per cent to sixty four per cent. To my surprise, however, the lowest estimate of reduction, ad-
 yanced by medical men of thirty to !, fifty years of experience, attending a meeting of a national medical associ- ation, was eighty per cent and some ran as high as ninety five per cent A statement that can now be made with absolute certitude is that all over the country there has occurred most unmistakable and striking de- cline in the general death rate from Tall causes, until it has now reached it's most triumphant low-water mark in all recorded history
 Labor leaders, including Miss Mary Anderson, director Woman's Bureau, U. s. Department of Labor, Washing ton, Warren S. Stone, grand chief of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engi- neers, J. H. McIlvenny of Newcastle,
 Pennsylvania, secretary and treasurer of Division No. 565, Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, and James A..
 Duncan, secretary of Central Labor
 Council, Seattle, are outspoken for
 prohibition.
 "John C.. Cooper, a member of Con gress representing the labor interests, affirms: It is not the working people
 of our country who are clamoring for , the return of the liquor traffic, and it is far from the facts when anyone
 makes the statement that organized labor as a whole favors the return
 of wine and beer. Some time ago
 wrote letters to many leaders of or
 ganized labor throughout the country
 The response to my canvass indicated
 that a large number of them were
 strongly in favor of prohibition "Chief Justice Taft of the United States declares, I am not in favor
 of allowing light wines and beer to 
 be sold under the Eighteenth Amend
 ment. I believe it would defeat the
 purposes of the amendment. No such
 distinction as that between wines and
 beer on the one hand, and spirituous 1 liquors on the other, is practicable
 as police measure. Any such loop
 hole would make the amendment a
 laughing stock Dr. Harvey W. Wiley
 asserts. T think beer is probably the
 most dangerous to health of all the ordinary alcoholic liquors"
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