The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-17
NJ 'NAUGHT IS
Named STATE
DRY CHIEFTAIN
IoWan Elected Unanimously
as Successor to Late
Or. Shumaker.
R. WINDERS WITHDRAWS
Mcbride Can Not Guarantee
Acceptance of Post, but
He Is Optimistic.

Samuel Parks McNaught, Iowa
Anti-Saloon League superintendent,
was elected superin-
tendent Of the Indiana league at an
executive session of the board Of
trustees at the Y. NJ. c. q. today.
The name Of DR.. G. H. Winders,
Disciples Of Christ minister. acting
superintendent since the death OF
DR.. E. S. Shumaker, also was placed
before the trustees by the nominat-
ing committee, but DR.. WinderS
withdrew "for the sake of harmony"
McNaught was the only nominee
of DR.. F. Scott Mcbride, national
superintendent.
Il can not guarantee that Nc
Naught will accept" a message from
Mcbride stated. However, think
he will not decline"
After Convention
He added that McNaught would
not become active dry head of the
state until after the national Anti
Saloon League convention.
Members of the nominating COM
mittee were DR.. T. Fred Williams
and D. B. Kessinger, Lafayette, and
H. C. Miles, Richmond.
In his report, Bishop H. H. Fout
of the northwestern district of the
United Brethren church, who was
elected president of the board, said
the finances Of the league were in
better shape now than a year ago.
Assets of $4,000 are three time as
great as liabilities, he declared.
Report Ewing Resigned
It was reported Benjamin E
Ewing, director of the speakers
bureau Of the Indiana league since
September, 1923, has resigned, ef-
fective Feb. l, to join the leagues
staff in Harrisburg, Pa.
Two new trustees-at at-large were
named, A. F. Knepp, Roanoke, and
DR.. Orion Fifer, Indianapolis; the
other trustees-at-large being re-
elected. No change was made in
personnel of the headquarters COM
mittee.
officers, of the board of trustees
were reelected.
Bishop Fout cited unanimity Of
action at the meeting, to deny re-
ports of discord in the organization.
Active in League Work
Samuel Parks Mcknight has held
many positions in Anti-Saloon
League work, thirteen years in In
dianapolis.
Born at Frazeysburg, Muskingum
county, Ohio, Aug. Is, 1882, he was
educated in FrazeySburg high school,
the normal school of Muskingum
college, Miami university, at OK
ford, o., and Indiana university law
school, from which he received the
degree Of IL. B. in 1908.
From 1903-19O4, he taught in
grade schools of Frazeysburg and,
in 1903. was admitted to the Indiana
bar and practiced law in Indian-
apolis for one year. He married
Miss Ethel Vesta Johnson of Pom
tiac, Ill, in 1910.
IlldO yCdl lIC DCCd1iIC 4IClu dSCHb
for the Anti-Saloon League Of
America and, the same year, was
appointed as district superintendent
of the Indiana Anti-Saloon League,
serving three years in the Terre
Haute district.
Secretary 1913 to 1918
He was state secretary of the In
diana league from 1913 to 1918 and
also served as superintendent Of the
platform and public speaking de-
partment. In 1913 he was appointed
law enforcement attorney for the
Indiana league and also as deputy
encouragement.
On Sept. 1, 1923, he was chosen
superintendent of the Iowa Anti
Saloon League, with headquarters in
Des Moines.
He was one of eleven delegates
appointed by former Governor
James P. Goodrich to represent
Indiana at the fifteenth interna-
tional congress against alcoholism in
Washington in September, 1920.
He also represented the Indiana
league at the international conven-
ton of the World League Against
Alcoholism at Toronto in Novem.