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Show MORALS OF LIQUOR" AND TOBACCO QUESTION ASHBt'RT PARK, N. J., July . Drinking and smoking In' moderation are not morally wrong. In the opinion of Dr. A. V. Ballard, president of the Qceen Orove camp meeting association. Nor does the doctor discountenance the us of cigarettes, provided they are made of good tobacco. Speaking at the Ocean Orove tabernacle. taber-nacle. Dr. Ballard said he was brought up In a family where liquor was used1 regulsrlv and tnat he had never had aeiy conscientious wruples about taklna It. Many of the ministers and others In the uiKregatlon disagreed with the speaker as to whether there was moral wrong in drinking, but Dr. Ballard smilingly Instated In-stated that there was no wrong In the moderate use of stimulants. He said, however, that becoming Interested he looked Into the matter of drunkenness In the Vnlted States and on finding such nn amount of It. he decided lhat for the sake of example. If nothing ele. he must slop. With Htr Peter, he believed that nothing of Iteelf waa unclean, but only Insofar as It made our brothers offend did It become wrng. The icenersl sense of the meeting seemed to be that It wss one's dtitv t abandon an v thing. the use of whser proved harmful to others. |