Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-05-15
BUFFERS REMARKS
BRING REFQRMERS'
COUNTER ATTACK
BY ROBERT #. SMALL
Special Leased Wire 10 The Journal.)
lIOpNright, l02l.l

NEW YORK, May 19.--The Anti
Saloon league, the w. G. T. u, the
Methodist Board OF Morals and other
organizations interested In the en-
forcement of prohibition have made
it known here that they will not be
idle when attempts are made at the
Republican and Democratic national
conventions to force damp planks
into the platforms Of the two grand
old parties.
They also have let 1t be known
that they are not yet through with
DR.. Nicholas Murray Butler, presi-
dent of Columbia university, who
had the audacity to come out in a
public speech with the statement
that the present scheme of prohibit
ton was a failure and should be
wiped from the statute books in IA
vor of a workable and sane liquor
control law, such, for instance, as
prevails in certain provinces Of Can
ada.
DR.. Butler has been warned by
some Of the reform spokesman that
they will not rest until they obtain
his removal from the presidency of
Columbia, numbering it's students
in the tens of thousands. The rad
ical prohibition advocates have con-
tended that DR.. Butler was out of
step with the heads of virtually all
the institutions of learning in this
country and that he should step
down. These advocates were elated
today over the publication of the
statement by DR.. Eliot, president
rious issue with his fellow educator.
Eliot Reformers' Champion
In their first attack on DIR. But
Ter, the reform elements pointed
with pride to previous statements
by DR.. Eliot. That he should have
come out at this juncture with a re-
iteration Of his views that great
progress is being made with enforce
ment and that total prohibition &C
tually is in the offing, has filled the
foes of the Columbia head with re-
newed confidence of success in their
fight to unseat Dr. Butler and make
him an example to any other promi.
nent man in a similar position who
might dare to give expression to
views contrary to the tenor of the
Volstead act.
DR.. Butler has stated that in five
years prohibition will end. DIR. Eliot
has stated that in five years prohi-
bition really will prohibit. Thus the
titular heads of two great univer-
sites appear before the country with
views diametrically opposed. The
reform forces have joined in now
with the prediction that in five years
DR.. Butler will not be in a position
to make another attack on prohibit
ton. The prohibition advocates are
not inclined to be lenient with their
enemies at any time. The promi.
nence given to the words Of DR.,
Butler and the inference drawn in
some quarters that his statements
might be taken as a reflection of
changed mOu1 on the part of the
people toward prohibition, hit The
prohibition advocates in an unex"
pected quarter, but they are rally
ing from the blow and are promising
quick retaliation.
The students at Columbia ap.
parently are not frightened by the
dire threats made against their
"prexy." They holly resent the at
tempt of some of the reformers to
convey the impression that Column
bia is a hot bed Of intoXication, that
liquor flows A.. eritable streams
across the campus and that revelry
holds the boards until far into the
night.
Deny Campus Is SOgGy
They say the national prohibition
laws have nothing to do with the
morals of Columbia or any other
university. The rules against intoXi-
cants. which have always prevailed
at Columbia and were neither
strengthened nor relaxed with the
coming OF national prohibition.
DR. Buffers intlmation that he
woVld bring up the Volstead act at
the Republican national conven ton,
to which he is a delegate at large
from th.> state, has been t,n.Weret
by the prohibitionists with the an
nouncement that they too will be at
Cleveland to see that nothing in the
nature of ID stand on pro-
hibition shall be so much as breathed
in any plank Of the Republican plat
fOrr..
They have further announced that
they will be here in New York II
great num,crs to fight /. boom"
OF Governor AL Smith or any other
candidate who may be viewed by
them as being of the damp variety.
The "drys" proclaimed anew to
day that at the Democratic conven
ton, whoever dares to AMI l gun d
the Volstead act will be pllloried on
the spot. The "drys" say that far
from being acquiescent, the recent
ont broaL L IF Z oo Hyyetc has but snir