The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-09-29
Intensive Drive Arranged
by Conference of Lead
ers at Chicago.
REORGANIZATION
WORK FOR ALIENS
National and State Or
carnations Divide Bur-
den-D etails Are
Agreed Upon.

Fifty million dollars "a the fnan-
rial necessity; enforcement and sta
bflity Of prohibition in the tinted
state. ultinlate world prohibitions
closer cooperation among state
leagues and OF the state leagues with
he national organizations the tght-
eEing up along all lines for one hun-
cred per cent efficiency-these things
are e1pecT.d TO result from actrr7
taken in Chicago Wednesday ana
Thursday, September l7-1S, by con-
yerencs ~ the officials ec the Anti
Saloon league or America and me
state sup.rintendents and pis head
quarters committees.
j Gve-year permanent financial
cam eaign VAS agreed uron. in whtth
there will be raised twenty five mil
lion dollars for state, national ana
world work on a graduated scale, run
ming from s2,3Ts,oaa the first year to
more than ten million dollars the
nth year
In addition there will he pat on AN
intensive drive for twenty five million
dollars or more to be used In tho
Americanization Of foreigners and IN
,he worldwide prohibition nshs-
working in foreignarountries through
the cooperation OF the world league
against prohibition.
Details Worked Out
The Chicago conference was an adj
fourned session OF the conference re-
Gently held in Washington al which
Ernest Cherrington, secretary of the
committee on financial management
OF the Anti Saloon league Of Amer
lea. submitted a tentative program for
the future activities of the league.
Al the Washington conference the
general provisions We're agreed upon
with the representatives OF tile s1ste
ORGANIZATIONS sought more infsIh-
rence and which they wished 70 take
IN and discuss with the folks back
home
AT the Chicago gathering these de-
tails came up and were threshed out
and by unanimous vcte it was decided
to take UP and develop the program
OF the committee on financial manage
ment as a partnership effort in which
the state and national organizations
wili work together.
GroAnd work of the intensive spe-
cial drive will be begun at once, A
! special organization to direct The work
win be made. However. the real pc
Rod OF the financial drive Is expected
to be the week beginning January 10,
the date on which the constitutional
amendment becomes operative,
IL mas not Nt~%O IeGIdh6 NlGt IfPE WIG
drive win be accomplished in ono
great national effort or in "A regional
effort ,..+e
During the con ference every speaker
made II plain that the next duties OF
the Anti-Safoon league are along the
lines of law enforce ment, and educa~
ton Of the American people, Amer
ichni1ation of foreign born residents
u and their children. and the world pro-
hibftion. Everybody believed that
prohibition had come to stay, but
there was an insistence thai the work
or the league in America itself would
not be completed until after enforce
mcnt and due respect for the law had
been doubly assured.
VIII Educate People
One of the things planned to be
done is to go before the people of the
United States in public meetings and
explain to them the provisions Of the
constitutional amendment and the en-
forcement act, concerning which a
Ereat deal of INSTRUMENTATION. most of
II promulgated by he foes OF pro-
hibition. has been circulated,
Americanixatinn OF foreign ele
me1ats, It was felt. would accomplish
two results: first the incubation of
nroper respect for law and authority.
q the teaching Of persons hitherto used
ID Intoxicating beverages that such
beverages are not only unnecessary.
but absolutely harmful: and in the
Il second place, so showing to them the
n benefits OF prohibition in the United
\ states that they will he anxious to aid
and lend their influence toward bring
/. ing about prohibition among the peo-
Die OF their native lands
II was declared by officials OF the
Saloon leap,fa Of nGrica that