Evening star., 1943-05-14
Anti-Sa|oon League's S
2-Day Conference
Opens Sunday
State Leaders and
Churchmen From All
Parts Of U. S. to Attend

The SOD national conference of the
Anti-Saloon League of America,
which is celebrating the 50th ami
versary of the movement, will be held
Sunday and Monday at the Calvary
Baptist Church, Eighth and H streets
NV.
Prominent churchmen and laymen
throughout the Nation will partici-
pate in the four sessions, which will
be open to the public.
The conference will open at 3
pm. Sunday with two addresses. The
Rev. Sam Morris. San Antonio, Tex,
Voice of Temperance" radio evan
gelist and field speaker for the
league, will speak on Remember
Pearl Harbor,' and Bichop Ralph S.
Cushman, St. Paul. Mimi, presi-
dent of the Anti-Saloon League of
America, will discuss "One Way to
Hasten Victory"
Iowan to Preside.
DR.. Frank Anderson, Des Moines,
Iowa, president Of the Iowa Anti
Saloon League, will preside. The in
vocation will be given by DR.. Frank
H. Throop, Columbus, Ohio, modera-
tor Synod of Ohio, Presbyterian
Church of the U. S. A., and music
will be under the direction of Oliver
Proport, with Temple Dunn as Or
ganist.
An informal reception honoring
Anti-Saloon League pioneers will be
held at S pm. in Woodward Hall of
the church. DR.. F.. Scott Mcbride,
Philadelphia, will act as master of
ceremonies.
Responses will be made by DR..
Howard Hyde Russell, Westerville,
Ohio, and Andrew Wilson of Wash
ington, pioneer organizers OF the
Anti-Saloon League movement in
Ohio and the District.
On Monday the first session will
be held at 3 pm. in Woodward Hall,
with DR.. w. G. Clippinger, Colum-
bus. Ohio, president of the Anti
Saloon League of Ohio, presiding.
DR.. A. Lawrence Miller, Williams
burg, Pa. will give the invocation,
and special music will be presented
by Justin Lawrie. tenor soloist and
choir director of the Foundry Meth
odist Church.
Series Of Three Minute Talks.
Three minute addresses on the
Anti-Saloon League In action on the
home front to promote temperance
for victory will be made by the fol-
lowing:
Clyde c. Coulter, Little Rock:
Atticus Webb, Atlanta; L. E. York,
Indianapolis; o. G. Christgau, Des
Moines; E. c. Prettyman, Lansing,
Mich: N. S. Jackson, Jackson, Miss;
P. A. Tate, st. Louis w. j. Losinger,
Oklahoma City; j. w. Moore, Rich
mond, Va; B. E. Ewing, Charleston,
w: Va; J. Frank Jenner, Madison,
Wis: Clayton F. Wallace, Welbore,
N. H., and B. Barthel, Denver.
Miss Laura Lindley of Washing
ton. research secretary of the league.
Will speak on, What the Figures
Show About Liquor and War" and
Edward B. Dunford of WASHINGTON.
attorney OF the league, will speak on,
wartime Liquor Conditions and
Possible Remedies"
Final Session at SPIN.
The final session will be held at
pm. in the main auditorium, with
F. H. Trotter. Chattanooga, presi-
dent of the Tennessee Anti-Saloon
League, presiding. DR.. F. C. Nc
Connell, Anderson. S. c., president
OF the South Carolina Federated
Forces for Temperance and Law
Enforcement, will give the tnvoca-
ton, and Hsrwood Hall of the First
Baptist Church will direct the music.
Three-minute addresses on Tenn
perance for Victory" will be given
by the following:
Albert D. Belts, Orangeburg. S. C.:
w. j. Herwig, Seattle; R. D. Dex-
heimer, Chicago; Titus Frazee, Los
Angeles: Wallace H. Marsh, ALBANY.
N. Y: Robert S. Tinnon, Nashville.
Tenn; F. Scott Mcbride, Philadel-
pf1ia. and S. P. McNaught, Colum-
bus. Ohio.
George w. Crabbe of Washington,
secretary of the league, will talk on
why Coddle the Liquor Serpent
Now?" The final address will be
made by Bishop James Cannon, jr.,
Richmond. Va, OF the leagues ad-
ministrative committee, on Past,
Present, and Future"
Counting three to a family, more
than half a million people will read