:! A National Temperance Campaign jj jj of Pledge-Signing Now Launched j I| Secretary of State Bryan the Originator of New Total j : Abstinence Propaganda; Federal Council of j; j; Churches Behind It (By The Religious Rambler.) By the Religions Rambler TWO important developments in the temperance cause have ap peared within the past few days, both giving promise of lons continued and natlon-wtde influence. One was ihe formal inauguration of the Na tional Abstainers' Union at a meet ing held in the "Billy" Sunday taber nacle in Philadelphia, with Secretary of State, William Jennings Bryan as orator in chief. The other was the in auguration of the movement to care for all the workingmen who lose their jobs through temperance legislation, and. incidentally, to line up the work ingmen in general for temperance, laws. The project which the Secretary OC State publicly christened is really his own idea. He is a member of the • 'ommission on Temperance of the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America, and at the recent meet ing he suggested a national campaign for the signing of total abstinence] pledges by individuals. "Billy" Sunday's "booae" sermon had made the Philadelphia tabernacle a potent spring of cold-water sentiment, and it was a logical development that the orator of "grape juice" statesman ship should' there follow in his train with practical proposals for promot ing total abstinence from the ground up. The new National Abstainers' Union ha* for Its slogan, "For Health, Home and Humanity." Putting the Churches Bellind Tem perance The chairman of the federal coun cil's commission on temperance, who conducted the Philadelphia meeting, and is propagating the Philadelphia campaign, is the Rev. Rtifus W. Mil ler, D. D., the secretary of the Sunday school board of the Reformed church in the United States. He says that tli3 present popular legislative program for temperance needs to be buttressed by the irresistible forces of a nation wide body of pledged total abstainers. This Is an interesting reversion to the earlier methods of temperance cam paigning. While the commission puts its real seal on the proposed national prohibi tion laws, and is working for the irra dication of liquor advertisements from the newspapers, yet jt seeks to build temperance sentiment from the ground up. beginning with the children of tbe Sunday school. What differentiates this enterprise IN SUCH PAIN WOMAN CRIED Suffered Everything Until Re stored to Health by Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegeta ble Compound. Florence, So. Dakota.—"l used to be ! very sick every month with bearing • ■■ idown pains and ! backache, and had headache a good deal of the time and ver y little appetite. I fv)® : The pains were so ' W \ bad that I used to .. ' sit right down on the j f>r'\X floor and cry, be- i cause hurt me so , r fflfif/Zd(j/i anc * * could not do //W an y wor k at those j '' f l ''—« ■ 1 times. An old wo- ; man advised me to try Lydia E. Pink- j nam's Vegetable Compound and I got a bottle. I felt better the next month so I took three more bottles of it and got ' well so I could work all the time. I j hope every woman who suffers like I did 1 svill try Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable ! Compound."—Mrs. P. W.I-ANSENG, Box 8, Allyn, Wash. Why will women continue to sufferday j in and day out or drag out a sickly, half hearted existence, missing three-fourths of the joy of living, when they can find health in Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound? 1 For thirty years it has been the stand ard remedy for female ills, and has re- i stored the health of thousands of women ! who have been troubled with such ail ments as displacements, inflammation, , ulceration, tumors, irregularities, etc. j If yon want special adrice write to Ljdia E. Pinkham Medicine Co. (confi dential) Lynn. Mass. Your letter will be opened, read and answered by a woman and held iu strict confidence* ! QUIT MOT WH Kin BOTHER Take a Glass of Salts if your Back hurts or Bladder trou bles you No mail or woman who eats meat regularly can make a mistake by Hush ing the kidneys occasionally, 'says a well-known authority. Meat forms uric acid, which excites the kidneys, they become overworked from the strain, get sluggish and fall to filter the waste and poisons from the blood, then we get sick. Nearly all rheuma tism, headaches, liver trouble, nerv ousness, dizziness, sleeplessness and uri nary disorders come from sluggish kid neys. The moment you feel a dull ache in the kidneyß or your back hurts or if the urine is cloud}-, offensive, full of sediment, irregular of passage or at tended by a sensation of scalding, stop eating meat and get about four ounces of Jad Salts from any pharmacy; take a tablespoonful in a glass of water be fore breakfast and In a few days your kidneys will act fine. This famous waits is made from the acid of grapos wnd lemon juice, combined with lithia, and has been used for generations to flush and stimulate the kidneys, also to neutralize the acids in urine "so it no longer* causes irritation, thus ending hladder weakness. Jad Salts Is inexpensive and cannot in jure; makes a delightful effervescent lithia-water drink which everyone should take now and then to keen tlie kidneys clean and active and the blood pure, thereby avoiding serious kidney eompiicatloiis.