The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, January 13, 1915, Image 5

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    INTERCOLLEGIATE PRO
HIBITION ASSOCIATION
Ten thousand college men and
women will be enlisted as leaders in
the anti-liquor crusade as the result
of a movement launched at the To
peka convention. Following an ad
dress by Daniel A. Poling, vice-presi
dent of the association, four hundred
student delegates from all parts of the
United States rose to their feet and
with hands clenched into fighting fists
pledged themselves to “see this thing
thru.’
In addition it as resolved to initiate
a Nationwide campaign to enlist at
least five thousand college men and
women who will engage in active
service for National prohibition un
der the direction of the various Na
tional anti-liquor organizations. The
present fight for National prohibition,
it was declared, furnishes a “moral
equivalent for war,” which peace ad
vocates are urging to counteract the
passion for military conflict.
The Topeka convention was the
greatest National student gathering
of a civic character ever assembled
in America. With delegates from
Massachusetts and California, from
Minnesota and Texas, and from near
ly every intervening State, the con
vention was by far the largest and
most representative ever held by the
association, and it stands as the one
big student gathering of the year 1914.
The entire convention program cen
tered around the general theme, “The
Challenge of the Anti-Liquor Move
ment to the Present Student Genera
tion.” In stirring addresses and earn
est life purpose conferences the chal
lenge for intelligent, patriotic leader
ship was presented from many differ
ent angles by recognized National
leaders in the anti-liquor movement,
and the challenge was eagerly accept
ed. Among the prominent speakers
were: Governor George H. Hodges
of Kansas: Governor-elect Arthur
Capper; ex-Governor John P. St.
John; Dr. Charles M. Sheldon;
“Catch-My-Pal” (Rev. R. J.) Patter
son of Ireland; Di*. Purley A. Baker,
National superintendent of the Anti-
Saloon League; Eugene W. Chafin,
twice Prohibition candidate for Presi
dent and member of the Flying
Squadron; Virgil G. Henshaw, Nation
al chairman of the Prohibition party;
Rev. Elmer L. Williams, “the fighting
parson of Chicago;” Daniel A. Poling,
National superintendent of good citi
zenship department, United Society
of Christian Endeavor; Hon. Alonzo
E. Wilson, president of Lincoln Chau
tauqua System and former member of
the Illinois Legislature; Mrs. Frances
E. Beauchamp, president of the Ken
tucky W. C. T. U.; Harry C. McCain,
extension secretary of the Methodist
Episcopal Temperance Society; Dr.
D. Leigh Colvin, president of the I.
P. A., and Harley H. Gill, former vice-
president.
Telegrams and letters of greeting,
all eartily endorsing the work of the
I. P. A., were received from Hon.
William J. Bryan, Congressman Rich
mond P. Hobson, United States Sena
tors Morris Sheppard and Robert L.
Owen, Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, and
nearly a score of college and univer
sity presidents.
The biennial National oratorical of
the association was won by Earl H.
Haydock of the University of South
ern California. Second place was
taken by Henry C. Jacobs of Hope
College, Michigan, and third honors
went to Herbert M. Myrick of Carson
and Newman College, Tennessee. One
young woman was among the com
petitors and the contest was one of
the strongest ever held.
The four days’ session resulted in
deep conviction as to the necessity
and immediate demand for National
prohibition, and a consecrated determi
nation to assume the service of lead
ership in bringing about its consum
mation. It was an occasion of tre
mendous inspiration and significance,
and the forces which it set in motion
will constitute one of the most potent
factors in the anti-liquor movement
thruout the world.
Officers for the next two years were
elected as follows: President, D.
Leigh Colvin, Ph. D., New York; first
vice-president, Daniel A. Poling, Bos
ton; second vice-president, Harry G.
