No one wishes to openly laud John Barleycorn, so the First Congregational Church of Cambridge has cancelled a debate scheduled for this Sunday.
The Reverend Mr. Robert C. Dodds, the church's minister to students, had planned to gather a group of prominent persons to debate the pros and cons of social drinking before an audience of University and Radcliffe students.
Reverend Dodds encountered no difficulty in obtaining teetotalers to argue for total abstinence from liquor, but spent several fruitless weeks trying to get pro-liquor debaters.
Counted in the number of those who refused to defend Barleycorn was a national distiller's association, the author of a book on the joys of the cocktail hour, and other advocates of social drinking.
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