The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-02-06
Committee Being Formed to
Bring About Real
Temperance.
Temperance,
Times WASHINGTON Bureau.
1929 Nes0 York Avenue.


xvi ASHINGToN, Feb. Ga
IWI gra " menace confronts
- America today. The name of
this menace is prohibition"
With this as its battle cry, the
Association Against the Prohibition
Amendment has set out to remove
the menace by organizing com
mittee of leading scientists and
economists which. after an ex.
haustive study and observation of
the alcoholic beverage situation, both
in this country and abroad, will
draft and submit to Congress and to
our people constructive plans for
workable liquor control systems
with the object in view of finding a
method to bring about the greatest
possible degree Of real temperance
in the United States"
Though now in the fourth year OF
its existence, the anti-prohibition as
ISOLATION has so far found the Anti.
Saloon League more than its match.
Ever hopeful, however, leaders of
the association, and particularly its
president. Capt William H. Stayton
Baltimore ship-owner, feel that 1926
will mark the turning point. BY the
time the 69th Congress assemblies
late this year, legislative plans will
have been brought to point where
Congress will not be able longer to
refrain from repeating or completely
revising the Volstead act. association
officers assert.
Seek New Members
Under the auspices of a commit
tee Of fifty, an intensive drive is
now being launched for increased
membership and the attendant in
creased financial support. Promi-
nent among the members of this
committee are Mrs. Gertrude Ather-
ton, novelist; Augustus Thomas.
playwright: Hudson Maxim, inven-
tor and a number OF members of
Congress, including Senator's Bay
ard. Delaware; Bruce, Maryland;
Wadsworth. New York; Edge, New
Jersey, and Representatives Britten,
Illinois; Brumm, Pennsylvania; Gel
Ter, O'Connor, Mead, La Guardia,
Griffin and Perlmann Of New York;
Egan and Minahan of New Jersey;
Sherwood, Ohio; Hill, Maryland, and
O'Sullivan of Connecticut.
The specific object which the asy
ISOLATION has set out to accomplish
is the authorization of the manufac-
t11y.o ord sole ~ Eoax. u r4~-y,4 49, 80.
There have been introduced in Con-
gress a large number of bills which
would bring about this fundamental
change in the prohibition situation.
Hearings were held before the House
Judiciary Committee last spring,
but had not been completed when
Congress adjourned in June.
Session Too Brief
The "wets," under the leadership
of Representative John Philip Hill
of Maryland, regarded the present
short session of Congress as too
brief to warrant reopening the ques-
ton. That event has now been set
aside until the next Congress is un,
der. way. In the meantime, more
ammunition is being gathered with
which the strongholds of the sdrys,
as exemplified BY the Anti,Saloon
League, will be attacked.
The prohibitionists, say the vets,
promised empty jails, Increasing
prosperity and a safe@Iarded young
er generation"
Upon examination. the vets have
found instead that "none Of these
benefits has materialized, and the IL
licit liquor business is more firmly
entrenched and better organized than
ever