The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-05

, urany await the attitude of the American vets toward our offer of operation" The same dispatch stated that Count de Nun, the presi dent of the international organiza = ton. formed in Brussels, was presi- dent of one of the largest champagne companies in France and was for merly an extensive importer to the United States.
 At about the same time dispatches from Paris to various American newspapers told of an extensive cam paign of advertising for the purpose of telling American tourists the ad- vantages of wine drinking, appeal ing to the comradeship that existed between Tank and Poilu in war days and asserting that "In all our cities throughout our entire ine-growing region, you will not meet a drunken man"
 l recently had a letter, dated from | house in the Avenue de Suffren Paris. enclosing a clipping of one of these advertisements, They work, |" says the letter, 'to> get the American laws modified for the sale of their wines in America"
 Attitude of Foreign Press.
 Many European journals either be- lieVe or appear to believe that the main business of the bulk of the
 
 hibition law. I have before me the color page of a French journal. On 1t is picture in colors of d sup posed street scene in a large Ameri- can city. Men and women. some with armsful of bottles of liquor and oth- CTS trying to take it from them, are scurrying and fighting. lone pc lceman does nothing except roughly accost a girl with a single bottle 0. wine in her hand.
 The legend beneath the picture as- serts that the majority of the Amerl- can population impatiently endures the drastic prohibition measures, that | day never passes without stores of illicit liquor being pilfered, and that these scenes of disorder degenerate always into veritable raging bat tles."
 Have European organizations which take that view of things and boast of their liberal funds for wet campaigns throughout the world formed connections with the propa- ganda organizations in the United States? do not know
 We know of AZ organizations in the United States that are Lis- seminating propaganda in opposition to prohibition. or these the Asso- Amendment is by far the most active and influential. 1t has practically paralleled in organization on metnod the Anti-Saloon League of America, employing almost exactly the same form of organization.
 Objects Of The A. A. P. A.
 The avowed object of the Associa- tion Against the Prohibition Amend ment is threefold. The result it means to accomplish first is repeal of the Volstead law. Its second ob- ject is to legalize the manufacture and sale of beer and wines for bever- age purposes. It's ultimate object. as announced, is the repeal of the Eighteenth amendment of the con- stitution of the United States. To this supreme object, however. no act i've attention seems to be given. The whole effort thus far, it seems, has been not to induce the AmeI iean peo- ple to exercise their rights to repeal part of the constitution but to have them nullify the constitution by repeating the law for it's enforce ment Unceasing war is made not alone on the Volstead law, but on the enforcement codes of the various states
 In the Congressional election of 1922 the Association Against the Amendment participated in congressional -ontests in practi- cally every district, the country over, It's main effort was to defeat all Congressmen who had supported the Volstead law. It claimed credit for defeating MT. Volstead himself, though pronounced dry was elected in his stead The association pub lished a list of candidates satisfac- tory to 1t.
 Many of these men, candidates both for the House of representatives and the Senate, repudiated the endorse ment. Some of them made the charge that the Association Against the Pro- hibition Amendment sought to de- feat them by endorsing them and thus fixing upon them the stigma