Evening star., 1927-12-06
DRY ENFORCEMENT
SEEN AS 1928 ISSUE
Anti-SaIoon League Predicts
'DisgracefuI Defeat of Vets
Aspiring to Presidency.

Prohibition enforcement will be the
ma jor issue in th> 1928 presidential
campaign in the opinion Of dry lead
ers. who addressed the thirty.fifth hi
ennial convention of the Anti-Saloon
League in the Mayflower Hotel today.
"Anv man like AL Smith, Nicholas
Murray Butler or James Wadsworth
who attempts to ride into the presi-
6ency with wet records and dry dec
larations will he discracefully defeat
ed" F. Dodson Mcbride. general SUI
perintendent of the league said. He
also predicted disappointment for ANY
party that tries to get in power on
notification program"
This notification program. which he
declared the vets are supporting. he
described rs an attempt to "detour
around the Constitution and the
eighteenth amendment on the high
way of liquor control by the light wine
and beer route" lie urged more rigid
penalties for liquor law violators, as
serting that the support of dry and
active Congress that would be will
ing to appropriate 500. .000, 600. if nee
essary, for its enforcement. would be
one of the leagues first objectives.
LAYS Victory to Women.
Mrs. Henry W. Peabody, chairman
of the Womens National Committee
for Law Enforcement, pictured the
w0men's vote as possibly the deciding
factor in the struggle for prohibition
enforcement.
Women will not support any party
which offers them evasion or com
promise in their demands on the en-
forcement problem" she said.
I'VE are not satisfied with the pres
ent enforcement of the law. We find
the reason for the lack of enforcement
in policies which prevailed in the Re-
publican convention in Cleveland. We
believe, with President Coolidge, as
quoted in recent published state
ment, that perpetual lodging of this
issue is damaging to the Nation With
him we declare for open and frank
dry declarations in the platform
Youth to Be Educated.
Emancipation from alcoholism will
he achieved only by legislation and ed
ucation pulling in harness together,
said Miss Cara Frances Stoddard of
the Scientific Temperance Federation.
1T may not be possible wholly to
overcome even by education in health
facts, or by patriotic appeal establish
drink habits in the group of middle
age drinkers" she said. But thorough
education can and will prevent the
ranks of these drinkers from refill
ing"
The vets are afraid to try to repeal
prohibition in the Constitution as it
was established, but are trying to
L, i,,tA Is,
repute, Edwin c. Dinwiddie, superin-
tendent of the National Temperance
Bureau. said.
The board of directors was sched-
uled to meet late today to confirm the
choice of DIR. E. III. Cherrington as
head of the new department of edu-
cation and publicity, as announced by
the executive committee yesterday.
Meanwhile indications were that Gen.
eral Supt. F. Scott Mcbride had not
relinquished his intentions of becom-
ing the real head of the league in
place of the Late Wayne Wheeler.
Mr.. Bride declared in statement
that he would have an office in Wash
ington from which he would direct
1.-The legislative and enforcement ac-
tivities of the league" DR.. CHEERING
ton declined to comment on this state
ment until after the meeting of the
directors.
Law Treated Unfairly"
mo law ever passed by the Amer
ican people has been treated more
unfairly than the prohibition laws"
Bishop Thomas Nicholson of Detroit,
president of the Anti-Saloon League,
declared at the opening session of the
convention last night Enforcement
has been to an alarming degree in the
hands of the enemy, he said. and
every effort has been made to turn
the law into joke.
The Civil War would be precedent
for calling out the Army and Navy
to enforce prohibition, Bishop Nichol-
son declared. He explained that he
was not in favor of that method, but
that ''if it were necessary to resort to
such extreme measures we would only
be doing what Washington and Lin
coin did in similar circumstances"
Charging that the wine growers and
brewers of other countries were aid
ing the liquor forces of this country,
he asserted that "we are now in the