Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-08-24
Is YEARS WILL
MAKE j. {. DRY
So Says William H. Anderson,
Head of New York Anti
saloon League
Ey EDWARD NJ. TlIIERRY

NEW YORK, Aug. 24.-tIow long
do prohibition leaders think it will
take to make America dry?
twenty-five years, says William
II. Anderson. state superintendent
of the A~nti-Saloon League.
Anderson, though a state leader,
is the most militant prohibitionist
in the country and he admits he has
the hardest job in the wettest state
in what he calls 'liquGr's black belt
New York, Rhode island, Connec-
ticut, New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
In an interview with NEA Service
he made these predictions:
within five or six yeas we will
have broken the political backbone
of booze and checked all serious eff
forts to change the dry law.
within another five or six years
the b~ootleggers will ne so generally
in Jail or in terror that the Vol
stead act will not be broken n
more than other laws are.
After that it will take Is years
for complete education of the peo-
Pile, especially those of foreign birth
or extraction respecting the. nature
and effect of alcohol to the point
where prohibition will no longer be
either an issue or a problem"
Anderson thinks prohibition real
ly will be here in 1947. Perhaps
oarlier-but 1947 is his conserva-
tive estimate.
Magazine straw votes don't both
er u.s." he said. Nor does the grow
ing agitation for beer and light wine.
There isn't one chance in 100 of the
Volstead act being changed"
ntn1iFyinr 1A aIdnl. ssIlDt if AZ 10
changed-mark you, it will only be
temporary
Consumption of alcohol mas drop
ped 10 or 20 per cent compared
with pre-prohibition days, Ander-
son estimates. The number Of
drinkers, he thinks, has decreased
almost as much.
II haven't any illusions about con-
gressmen and legislators" he said
II know lots of those who vote
dry are wet personally. They're
honest if they vote according to /
sentiment Of their constituents.
Politicians and the public gener-
ally will eventually get It through
their heads hat anarchy Is the only
alternative to enforcement and OBJ
servance."
Inc AIll-FodlOoD Ltd6 ht VII 'V
necessary, Anderson says through
most of-and perhaps all-of the 20
years necessary to make prohibition
prohibit.
at will most more. too" he said,
because we now have two jobs
where we formerly had one. These
are: first, to hold the law ~ elect
ing dry congressman and state leg
- -AaA-l % Anfnran thn
law by organizing the public to get
behind the regularly constituted To-
cal enforcement authorities. back up
good officials, jack up the others.
1--WE are pushing a three-fold
plan: First, community enr1llment
for enforcement through the newly
formed Allied Citizens of America,
Inc forcing everyone to take a de-
finite stand either for or against law
and order: second. enacting an en-
forcement ordinance in every COM
munity; third, applying the Yen
kers Plan where enforcement is lax,
by cooperating with officials If they
will enforce the law. or focusing
publicity upon them if they won't
Anderson says New York state al
ready has 100000 members of the
Allied Citizens of America. and the
enrolment campaign is lust begin
ming.
when the light is turned on all
decent people will come in" he said
There are prominent bankers, law
yers, manufacturers. and even a few
preachers. who by opposing prohibi-
ton have placed themselves in the
! same category with frowsv whisk-
| cred anarchists. When they see
that through Ignorance Or prejudice
they have lined UT with thu crimi-
nals they will come in out of the
wet"