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LAUNCH CAMPAIGN
FOR PROHIBITION
AS WAR MEASURE
Advocates Urgo President to
Blot Out Evil us in Russia,
Franco and England
Clinton N. Howard. Rochester, N.
V„ and Dr. "Wilbur F. Crafts, super
intendent of the International Re
form Bureau, launched a two weeks'
campaign for national prohibition as
n war measure last night In Grace
Methodist Church.
They will speak mostly In "wet"
strongholds. Philadelphia, Lancaster,
York, Coatesvllle, Pittsburgh, Balti
more nnd other cities. Mr. Howard
gave one of his humorous yet earnest
lectures on "The Immediate Execu
tion of John Barleycorn" In which
he declared that President Wilson
could as an act of war without a tax
abolish every saloon, brewery and
distillery In this country, ns President
Uncoil* abolished slavery.
Wants V. S. To IVilloW Stop
I">r. Crafts introduced the cam
paign In an address which was in part
as follows: "Have you noted the an
tecedents of Russia's bloodless transi
tion from despotism to democracy,
the greatest triumph of the war, of
the century? Professor Harper, of
•"hicago Vniverslty, lecturing to the
National Geographic Society, said tho
bloodless revolution would have been
Impossible but for the prevailing
temperance Conditions. And we do
not forget that the national prohibi
tion brought on suddenly by the war
was due to the defeat of Russia in the
preceding war with Japan, which
Russian statesmen charged even more
to "the little brown Jug" than to the
little brown men. Vodka had so de
layed mobilization nnd manufacture
of munitions, and so fuddled the Rus
sian naval commanders, who became
the laughing stock of the world for
mistaking British trawlers for Jap
anese warships, and so confused the
Russian army officers who left a litter
of bottles In their frequent retreats to
explain them, that Russia's first act in
the new war was to execute John
Barleycorn as the nation's worst foe,
with the result financially, that Rus
sia has grown richer in spite of the
war, while all other warring nations
are piling up unspeakable debts; with
tbe result physically, that Russia Is
the only nation where enough boys
are born to take the places of the men
killed; with the result politically— j
best of all—that the people with i
brains unfuddled. refuse to be kept j
longer In the political nursery in care ,
of autocrats, and calmly take their
long-lost crowns as sovereign citizens.
Prink Greatest Foe
"And have you noted that Emperor '
William prophesied that Russia wilt I
conquer? Tn 1911. he said to his
naval cadets, speaking of "the next
war": "That nation which takes the
smallest quantity of alcohol will win."
"And that link in our historic chain
leads hack to the worst defeat of the
war the defeat of Britain's uncrowned
King George, whose first name is
I,loyd, who said that Britain's great
est "foe was not Germany but Drink,
and proposed that Britain follow Rus
sia in national prohibition; but now
as premier bows before King Alcohol,
cutting off hut the edge of his robe
instead of cutting off his head.
"Will the United States repeat John
Bull's surrender to John Barleycorn,
or follow In national prohibition the
two newest and biggest republics?
"Congress is talking of increasing
its "Internal reventia" from rum to
pay the costs of war. but this blun
der. excusable 1n 1861, would be in
defensible in presence of the proofs
that this wnr has afTorded in the ex
perience of every belligerent that
drink is a drag on every military
agency.
"The British army in India, long
before the war. proved by experi
ments with whole regiments on the
hills that cold water regiments had
better endurance than those rationed
with whiskey or beer. Switzerland
proved by many experiments in target
practice that abtalners shoot straight
er than moderate drinkers. Germany
gave us a lesson when the march to
Paris was fatally delayed by the wine
cellars of Belgium, which also stained
tbe nation's honor. Britain gave us
a lesson when the supply of muni
tions was seriously slowed up by the
workmen's drinking. And our own
figures have shown long since that
nickels of revenue cost the people a
Hollar apiece, if we add to two bil
lions we spend in retail purchases of
flrlnk. the two billions more It costs
in crime and poverty, and the billion
lost in impaired efficiency,
"More than any other nation, we
need to remember in our mixed popu
lation that it is the rule of reason to
close saloons in riots—much more
should we close them for the war, es
pecially as otherwise we must expect
riots in our rear, not only bread riots
but draft riots and even peace riots.