—Advertisement. FRIDAY EVENING. RAJUUSBURG TELEGRAPH , . MARCH 10, 1915 from those other temperance schemes 1 is that the commission puts behind it squarely the allied churches of the i country. The commission represents 5 practically all the Protestant denomi nations, and ciaims a constituency of . more than thirty million persons. Now, says Dr, Miller, It is seeking the active » co-operation of the Roman Catholic ; temperance organization, and of the ; Jewish leaders: for the temperance! union aims to be comprehensively na- i • tional. i The Water Wagon a Band Wagon An observer of political life smiles a ■ bit cynically as he notes Dr. Miller's , statements that an advisory committeel . of two hundred representative national! , leaders is being formed for the Tem-1 perance Unions, to comprise gover-1 . nors, cabinet officers, senators, con-1 [ greasmen, labor leaders, university , presidents, etc. The temperance folk are frankly taking advantage ol" the desire of all kinds of publicists to be in line with latest popular sentiment, ' and clearly the water wagon is to be ■ a band wagon, with the most unex pected persons scrambling aboard. political parties are declaring for \ 1 local option and national prohibition.' Not all who appear in the public prints as favoring temperance legist.i- 1 tion are themselves signers of total I abstainence pledges, but these are the I men that Dr. Miller expects to get. I The headquarters of the Federal Council Commission are at-present In j Pittsburgh, where the secretary, the 1 Rev. Charles Scanlon. has his office. I But they will be moved shortly to Phil- I adelphla, and a systematic propaganda! ; conducted from the home of the Lib-I erty Bell. Hitclung Up to the I'ourlh of .July While some of the many existing j temperance organizations which have long been in the field, may not we!- ! come a new organization that will I comprehend them all. yet the fact re- j mains that the new Abstainers' Union, ] with the Federal Council's Temperance i Commission behind it, is in a peculiar- | lv advantageous position tor exercising j very large influence. Its power of! propaganda is really unrivalled; for the elaborate and far-reaching ma chinery of the churches, the Sunday schools, the young peoples' societies, the brotherhoods and the Bible class es lies ready to this end. Moreover, by stressing the religious character of the movement, it makes a more gen eral appeal, and thus enlists the deep er purposes of the religious press, and also of public school teachers who are, for the most part, church members. One of the audacious plans p. 1 ready announced for the Abstainers' Union is the linking up of the celebration of the Fourth of July with the temper ance propaganda by making this a patriotic, peace and temperance day. Dr. Miller says that there are plan 3 afoot which give promise of a nation wide observance of Independence Day with a temperance flavor to all the proceedings. In addition the world's temperance Sunday will be utilized by the organization for purposes of pro | paganda. From the \\ nrkingman's Vie\v|>oint j Two other personalities, potent in modern religious and social service activities, have taken up the temper ance cause from a new angle. These are the Rev. Charles Stelzle. of New York, the church and labor leader, who has done more to put social ser vice into the church program than any | other living man: and William F. Cochran, the wealthy young Episcopal; ! layman of Baltimore, who has finarK;- i led the notable Christian publicity cam- ! paign in the Baltimore newspapers, i j These two inen are uniting their forces to combat the proposition that the I abolition of the saloon will create a labor panic They admit that serious } economic readjustments will be nec essary, and they are undertaking by a | new jiovenient. which they expect to ■ make nation wide, to provide jobs for I all men who are thrown out .of work |by temperance legislation. They also ; i have undertaken an exhaustive inves-; Itigation of the liquor problem from I an economic viewpoint, j As a result of facts already collat |ed, Mr. Stelzle says it is proved that the workingmen who work the longest I hours spend more time in the saloon I than those who work short hours. An effort will be made to duplicate lin this country the powerful British | organization known as "The Labor Of ficials Temperance Fellowship," com-] | posed exclusively of labor leaders; ! j twenty of whose vice-presidents are, members of parliament. Mr. Stelzle' ! says that he has the names of more than one hundred labor leaders of na-1 j tional reputation who favor a similar i movement in this country. The Stel-J izle-Cochran program, like that which Mr. Bryan fathers, aims to put tem-1 perance on a constructive basis. With church and labor both hitting! him hard blows. It is scarcely any won der that in these days John Barley corn should seem a bit groggy. THE RELIGIOUS RAMBLER. j Clay Henninger, Jr., Hangs Himself at Chambersburg Special to Tltc Telegraph Chambersburg, Pa., March 10. —j Clay Henninger. Jr.. a popular am j well-known young man, committed suicide at his home here yesterday bv j hanging For several weeks! young Henninger had been in bad health, on account of which he found I it necessary to give up his position ' at the shops of the T. B Woods Com- j pany. Shortly after he had eaten his I dinner yesterday he Informed his wife I that his hair needed cleaning and he ; was going upstairs to wash it. After I an elapse of only a few minutes Mrs. I Henninger, worried over the mclan-l choly condition of her husband, went 1 upstairs to investigate. Going into j their bedroom and not being able to • find him, she went to the attic and found his body dangling from a rafter. I Henninger had procured a piece of clothesline, and fastening one end around the rafter and the other about his neck, he lowered hirpself down toward the floor. Life was extinct, ; but his body was yet warm. Henninger was 30 years of ago and 1 was a good baseball player, being a member of the Chambersburg club,! of which his father, a prominent mer chant, was the manager for many! years, and who at one time was a i well-known player himself. OLD INJURY CAUSING TROUBLE I Special to The Telegraph Pa., March 19. — i George Sweeney, 1 3-year-old son of | Harry Sweeney, is confined to his I home by sore eyes, the result of an | accident that befell bim nearly five years ago. Sweeney was injured while putting! off some fireworks on the Fourth of i July. AP that time It was thought! that,he would lose sight of oone of! his eyes, but it was savsd. 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