Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-09-25
EDUCATION WEAPON
! IN WORLD BATTLE
/ AGAINST ALCOHOL
''Dry" Congress to Take Up
CudgelS of truth" in
All Lands.

The serum of education" to defeat
liquor forces throughout the world
was advocated by Richmond Pearson
Hobson in a resolution presented be-
fore the fifteenth International Con-
gress Against Alcoholism today. The
sessions of the congress are being
held in the Pan-American Union
building.
Introduction of the resolution fol-
lowed adoption OF the Hobson pro-
posaI by committees representing the
World Prohibition Federation. which
were meeajng in connection with the
congress Stoday. The World League
Against Alcoholism and the Woman's
Christian Temperance Union have
taken the proposition under advise
ment and committees have been
named to determine the utility of the
policy. Mr.. Hobson said.
A Campaign of Truth.
The resolution stated that the con-
gress declare full loyalty to the
truth and advocate comprehensive
cooperative policy for the education
of the world in the truth .about al
cohol," and that it advise the imme-
diate and hearty cooperation of all
constructive forces for the quickest
practical incubation of humanity with
this serum of education and truth
Mr.. Hobsons speaking in behalf of
his proposal. declared that such a
means of driving at the foundations
of alcohol was the best that could be
adopted for use among foreign
peoples. who now appear to be
matter of discriminating liquor"
He declared that the foreign peo-
piles would be quick to catch the
Significance of the American concep-
tons" of alcoholism as an organic
disease. He added that when this
remaining education work to be
done in foreign countries resolved
itself into a phase of politics which
the foreign prohibition advocates
would be able to develop to the fullest
extent.
Action on the resolution was auto
matically referred to the international
committee, directing tho congress.
under rules of the organization. but
its Importance as an integral part OF
the machinery for a world drive for
prohibition was registered in demon
STATIONS by the delegates.
Bryan ON Committee.
can delegation on the permanent inter-
national committee. They were William
Jennings Bryan. Miss Cora Frances
Stoddard. Miss Anne Gordon and Bishop
James Cannon, jr.
1t was decided to leave the problem Of
picking the time and place for the next
congress meeting in the hands of the
international committee.
tAt the morning session addresses were
made by Senior E. Velasco OF Mexico,
Senior Juan Betancourt of Colombia. DR..
Charles r. Stockard of Cornell Univer-
20 of
This afternoon the delegates journeyed
to Mount Vernon. where wreaths were
laid on the tomb of Gen. Washington.
There will be no session tonight. Ses-
noon. and the congress will adjourn to-
morrow night.
Yesterday afternoon Washington school
children visited. the exhibit held in CON
nection with TIA aOnEress at tbs Hotel
Raleigh. ..f5 s. -
Bryan Has Leak ,Remedy.
William Jennings Bryan, who ad-
dressed last nights session OF THE con-
gress. held in the auditorium Of the
Central High SCHOOL, declared he be-
lieved the time was not far distant
when. to prevent leaks" In enforce
ment Of the eighteenth amendment,
the government would have to take
over all stocks Of alcohol in whatever
form. and declare a monopoly of al
Declaring against any "discrimina-
ton in favor of beer and wine, Mr..
Bryan said:
We are no more in favor of wine
and beer than alcohol in any other
form. The men who made beer have
been greater corrupting influence in
this country than the men who made
whisky. They have worked hand in
hand, and now that they are to die
We shall not separate them in DEATH"
Permanency Of prohibition in Ameri-
ca 10 assured. Mr.. Bryan declared. nv
the fact that 1t was not a sectional or
party achievement, but victory of
the nation" The future task OF pro-
hibitionists, he asserted, lies in the Gull
tivation- Of a total abstinence senti-
ment" among the people to support
The congress also heard an address
from William L. Frierson. solicitor
general OF the United States, who, as
assistant attorney general. directed the
governments defense in the courts of
the eighteenth amendment. Mr.. Frier-
son traced the history Of prohibition
legislation in the. United States, and
declared national prohibition was mot
the spasmodic act Of an excited peo-
pie" but one taken with Thought and
elaboration that insures permanency. !"