Evening star., 1927-12-05
DRY LEAGUE LEADERS
GIVE CHERRINGT0N
WHEELER'S SCEPTER


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holding accountable those intrusted
with their enforcement, he regards
voluntary observance of laws as vast
ly more important than acquiescence
through fear of penalty.
First Meeting Tonight.
1t is not enough to demand that peo-
pie obey the law simply because it is
law, he declared. The future of pro-
hibition is in the hands of the next
generation, he said, and this genera
ton must be made to know the raj
son d'etre of prohibition"
He declared that scientific temper
ance instruction 40 years ago was re-
sponsible for bringing prohibition
about and education is the keyword
of the immediate future for the Ameri-
can and international movement
against alcoholism.
"It is well to write prohibition into
the statute books of the States and
into the fundamental law and statutes
of the Republic, but abolition of bev-
erage alcohol will be FASTENED II we
can continue to write temperance in
struction into the text books of schools
and colleges and to get before college
faculties and students the inexorable
truths about the evils OF liquor use and
the liquor traffic"
The first general meeting Of the con-
vention will be held tonight at the
Mayfiower. Speakers will be Bishop
Nicholson, Senator Sheppard of Texas
and Mrs. Mary Harris Armour. direc-
tor of the evangelistic department of
the National w. c. T. U.
Deny Vets Can Win.
No candidate known to favor "nulli-
fication of the eighteenth amendment"
in the 1928 election will reach the
White House, delegates to the conven-
ton were told yesterday by Senator
Willis, Republican, of Ohio, and Will
liam E. "Pussyfoot" Johnson, at a
mass meeting yesterday at the May
flower Hotel.
"The Victor Bergers, the Nicholas
Murray Buffers and the Al Smiths OF
the country" Willis declared, "are not
going to write the party platforms in
the coming campaign.
Tribute was paid to the, memory OF
tno ldle wayne d. WHcciC. Wy
Willis, who praised his legal ability,
kindliness, unfailing optimism and
personal integrity"
Teaching the effects Of alcohol to
children in the public schools and the
creation of publicity bureau to keep
the country informed on prohibition
DEVELOPMENTS were Endorsed by the
Senator.
Calls New York "Wickedest."
I johnson asserted that the number
of arrests for drunkenness in large
foreign cities far exceeded in proper
ton to population the number OF ar
rests for the same offense in New
York City. probably the wickeoest
city in the United States"
"six men. who have been implicated
in the planting of that still apparatus
on NV farm up in New York. are In
iail." he said, referring to the recent
discovery of a still on his farm. Amy
one else who wants to know what the
inside of a Jail is like can just go up
to New York and plant still on my
Tne eventual overthrow of prohibit
tion is inevitable If the opinions OF
leaders of the younger generation OF
America are not changed, Stanley
High of the Board of Foreign MIS-
sions Of the Methodist Church assert
ed. He advocated an honest pro-
gram to enlist the support OF tomor-
rows drys through sclentinc presen'
tation of both sides OF the liquor Ques'
| ton. - o,,,y
| weakened by those who go bombast-
ing about the country as though every
| Individual who did not believe IN the
| eighteenth amendment were De-
| sotted degenerate" he declared.
Sees Problem for Young.
.Temperance and sobriety rather
than comuIete prohibition should be
the keynote Of the dry organizations
campaign to uphold the eighteenth
amendment" Assistant Secretary Sey-
mour Lowman of the Treasury de-
clared at a mass meeting in Luther
Place Memorial Church. He warned
that a crisis in prohibition is rapidly
approaching.
He warned that the work of prohi-
bition has not been finished with tne
adoption Of the amendment. This
has not turned out as satisfactorily
as had been expected, he admitted.
He said the young men and young
women of the country are real OBJ
stacles in the path of prohibition en-
forcement and that If they would join
churches and temperance organiza-
tions the task would be materially
lightened.
Dry organizations must "get on the
field Of battle and fling their forces
into action against the vets, who are
confident they will capture the Gov
ernment in 1925" Oliver w. Stewart
Of Chicago, president or the frying
Squadron Foundation, declared.