"DRY” BISHOPS

Gisborne Times, Volume LX, Issue 9797, 6 May 1924, Page 5

"DRY” BISHOPS

j ADDRESS TO METHODISTS.

i NO FEAR OF REPEAL OF | PROHIBITION LAW.

j United Press Association.—Copyright. 1 (Received May 5, 7.55 p.m.) J NEW YORK, May 4. 1 At Springfield, Massachusetts, the Board of Bishops in an address before the American Methodist Episcopal Communio'h emphasised the proj diction that all tiyragftation to mddijfy -or repeal the ‘•prohibition laws j will fail as formerly. ’The Bishops incidentally advocated lifting the ban ; on dancing, card playing, theatre a»ia: I ciicus going, which hitherto have i been forbidden. The address admit"?

- the prohibition law is not properly eni forced and asks, “Did any thoughtful I person expect otherwise in view of the fact that the liquor traffic, was legal for 150 years. Prohibition bad j become the permanent policy of tlie j American people. Qnjv two States ! were supporting the Eighteenth i Amendment and the best elements therein feel natural humiliation. We j affirm that under all circumstances. I the prohibition law has been a great success here and there is as much piospect of returning to the practice :of human slavery as legal rarn sell- , ing. The address concluded with tne 1 observation that recent years had ; bi ought us to depression and to a. ) debasement of moral standards which I nvst concern every lover of mankind, and declared that divorce is America’s chief scandal.—A. and N.Z.O.A.