Evening star., 1928-10-31
v. c. I. j. REFLECTS
MRS. N. NJ. POLLOCK
Fifty-fourth Annual Conven-
tion Votes to Retain
President.

Mrs. N. M. Pollock was reelected
president of the Women's Christian
Temperance Union of the District oi
Columbia at today's session of the
flfty-fourth annual convention Of the
organization in First Congregational
Church. DR.. Lauretta Kress was elected
first vice president.
Other officers elected were Mrs. James
M. Doran, wife of the prohibition COM
missioner, second vice president; Mrs
H. Edon Rogers, corresponding secre-
tar; Mrs. Charles Montgomery, record
ing secretary; Mrs. William Peters, as
siStant recording secretary, and Mrs
George A. Ross, treasurer
The elections were held during thi
morning and the results announced
early this afternoon. Under the rules
of the organization, majority vote j:
required. which was 102 today. Officers
not receiving the required majority
but who had the greatest number o1
votes, were declared elected by adop-
tion OF special resolution.
Doran Lauds Dry Law.
Prohibition as in force in this coun
the liquor situation, because othel
methods have proved unsatisfactory, de-
clared Dr. James M. Doran, UniteC
States prohibition commissioner
To illustrate this point. DR.. Dorar
declared that in British Columbia vari
GUS crimes attributed to alcoholism have
increased with freer distribution O.
liquor.
During recent years, he pointed out
British Columbia debts have increased
from $35, 900 to over $81 200, 900, ane
many persons there have been forced
to lose their homes for non-payment o1
taxes, he continued.
Points to Failures.
In connection with the so-called
liquor control laws, other than prohi-
bition, DR.. Doran said that all methods
other than prohibition had been tried
in this country prior to the enactment
Of the eighteenth amendment. and
added that it matters little in what
way liquor Is distributed If the people
are allowed legally to drink it.
DR.. Doran indicated in his address
that there is a wider study being made
Of the liquor question from an eco
nomic standpoint than ever before.
Mr.. Doran said that more than $4,000
arrests were made by Federal prohibi-
tlOIl dkGIltS ldSb year dLlQ tLldL ulOIG
than 1000 automobiles and trucks were
confiscated. He also praised the work
of the Federal Government in reduc-
ing the quantity of liquor smuggled into
the United States from approximately
100000 gallons in 1926 to about
100000 gallons last year.
Dispute Crops Up.
The old dispute between the w. C.
T. U. and the Board of Education re-
garding the instructing of pupils in pub
lie schools on effects of alcohol cropped
up during this mornings session. Mrs.
Charles P. Grandfield, chairman of the
section on scientific temperance in
declared that DR.. Ballou, SUI
perintendent of schools, and Asst.
Supt. Stephen Kramer were in SYM
pathy with them. but that the Board
of Education is not.
Today's meeting was called to order
by Mrs. N. M. Pollock, the president.
AT meeting of the convention of the
in the First Congrega-
tional Church last night, D. Stewart
Patterson of the Methodist Board of
and Public Morals de-
clared that reports of drinking amcng
high school students are greatly exag-
gerated.