San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-10-23
W.C.T.U. SEES
DRY LAW FIGHT
\. loom IN 1924
Texas President Says 1t
Will Be Biggest Issue
Y: Of Next Election.
AFTER "WEfS'" SCALP
will Combat Them With
Statistics and Rousing
Out the Votes.

Plans for determined fight agains
the nomination and election of wet
candidates for public office, will BE-
formulated vt the Forty-third annua
convention of the Texas Woman's
Christian Temperance Union. accord
ing to Mrs. Claude De Van Watts OF
Austin, state president of the organi-
cation. The convention will open with
banquet at the Gunter Hotel at
7:30 Tuesday night.
Declaring that the question of pro-
hibition would be the first and fore
most subject in the 1924 presidential
election. Mrs. Van Watts stated Tues
day morning that this question would
be of most vital importance at the con-
vention.
Sixteen basic objectivesN have been
adopted for the conference. most of
which have to do with the .ubject of
law and law enforcement.
Although the W. c. Il. L. is not
political organization and is non-isr-
tisan. the members rise up in body
20 defend the principles for which the
organization stands when these prin-
ciples are brought into politics, said
Mrs. Van Watts.
Get Out the Vote.
One Of the vital tasks we are to
yrsysSre for at this convention is get
ing out the VOTE said Mrs. Van
Warts. we feel hat by getting out
1bt vote we can defeat the vets. since
Il y q known fact that the majority
q people are in favor of prohibition.
This will be the last stand of the
zsts- They know it and are lit SPAR
i-E time no. money in sri aiding their
false propaganda. They hav gone so
far as to go into the schools with
The idea Of falsely informing the sru-
dents that prohibition has Jeen the
ruinatiol of the younger generation.
I'VE are going to fight this state
ment by bringing to light statistics
proving hat few or boys and girls drink
today than yer before"
Bcotlegger Traitor.
Mrs. Van Watts declared that the
vets would base their campaign on the
argument that prohibition has ruined
the young people and that the W. c.
Il. q. was prepared to fight the state
ment with official statistics. College
professors declare. she asserted. that
the younger people do not have the
taste tor liquor that they had prior
TO prohibition.
A bootlegger is traitor to the
country. was the assertion of Mrs.
Van Watts. She declared that he
should be treated as such.
Mrs. Van Watts declared that the
members of the W. C. T. u. all over
the country feel confident that they
will be successful in the campaign
against the vets getting into office
in 1924 since not only are all men,
bers of the ". {. T. U. in favor of
prohibition, but that the great ma.
jority of women no are not members
OF the organization are heartily in
sympathy with tho principles.
Want Single Standard.
Enumerating the accomplishments
OF the W. C. T. L. since its organ
ization. Mrs. Van Watts declared that
gradually the founders of the organi-
zatioL are seeing their fundamental
principles carried out. The first ac-
complishment of the w. c. T. L. was
the iassing of the eighteenth amend
ment TO Tx constitution. Prohibition
was one of the five fundamentals unon
which the society was formed. The
next thing to be attained was the