“With Prohibition you are having cleaner government and you’re going to have it some day in Williamsport, it’s due now.

“May success crown your efforts to get a better mayor, a better district attorney and a better justice of the peace. I guess you couldn’t have worse ones. When you do Williamsport will be cleaned up.”

The foregoing were some of the verbal broadsides which Dr. Clarence True Wilson, secretary of the Board of Temperance, Prohibition and Morals, of the Methodist Episcopal Church, aimed yesterday afternoon at city and county officials whose administration since the assumption of the offices have been characterized by laxity in law enforcement or absent all together of any attempt to prosecute violators of the law.

The broadsides were directed in an address delivered by Dr. Wilson before a law enforcement rally of more than 1,000 persons who braved the wet and snow to gather for the meeting in the Pine Street Methodist Church.

John F. Letton, manager of the Lycoming Hotel, who when after discovering wet goods in the possession of several employees, personally led two raids on places where liquor was being sold, presided over the meeting.

He struck a ringing note in the agitation for local enforcement of the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution, when on mounting to the chairman’s place he said.

“I don’t want it understood that I am trying to run the city or attempting to dictate to city officials, running my hotel is a big enough job.”

But when I find that my business is suffering through violation of the law committed through the sale of liquor, I’m going to break it up if the officials do not.”