Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1919-05-21 | Page 1 | Elder Wilson Backslider, Say Presbyterians

ELDER WILSON BACKSLIDER SAY PRESBYTERIANS President Is Criticized ed by hy Commissioners for Urging Dry Repeal St. St Louis Jouis May Ia 20 President O. Wilson Wilson Wil Wil- son was criticized toda today t by y commissioners commissioners commissioners commis commis- to the op and ami t thirty thirty- firs first general sJ assembly of ot tile the Presbyterian Presby PresbY- terian terlan church lUS US A 4 tor for requesting Congress Congre to Appeal t peal or amend wartime wartime war war- time prohibition on act acl and a resolution was ur urging Con Congress ress to sustain sus sus- laIn tain the law Jaw President Wilson is an elder In the church A coP copy of or tho the r resolution will be Cabled ca cabled cabled ca- ca bled to the President It follows This a assembly learns with pain that the President of the United States Slates has lias recommended to Congress Cons that It repeal a a. part of wartime prohibition and in ill view vie oC of lh this is fact tact we wc most earnestly petition Con Congress re s that It not nol only retain the out Dut that the thc measure be enforced d to the fullest ex ex- ex tent to the tho end that the needs of or tiC thc world for Cor food ma may be met anti and that the efficiency and morale of ot our own people be pr preserved er erlI lI When the tho resolution was nas read the thc commissioners applauded for several in minutes ii u t c s. s The TIC Rev Dr V. W. M. M i. i Hindman of ot Columbus 0 O. declared suCh sueh a 11 stand tand Is Iser very er unbecoming for or an elder cider in the Presbyterian church and for a man manholding manholding holding so so high ar an ar office as that of or tho the President of tho United States Slates I IB B H. E E. P P. of or harrisburg Pa state chairman o of the or organization atlon of Pennsylvania asserted this Is the second time President Wilson Ilson has stepped In to b friend befriend the thc liquor Interests and means the undoing undo undo- tug ing of all that has been done one I Enforcement of or wartime prohibition was emphasized further n the report of or tho the temperance committee commatee which requested Con Congress n es to oppose all ef efforts of- of forts orte to rescind any part of or wartime prohibition to become o July 1 The report advocate advocate- world pro pro- The committee deplored the thc use of ot clarets especially b by women and urged upon Presbyterians the nonuse of or thorn thom