:! 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. He is now)
confined to his room and at times he j
is unable to see anything at periods
of from ten to fifteen minutes. j,
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