New-York tribune., 1920-11-29
Leading g I)rys
Enlist i'm Blue
Sunday Eiggh g ht
Wheeler, Dinwiddie, Da-
vey, Upshaw, Empring-
ham and Mrs. Boole Join
the Lords Day Alliance
Societies Linked
By Reform Bureau
Dr. Manning ng Says Attempt
Is Based ON Marrow View
of the Christian Religion

The same highly organized forces
that made the United States drv are
now functioning smoothly in a we'll
laid plan to make the American Sun
day blue. The International Reform
Bureau, of Washington, is the connect
ing link between the Anti Saloon
League and the Lords Day Alliance.
The bureau has conscripted from the
league its most effective lobbyists and
has turned them loose on Congress and
state legislatures to put across the
program of the alliance. -
The Rev. Wilbur Fisk Crafts. super
intendent and treasurer of the bureau.
founder of the alliance and author of
many Of the leagues pet laws, const-
tutcs the high command that has with
drawn the army Of reform from the
ruins of dismantled saloons, deserted d
breweries and darkencd distlllercs and
modified 1t for attack on those who
disagree with the Puritan conception
of the Sabbath.
Officers of the Anti-Saloon League,
notably William H. Anderson, have
been at great pains since the alliance
announced the beginning of it's cru
sade to deny that there is any connec-
ton between the two bodies. To sup
port this denial they rely entirely on
the fact that, SO far as can be discov-
cred, there are no official relations be-
tween them.
The Rev. Harry l.. Bowlby, general
secretary Of tho alliance, told a Trit-
une reporter last Friday that men
prominent in the league in several
states had given him to understand
That the league would support the
move for blue laws "if the time comes
when we need its nelp and we ask
| for it'
MIR. Bowlby's Statement
Yesterday Mr.. Bowlby sent the fol-
lowing prepared statement to The
Tribune:
There have been number of mis-
leading statements In the daily press
connecting the Anti-Saloon League
with the Lords Day Alliance of the
United States and concerning which I
have already stated to reporters seek
ing information along these lines that
we were informed that no official action
had been taken oy' the Anti-Saloon
League which would in any way con-
meet them with our present campaign
Tor q more sane and sensible observ-
ance Of our American Christian Sab
bath. feel it necessary, in order that
there may be no further misunder-
standing, to give out the following
statement to the press:
We are informed by an official Of
the Antl-Saloon League that there has
been no departure whatsoever from it's
traditional policy of concentrating ex-
clusively upon the destruction Of the
liquor traffic and the enforcement Of
the Eighteenth Amendment"
The circumstance that reveals tho
prohibition and blue law organization
as having almost Identical personnels ia
not any departure of the league from
its traditional policy. but rather the
departure of so many OF It's leading
nights from the victorious anti-rum
ranks to battle under the banner of tho
lnternational Reform Bureau and the
Lords Day Alliance.
Drys in Blue Crusade
Here are a few Of them:
=, Wayne B. Wheeler, chief counsel to
the Anti-Saloon League, who will fire
one of the opening guns at the Interna-
tlonal Reform Bureau conference in
washington next week. when impetus
wlll be given the pending blue law bill
Tor the District Of Columbia.
The Rev. E. C. Dinwddie. lecisla-
tive uperintendent Of the Anti Saloon
League, whose telling work as lobby
lst vent far toward securing enactme ut