Tbese are but few of a hundred patri
otic arguments for immediate prohibi
tion by statute as a war measure—
which should not interfere with the
submission of the Sheppard-Randall
"bone dry" constitutional prohibition
■that was* reported favorably to the
Senate in the last Congress. Not
sooner than 1920 could that be car
ried through the needed thirty-six
legislatures. Meantime let us do to
booze whatever may be done by stat
ute. We can prohibit it in all our
islands, reservations premises and
ships. We can prohibit liquor ship
ments to Africa and other missionary
lands. We can prohibit all Interstate
''ommerce in liquors and so dam the
liquor traffic at every State line. And
we can prohibit whatever liquor sell
ing would remain anywhere by lmme
dlate national prohibition for the pe
riod of the war,
"The Reform Bureau believes
moral preparedness should go much
farther than prohibition, including
also in Its negative work the suppres
sion by law and law enforcement of
other commercialized vices—-gambling
and prostitution; also providing sub
i stltutes, such as clean motion pic.
I turesj and fundamental work for
i-haracter, by the State, for the half
of our population that do not attend
, either church or Sunday school, such
as restoring and improving dally Bi
ble reading in public schools and the
, the posting of the Commandments in
. schools .courts and mills, Not alone
| in prohibition are we gaining but In
j most other moral reforms, Piracy,
slavery, duelling, the lottery are ex
; tinet, and other social faes have been
i tried and eondemned by puhiis opin
; ion and are In process of execution,
' such as polygamy, prostitution, gam
; Ming, and drink, the latter, apparent
ly 'ne*t' to be hung in the skeleton
I museum pf east pffs, 'bone dry,' "
; iiKf J3ABP, SUSPECTED AGITATOR
Py /hsocialrd frtxt
Atlanta, oa., April 11, = Bp, H.
Pankobe, arrested recently at West
Point, ua ; , pharged with trying to
incite negroes against the govern
ment, has heen released; Federal offi
cials said to-day that while he was
''radical in hi? views' 1 they were con
vinced he was not connected with any
active oropaganda against the gov
ernmei ' ,
WEDNESDAY EVENING,
Engineering Inspector Is
Named Second Lieutenant
in Coast Artillery U. S. A.
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LIEUT. HENRY R. BEHRENS
Henry R. Behrens, 801 North
j Sixth street, has received an appoint- j
| ment as second lieutenant In the |
j Coast Artillery, U. S. A. He has been j
ordered to report at Fort Monroe,
April 15.
.Mr. Behrens graduated from Cor
nell as a mechanical engineer with
I the class of 1912. Since graduation
! lie has been employed ns engineering
Inspector in the plant department of
; the Harrisburg branch of the Bell
Telephone Company, lie is a mem
ber of the Harrisburg Engineer So
i ciety. His engagement to Miss Marie
| McCalley was formally announced
i some time ago.
Zembo Temple Will Be
Represented at Annual
Shriners Convention
Zembo Temple, A. A. O. N., Mystic
Shi Inc. of Harrisburg. will have four
representatives at the Shriners' conven
tion to be held in Minneapolis, begin
ning June 24. The laying of the cor
nerstone of the new Zuhrah Temple
will be a feature of the convention. The
representatives selected are: Frederick
J. Smith and Robert S. Conklin, of Co
lumbia; George F. Sachs, of Harrisburg,
and William Koch, of York.
Members of Harrisburg Consistory,
Ancient Accepted Scottish P.ite, last
evening acted as hosts fq • A number
of invited guests from o'u.sr subordi
nate lodges.
The crowd, numbering li-vst 800,
wer i-ntertained by moving pictures
in the auditorium. Caricature pictures
of the ofticers of the lodge, thrown on
the screen. Incited much applause. After
the movies, refreshments were served in
the banquet room.
New Grace M. E. Pastor
Will Deliver Lecture
"The Upper Room After the Ressur- ;
rection" will be the subject of the ad- |
ilreas to be given to-night in the lecture j
room of the Grace Methodist Church j
by the pastor, the Rev. Dr. Robert Bag- j
nell. This is the second of a series of
lectures to be given by the Rev. Mr.
Bagnell.
To-morrow evening the congregation,
under the auspices of the Ladies' Aid
Society, will give a reception in honor
of the pastor. Patriotic services have
been arranged for next Sunday, to
which all patriotic organizations have V
been invited. '
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c- $2.50
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fcARRISBURG TELEGRAPH
APRIL 11, 1917.