Evening star., 1929-06-27
HOOVER HAL IS PLAN
TOUSE SCHOOLSFOR
DRY PROPAGANDA"
Treasury Department viii
Destroy Pamphlets Meant
for Teachers.
OFFICIALS DECLARE THEY
WERE UNAWARE OF STEP
Billboard, Radio and Movie Appeals
Are Banned, With Poster
Use in Doubt.

President Hoover has intervened per-
sonally to halt the plan of the prohi-
bition unit to use the public schools of
the country for dissemination of prohi
bition law observance propaganda, 1t
was learned today. and the Treasury
Department has decided to burn up the
complete supply of eight-page PAM
phlets entitled How Shall We Teach
the Eighteenth Amendment"
These developments came today after
several days of conferences by Federal
officials as the pamphlet stirred up re-
sistance in many school quarters.
Miss Sutter Is without Copies.
Miss Anna B. Sutter, who is credited
or blamed as the case may be with first
giving out the pamphlet, is leaving to-
day for Atlanta, Ga, to be present at
the meetings there Of the National Ed
ucation Association, but she viii go
without a single copy of the now
famous pamphlet.
The Presidents first information
concerning the issuing of pamphlet
proposing course of prohibition study
in the public schools was cleaned from
the newspapers. He Immediately sig
nified his emphatic disapproval to
Treasury officials, who said that they
themselves were unaware Of the pro-
posed campaign.
Using proceeds from a fund of $50,-
600 made available by Congress for the
dissemination of prohibition literature,
Miss Sutter, chief of the statistical and
educational division of the Prohibition
Bureau. had caused the pamphlet to
be prepared for general circulation at
the meeting tomorrow of the Education
al Association at Atlanta. She also had
gathered other literature in her pro-
posed campaign Of education.
Doran Enters Scene.
Miss Suffers program was detailed
TO the newspapers while Commissioner
Doran was out of the city and, accord
ing to Treasury officials, without either
their knowledge or consent. When high
Treasury officials read of the plan Of
Miss Sutter she was summoned to the
Office of Assistant Secretary Lowman.
AS soon as Commissioner Doran re-
turned to washington he was rushed
from the train to the office Of Under
secretary Mills and, after conference,
issued q statement disclaiming any In
tention on the part of the Prohibition
Bureau to use the schools for dissimi-
mating propaganda.
Although this one pamphlet will be
discarded, numerous others are In course
of preparation, DR.. Doran explained
today, and Will be carefully designed to
disseminate the facts Of prohibition.
These new pamphlets, Dr.. Doran
said, will tell in clear form what the
Federal Government Is doing. They
viii show the relation between Federal
upon problems of public health and the
delicate and important question of the
use of industrial alcohol
Questioned today about how these
new documents viii be disseminated,
DR. Doran said the details of this had
not been worked out. They viii all be
available, however, he explained to per-
sons sand organizations who ask for
them.
Many different kinds of requests
constantly are coming in to the bu-
reau," DR.. Doran said. These are
being concentrated, sorted and the
pamphlets prepared with view to an
swering the questions which most uni
yersaily arise"
BiIlboards Not to Be Used.
! No billboards In outdoor advertising.
no radio. nor motion pictures will be
used in the campaign, DR.. Doran said,
adding that he was still very much
! in doubt as to whether the Govern
ment should resort even to the use of
posters, with illustrations. to be tacked
up on the bulletin boards of post of
fees and Federal buildings throughout
the country. None of the posters so
far submitted, he said, quite fills the
! bill
Secretary of the Treasury Mellon was
non -committal today on the whole, mat
ter, declaring that. generally speaking,
the Treasury would be prepared to
answer requests about prohibition en-
forcement The Secretary said he had
not talked over the matter with Presi-
dent Hoover.
School Viewpoint Unclear.
How the public school proposition will
be handled in case inquiries arise did
not appear to be clear today. But Miss
Sutter is going to Atlanta, DR.. poran
explained, to tell the teachers there
that some information will be available
If they want it.
The fact that the Government is
steering clear of the insinuation OF
propaganda first was disclosed in pub
lie statement issued shortly after DR..
Doran returned from out OF town re-
Gently, and the propaganda movement
came to a climax today with the an
nouncement that the little pamphlet
about teaching the eighteenth amend
ment never will see the light OF day, so
far as the schools are concerned. No
further copies are available.