CHIEF OF RUM FIGHTERS UNION SPEAKER TONIGHT

Rear Admiral C. F. Billard, Commandant of the United "States Coast Guard, will deliver an address in the Living Room of the Union at 7.30 o'clock tonight.

The Union management has also announced that plans for a dance on the night before the Yale game are progressing rapidly, and that final plans for this event will be announced shortly. Another notice from the Union management reports that the grid-graph device used for the Princeton game, will again be set up to report the Brown encounter on Saturday.

Close Touch With Rum War

Rear Admiral Billard has written that he has changed the title of his address, though the subject matter of the talk will conform to the title announced in October. The old title "Sea-fighting Along Rum Row" has been changed at the Rear Admiral's request to "Peace and War Service--the United. States Coast Guard." "I am entirely in accord with your thought," Rear Admiral Billard has written the Union in discussing his address, "and it shall be my purpose not to touch at all upon any principles of prohibition. I shall rather try to interest the young men in what is going on, and how the Coast Guard is handling its operations against the rum his. It seems to me rather necessary, in order to make my hearers appreciate just what the situation is, to lead up to it by a recital of what the Coast Guard is, and of the general character of life in the Service.

Christmas Trade Brings New Campaign

"The reason I am asking you to change the title of my talk is that I try to avoid having the public get the impression that the Coast Guard is concerned with rum-running operations alone."

The Coast Guard Commandant has been in close touch with the actual conditions also the Atlantic seaboard. He is personally in charge of the extensive blockades now being maintained off Boston, New York, and other Atlantic ports. He has witnessed in person gun duals between his men and the blockade runners.

He was present during a stern chaos when a hijacker boat was stopped only after it had been riddled with several rounds of machine-gun bullets.

Rear Admiral Billard's appearance today is especially significant in view of the imminent increase in activities along Rum Row, which are sure to occur with the approach of the holiday season.