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prohibition matters affecting the Ma
ton as a whole.
The new body is the rejuvenation OF
the now defunct National Legislative
Conference. an organization mace up IN
practically the same way but with none
of the breadth of power with which the
present super-organization has been
vested. The National Legislative Con-
ference passed out of existence at mid
night last night.
The idea is the child of the mind OF
DR.. Ernest H. Cherrington, general sec
retary OF the World League AaginSt Al
coholism. He presented his plan to the
closed session of the National Legisla-
tive Conference at the Raleigh Hotel
Yesterday morning and it was accepted
without a single vote of dissent.
The breadth of power of the new
organization is amply defined in the
statement issued this morning by DR..
Barton, which follows:
THE National Conference OF Or
ganizations Supporting the Eighteenth
Amendment not only Will study pend
ing and proposed legislation with
recommendations to all temperance
tinue actively in the field with regard
to party platforms and candidates, but
also will work out comprehensive pro-
grams for education as to the personal
and social effect of beverage alcohol
and also to the end of promoting law
enforcement, law observance and per-
sonal abstinence"
Finances Are Tied Up.
A tying up of the finances of the
component organizations is still fur
ther result OF the formation OF the
Conference" The statement adds,
'The executive committee was given
responsibility for supplying and ham
ding the necessary financial plan. Also
there will be number of committees,
notably on legislation, observance en-
rollment of persons favorable to the
eighteenth amendment and publicity.
One piece of work planned will be the
urging Of registl ation of voters and the
participation Of ! ters in primaries and
elections. All TX of the Conference
will be national in scope"
A hint that the superorganization
was IN the air was heard about week
ago when temperance leaders Of the
Capital who are now members Of rhe
Conference were questioned.
The officers, in addition to DR.. Bar
ton, are: Mrs. Ella A. Boole, president
of the National w. C. T. u, and DR..
Clarence True Wilson, general secre-
tary of the Board of Temperance, Pro-
hibition and Public Morals of the Meth
odist Episcopal Church, vice presidents;
DR.. E. G. Dinwiddie, national chief
Templar of the Independent Order of
Good Templars, secretary, and DR.. j.
w Claudy of Philadelphia, general Sec
retary of the Department of Moral We'll
fare of the Presbyterian Church OF the
United States.
VIII Act Politically.
The statement of the aims of the
organization brings out that it will be
active in the political campaigns of the
Nation. 1t says:
LAS was the case with the so-called
Committee of Thirty-one, which was
q the creature of the National Legisla-
tive Conference, and which was active
n in the campaign of 1923, so the new
4 organization will be at the national
4 political conventions intent on seeing
4 that dry plankS are in the platforms
and dry candidates are nominated. The
legislative committee is expected 10
keep constant watch on all congress
sional activities that in any wise affect
prohibition.
The conference" will reach into the
educational system of the country. Also
the statement says:
Education of college students, scien-
tif1c temperance instruction in public
and private schools and colleges anC
dishSemination through every possible
means of the doctrine of the worthines:
of prohibition and abstinence will have
large part of the conference pro.
gram"
Annual meetings of the conference
will be held in Washington. The state.
ment sets the date for these meeting!
as the second Wednesday in December
each year, and vests the executive COM
mittee with the power to call emergenc!
and interim meetings.
The statement adds: "By such ar
Arrangement 1t will be easily possibl,
when some piece of legislation is VI
to call the conference into session herr
and to be ready to bring immediate
pressure through the cooperating or
ganizations and their joint constitu
ency of several million persons 'bacl
home"
The legislative committee, which viii
have headquarters here, is made up a
follows: DR.. Dinwiddie, Mrs. Lenni
Lowe Yost, legislative superintendent
OF the National w. C. T. u; DR.. Viii
son, Canon William Sheafe Chase, Ney
York Episcopal clergyman and head 0
the International Reform Association
end E. B. Dunford, attorney for tn
Anti-Saloon League of America.