Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-03-14
ANTI I-SALOONERS
10 FIGHT TO KEEP
DONORS HIDDEN
10 Protect Friends From
Vets Revenge, They
Say
BY RUSS SIMoNToN,
N. E. A. Staff Corresponden,

WESTERVILLE, o., March Ia
Names of Anti-Saloon League cor
trlbutors will not be made public
without a battle.
Inc league will tell where it spends
us money but it will fight to keen it's
money sources secret, accordinr -
ernest III. Cherrington. Secretary ~
tne ,Antl-Saloon League of America
Thus the league accepts its chal-
ienge Of New York state legislators
who are demanding a show-dowyr
Cherrington says:
1T has not seemed advisoblo e.
puDish the lists of contributors and
SUBJECT business men and others to
tne boycott and blackmail of wet in.
State Leaguers May Tell.
otate leaguers are in possession of
tacts IN their own territories and are
Iree L TO tell all they know" saws
Cherrlngton. He intimated that in
STATE where the fight is stiffest
against the league, contributors
names might be announced.
But we certainly will not do so
until there is an imperative need To.
embarrass our friends"
Cherrington says any person with
a reasonable right may see the
leagues books of expenditures. He
told me the salaries of leading Off
Gals. He defended the Worldwide
dry campaign of the league. denied
1t was planned to perpetuate 'ssoft
jobs and called present criticism the
Sour Grape Cry of defeated Ii
quor interests.
There are about 600 officers and
1000 clerical employees of the
league.
There are about 600 officers and
1000 clerical employees of the league.
Salary List Is Stated.
Cherrington assured me the follow
salary list shows every salary over
$4,000 year, and that each figure
represents the total paid the officer
by the league:
Ernest H. Cherrington, man
ager of publishing interest 81 500
Wayne B. Wheeler, general
counsel -..,...-..--.-,....-......--.-...- 5000
Rev. P. A. Baker, general SUI
perintendent -.-.----.--....-..... 5000
Rev. E. c. Dinwiddie, legisla-
tive superintendent ,..,,....... 4,8OO
Rev. E. J. Moore, assistant
general superintendent 4,800
Rev. Howard H. Russell asso-
ciate general superintendent 4,800
Boyd b. Doty, assistant mana
ger of publishing interests 1000
Cherington said state superinten-
dents were paid from 81 500 to e5,-
600 a year; the average about 49,
900.
Cherrington himself holds about
five positions with the league but
draws salary, he told me, from but
one source-the American Issue Pub
fishing Co., the propaganda section.
Reasons for League Continuing.
There are two reasons for the
leagues continued existence, accord
ing to Cherrington:
/. "We must keep the United
States dry and maintain propaganda
to prevent its return to a wet state.
To do this we must make the western
hemisphere dry.
2. "The United States must be the
dry standard-bearer of the world. We
must spend our money to show the
rest of the world that prohibition is
success"
The league plans to spend $780,
100000 in five years to Garry the
standard" to foreign countries, says
Cherrington.
Answering the charge that politi-
clans must publish the source of cam
paign funds and that the league
shoald do likewise, Cherington said:
"Our books are as open as those of
any similar organization: If the
law says we must tell where our
money comes from we will"
The Georgia money-raising drive
was disappointment, Cherrington
said.