Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-11-18
". c. I. j. REFLECTS
MRS. ELLA BOOLE
Both G. o. P. and Democratic
Members Warn Parties
on Dry Issue.
BY the Associated Press.


HOUSTON, Tex, November 10.--Mrs.
Ella A. Boole of Brooklyn, N. Y, was re-
elected president Of the National Wom-
ems Christian Temperance Union, In
flfty-sixth annual convention here to-
day.
Both Democratic and Republican dell
egates issued manifestos today warning
that they would not support any wet
political candidate.
The Democrats demanded addition
ally, that the leaders of the party lex
emplify their loyalty to the Constitu-
ton by writing q dry platform and by
nomination of dry candidates"
Though minus that provision, the
Republican women's statement not only
announced refusal to support any wet
Resolution Drafted.
On the basis of the two declarations
the Resolutions Committee drafted FOL
presentation to the whole convention
the following resolution:
I'VE reafirm our position taken In
the last presidential campaign in favor
of dry planks In party platforms. We
will oppose any and all political parties
adopting q repeal or modification plank
We declare our determination to sup
ample, public acts, and public utter
ances show themselves the undoubteC
friends of prohibition"
The union was also prepared today tc
launch q move for Federal censorship
Of motion pictures.
Miss Maude M. Aldrich, director d
the unions motion picture department
was ready to offer a resolution asking
Congress to "enact q law for the Fed.
eral supervision of motion pictures
establishing higher moral standards be.
fore production for films that are II
be licensed for interstate and interna.
tional commerce"
Charges False Impression Abroad.
Miss Aldrich felt the need for such
q law, the resolution said, realizing
that America produces more than 81
per cent Of the Aims shown abroad
and that these films often portray
wanton waste of wealth and needles;
extravaganza and carry to other nations
a picture of the worst instead of the
best in our national life and character
thereby creating international misun.
Outstanding and undermining good viii
for the United States In the worlc
market"
WoOdcock Letter Read.
One Of today's high lights was tn.
reading of q letter from Amos w. w
Woodcock, In which the national pro
hibition director said he had no greai
hope" for the direct success" Of Fed.
eral prohibition enforcement agains
private violations.
1.-THE private violation" the directors
letter added, "is the peculiar field fol
education and for all other influences
which tend to mold public opinion
toward an obedience of the law. 1t Il
your opportunity TO energize these
forces for obedience. It is obvious also
that by using your influence to stoT
private violations you remove the mo-
tive and basic cause for commercial
violations"
MY thinking on this great problem
always brings me back therefore to tht'
one propcsal-the courts for CONNER
cial violators, education for non-com-
mercial violators."
Miss Aldrich's movie report, which
she intended to make before offering
her resolution, declared that repeated
promises to stop putting anti-prohibi-
ton and anti-reSpect for authority
propaganda on the screen have been
followed by continued production OF
films containing this very propaganda
Another report today was that Of
Pearl Kendall Hess, medical temper
ance director, which decried the belief
that alcohol is good incidentally and
said, "A lingering belief in the potency
Of alcoholic liquors as health builders
has been capitalized by Mammon."