Show prohibition SENTIMENT called as it was as by the people who called it and held where it was hed one might easily have guessed what the outcome ot of yesterdays mass meeting on the prohibition question would be the attitude of 0 the group assembled was as easy to predict as the answer ot of a group of 0 kiddies to the question do you like candy and it would be a sad day for the community and tor for the nation if similar groups be depended upon to take similar action to be sympathetic to every great moral issue but unfortunately the group lacked much ot of representing the sentiment of 0 the community ol of expressing the attitude ot of the community on the prohibition question while they were meeting there was another group gathered on the street by the meat market which it if it had been polled by secret ballot would undoubtedly have expressed quite a different sentiment had a mass meeting been called and held quite apart part from church influence and had those present been given opportunity to express themselves on the question and to vote secretly tor for or against continuance ot of prohibition under the present status the verdict we venture would have been far from a unanimous one either for or against it is our belief and certainly our hope that a majority ot of Pa rowans citizens r are still tor for prohibition in principal but prohibition in practice is something else again it Is one thing to go to a meeting and vote with a group tor for prohibition but it Is another thing to uphold the law and the officers and to support the latter with any degree of enthusiasm for proof ot of this go to our cour couff t rooms when a liquor case is being tr tried led and see how many prohibition ar there to back up and to itald moral support to the officers its usually the friends and allies ot of the bootlegger who jam the court room in such cases it Is only natural under those conditions that the offenders and even the officers and the court should get th the e impression impressio n that public sentiment is opposed to prohibition that jurors should tall fall to convict it the group which attended yes continued to back rage page NI continued from page tour four mass meeting aiau j attended the trial ot of last weeks liquor case and had evidenced the same feel iii they expressed yesterday its a two to one bet that the jurys verdict mould v have been different until such groups do become active and aggressive until a majority ot of citizens become determined to stamp out the evils of liquor prohibition statutes will continue 6 lo 10 li it ineffective and of questionable alue a |