The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-01-24
NATIONS DRY
LEADERS WILL
|. SPEAK IN CITY
TWo-Day Convention to
Open Thursday at Roberts
Park M. {. Church.

Finishing touches on the two-day
program of the Indiana dry con-
vention, which opens Thursday at
the Roberts Park M. E. Church,
were made today by Secretary E. S.
Shumaker Of the Indiana Anti-Sa-
loon League.
Three names added to the orig
inal provisional program of speakers
are DR.. William Lowe Bryan, Indi-
ana University president; Clarence
True Wilson, secretary of the
Methodist Board of Temperance,
Prohibition and Public Morals,
Washington, D. c., and Editor Fred
Rhorer of Berne, Ind.
Wilson will speak at the Broad
way M. E. Church Thursday night
and at the general meetings at the
Roberts Park Church Friday. DR..
Bryan will speak Thursday at 4
p m, and Rhorer Friday afternoon.
DOran on Program
DR.. j. M. Doran, United States
Prohibition Commissioner, Washing
ton, D. c., is to speak Thursday
afternoon.
The program opens Thursday at
9:45 a. M, with an address of well
come by Mayor l.. Ert Slack.
Among the morning speakers will
be the Revs. G. H. Winders, pastor
of Northwood Christian Church, In
dianapolis; A. w. Taylor, secretary
of the board of temperance and
social welfare, Disciples of Christ,
and Ernest G. Wareing. editor of the
Western Christian advocate. The
Rev. w. B. Farmer, indianapolis, will
preside at the morning session.
Prayers will be said by the Rev.
w. H. Todd, pastor of the First
United Brethren Church, Terre
Haute, and Hurd Allyn Drake, First
Presbyterian Church, Cincinnati,
Ohio.
Wright to Be Speaker
Afternoon sessions will commence
at las p. m. William E. Carpenter,
Brazil, Ind, president of the Indi-
ana Dry Federation in 1917, will
preside. Devotions will be by the
Revs. j. N. Jessup, Christian
Church, Lafayette, and G. M. Dins-
more, secretary of the Indiana State
BaptiSts convention.
Besides Doran and Bryan, speak
ers will be Col P. H. Callahan,
Louisville, KY; Mayor L. A. Hand
ley, Richmond, Ind, and Frank =.
Wright, indianapolis, author of the
Wright "bone dry law.
Thursday night meetings will be
held at the Roberts Park Church
and other Protestant churches
throughout the city.
James Kirby Risk of Lebanon,
Ind, will preside at the Friday.
morning session, which will start
at 8:45 a. m. Addresses will be by
w. A. Pierson, Indianapolis; Mrs.
Elizabeth T. Stanley, president OF
the Indiana w. G. 7. u; Mrs.
Hamet D. Hinkle, Vincennes, pres1-
dent Of the Indiana Federation OF
Women's Clubs; President William
H. Settle of the Indiana Farm Bu-
reau, and Bishep Frederick D. Leete
of the Methodist Church, Indian
apolis area. The Rev. H. B. Hos
letter, synodical missionary secre"
tary of the Presbyterian Church,
will pronounce benediction.
Hear National Leaders
Besides Editor Rhorer, author of
1.-THE Saloon Fight at Berne, Ind"
speakers Friday afternoon will be
Secretary Shumaker, Superintendent
F. Scott Mcbride of the Anti
Saloon League of America; Mrs
Mollie D. Nicholson, Washington,
D. c., president of the Woman's Ma
tional Democratic League for Law
Enforcement, and United States
Senator Arthur r. Robinson. The
Rev. Ernest N. Evans, Indianapolis
Church Federation secretary, will
pray.
Ernest H. Cherrington, general
secretary of the World League
Against Alcoholism, and the Rev. E.
Y. Mullins of Louisville, KY, pres
ident Of the Worlds Federation of
Baptist Churches, will speak Fri
day night.
Expect More Than 300
Devotions and benediction will be
by the Rev. T. B. Terhune, Hutchin-
son Presbyterian church, New AL
bany, Ind, and r. S. Parr, First
United Brethren church, Indianapo-
lis, respectively. The Rev. j. P.
Nesbit, United Presbyterian church,
Princeton, Ind, will preside.
Secretary Shumaker predicts an
attendance anywhere between 300
to 1000.