Evening star., 1915-02-02
Secretary of Liquor Dealers
Association Declares Legis-
Iation Fails to Prohibit.
GOES BACK IN HISTORY
TO eleventh CENTURY
Program of National Association
Which Opened Annual Convention
in This City Today.

That unsuccessful legislation to ac-
complish prohibition is part of the
history of most of the nations of the
world is the declaration of Robert J.
Halle of Chicago, national secretary of
the National Retail Liquor Dealers As
ISOLATION. in his annual report submit
ted late this afternoon at the first gen.
eral session of the twenty-second an
nual convention of the organization at
the National Hotel
I'm the eleventh century it was de-
clared capital offense to sell drink in
Scotland" says Mr.. Halle in that por
tion of his report dealing with the
history of the liquor trade. THE houses
of the liquor dealers were burned, and
they themselves were banished. In less
than one generation. under the effects
of this law, drunkenness became more
general in Scotland than it has ever
been in any country of the world"
That the denunciation by some brew
ers of whisky as an evil and the praise
of malt liquor as food is by no means
new thing, but dates certainly as far
back as Hogarth's famous cartoons of
Beer Street" and Gin Lane" publish
report. That the abuse of one is as bad
as the abuse of the other and that pro-
hibition of the one and permission to
use the other is based on a fallacy, is.
however. the consensus of opinion of
the delegates to the convention, ac-
cording to officials of the organization
Executive Committee Meets.
This morning the executive commit
tee met in closed session to consider
the activities of the association during
the past year. The afternoon open ses-
sion was called to order by NJ F. Far
ley, president, to take up a number of
matters, chief among which was the
question of the compensation of
liquor dealer when his place of busi-
ness is closed by law. At this session
the reports of the officers were submit
ted. Tomorrow morning the repre-
sentatives of the various. state asso-
Citations will be heard from the reports
of various committees submitted and
officers elected for the ensuing year.
tomorrow evening a dinner for the
accompanied by their wives, has been
arranged by a special committee from
the District of Columbia Federation,
Gus Brahler, chairman.
Delegates from Iowa Travelled to the
National Capital by way of Cincin-
natl. where they were Hospitality en-
tertalned by members of the Ohio
state association. Those coming from
Ohio and Missouri made the journey
eastward in a special car. All of the
delegates are men who have played a
prominent part in organization work
and many have been presidents of their
state associations. The president. NJ.
F. Farley. is representative-electf from
Massachusetts,: John A. Cervenka of
Chicago is serving his second term as
clerk of the probate court of that city,
and Louis Rinkenberger of Ohio is a
probable candidate for the mayoralty of
Cincinnati. ~
Delegates in Attendance,
Delegates in attendance include the
following:
District of Columbia-ward Savage,
S. J. Stefnberger and Gus Brahler.
Illinois-Edward J. Kaindl, H. F.
Maiwurm. Charles Tennes, ]. S. Flani-
gan, Carl ]. Mueller and NJ. c. Am
brose.
Iowa-H. B. Mayne, C. G. Buffer and
w. Haase.
Michigan-James kavanaugh.
New Jersey-George T. Carroll, Hugh
Meehan, W. ]. Gardner and E. B. Eek
ert.
Ohio-L. Rinkenberger, Mic. Duttle
and Albert Eisele.
Pennsylvania-H. NJ Bright. Daniel
Taylor, George W. Boyd, Thomas ].
o Connor. P. H. Keefe, Neil Bonner and
X. Mccormick.
Wisconsin,. A. Raisler.
New York-M. J. Quinn, c. J. Reilly,
f. F. Cunningham. f. J. Martin, G. NJ.
Mullen and NJ. ]. Flynn.
Massachusetts-Ed II. Rinkhaver, Ed
j. Delahanty, John ]. Hall, John j. Gal
win, George r.. Burns and John ].
Evans.
Connecticut-Frank J. Quinn and
Leo F.. Genthlein.
Delaware-J. ]. Kane.
Maryland-F. G. Oldham.
Arkansas-E. ]. Miller.
Nebraska-David Hardin.
National Officers.
Officers of the national association
are: NJ. +. Farley. president; Neil Bon
ner of Philadelphia. first vice president; ;