Smyrna times., 1924-01-23
BALL AND DOYCE STATE THEIR
ATTITUDE ON PROHIBITION
SENATOR BALL AND CONGRESS-
MAN BOYCE HAILED AT DINNER
E. c. Prettyman, Assistant Superin-
tendent of the Anti-SalOOn League
Declared 1t a Great Event

What E. G. Prettyman assistant su-
perintendent of the Anti-Saloon Leag-
ue in the Maryland-Delaware jurisdic-
tion, declared at the close was the
greatest event in the history of tenn
perance work in Delaware in his time,
occurred Tuesday evening, Jan. 18th,
when three score State leaders in
temperance, assembled at a get-tO-
gether dinner at Washington, cheered
Senator L. Heisler Balls declaration
that he stood for the prohibition of
intoxicants for beverage purposes and
with greater enthusiasm applauded
Representative Boyce's fervent plea
for strengthening the public sentiment |
in favor of upholding the Eighteenth |
Amendment and the Volstead act.
George w. Cradle, superintendent |
of Anti-Saloon League, described
what Senator Ball said as an eek
PLANTATION" and referred to Represen- |
tative BOyce's determined stand" for
the amendment and the statue law.
While Senator Balls remarks got ap-
plause at several points, the demon
stration was not comparable to that
accorded Congressman Boyce. At the
instance of one of the women diners,
the whole company rose at the con-
clusion of Judge Boyce's speech and
paid him the compliment of the w.
C. 7. U. salute.
Senator Thomas F. Bayard was not
present, and it was understood that
he had not been invited. He will ad-
dress the Association against the pro-
hibition Amendment next Monday as
one of the program speakers. As
sistant Superintendent Prettyman
made what was taken as an allusion
to Senator Bayard when he said that
eve are not going to let any Senator
say next week that we are not to go
forward in this work"
The idea of the dinner occurred to
Assistant Superintendent Prettyman
when plans were being worked out for
an impressive attendance of Della
wareans at the annual convention of
the Anti-Saloon League of America,
now in session. 1t was his thought
that such an assemblage of the State
workers at the national capital while
the national temperance forces were
gathered, would tend to enthusiastic
unifcation of purpose and endeavor
and afford a rare opportunity for
frank and free statement of the posi-
ton of the States congressional re-
presentation.
Senator Ball spoke first. He refer
red to a brief item which he had seer
= in print to the effect that Delaware
! had 1.-TWO wet Senators" He did moi
understand why that statement haC
been made. He stood for the Vol
stead act where the prohibition of tht
beverage traffic in alcoholic liquor
/ was concerned. He was prepared t.
vote further amendment of the act il
that direction.
. But-and here the Senator spOk
with apparent deep-seated conviction
he did not take the view of the u.s.
of alcohol in medicine that some per
sons entertained. He himself was
physician, he said, and he was con
scientiously of the opinion that ther
are times when the use of alcohol
liquors will tide over life for tim
and thus save life. He was convince
of that by his studies in medicine an
by experience in practice.
That being his conviction, he fun
ther believed that the limitation {
the number of prescriptions which
physician may prescribe in a give
time was illogical. Either the phi!
sician should be free to write as man
as required or be barred from writin
any at ALL He alluded to the absurd
tv of a law under which for ten (
AZ ~ fifteen days in a month, until Il
&C. blanks gave out, physicians mig
od prescribe alcoholic liquors, and be u
able to prescribe further the remai
as ing DAYS of the month. That, the Sc
orl om ator said, explained his vote again
an amendment of the Volstead act
the particular relating to physician
''e prescriptions. He added that he wou
vote to the same purpose again.
od- Senator Ball thought it possit
~. that misapprehension of his positi
might also have grown out OF
marks he made some time ago on
subject of farmer utilization of wa'
through conversion of sugar 81
stance into denaturated alcohol.
nE spoke of the necessity of great
dustries to utilize all waste-by-p
ducts-in order to show profit
combined operations, and declal
that the farmer had more waste tt
. any other man engaged in the br
ness of making a living. He decla
that waste on the farm might
utilized to great advantage in max
of denaturated alcohol, rank pois
he said, and impossible of utilizat
in any beverage. In Cuba, ne unC
stood, they were making denatu
alcohol at cost Of z cents ga
| own1 ~ his