The Penn's Grove record., 1923-03-30
w. c. T. L. NOTES
Gleanings Here And There

One of the notable things about the
last session of the New Jersey Legis-,
lature was the utter rout of the vets.
All the wet bills were defeated. None
of them got very far. U. S. Senator
Edge tried to get the Legislature to
declare for the modification of the
Volstead act, but Edges advice was
ignored, just as it was ignored in the
matter of the State Highway Board.
Drys Challenge Edge To Debate
A report from the State capitol
says: "The Anti-Saloon League has
invited u. S. Senator EDGE to debate
prohibition with former Speaker Geo.
S. Hobart, Of Essex, who is likely to
run against Edge next year for the
United States Senate nomination.
Edge has accepted the challenge
Plea For Beer From New York Legis-
lature Called I~ndefensible
A report from the United States
capitol says. "Adoption by the Leg
i|slature of New York of a memorial
requesting Congress to legalize the
manufacture and sale of light wines
and beer, was characterized in the
Senate last week by Senator Shep-
pard, of Texas, as an insult on the
Constitution He added that it was
a 'camoufiaged effort, for political
effect in the wet districts, to make the
thirsty believe they can secure what
they want
"Mr. Sheppard, who has stood by
the Eighteenth Amendment and the
Volstead code through thick and thin,
read a list of thirty-seven States
which, he said. had re-affirmed their
adherence to the Federal prohibition
statutes by adopting State codes. SO
long as more than three-fourths of
the States were in the list, he de-
clared, it was IAN indefensible folly
to attempt to legalize wines and
beers.
"'Friends of the Eighteenth Amend
ment will meet this challenge in the
next session. he predicted"
Drys Show Up G. o. P. Chief Stokes
Another report from the State cap
itol brings the information that Estate
Superintendent James K. Shields, of
the Anti-Saloon Leage, at the New
Jersey Methodist Conference, made up
of South Jersey Methodist Churches,
having lambasted Republican State
Chairman Edward C. Stokes as a wet
ally of Senator Edge, U. s.. Senator
Edwards, Republican Assemblyman
Leader Joseph Corio, of Atlantic City,
and the brewers, Stokes went back at
Shields. In a telegram to the New
Jersey Methodist Conference he asks
his fellow Methodists' not to believe
State Superintendent Shields.
estate superintendent Shields was
not at the Anti-Saloon League head
quarters when the telegram was de-
livered, but in his absence Assistant
Superintendent Samuel Wilson said:
"Mr. Stokes's telegram indicates
that he is peeved because Superinten-
dent Shields has invaded what Mr..
Stokes has heretofore regarded as his
private preserves and exposed the
Republican State Chairman in a Meth
odist Conference. The fact is that
throughout South Jersey the Metho-
dists are becoming incensed at the
course of Stokes because of his ALI
ance with Edge, Edwards and the
other wet leaders,"
1t is not the Methodists alone who
have been doubtful of Stokes SINGER
ity of friendliness toward the dry re
gime, because members of the So
ciety of Friends, of the Baptists, Pres
byterians and all other denominations
have noticed his tendency to try to
carry "water on one shoulder and
whisky on the other" for a long term
of years, until he has lost the conf
dence of those from whom he is solic-
iting support, and is plainly disap-
pointed because he is not recovering
it. Surely it is a hard road for those
who try to serve two masters. 1t Is
better not to even attempt tiff. we
want to gain and hold the respect and
confidence of God and u fellow
Woodstown, 8 Mo. 27, 1928. Ruth.