The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-01-27
DRY Leaders PAY TRIBUTE
TO SHUMAKER WITH OVATION;
TURN PARLEY into 1OVEFEST'
Anti-SaIoon League Chief
Is Cheered by 1900
at Meeting.
HIGH COURT DENOUNCED
Mcbride Urges Hearers to
CriticiSe Officials Who
Are UnfriendIy.

When Secretary E. S. Shumaker
of the Indiana Anti-Saloon League
mounted the platform at the IN
diana dry convention at Roberts
Park M. E. Church this afternoon
he was given an ovation by 1900
delegates.
The meeting, which got under
way Thursday morning and closes
tonight, turned into love feast for
Shumaker, who is facing sixty days
at the Indiana State farm and a
$3.50 fine for contempt of the In
diana Supreme Court.
The case still is pending follow
ing bearing of witnesses on motion
to increase the sentence on the
grounds that the dry chief sought
political influence on the court while
the original case was under con-
Sideration by the judges.
The session this morning had pre-
pared the way for Shumaker's ap-
pearance. A rouSing talk, boosting
his leadership and scathingly de-
nouncing the Supreme Court, was
delivered by James Kirby Risk,
Lebanon manufacturer, who pre-
sided.
Risk urged election of honest,
law abiding lawyers" to the office
of attorney general, recommending
to Republicans Honest Bill Remy,"
prosecutor of Marion County.
Shumaker was followed this after
noon by Superintendent F. Scott
Mcbride of the Anti-Saloon League
of America. a He urged his hearers
not to be afraid to criticise officials
whom they considered unfriendly
to their cause.
Resolutions Are kHOpted
A long list of resolutions were
adopted, praising the dry law, ex-
pressing opposition to all candidates
opposing it, regretting presentation
of the "wet" cause in newspapers,
urging national legislation along the
line of the Indiana Wright bone
dry law, approving Shumaker
the Anti-Saloon League, w. G. T. u,
and the Federal prohibition officials
here, Judge Robert G. Baltzell and
District Attorney Albert Ward.
William H. Settle, president Of the
Indiana Farm Bureau Federation,
wrote his regret at being unable to
appear.
Other speakers at the morning
session we're Bishop Frederick D.
Leete of the Indianapolis area,
Methodist Church; Mrs. Elizabeth T..
Stanley, president Of the Indiana
w. G. T. u, and Mrs. Hamet D.
Hinkle, president of the Indiana
Federation of Womens Clubs.
FIay Whisky as Medicine
Medicinal whisky was discussed
by two Indiana doctors. All In
dianapolis doctors had been invited
to hear the discussion. Secretary
Shun1aker also read a letter from
DR.. w. A. Evans, health expert of
the Chicago Tribune, condemning
whisky as medicine. The Tribune
has opposed Shumaker editorially.
"There is no need of placing or
retaining whisky, or other alcoholic
beveridges, in the list of remedies
used by physicians" the Evans let
ter stated. DR.. Evans expressed re-
gret that he was unable to appear
personally to urge this stand. He
cited numerous diseases, including
Snake bite" in which the use of
whisky as a curative has been
abandoned.
Physicians who talked were: DR..
r. H. Richards of Patricksburg, Ind,
medical corps, major in the A. E. F.,
during the World War; and DR.. o.
G. Brubaker, of North Manchester,
Ind.
Admission that prohibition has
not been 100 per cent efficient was
made by DR.. Clarence True Wilson,
secretary of the Methodist Board
Of Prohibition, Temperance and
Public Morals, Washington, D. c.,
Thursday night.
President w. L. Bryan of Indiana
University gave five minute talk at
the close of the afternoon session
Thursday He declared that never
in the history of 100 years of saloons
in America were the liquor inter
ests known to have obeyed the law.
Other speakers were DR.. j. M.
Doran, U. S. prohibition commits
sioner, Washington, D. c.; General
Secretary E. T. Albertson of the In
diana Council of Religious Educa-
ton; Frank E. Wright, author of the
Wright "bone-dry" law, and Mayor
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