The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-07-20
MICHICAN'S COV.:
 CONDEMNS DRINK
Townspeople Con C l u d e After Address He Hadn't
 Been Around Much"

Charlotte, Mich, July 20-(UP)-- Luren Dickinson's neighbors thought today, having listened with attention to his newest attack on sin, that he was a nice old man but hadn't been around much"
 The radio brought the voice of this towns most prominent citizen into every parlor last night. The &C., year-old governor was extending his recent dissertation on the tempta- tions obtaining in high life" and the methods whereby girls go wrong, for the benefit of his home state.
 He deplored that women and girls were drinking more than they had and wondered If they learned the formula advised by a prominent lady of our nation" He said after the broadcast that the prominent lady" was Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt.
 (Mrs. Roosevelt in the fall of 1032 said in 8 radio speech that when she was a girl, yosfng women were not branded as "pfigs" If they refused to drink, but that prohibition had changed that. Therefore, she con- tinued, the young woman had diff ferent problem in social life. She faces the problem o flearning very young how much she can drink or such things as whisky and gin and sticking to the proper quantity" she said.-Eo.)
 Bert Collins, the towns druggist who knows everyone, thought he reflected not only his own opinion but that of his townsmen, in saying T respect him for the courage of his convictions. But he hasn't been around very much"
 Gov. Dickinson's radio speech had been well advertised and at dusk last night, everyone turned on their radios. Tn the homes, in the gaso- line stations, in the nine places in and around this quiet little farming town of $500, which sell beer, in the two places where whiskey is sold by the drink, in the four drug stores which dispense 1t by the bottle, peo- pie listened to the governor" come to blows with sin.
 He was speaking from the studio of Station WJIM in Lansing. the capital, which is IS miles from here Unaccustomed to radio speaking, h. had to be introduced to Q micro. phone, instructed how to stand anc how to address 1t. Stoop- -shouldered his eyes glittering behind his specta. cles, the light glistening on his par. tially bald head, looking his 80 years the governor launched into his speech enthusiastically. He was to have had state network, but he didn't submit copy of his speech in advance to station WXYZ, De- troit, the networks key/station, and so his speech was confined to one station.
 He spoke out directly to mothers and daughters-the same audience which he had addressed Saturday in saying that social functions of the recent governors conference in AL bany. N. r., had been attended by social brutes" who had made young girls their prey.
 Everywhere we are told there is more drinking by women and girls than at any other time in the ma. tions history" he said. "They gath CT, especially the younger ones, at road houses, beer gardens. etc, from which they are recruited for the houses of i'll fame.
 "1t is not what one contacts im- mediately at these high class func- tions that is the danger, but 1t is what they take away. These ladies and men that saw drinking were not intoxicated as might be inferred Why? l do not know, unless 1t might be that they learned the formula ad. vised by a prominent lady of our na- ton just before liquor came back af- ter prohibition"