Evening star., 1927-11-29
WILSON ASKS HELP
FOR DRY CAMPAIGN
General Secretary of Metho-
dist Board Stresses Needs
of Nation at Farley.

What contributions will be made
toward prohibition enforcement, to
temperance education of young people
and to the international temperance
situation, what policy will be adopted
by the board of managers to be fol
lowed If a wet candidate for Presi-
dent is nominated. and the determina-
ton of it's attitude during the CAM
paign of 1928, are the principal oh
jectives of the annual meeting of the
Board of Temperance, Prohibition
and Public Morals OF the Methodist
Episcopal Church, which opened it's
first session this morning in the Metho-
dist Building with the reading of
report by DR.. Clarence True Wilson,
general secretary.
"Needs of Age"
"As I look toward the future of
our land" said DR.. Wilson, II see an
age needing the ideals, the moralities,
the intentions and fervors for our
holy religion to keep revived an IN
terest in sacred things. The after
math of the World War has brought
in a tendency to immodesty, loosen
ideals, a lessening of church infiu-
ences, desecration of the Sabbath,
a lack of business integrity as evil
denced by the gambling mania, a
coarsening of moral fiber as shown
in the dirtieSt books ever issued from
the press, the filthiest scenes that
were ever witnessed upon stage and
hundreds of thousands of people
rushing to see slackers slug each
other, who became rich in an hour
through the expenditures of a coars-
ened populace, who are anxious to see
bloodshed as the brutalized populace
of Mexico to see bullfighting or the
gaping throngs who, in the decadent
days of Rome, saw the gladiatorial
combats.
But our board and the similar
boards of the other churches, with
the organized forces of righteousness
OF every nation, have come to the
kingdom for such a time as this. We
have a program that will meet the sit
uation; We have a gospel that will
master it. Though we are frank to
say that the necessity for concentrat.
ing attention on prohibition has
caused the neglect by. us and by all
other agencies of many other moral
needs, yet prohibition will be out of the
woods IN another two years-we hope
decisively by the next national elec.
tion-and we must maintain intact
the agency that shall express the
moral ideals of Methodism in it's pro-
gram of public morals throughout the
whole world
Group i'm Harmony.
There is a group of interests that
work In perfect harmony here at the
Capitalize Anti.Saloon League, the
w. c. T. u, the International Order
of Good Templars, the International
Reform Federation. the Methodist
Board OF Temperance, Prohibition and
Public Morals in a sense representing
the similar organizations of various
denominations that cooperate with us
and work through u.s."
DIR. Wilson advocates that many
revisions be made in the Volstead act,
enumeratlng among them a separa-
ton of the felonies from the mere
misdemeanors in imposing the min.
imum penalty to the violation of the
Volstead act, as urged in bill before
the coming legislation, that there
should be separated from the mere
misdemeanors the five things men,
toned in the eighteenth amendment
itself, VIZ, manufacture, sale, impor-
lEdnSDOftdIlOn
of Intoxicating liquors, and that the
law should deal most severely with
those who deliberately tamper with
the Constitution.
Urges Heavy Penalties.
He further urges that a minimum
fine of $1,000, with a maximum pen.
atty of five years in the penitentiarv,
be imposed in fragrant violations of
the things specifically forbidden in the
eighteenth amendment. when we
get that legislation through" he de-
clared. 1.-The liquor man will not re.
gard the Constitution of the country
as a joke"
This afternoon and evening Dr.
Deets Pickett, research secretary; DR..
Raymond V. Johnson, field secretary.
and DIR. George Mecklenburg, extern
sion secretary, will read their annual
reports. 1t is expected that the ses-
sions and committee meetings will
continue through two DAYS and that
definite conclusions be reached as to
new and further plans at the close of
the session.
There are 80 members of the board
Of temperance, prohibition and public
morals nominated by the bishops and
elected by the General Conference once
in four years. These men represent
every section Of the United States, and
representatives Of the board in session
here are sent into the various coun-
tries of the world.
Among the distinguished guests in
attendance at the annual meeting are
DR.. j. w. Claudy, head of the pro.
hibition board of the Presbyterian
Church: Bishop Jones Cannon of the
Methodist Episcopal Church South,
John c. Let's and William T. Galliher
J The Dutch consul in Jerusalem is
Miss H z. RankAl