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Show I SPEAKER TO TELL ! OF EXPERIENCES IN THE TRENCHES 4 f DANIEL A. POLING. Daniel A. Poling. LL. D.. of Boston, who served during the war with the "i. ISj. u. a. m Krance, will 'tell of hi:s experiences ex-periences with men in the trenches at a public meeting to be held in the First Presbyterian church tomorrow afternoon at L':45. Dr. Poling by special invitation went to England, where he gave addresses in the interest of prohibition. He was a champion cham-pion athlete in college and became field secretary of the Ohio Christian Endeavor union, in which capacity he became candidate can-didate on the Prohibition ticket for governor gov-ernor of Ohio. He is president of the federation of temperance organizations and was active in pushing through the cause of prohibition in the United States. A-fter reading "Hut.s in Hell," in which Mr. Poling deals with the moral and physical conditions of the men in the trenches during the war, Secretary of War Newton D. Baker said: "It- will lighten the hearts of a million mothers and secure for the boys in the army that confidence in their essential fineness which can only follow the testimony of witnesses who, like you, havo lived the life and seen the conditions with anxious but unprejudiced eyes." Dr. Poling was secretary of the flying squadron which helped to bring several states into tho prohibition column, and was head of one of the sections of the squadron, speaking in all parts of the country many times a day for .several months. His work in the Intercollegiate Prohibition association lias also been conspicuously successful. His subject for tomorrow will be "Found in France." |