Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-10
CLUBS MUST
CLOSE, SAY
'DRYS'
Committee Named at Sunday
Mass Meeting to Wage Fight.
Open Violation Charged,

Leading prohibition workers in At
lanta declared Monday that 1t would
be a matter of only short time be-
fore the city's near-beer saloons
would be wiped out and the locker
clubs would cease their fragrant VIC
lation of the law or suffer the same
fate%
Those opposed to liquor selling
were encouraged by the rouSdng
meeting Sunday afternoon in the
Grand Theater by the Georgia Anti
Saloon League. Resolutions were
adopted calling upon Chief Beavers
TO run down all near beer saloon and
locker club proprietors who violate
the law.
The Grand Jury of Fulton County
was asked to take up the matter with
a view TO indicting violators of the
liquor law.
Committee to Wage Fight.
a committee Of as members was
appointed to act as '1aw enforce
ment committee" to employ attor-
neys and make cases against liquor
sellers, obtain injunctions and am
ploy all legal procedure necessary In
breaking up the illegal liquor traffic.
More than a Thousand persons we're
at the meeting. The resolutions were
adopted with enthusiasm and 1t was
decided to launch the campaign at
once and not to rest until the issue ID
decided.
The committee Of 20 will make for
NAL appeal Immediately to the au-
thorities in an effort to close up the
near-beer saloons and locker clubs.
The speakers at the mass meeting de-
clared the beer saloons are existing
and conducting their business in open
violation of the law, and that practi-
cally every locker club in the city is
paying no more than superficial at
tention to the statutes.
The committee members say no
quarter will be given; that the war
against the liquor sellers will be I'M
relenting and determined.
DuHose Predicts Victory.
We are confident of victory" said
DR.. H. NJ. DuBose Monday. DR.. Du-
Bose presided at Sundays meeting
and made one Of the addresses
There were moro than a thousand
persons there" he continued, and
every one of them was anxious to
witness the downfall of the hquor In
terest who have damned the lives of
our young men and young women
long enough.
THE campaign is on to-day. There
will be no resting until the Law break
ing near-b beer saloons and locker clubs
are driven out of Atlanta and out of
our State. We will not admit the
possibility Of defeat. When a de-
termined band of citiSenry get to-
gether with good purpose in view,
they can not be stopped by any law
less element that ever existed.
Every near-beer saloon is going
to be wiped out of Atlanta. That ia
my prediction. They are violating the
law az they are Deing conducted now.
There is no question about that. No
one attempts seriously to say that
they are not. Why, then, should we
stand idly by and let them continue
in their outlawry?"
says ViOIstien lie Appalling.
Hooper Alexander, one Of the most
valiant fighters for the cause of pro-
hibition in the Legislature when he
was a member, was one OF the speak
ers of the afternoon. He declared the
LIQUOR law violations in Atlanta are
notorious and appalling.
These violations" he said, are
accompanied by expressions of ridi-
cule and defiance on one hand and
are constantly received with deplor-
able Indifference Oh the part of those
csntinusJ on Pass 4 CslnnsN l.