Salt Lake Telegram | 1925-11-14 | Page 1 | World 'Drys' Watching U. S.

V WORLD DRYS WATCHING U. U U S. S I I W W. C C. t t ta LT U President j Sees Prohibition on on Trial Before All P Peoples oples DETROIT Nov Noy 14 The AP AP The e eyes es of the world are aze watching the United States in Us its test of national nation nation- al prohibition Miss Anna Adams Gordon president of the National and World Women's Christian Ghristian Temperance Temperance Tem Tern perance Unions said today The national organization Is holding its first fifty annual annual convention here here The success or failure J of this test will determine suture future fiction faction of other othe countries In iTt securing temperance temperance temperance temper temper- ance and abolition of ot the liquor traffic she said sald Never Neve was this this' more evid evident nl Miss Gordon said than during the world convention at Edinburgh gh D Delegates legates and officers of the U United United Unit Unit- ed States group continually were vere queried as s to the effect effect of of prohibition prohibition tion on this country For this reason reason rea rca son tt-re tt tle work of our national body has baa really Just begun It is our re responsibility re- re an a and d a great one one to to prove to the wr that prohibition is a a. success and anda a great forward step in the development of f a a. great people Crime rime is de developing In this country country country coun coun- try as as big business has deve developed Mrs Minnie B. B Horning director ector of prison reform of the W W. C. C T. T U. U I. I declares Crime nime is the great and growing shame of America I Mrs H Horning estimates that that crime cost cos the United States more than pUb public If education and between 8 and 10 per ier year for each- each man woman and ard child Recruits to the ranks of crims are not the thug typo type of ot other days but aro arc dapper well- well dressed boys and girls There is but one one effectual way to sto stop this growth she he said and that Is to awaken the American people to the I seriousness s of the situation on