The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-02-16

Rum Sold Sunday School
Youth, Rev. Il. Wilson
Burgah Declares


4 started my fight against An
napolis bootIeggers when fathers
and mothers Of my church and
other churches told me OF their
boys and girls under twenty years
old coming home, or being brought
home, helplessly drunk"
With this statement the Rev
orend 81. Wilson Burgan, pastor
Of Calvary Methodist Episcopal
Church, Annapolis, yesterday
launched an attack on liquor law
violators from his pulpit.
Rum Sold Sunday School Boy.
To an attendance packing the
Church and Sunday school room.
he continued:
Il took direct action when 4
bootlegger, a persistent offender,
who sold LIQUOR to boy Of our
tain B. reduction Of the Jail SEN
fence and fine imposed on him
Many Of my leads, came from
real estate transfers. I could not
believe that the horde Of foreigners
came here and opened small con-
fectionery shops for legitimate pur-
poses.
Annapolis was further stirred by
hearing that an Annapolis man
Saturday night threw 3 glass Of
water IN the face Of Miss Virginia
Wilson after accosting her in the
washington. Baltimore and AnDap-
oils Railway station.
Face Bribery Charge.
Miss wilson and Mrs. Esther
COulhourne are the women who
helped county authorities in the re-
cent bootleg expose. As re-
euft Of what they call q frame
upD the grand jury now is con-
atderfng charges Of bribery laid
against them by bootlegger.
Describing the episode In the sta
ton, Miss Wilson said:
az was standing &C the soda f0un-d
tain in the station when / thought
heard someone address me by
name. Several men were standing
nearby, and glanced around and
thought / was mistaken. But when
my name was uttered again, I turned
and asked big young man Il he
had spoken TO me.
Doused Him First
Gle said YES, and IN nasty |
tone said You know me. = re-
membered having seem him some
where, but resented the tone in
which he kept repeating that
knew him. told him Il he per-
sisted I would throw q glass Of
water In his face. That Is just
what / did q moment later when
ne continued his propagation.
s.Then I turned my back to him
and walked 70 the telephone booths. /
a few moments later he followed me
with a glass Of water. Kept my
hack to him. but when he called
re 4 coward 1 turned toward him
and he dashed the water In my face
also spelling my dress. then pro-
ceeded to slap his face, and q mo-
nent later I walked from the sta
ton.
Miss Wilson was indignant over
the episode, but said she planned
no action against the youth because
ahe had thrown the water first
She said she obtained the name OF
the Young man who is known as a
native of Annapolis. He is said to
have been figure in q brawl in
an Annapolis lunchroom few days
Mission or Church.
The Reverend Doctor Burgan pref
aeed his sermon on why Went
1nbO the 1<1QuOE 1Subzf W ceAgAl4ts
he took the stand he did because
ne believed it the stand Christ
would have taken. The Redeemer,
he said, was tender toward fndivid-
ual sinners, but aggressive against
organized wrong. He said:
Christ drove the money-changers
from the Temple for violating the
Temple laws for money. can see
q parallel in the bootleggers who
are bringing in q forbidden thing
and selling II for money.
THE mission OF the church is
twofold-to bring about the re-