Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-03-06
PLAY SAFE and ELECT ANOTHER
DRY CONGRESS, SPEAKER URGES
MEMS METHODIST AUXILIARY

Eighteenth Amendment with the
present congress" declared Rev. Z.
A. Pollard Jones last evening before
a large number of members and
guests of the Mems Auxiliary of the
Methodist church at the regular
monthly meeting. Mr.. Jones has re-
Gently returned from a trip to Wash
ington where he attended a three
days session of the National con-
ference of the Anti-Saloon League.
He gave a brief account of the diff
ferent states represented and told
many interesting facts concerning
the growth and strength of prohi-
bition in the last year.
He declared that although the
present congress. from the general
!, impression he received at the con-
ference. would pro ahl" remain
dry" another congress might be en-
tirely different.
What we must do to prepare for
what might happen" said the speak
err lis educate the people. through
the churches and schools"
Mr.. Jones explained that one Of
the toughest problems before Ameri-
cans. was the foreign Intervention.
He said that at the conference,
there was a strong interest to resent
this. He went on to illustrate. how
some foreigners come to America,
from Europe. where they have been
used to their beers. wines and other
liquors and are dissatisfied when
they are unable to secure their liq-
| nor. He said that the general feel
ing at the conference was of indif-
ference to these people and that the
best thing for them to do was to go
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law in America.
The pastor reported some of the
fine work that is being done in some
of the American colleges along the
enforcement line. Some people
| think" stated Mr.. Jones. that there
is more drinking going on in COL
leges today than ever before. This
, is not so.'
He went on to quote DIR. Plantz.
president of a well known western
university, who gave detailed statis-
tics that proved the modern Colleg-
| ian on the average a supporter of
prohibition. a few of the points
were as follows:
Cd In some OF the colleges the
fraternities are forbidding liquor to
in some of the "Frats" are fined
from SO to $50 if discovered to be
intoxicated. CD If continued drink
ing is kept up in the fraternity, its
charter is taken by the council.
Mr.. Jones then mentioned some of
the work being done by individual
colleges. In Wesleyan college, %
percent of the student body have
taken pledges. for total abstinence
The first time that q man Is found
! intoxicated, he is excluded from all
contests in the college; the second
time he is found intoxicated he is
expelled from college.
In the University of Illinois there
are $4,000 students and several
things have been done here of note:
Absolute loyalty has been pledged
! to the eighteenth amendment: last
fall at big athletic contest, the
! students appealed to the alumni of
/ $4,000 members to keep order on
the grounds and make the event the
cleaneSt one in history.
Mr.. Jones quoted Col. Dan Morgan
, Smith, who declared in an address
at the conference that men who vio-
, late the prohibition law should be
placed in the class of the criminal,
such as the murderer, the thief and
the incendiary. In speaking of the
duty of every American to help en-
force this amendment, Mr. Jones re-
ferred to quotation from President
Coolidge. DUTY is not collective, but
| personal"
"A great many people," said Mr.
Jones. have the idea that the
! eighteenth amendment was passed
at the time that the boys were across
, the water on the battlefelds, and
that if they had been here the out
come would have been different" He
then gave the following list OF votes
in the State of Ohio during war time
! and after war: