New-York tribune., 1921-08-13
National Drive
On Prohibition
Begun by " cts
Campaign Against Invisible
Government by Profess
sional Reformers, Say DIR.
Brill and Hudson Maxim
Dry Blame Put on West
Anti-Liquor Move Charged
10 Part of Nation Where
Civilization Is Immature

The campaign to unite all the repu-
table personal liberty organizations in
the country for a common offensive
against "invisible government and the
pitiless priesthood of professional re-
formers" opened with luncheon at
the Brevooru yesterday. This was at
tended by representatives of nine lib
eral societies which were federated last
week as the Allied rganizations to
make the fight against the Volstead
act something more than an "organized
thirst and to draw up a common plat
form.
The speakers were Hudson Maxim
and Dr.. A. A. Brill, the psychologist.
John S. Wise jr., chairman of the
Allied Organizations, was toastmaster.
Both speakers pointed to the origin
of the prohibition movement in the
parts of the country where civiliza-
tion is still immature, where illiteracy
is rampant and men have not yet
learned self-control by long expert
ence."
Self-Rule for City Urged
They agreed that under these condi-
ticns it might be wise to impose re-
strictions such as have been found nee
essary with the Indians, but they could
see no reason why the West should
impose prohibition upon New York be-
cause it's own inhabitants have not yet
learned the inhibitionS of an old soci-
ETY..
at is the infantiie work of men who
cannot tolerate the enjoyment by
others of the things which they them
selves are not fitted to enjoy" said DR..
Brill.
Mr.. Maxim was convinced that the
primitive in man cannot be curbed by
legislation, and even went so lar as to
stress the grandeur and nobility in
'our divine old brutalities inherited
from the cave-man."
mo man who has not taken the
measure of himself by overstepping the
limits of propriety can know himself,
or know propriety when he sees it," he
added.
DR.. Brill took up the psychological
aspects of the issue, basing his judg-
ment upon the examination of thou
sands of drunkards who have come to
! him for treatment.
Years ago I became convinced that
no man not defective will succumb
to alcohol he declared. The normal
man not only can drink with safety
! but is much better for the outlet which
he thus gives to his inhibitions.
Needs of Modern Life
"To stand up under the stress OF
modern life man must have some way
Of escaping reality for time. Our
present living conditions are purely
artificial. Man was not made to dc
routine, monotonous work all day
When he does he must have some spe-
clal compensation to maintain his bal
ance That is what the workman for
merly obtained from his glass of beer
Mr.. Maxim was particularly vigorous
in his denunciation of the deficiency
! experts who are securing our wellbe-
Ing for u.s." declaring that they con-
stitute a parasite priesthood.
The organizations represented at the
luncheon were the Society of ITS, the
| SelfDetermination League of Liberty,
the Association Against the Prob ibition
Amendment, the American Liberties
League, the National Order of the
Sphinx, the Anti-Prohibitio Society
of America, the League of Liberty of
New Jersey, the National Liberal AL
lance, and the Anti Prohibitio League
o. New York.
ASBURY PARK, N. J., Aug. 12.-Sal-
vatore Rose, proprietor of the River
View House, Neptune City, was held
without bail to-day as a material wit
ness in connection with the investiga-
ton of the murder of Camille Caizza
or New York The police suspect that
Caizzas death was incidental to the
activities of a gang Of bootleggers.
His body. bound with clothesline
and weighted with stones, was found
in Shark River Monday.