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Episcopal Churchwomen
Go Back to War Days
for Solution of Peace
Time Problem.
Rising from the ashes of their alco
holic predecessors, "prohibition sa
loons" will shortly appear all over
New York to provide the lonely and
thirsty men of the town with amuse
ment, food, and a cup that it is hoped
will cheer.
This 1920 version of the saloon will be
contributed bv the Churchwoman's
League for Patriotic Service, a women's
organization for public service recently
inaugurated in New York. Men who
devejeped the "canteen habit" during
the war are now clamoring for social
centers such as these, and it is to meet
this need that the Churchwoman's
League has planned the new ''prohi
bition saloons." They are to be opened
in the quarters of former saloons, when
ever possible. Games, cards and pool
will be offered as a substitute for free
lunch and bargain rates will prevail in
the prices of food, tea, coffee and other
drinks that conform to the law but
still tend to cheer.
One of the first considerations of the
Churchwoman's League will be the pro
motion of the Episcopal Nation-Wide
Campaign for the development of the
spiritual and social activities ot the
Episcopal -Church. The League is
headed By Mrs. Hamilton R. Fairfax
and all of the other officers are com
municants of the Episcopal Church, al
though the membership is not limited
by any church boundaries.
In addition to this intensive work
in the Nation-Wide Campaign, the
League will open a campaign against
"Soviet Sunday Schools" in the near
future. A committee on religious edu
cation will deal with this problem, and
will emphasize the present need for a
spiritual religion rather than a doctrine
of radical political propaganda such as
the Bolshevists teach in their Sunday
morning classes.
