New-York tribune., 1920-03-15
'Drys" Open
Worldwide
Fight Here
Religious Forces of Nation
Also Will Work. to En-
force 18th Amendment;
Catholics Will Participate
Has Powerful Backing
Anti Saloon League Not
Included i'm Movement of
Prohibition Federation

Included in Movement of
Prohibition Federation
A consolidation Of the religious
forces which are fighting liquor for en-
forcement Of the prohibition amend
ment in this country and for a world
wide campaign as we'll was announced
Yesterday. Although Catholics have
been bitterly attacked recently by Anti
Saloon League officials as allies of the
rum trade, the Catholic Priests Prohi-
bition League is among the organiza-
tions which have Joined forces. The
Anti-Saloon League is not included.
Announcement of the Capitalization
of the dry" campaign was made by the
Rev. DIR. Charles Scanlon, of Pitts
burgh, general secretary of the Presby-
terian Board of Temperance and Moral
Welfare, who heads the movement, and
is in the city to perfect plans for get
ting it under way. It's work will begin
officially this morning and will be
directed by the World Prohibition Fed
Grafton, an international organization
which has grown out of the annual pro-
hibition conferences of recent years.
Worldwide Campaign
There will be amalgamated with the
Federation both the National Temper
ance Society and the Commission on
Temperance of the Federal Council Of
Churches. Other affiliated organizations
are the Good Templars, the Sons Of
Temperance, the Prohibition party,
the United Society for Christian En-
deavor and the International Sunday
School Association.
The plan has the official indorse-
ment of the Conference of Foreign
Missions representing the missionary
boards of the various denominations.
All the powers and funds Of the first
two bodies named are to be turned
over to the Federation.
The sponsors of the movement lay
particular emphasis on the inclusion Of
the Catholic Priests Prohibition
League as showing the wide scope of
the effort. This league is headed by
Evans, N. Y, and Father ]. j. Curran,
of Wilkes Barrt, Pa. The sponsors Of
the movement, while making no COM
ment, called attention to the fact that
the Anti-Saloon League is not included.
Officers of Federation
The World Prohibition Federation
done by the international Congresses
on Alcoholism and has had an Ameri
can section, headed by DR.. Scanlon,
since last November. The associate
officers are Governor Milliken Of Maine,
e-president-at-la Representative
G.. II. Randall, treasurer; Stanley Hun
ter, of the Christian College in India,
secretary, and Miss Annie e. Oldroy,
of the National Temperance Society,
assistant treasurer
DR.. D. Stuart Dodge, son of William
L. Dodge, former president of the Pres
byterian Board Of Home Missions, is
officially connected with it. 1t already
has work under way in the following
countries: The United States, France,
England, Scotland, Ireland, Finland,
Costa Rica, Guatemala, Mexico, Brazil,
Chile, India, China, Siam and Persia.
The federation begins work with
control of four publications-"The Ma
.ional Advocate" "The Youths Temper
THE International Record" printed in
(. campaign among the foreign-s speaking
people of this country through the
interr racial committee, of which
Colonel T. Coleman du Pont is chair
man.
1t also will have charge of the prepa-
rations for the International Congress
on Alcoholism, which will be held in
Washington September 21 to 25. Con-
gress has appropriated $4,000 for this
congress and forty-one countries are
expected to send representatives.
Nothing New, Says Anderson
William II. Anderson, state superin-
tendent Of the Anti-Saloon League, tel
egraphed the following from Buffalo
last night in response to q request for
his views on the move:
There is nothing new in the mat
ter, and it will have no effect on the
Anti-Saloon League work. The World
Prohibition Confederation, which is
controlled by the extreme radical ele-
ment, is largely paper organization,
like many perfectly respectable Amer
lean organizations, the bulk of whose
individual members were hackers Of
the Anti-Saloon League.
"The league is itself federation of
churches and other organizations on
the liquor question and always has de-
clined to enter any other federation,
though the bodies making up the
league are free to do so.
"Practically all Of the leading de-
nominations making up the Federal
Council of Churches recognize and
,nese churches support the league as
tnelr agency for real work. The Anti
saloon league will have the same gem
eral relation to worldwide work that
'' mas had to the work in America"
Arnstein Quiz Resumes.