The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-05-05
LIQUOR DEALERS
ARE OPPOSED TO
SUMPTUARY LAW
They're Going To Meet and Plan To
Fight Ubiquitous Doings OF Pro-
hibition Folks.

Cincinnati. Ohio, May 3-The pro-
gram for the twenty first annual con-
vention of the National Wholesale LIZ
quor Dealers Association of America,
which will be held at Louisville, May
3, 0 and IL. is announced by Joseph
Debar, Cincinnati. secretary of the or
ganiZation.
The convention will be IN the ma
ture of mighty protest against all
kinds of what the liquor men declare
to be fanatical legislation. Conven-
ton headquarters will be at the
Seelbach Hotel
Representatives of many other In
dustries which are affected by pro-
hibition and furnished employment for
millions of workers. will attend and
take part In the proceedings. Motion
picture and tobacco manufacturing
have been urged to join the moves
ment against extreme sumptuary leg
isiation.
A session OF the executive commit
tee OF the association Will be held
May s, but the big convention viii
not get under way until Tuesday
morning. when Mayor Buschmeyer
will officially welcome the visitors.
As a part of the convention the
tenth annual meeting of the National
Association of Wine and Spirit Rep
berg. Cincinnati. is president. will be
held at the Sellbach Hotel at 9 o'clock
Wednesday morning. This orga-niza-
ton is composed OF travelling sales
men.
The entertainment committee In
charge of this session consists of n.
f, Squibb. chairman, I.awrenceburg,
Ind: Norman A. Jones. st. Louis:
Louis e. Spellman, New York; j. r..
Ia.
nard. Cincinnati; A. Y. Stegeman,
Newport, Ky; Hugh r. Adams. Chi
cago: Walter Uri, LOUISVILLE; Edgar
S. Frieberg Cincinnati.
Windle on Program.
On the program for Tuesday. May
3, are Mayor John H Buschmeyer.
of Louisville; r. e. Wathen, presi-
dent Kentucky Distillers' and Whole-
sale Liquor Dealers, Association:
Samuel Woolner. Jr., Peoria. presi-
dent of the National Wholesale LIZ
quor Dealers Association; Attorney
Benjamin Washer. Louisville, who
will speak on From a Louisville
Standpoint: Treasurer Edwin VI.
Dougherty. who will make his an
nual report; Levi Cook, Washington,
general counsel of'the association: c.
a. Windle, Chicago; George F. Die
terle, Cincinnati. who will report as
On Wednesday before the Wine
and Spirit Association Levi Cooke.
OF Washington, will speak. The
speakers before the main association
will be Joseph Debar, Cincinnati,
secretary of tho association; Frank
NJ. Gettys, Louisville. vice president
of the Union National Bank. who will
speak on The Banker and the Dis
tiner'; Edward NJ. Gore, Chicago.
whose subject will be "Compensa-.
ton: George Kaufman, Cincinnati
Liberal League, who will speak on
Organization" r. E. Proctor, Elk
hart Ind. ms..@ler of the Legisla-
ture, who will speak on The Value
OF License to State Institutions"
! and William Marshall Builitt. Louis
I-ville, former Solicitor General OF the
| United States. who will speak on
Preparedness and the Means of Pre-
pairing"
Thursday Secretary Joseph
Debar will present the report Of the
publicity department, and former
United States District Attorney f.
Mark Sullivan will make an address.
The convention will close with the
reports of committees. the elections
Of officers and the meetings Of the
board OF control and executive COM
mittee.