Milford chronicle., 1924-05-09
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I'VE affirm that, under all the cir
cumstances the Federal prohibitory
law has been a great success. Its suc.
cess is to be seen in the ENLARGED
savings deposits at the banks. in.
creased expenditures for Legitimate
commodities, the decrease of crime
the increased efficiency of labor. IN
broken homes repaired, in Separated
families reunited, and in fact that the
Church Of God is permitted to do its
work without the handicap of a
drunken and brutalized community.
Declares Prohibition Permanent
"All agitations seeking to modify or
repeal the prohibitOry law have fail
ed and will fail. Prohibition has be-
come the permanent policy of the Am
erican people. The prohibitory amend
ment is in the Federal Constitution to
remain as long as the Constitution re-
mains. There is as much prospect of
returning to the practice of human
slavery as Of resuming the legal sale
of rum and every citizen who laws
claim to patriotism will give his ut
most influence toward building up re-
spect for this and all other laws of
the land.
''The basis Of civilization is Obedi-
ence to law. Encouragement to law
breaking is easily the most direct and
violent form Of attack upon the Con-
stitution.
President Coolidge is exactly right
when he declares that the authority
Of the law is questioned in these days
altogether too much. The binding obli-
cation Of obedience against personal
desire is denied in many quarters. If
these ideals prevail, all organized
Government, all liberty, all security is ]
at an end And Governor Pinchot
admirably expresses a sentiment J
which we all strongly feel when he
says: There is no Communist who
bores so successfully from within as
those so-called respectables who, at
the behest of habit or appetite, are
willing to sully their Americanism by
open defiance of the Constitution,
their Constitution, which has the most
sacred claims upon their fidelity and
obedience
Call for NOn.PartiSan Enforcement
I'VE demand that the machinery Of
enforcement shall be taken entirely
out of partisan politics and that no
man shall be appointed to this re-
sponsibility as a reward for party
service.
Divorce "the Chief Scandal" :
1.-THE Methodist Episcopal Church as :
sumes no uncertain attitude on di-
vorce. Our law is both specific and i'm
perative. No minister of our Church :
can lawfully remarry a person who =
has been divorced excepting upon the
One Scriptural ground, and then only
The innocent party in the case can be \
remarked.
Ministers and members who will >,
,ully or careIessly disregard this N
plain law for the Church should be :,
3ummarily compelled to answer for 4
heir misconduct. \,
Declare Against Warfare Vi
Regarding world peace, the Bishops
declared: pI
"The Church of Jesus Christ must
lever again quietly acquiesce in ma OF
iOnal or international policies which A
romote warlike tempers and atti- m
udes. It must do more than mildly W
rotest. The whole strength of the Tn
nited Church Of Christ must be te
brown with compelling force against
7arlike policies and preparations. Our of
Osition must be that international Ii
7arfare, unless indisputable in self w
efense or in defense Of humanity, is to
mOnstrosity Of the pagan past which W;
as absolutely no proper place in the ba
rogram Of the modern world" m,
II a declaration which was taken as co
hit at the Ku Klux Klan the Bishop tel
snOunced lynching, asserting that ett
hose who are guilty of any connec- to,
on with it are traitors and outlaws"