Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-20
BY WILLIAM HARD.

The new National Conference Of Or
CARNATIONS Supporting the Eighteenth
Observation-Disclosures is the grand con-
solidated army OF all our dry forces
will pitch camp and hold maneuvers in
Washington on some date between
March and March next, just nicely
hitting the inauguration.
The meeting will be attended by all
the dry generalissimos of the Nation.
The accolade OF approval and of support
will be laid upon the shoulders of Her
bert Hoover A large and wide engraved
and Illuminated piece of parchment
will be presented to him testifying to
the trust reposed in him by the, as
sembled hosts and strategists Of the dry
| cause.
The new Administrations will start
bathed pure in baptism of prohibit
ton.
Three heavy and loud guns will be at
once fired to Signalize the devotion OF
the new administration to the solving
of the prohibition problem.
One will be the projected presidential
commission of altitudinouS citizens 10
look and see how prohibition and other
Federal laws can be made to command
a greater obedience from the citizen.
The second will be the proposed trans
fer of the Bureau of Prohibition from
the professional administrators Of the
Treasury Department to the profess
Sional prosecutors of the Department OF
Justice. The third will be the initiation
of a vast governmental propaganda TO
persuade the citizen by leaflets and
posters and other exhortations to be-
lieve that every day in every way he
would be better and better If he needed
| the call of his country and its laws
and became Soberer and Soberer.
X X X x
The wet citizen is going to be way
| laid and attacked from every side. Even
If and when not sent to Jail, he will find
| himself spending his time reading re-
| ports on the contributions Of whisky to
| crime and looking at pictures nailed to
! telegraph poles by the Federal Govern
ment for the purpose of impresstng him
with the sanctity and rounded beauty
of the Constitution.
A full line of such pictures, sketched
roughly but effectively in pencil or
crayon, has been presented to the
President-elect by an enterprising firm
of printers and photographers dedicated
| to the marriage of law enforcement and
art The President-elect has vouch-
safed no opinion about them, but it is
remembered with happiness by the dryS
and with misery by the vets that 1t was
| by means of posters and the like that
| Herbert Hoover, as food administrator
| during the late war with Germany, per-
suaded the American public to go in for
meatlesS and wheatlesS days OF food
conservation.
1t is believed highly credible that he
now might start poster campaign for
drinkleSS days.
It is precisely with that end in view
that Senator Jones of Washington has
introduced into the Senate his proposal
for an appropriation of $250,000 TO be
spent by the Bureau. of Prohibition on
educational" work regarding the merits
of prohibition and the menaceS Of law
leSsness and righteousness
One OF the proposed pictures displays
an absolutely efficient and domestic
workingman returning to his absolutely
clean and neat cottage, peopled by q
plump wife and numerous. rollicking
children, while caption at the side OF
the picture describes his condition con-
f1dently as that of being Sober, Indus
trious and Affectionate."
1t is reasonably thought that the
farther along man is In his cups, the
more he will weep with contrition upon
beholding this scene.
The fact Is that the pictures are eX'
cellently done and the fact is further
that there can be no doubt that argu'
ment and persuasion will be even more
used than prosecution and conviction
by the next administration as weapon!
OF prohibition enforcement and success
This policy has the full support Of
the new "Ohio gang"
DR.. E. c. DinWiddie, secretary of thu
new National Conference of OrganiZa.
tions Supporting the Eighteenth
Amendment, halls from Ohio
F. Scott Mcbride, general superin'
tendent of the Anti-Saloon League
halls from Ohio.
Mrs. Ella Boole, president of the Ma
tional Women's Christian Temperance
Union, halls from Ohio.
Ernest III. Cherrington, secretary o
the National Temperance Council, gen
eral secretary of the World League
Against Alcoholism, chairman of thu
executive committee of the Scientific
Temperance Federation, general direc
tor of the publications of the Anti
Saloon League and master mind o
publicity and propaganda for righteous
ness and against rum, halls from Ohio
!, This Ohio gang" wastes no time II
, play. Nor does it, on the other hand
wear long Tapping black coats or higl
black stove-chimney hats or big roun'
goggles. That stuff Is all out. Thes