New-York tribune., 1920-09-21
iAnti-Alcoholislll
Congress to Open
Sessions To-day
Sneakers From Is Foreign
Countries ON Program;
Fight for Light Wines
and Beer Will Be Made

WASHINGTON, Sept. 20. - The fif
...nsh International Congress Against
Alcoholism will oRen here tomorrow
t.r a six-day session with delegates
f,orn many parts of the world present.
orimnally, the congress was to have
assembled in 1915. but having been
po.tponed year after year because Of
shs war its present meeting will be the
sr.t since that at Milan, Italy, in 1918.
Sneakers from fifteen foreign coun-
sries are on the program. Those from
tbs United States will include William
I Bryan, Attorney General Palmer and
Secretary Daniels, who will discuss
nhases of national prohibition. In
addition to the speeches the congress
will stage a pageant, illustrating the
sntI.liouor movement in this country.
An exhibit also will be held OF ma
ter,als and methods used in the world
campaign against llquoI and Of the de-
velouu1ent n the manufacture and sale
of soft drinks.
number of national and interna-
tional organizations and societies will
hold meetings and conferences during
the congress, bat at hours supplement-
ing its regular session. These societies
include the World League Against
Alcoholism. the World Prohibition Fed
Grafton. the International Order of
Good Templars, the Womens Christian
Temperance Union, the Catholic Total
Abstinence Union, the Ant!-Saloon
League of America, the Scientific Tenn
perance Federation, the Priests Total
Abstinence League, the Collegiate
Prohibition Association, the National
Temperance Council, the National
Legislative Conference and others.
Alcohol as affecting health will be
the theme at the opening session. DR..
Eugene L. Fisk, medical director Of the
Life Extension Institute. New York
City, is to discuss the relation of alco-
hol to modern health ideals. and DR..
Charles R. Stockard, of Cornell Univer-
sity, is to recount the latest scientific
investigation in this country of the &C
ton of alcohol on the brain. the nerv-
Gus system and on heredity. Other
speakers at this session will be Pro-
fessor Ley, of the University of Brus-
sells: Director Aschatfenburg. of the
Cologne Psychiatric Clinic, and DR.. Le-
grain, of Paris. The pageant will be
held tomorrow night, as also a recep-
t!on to delegates and members.
Beer and light wines will be the CEN
ter Of attention Wednesday. Dr. Har-
vey ". Wiley will discuss THE Pro-
posal for Beer and Light Wines in the
United States From the Economic and
Political Viewpoints" while others will
tell of these beverages as intoxicants
and causes of alcoholism
The fight of the churches and of
women on liquor also will be a part of
te-morrow's program, the speakers in
Guiding the Right Rev. Regis Canevin
Of Pittsburgh; Bishop Luther B. Will
son, of New York City; Rabbi Stephen
s. Wise, of New York City: DR.. ?. A
Ming, of the Swiss Parliament; Pastor
Gallienne, Of Paris, and Mrs. Ella A.
Boole.
Prohibition during the war in for
eign countries as we'll as in the United
States, along with discussion of the
constitutional prohibition in this coun-
try, will be the subjects before the
congress Thursday. Attorney General
Palmer will speak at night on Legal
Aspects Of hibition-Constitut;
Federal and State" Secretary Daniels
also will speak there, his subj ect beng
war Prohibition in its Relation to
war Activity in the United States"
An analysis of results of prohibition
IN this country is the subject of Bird
.. Coler, Commlss ioner of Public Wei
AeAe, ave" 1oFA Clly, TO De presented
at the afternoon session. Speakers
rom Denmark. England, France, Swe-
Gen, Poland, Finland and the Orient
also will relate details of the fgh.
against liquor in their home countries
On Friday Dr. P. A. Baker, of Ohio.
superintendent of the American Anti
ssioon League, will speak on "Political
aspects OF the Prohibition Movement
IN America-Partisan and Non-Parti-
san Effort" and Representative John
". cooper, Of Ohio, will discuss "Thc
Liquor Problem and Labor in America. f."
william Jennings Bryan will be the
speaker at night.
Attention will be confined at Satur-
Gays session to the movement against
Aeoho! in North and South American
countries
On Sunday, the final day, the con-