Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-29
BONE Dry DEMAND
MADE BY v. c. 7. j.
Platform Pledges Support
Only TO Candidates in Favor
of Prohibition Law.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
MINNEAPOLIS, Mimi, August
29,-Support Of only those candidates
who are the undoubted friends of
prohibition" is pledged by the National
Women's Christian Temperance Union
N its platform adopted at the annual
convention here today.
Following closely the requests OF
officers, who in their annual reports
urged relentless war on Office seekers
running without dry" planks in their
platforms. the union unanimously
voted TO actively campaign for candi.
dates who really care that America
shall receive full benefit from prohibi.
ton"
Pleading for willing obedience to
the letter and spirit Of the law as
plain American duty" the union in
it's platform declares that "alcoholic
liquors have no place in the home
medicine chest" and deplores ''the
home manufacture Of homebrew and
homemade wine.
BOotlegger Druggist Denounced.
Merchants are requested ito dis
continue the sale of ingredients and
utensils plainly merchandise for use
In the manufacture Of alcoholic bev-
erages."
Condemning the abuse of prescrip-
ton privileges. the union brands as
"A public menace" the "bootlegging
druggist who sells liquor without
prescription and who connives at the
diversion of industrial alcohol to
medical or beverage use"
.@ps
eliminate from stories, plays and
sceneries the idea that drinking is
essential to good time" are COM
mended in the platform. which states
that "the average American family
has nothing in common with the sort
of life portrayed in many current
novels and upon the screen and
stage"
Other Points in Platform.
Other parts of the platform place
the w. c. T. L. on record as:
Calling attention to 'the increasing
number of physicians and members
Of hospital stats who, as the result
of research and experiment. have
discarded alcohol as therapeutic
agent"
Defending prohibition as the best
method of dealing with the liquor
traffic.
Commencing every constructive eff.
fort of the Government toward law
enforcement.
Emphasizing the necessity of COOP
Grafton on the part of individual cit.
liens.
Urging all citizens to vote and dry"
voters to actively support dry" can.
didates.
Branding as political trickery to
deceive the people all 'non-ma ndatory
referenda' asking Congress to delegate
to States the power to fix the alcoholic
content of intoxicating liquor
Refusing to accept the Canadian
plan of government sale as a substi-
tute for prohibition.
Commencing Federal and State Of
f1cers who at personal risk are faith
fully doing their duty"
Paying tribute to "the brave men
who have lost their lives enforcing
the law" and extending the unions
sympa thy to their families
League Gives Support.
Nothing that has taken place at the
annual convention of the union has
aroused more enthusiasm among the
delegates than Geographic assurance
yesterday from the Women's Law En-
forcement League. stating that it was
proferring its support to the w. c.
T. U. campaign for strict enforcement.
The Law Enforcement League is an
of 100000 Protestant
Church women. and it's support was
promised in telegram signed by Lucy
w. Peabody Of New York, its presi-
dent.
Delegate; were told last night that
the Government is more powerful
than liquor peddlers, and can success
fully put down liquor law violations.
The speaker was Mrs. Stella c.
Slim ION of Terre Haute. Ind. director
of the unions department of citizen
ship.
THE time is surely coming Mrs.
said, when it will be as
dangerous to tamper with the prohibit
ton laws as the postal laws. That
time will come when the Treasury De-
partment is as determined to enforce
the law as the Post Office Depart
ment.'
Regulation of the motion picture
as a major objective of the
union to eliminate exaggerated sex
appeal, Illicit love affairs and stories
making drunkenness attractive was
urged by Mrs. Robbins Gilman OF
general secretary of the
Women's Cooperative Alliance.
Mrs. Valera H. Parker of New
York, national director of the unions
division of social morality. defended
he youth of today, pointing out that
he United States Children's Bureau
has reported a marked decrease OF
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