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aptist Started Early Fight Against Evils of Drink 'And then under President ning the prohibitory laws. This was when the enforce- ment fell apart. I "You might as well have put a sheep -killing dog to $100 per month salary Hollo- there are bills pending which which would return the stal. guarding the sheep herd." mon draws from the United would give the state liquor to full prohibition. No cause could buy an ar- Drys of Kansas. by the drink - something now And Roy S. Hollomon and dent leader cheaper than the i In the Kansas legislature forbidden - and other bills his little band march on. Harding we had Andrew Mel lon, who made his first mil lions distilling whiskey, run BEER BAYONET P&NNEY'S STARTS TOMORROW! At 0t Buh t 0 U 0 7i i i J&X7 i HOLLOMON LEADS CLASS Roy S. Hoi lomon's feelings about strong drink are sum med up in the sign behind him. When ten, he led his Sunday school class in a demon stration against the evils of drink. Now 64, he still leads a temperance crusade in Kansas. (UP1) By JOSEPH GALLOWAY United Press International Topeka, Kan. - (UPO - At the age of 10, when most boys are shooting marbles and sneak ing their first smoke, Roy S. Hollomon led his Baptist Sun day school class through the dusty streets of Taylor, Tex., in a demonstration against "the evils of drink." Today, at the age of 64, Hollomon is leading another temperance march - across the flatlands of Kansas. In the intervening half a century, Hollomon and his lit tle band marched to the heights of glory with national prohibition and then fell "lower than a well rope" as America rushed gleefully to ward legalized liquor. Holloman marched from Texas to Oklahoma holding high the white flag of tem perance, and in the end he tramped into Kansas to make his stand against modern liv ing and drinking habits. Campaign on TV Today an estimated 100,000 Ksnsans turn on their tele vision and radio sets every Sunday to see and hear him. Born at Taylor Aug. 2, 1808, the son of a country banker and businessman, Hol lomon was reared in a strict Baptist home His father was a prohibi tionist and took little Roy to every anti-saloon league and temperance meeting held in Taylor. At the age of 11 or 1 2 young Hollomon followed his father's example and signed a pledge never to take a drink. ' He attended Baylor univer sity, and on May 20, 1920, was ordained a minister in the Baptist church. He first took the pulpit in Bryan, Tex., and then went to El Paso - always preaching against drinking. In 1943 he went to Okla homa City, Okla., to cc '.inue his pulpit battle. Directs Drys In 104tt, when Oklahoma voted on whether to legalize liquor, he was drafted as full time director of the drys. Will Rogers once said, "Oklahomans will vole dry as long as they can stagger to the polls." In 1949 Hollomon worked hard to make sure they did. He won and Okla homa would continue dry for another decade. In the preceding year a cru sading attorney general had virtually shut off illicit whi? key to "dry ' Kansas and Kansas went to the polls in droves to vote the state wet for the first time since 1880. Here, thought Hollomon, was the ideal place to do bat tle. So in January of 1951 he came to Topeka to head the disorganized and defeated drys. Today, after more than a decade of crusading, Hollo mon has put the drys back in business as their $75,000 a year budget for Kansas will testify. Kansans Abstain Today Hollomon estimates that almost 50 per cent of Kansas' 2.2 million citizens are total abstainers. Asked if he thought pro hibitionists were a minority trying to force their will on the majority, Hollomon said, "We are a minority trying to become a majority . . . We are the right trying to force our will on the wrong." The slim, craggy - faced preacher readily admits that prohibition does not stop all drinking. "If we would re store prohibition tomorrow it wouldn't do away with liquor - but it sure cuts it down by about two-thirds," he said. "That's the trouble. People demand 100 per cent effec tiveness from prohibitory laws or else they will say it is a failure. "Now you know we have laws against murder, but peo ple still kill other people. And no one would dare sug gest that because they aren't totally effective, laws against murder should be repealed." To questions about the ef fectiveness of national pro hibition in the 1920's Hollo mon said: "You must remem ber that under President Wil son we had William Gibbs McAdoo, a conscientious pro hibitionist, administering the law from the Treasury department. SECTION B PAGES 1 to 8 MedfordTribune MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1963 Study Shows Freshmen May Not Finish PSC Portland-A recent study of freshmen who entered PSC Portland State college fresh men grades and College Boards scores indicates that most freshmen in academic difficulty during their first term will not graduate at PSC. Dr. Keith Bell, director of testing at PSC, conducted the study to learn why large num bers of first term freshmen are being placed on proba tion. He concluded that the College Boards Scholastic Ap titude Test-Verbal and first term nrades have a distinct relationship. The study, bared on the performances of the 19B1 freshman class, indicates that the higher the student's verbal test score the better his chances are for graduating. Dr. Bell noted, however, that about 26 per cent of the stu dents with above average test scores are not doing passing college work. Grade studies were made on the performance of 1.371 in fall term, 1961. 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