Evening star., 1923-11-24
PROHIBITION ISSUE
FROM BOTH ANGLES
Advocates and Opponents of
Enforcement to Hold Sepa-
rate Conventions Here.

Prohibition will be discussed pro
and con at two national gatherings
If the dry and liberal" forces of the
country in Washington during the
month of January. The Anti-Saloon
League will arrive first January Il to
! s, and be followed later. January Il,
by the Association Against IKE Pro-
hibition Amendment.
The Anti-Saloon League Will de-
velop the best organized program
for drying up the Wet spots IT the
country" it was announced by
Wayne 3. Wheeler, general counsel
The Association Against the Pro-
hibition Amendment Will meet win
the avowed aim O. seeking modthca-
tion Of the Nolstead act and return cI
prohibition police power to the United
States.
VIII Plan Modification.
The Association Against the Prohi-
hilton Amendment will discuss the re-
suits of four years OF legal droueh
and wiz formulate plans to secure
modification of the present dry law.
Names of many prominent Ameri-
cans appear on list CT those tA-
pected to attend. made unlc ,1uaS
by the association. They INCLUDE
Senator'S Bayard Of Delaware and
Bruce of Maryland. Representative
Hill Of Maryland, w. w. Atteroury,
Marshall Field. Seth Low. Kermit
Roosevelt. Gertrude Atherton. Mrs.
Minnie Maddern Fiske. Mrs. Douglas
robinson. Rev. Edmund Burke Smith
of the Army Chaplain,s Corps. Angus
tus Thomas. 4. E. Spreckies, OWen
Wister, Walter Damrosch. Rear
Admiral c. +. Goodrich and Maj. Gen.
Williams Mason Wright
The associations announcements
named the gathering "face-the-tacts
conference.
Seer as CamOufaEe.
THE country" it said, has already
heen regaled with the proceedings Of
Two conferences on the subject of
prohibition enforcement. The So
called citizenship conference was
born of the desire of the Anti Saloon
League 10 strengthen it's railing
stranglehold on the National Con-
gress. That known as the confer
snce of governors, called for the an
nounced purpose of bringing about
better law enforcement generally,
was transparent camoufiage or the
drys to the same end.
"The face-the-facts conference pro-
noses TO take up these tacit admis-
sions Of failure and meet them with
i concrete program to end the evils
which NoISteadiSm has brought into
existence. The aim of the confer
ence will be to modify the Volstead
act now and. as the next logical step,
to return the police power to the
states where it belongs.
Speakers for Anti-SalOon League.
Speakers for the Anti-Saloon
League include Gov. Pinchot of Penn
sylvania, William Jennings Bryan,
Prohibition Commissioner Haynes. G.
B. Griffith. attorney general of Kan
sis. and the governors of several
states"
cold feet made the vets switch the
date of their convention from early
in January TO January 20, when they
realized the magnitude of the dry
gathering" Mr.. Wheeler said. in an
announcement in connection with the
Forthcoming convention, John Phil
in Hill of Maryland. of wine-tuice
fame and the wet senator from Della
ware are the announced headliners
for the notification talk fest.
prohibition has been eminentIy
successful in nearly all OF the United
states, except in the cities of the At
lantic seaboard, with large foreign
populations. Let by 'AP Smith, Gov
ernor of New York. the qualifications
In wet sections have fondly imagined
they could overturn the Constitution,
the federal and state enactments un-
der the decision of the Supreme Court
of the United States, to the liking of
their own appetites and greed.
The eighteenth amendment is in
the Constitution to stay.