Evening star., 1928-09-10
Ry the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
An outline Of the major organized
efforts that are to be thrown into bal
ance on both sides of the prohibition
issue during the campaign of 1923 ha!
been given to the Associated Press BY
ranking officials of the Anti-Saloor
League and the Association Against the
Prohibition Amendment.
Speaking for the Anti-Saloon League
DR.. Ernest H. Cherrington, its director
of education, said the league was sup.
porting Herbert Hoover and dry candi-
dates generally the country over. re.
CARELESS Of party or religious affiliation
He pronounced absolutely false any
statement that the organization hao
raised the religious issue.
Henry H. Curran, president of the
Association Against the Prohibition
Amendment. disclosed that a decision
whether to put the association actively
into the presidential campaign is await
ing a meeting of the executive COM
mittee to be held late this month. but
that widespread effort would be made
to secure the election of members OF
Senate and House who oppose prohi-
bition. THE repeal of the eighteenth
amendment" was said by him to be the
ultimate goal of these efforts.
Information Requested.
Both of the statements were made in
response to requests for information as
to just what the two organizations
would attempt during 1928.
In the present political campaign, -
said DR.. Cherrington. the Anti-Saloon
League is supporting for public office
dry candidates against wet ones regard
less of political Affiliations or of any
other issue that might be involved
1T Judges candidates for office by
their own records and by the public
statements which they have made con-
cerning their attitude upon the principle
of prohibition and upon the enforcement
Of this policy of government.
THE repeated public statements that
we oppose certain candidates for Office
because of their religion is not only
absolutely false but is undoubtedly used
the real issue. The Anti-Saloon League
is interdenominational 1t includes
among its officers every variety of re-
ligion. It's national officers are Con-
gregationaliSts. Presbyterians. Baptists,
Methodists. Christian Scientists. Roman
Catholics, EpiScopalians. United Brethren
and Quakers. Neither publicly nor
privately does the Anti-Saloon League
fight any candidate for public office be-
cause of his religious convictions.
Divided in Choice.
"The Anti-Saloon League officials are
practically evenly divided between the
major political parties. They are abso-
lutely non-partisan and any attempt by
any group inside the organization to
unfairly weight the scales in behalf of
one party as against the other party
would be Immediately productive of in
ternal discords that would wreck the
The methods of the Anti
Saloon League are not secret, nor do
they involve intrigue.
The Anti-Saloon League publishes
national and many State publications
which reach probably million readers
weekly, biWeekly or monthly, with infor-
nation concerning issues or candidates
for public Office. It's speakers address
public meetings in churches, halls or in
the open air each week, thus reaching
weekly many hundreds of thousands of
citizens with information which might
not be carried to them by the public
press. It distributes literature elucidat-
ing moot questions which might be part
of the issues of the day The success
of the league is due to the simplicity Of
its methods, which might be summed
up in the phrase. Tell the voters the
truth and they will do the rest"
Mr.. Curren said the Association
Against the Prohibition Amendment was
especially interested" in the congress
sional elections, in view of the fact that