Letter from South Carolina Woman’s Christian Temperance Union Special Press Correspondent Mrs. W. L. Donovant Regarding Response to President’s Kings Mountain Address

Corresponding Secretary "FOR GOD AND HOME AND EVERY LAND" Young People's Branch MRS. E. C. RIDGELL MRS. LEON HQLLEY AIKEN BATESBURG Recording Secretary South Carolina Loyal Temperance Legion MISS LEILAH ATTAWAY MISS ZENA PAYNE Woman's Christian Temperance Union SALUDA JOHNSTON Field Worker For Young People Treasurer MISS ELISE HERIOT MRS. CHAS. P. ROBINSON PRESIDENT--MRS. J. L. MIMS, EDGEFIELD 1300 GEIGER ST. 1710 GREEN ST.. COLUMBIA VICE-PRESIDENT--MRS. MAMIE N. TILLMAN, EDGEFIELD HOUSE COLUMBIA GST 17 1930 RECEIVED Edgefield S.C. October - I4 - I930 ach President Herbert Hoover, 10/17 Washington D.C. Dear Sir, At the suggestion of our state president, Mrs. J.L. Mims, I am inclosing to you a copy of some editorials about the King's Mountain event that we thought you might be interested to read. We are glad to know that you were pleased with our southland, and that we can claim at least a part of you. With kindest regards, Mrs. W.L. Dunovant Sr Special Press Correspondent W.C.T.U. Mrs. W. L. Dunovant Sr SOME EDITORIALS FROM SOME SOUTHERN NEWSPAPERS. No Liquor at King's Mountain. Hendersonville (N.C.) Times-News. Someone connected with the Spartanburg (s.c.) Herald was a elose observer of events and facts at the King's Mountain battle ground celebration Tues- day, and in editorial space in the newspaper proceeded to describe the scene the next day. From this description a paragraph is reproduced. Here it is: "If anybody on the mountain throughout the celebration had indulged a single drink of liquor there was no evidence of it, visible or 90,000 audible, which is one reason people could mobilize and demobil- ize without anybody getting mad or hurt." The Times-News corroborates the statement made by the Herald's observer. If there was a person at King's Mountain battleground Tuesday who had indulged in as much as one drink of intoxicating liquor there was no ev- idence that even suggested it. The vast crowd was quiet and orderly. There was no drinking- not the slightest evidence of drinking- no trouble of any kind- not even loud talking. The applause which was given President Hoover, Governor Gardner, Governor Richards of South Carolina, and other notable les, was chiefly confined to dignified handclapping, althoughx the appear- ance of Governor Gardner and President Hoover was greeted with some yel- ling. Having 1t on the oft reiterated statements of the "wets" that the country is inundated with liquor, that the people by millions throughout the United States are swilling it by the jus and barrel in a continuously flowing stream,-that no section is able to escape the ever swelling tide of strong drink which is rising higher and higher, there were doubtless many thousands at King's Mountain battleground who were surprised and a- 2 amazed by the conditions pointed out by the Spartanburg paper. . Then And NOW. Chester (s.c.) Reporter. Mr. .B.Lathan, Chester citizen, who attended the King's Mountain sesqui- centennial celebration Tuesday, was also there for the centennial celebration in I880, and what he says about the conductx of the crowds upon the two occasions ought to prove heartening to believers in the dry law. The past Tuesday, Mr. Lathan says, out of all the vast throng that was present he detected not a single trace of evidence of liquor, whereas fifty years ago there was a drunken row that threatened to turn into a general melee, besides innumerable fights and the like on a smaller scale. O Neither Visible Nor Audible. Greenville (s.c.) Piedmont. The Spartanburg Herald attended the King's Mountain event and returned with this testimony: "If any body on the mountain thought the celebration had indulged a single drop of liquor, there was no evidence of it visible or audible" That is one reason it added , why tens of thousands "could mobilize and demobilize without any body getting mad or hurt." The exact significance of this would be interesting is we could get the experts to agree upon it. Does it mean that we have learned to carry our liquor better ? Does it mean that we have grown more temporate ? Does it Hean, perchance, that prohibition is a little more effective after all than it is credited with being ? October 17, 1930. Insting ImS My dear Mrs. Dunovant: 900 Your letter of October 14 has been received, and I want to thank you for your courtesy in sending the enclosure. I shall place it before the President at the very first opportunity. Sincerely yours, LAWRENCE RICHEY Secretary to the President Mrs. W. L. Dunovant, Sr., W. C. T. U., Edgefield, South Carolina. bsp