PROHIBITION IN TEXAS

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Dec 13, 1905

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 31, No. 50.

PROHIBITION IN TEXAS.

THE National Prohibition Committee sends out the following, under date of Waco, Texas, November 11:

The college prohibition movement in this state is growing wonderfully. Mr. John W. Milton, the hustling State President, and a prominent student of Baylor University, this city, has completed a two weeks' tour among the colleges and universities of the state. He reports the students of the state as anxious to do two things: first, study seriously the Prohibition question so as to be able leaders for the cause when they leave college; and, second, get into some kind of local prohibition or local option work for training while in college.

Four hundred of the strongest college men and women of the state, Mr. Milton shows, are now members of the leagues and at work on one or more of the lines of work laid down by the Intercollegiate Prohibition Association. There are nine leagues, with an average membership of 40 or more in the state, representing, with the exception of the State University, all the larger universities and colleges of the state; two new ones were recently organized by Mr. Walter C. Swengel, field secretary of the state committee. The work was first started in Texas a little less than a year ago, by Alfred C. Millican of the National Association, and since that time it has become thoroughly established and is growing at a most remarkable rate. The state convention and oratorical contest will be held at Polytechnic University, Fort Worth, on the first Friday of April next,—all the leagues participating.