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Show commissioners npplauded for several minutes. The Kov. Dr. William Kingman of Columbus, Ohio, declared "such a stand is very unbecoming for an elder in the Presbyterian church, and for a man holding so high an office as that of the president of the United States." B. E. P. Proujih of Harrisburg, Pa., state chairman of the Presbyterian organization or-ganization of Pennsylvania, asserted, "This is the second time President Wilson Wil-son has stepped in to befriend the liquor interests, and means the undoing of all that has been done." Itlnf orcemcnt of wartime prohibition was emphasized further in the report of the temperance committee, which requested re-quested congress to "oppose all efforts to rescind any part of wartime prohibition prohi-bition to become effective July 1." The report advocated world prohibition. The committee deplored the use of cigarets, especially by women," and urged upon Presbyterians the nonuse of them. in mp IIBI Presbyterian General Assembly As-sembly Deplores Proposed Dry Law Repeal. ST. LOUIS, May 20. President Wilson Wil-son was criticised today by commissioners commis-sioners to the 131st general assembly of the Presbyterian church, U. S. A., for requesting- congress to repeal or amend the wartime prohibition act and a resolution reso-lution was adopted urging congress to sustain the law.- President Wilson is an elder in" the church. A copj' of the resolution will be cabled ca-bled to the president. It. follows: "This assembly learns with pain that the president of the United States has recommended to congress that it repeal a part of wartime prohibition, and, in view of this fact, we most earnestly petition pe-tition congress that it not only retain the measure, but that the measure be enforced to the fullest extent to the end that the needs of the world for food may be met, .and that the efficiency effi-ciency and morale of our own people be preserved." When the resolution was read, the |