Evening star., 1927-11-27
LEAGUE TO MEET
in CAPITAL DECEMBER 5 TO 3
Program Includes Move for Campaign to Secure
More Drastic Penalties for Violators of Dry Law.
Group Sees Incoming Congress as Strongly Dry

the issue" The Anti-Salooners en-.
tlrely indOrse Senator Thomas J..
Walsh's view that if Gov. AL Smith
or Senator Jim" Reed is the Demo
cratic presidential nominee, he must
be fought by drys, no matter what
kind of law.enforcement" plank he
stands on. The drys would oppose a
wet Republican presidential candidate
like Nicholas Murray Butler or Sen.
ator Edge, for example-as fiercely as
they'd assail Smith or Reed, if the
New Jersey statesman or New York
educator were nominated on a claw.
enforcement" platform. The Anti.
Salooners bluntly affirm they're mot
going to be fooled any longer" by law.
enforcement plans camouf1aging mo.
toriously wet" candidates. That goes,
they explain, for 1928 congressional
and State candidates. as well as presi.
Dental nominees.
Issue Not Desired.
No so-called dry planks' will be
sought from the two parties. Ger.
tainly no effort is projected to carry
out o; Senator Borahs theory that pro.
hibition should be made the para.
mount 1928 issue. Such pressure as
the prohibitionists exert at the ma.
tional conventions will be confined to
opposing the nomination of presi.
dental and vice presidential candi.
dates whose attitude on notification
of the Constitution is either doubtful
or antagonistic." The board of di.
rectors of the Anti-Saloon League at
Winona Lake, Ind, last August made
formal declaration to that effect.
Their course will be approved at the
biennial convention in Washington
next month.
The Christian Century. independent
religious weekly. demands that the
Anti-Saloon League Immediately
launch movement to elect a majority
OF dry delegates to the 1923 Repub.
lican national convention. But this
plan, according to F. Scott Mcbride,
general secretary of the league, runs
counter to the "non.partisan" basis on
which the Anti-Salooners are crusading
for constitutional government"
Fund for Education"
Mr.. Mcbride tells this writer that
the $3.250.000 five-year campaign
chest, which the drys are now organ.
purposes" They've no anxiety, he
declares, about the permanency of
prohibition as law of the land. But
they're aware of the ''incessant anti
dry campaign of education" which the
vets are waging. and intend to meet
and combat it. Mcbride claims that a
$65O,OO0 annual dry budget is nor
NAL" Sitting in his Office at the foot
OF Capitol Hill and cooking an eye in
the direction of the dome. the broad.
shouldered crusader upon whom the
lions share of the late Wayne B.
Wheeler's work has fallen, said:
I'VE don't spend any money In
Washington. except for office mainte.
nance. Our work, as far as the Hill
is concerned. is done. Congress mere.
ly registers what the temperance folks
back home have already accomplish
ed-that is, it enacts the laws the vast
ma ajority of the Nation demands. Our
money is used to keep the prohibition
spirit militantly alive-as it were. TO
hold that which we have. Ninety per
cent Is spent upon educational work
to that end-for lectures, for radio,
for literature and for movies.
iCoDyright. 1921