McCain, Topeka, Kan.; secretary,
Elon G. Borton, Greenville, 111.; treas
urer, Harry S. Warner, Chicago;
members of the executive committee,
Neil D. Cranmer, Elmira, N. Y., and
Harley H. Gill, University of Califor
nia. Harry S. Warner was re-elected
general secretary. The fundamental
educational purposes of the associa
tion were reaffirmed in resolutions
adopted by the convention, and a
campaign was launched to raise a
fund of $125,000, payable in five year
ly installments, for the purpose of ex
tending the work of the organization
to every college and university in the
United States.
LIEUTENANT HILL.
AND THE HOWITZER
W. G. Schultze has handed us a 1909
“Howitzer,” the West Point annual
' of the year that Lieutenant Hill
graduated. Under the commandant’s
picture in the senior section, we learn
that he was originally from Portland,
Ore. His biographer observes that
tho he is from the wild and woolly
West, his nature is quite mild, in
deed. His recreation is said to be
photography, and he is said to be a
strong member of the “Anti-Knocking
Society.”
The “Howitzer” is a highly credit
able annual. We took it over for the
editor of the Long Horn to see and it
excited his envy and admiration to
such an extent that it was only with
considerable effort that we were able
to prize him loose from it.
THE TEXAN IS REDUCED IN SIZE.
The Texan, the first college daily
in the South, has recently shortened
its columns and now comes forward
with the announcement that, for
financial reasons, its size will be fur
ther reduced from six to five columns,
making it but two-thirds of its former
size.
CHAPEL NOTES.
If every chapel sermon during the
year 1915 is as good as the first, we
will have the best chapel services in
the State. We were very fortunate
in having Dr. A. J. Barton of Waco
on last Sunday. He is secretary of
the Baptist State board of education,
and is widely known among men of
affairs.
Dr. Barton dwelt on the interest
and value of studying human nature,
and the intelligent use of the will as
concerned with the formation of
habits. He used so many concrete
examples to illustrate his points that
his sermon was more than ordinarily
interesting to the audience.
Dr. Barton very generously consent
ed to stay over from the morning
service and speak at the regular Sun
day night Y. M. C. A. service. He
spoke on the much debated question
of the hereafter. He dwelt on the
facts that he hereafter is real, that it
is different from the present life, and
that it is where a man’s real worth
is accurately set down.
All were glad to hear Dr. Bizzell
say that the Legislature had been
asked for $150,000 with which to erect
a new assembly hall. This is prob
ably the most urgent need of the col
lege at this time, as our present hall
cannot accommodate the commence
ment crowds, and has not done so for
several years.
Dr. D. W. Darnall of Sherman will
conduct the chapel services on Sun
day, January 17.
TOLD IN THE PUBLIC
SPEAKING CLASS
A small dog reached a depot about
the time a train was passing thru.
He took after it and pursued it for
about 100 yards, then suddenly stopt
and came back. A larger dog asked
him why he had given up the chase.
“Oh,” he replied, “While I was run
ning it the thought came to me—what
will I do with the thing if I catch it?”
Said the toastmaster: “Wisrodt
came very near eloping last summer.
He got as far as putting the ladder
up to her window, but a policeman
approached, and, fearing that he
would be taken for a burglar, he took
down the ladder and slipt away. In
a moment more he met another po
liceman who asked him rather brusk-
ly what he was doing. C. E. P. was
at a loss what answer to give, but at
length his knowledge of economics
came to his aid and he said, ‘Oh,
just circulating around.’ ‘Tell that
to the chief,’ said the cop, as he took
him in charge. When brought before
the chief he was again asked what
he was doing when arrested. ‘Just
circulating around,’ he repeated. ‘Put
him out of circulation for thirty days,’
was the verdict.”
A speculator in a stock market
came out on the street one day look
ing very glum. He was asccosted by
a friend of his who inquired why he
looked so “solemn-cholly.” “Oh, I
made a bad deal,” was the reply.
“Were you a bear?” “No.” “Were
you a bull?” “No.” “Well, then, what
were you?” “I was an ass,” was the
sour reply.
The empty wagon rattles loudest;
in that respect it is not unlike many
heads.
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