Evening star., 1930-12-11
DRY GROUP MEETS
TO ADOPT UNIFIED
! CAMPAIGN FOR g
Special Committee Holds
Executive Session to Outline
Prohibition Defense.
CONFERENCE MINIMIZES
TALK OF THIRD PARTY
Friends of 18th Amendment Ex-
pected to Be Demanded as Presi-
Dental Candidates.

scribe to definite program by a boarc
Of strategy which met today to formu.
late the temperance movements plar
OF action in the 1882 presidential cam.
paign.
Twelve dry leaders headed by Mrs
&. Ella A. Boole, president Of the w. C
T. u, canvassed the prohibition sit
uation at an executive meeting in the
Dodge Hotel this morning and agreed
that their problems are soluble"
Convinced that it will take time tc
work out their program, the committee
of IL will confer within the next sew
eral weeks and report to the National
Association of Organizations Supporting
the Eighteenth Amendment Statement
OF policy on which temperance groups
throughout the country will be asked to
stand.
Plan for Larger Group.
1t was explained that the strategy
board, headed by Mrs. Boole, is devils
Ing plan looking to establishment OF
Q St1H broader group, which NAV take
the prohibition movement directly to the
electorate in 1882.
Another meeting of the dry leaders
VIII be held when the committee of IL
Is prepared to report its program
Thirty-flve temperance organization
represented In the association and other
groups not represented, will be asked
then TO adopt the program as a guar
antee that prohibition forces may pre-
sent united front in what dry leaders
describe as a battle royal in the next
presidential campaign.
Other members of the board in
cluded Ernest Cherrington, secretary
OF the World League Against Al
ConoliSn; r. Scot Mcbride, superin-
Cenoent OF the Anti-Saloon League.
oliver Stewart president of the FLYING
squadron Foundation; Clinton How
ara, chairman of the United National
Committee for Law Enforcement: DIR
~. L. Coldln OF the same organization.
A. II. Briggs of California, Daniel
Polling, president of the World Christian
EnoeaVor Movement; Mrs. c. Mum.
evanston, H.. officer Of the w. C. T. u.
Ronert Watson. Presbyterian pastor of
BoSton; Mrs. William Tilton, Boston. of
the National Parent-Teacher Associa-
ton, and James A. Grain, chairman of
tne Board Of Temperance of the Dis
c1ples Of Christ.
Conference Adjourns.
The annual conference of the No
tional Association of Organizations sun
porting the Eighteenth Amendment. IN
which members of the Committee on
strategy are delegates, adjourned this
morning so the committee might for
mulate general policy with regard
70 the coming elections.
Dry leaders said the committee would
unl1y the interests of the orQanized
temperance movement so that the pro-
tn naDlIion cause might be presented
Iorce1ully and comprehensiveiy before
DOM national conventions Of the major
poIncal parties in 1882. It was ex-
pecte0 that the committee Would re-
1terate its demands that both major
parties adopt dry platforms and norni-
nate dry candidates.
Ialk OF third party among the drys
as possibility in the event the Demo-
cratic and Republican parties adopt
platforms and nominate candidates in
1soz not acceptable TO prohibition lead
ers was minimized at the meeting.
Dr A. @. Barton, Wilmington. N. c.
Sno chairman Of the Board OF Social
oervice OF the Southern Baptist Con-
Ventlon, expressed the opinion in an
interview that prohibition forces would
take care Of their own interests in the
next presidential election"
Roosevelt Unacceptable.
De as unacceptable to Southern drvs as
Gov. Smith was, regardless of what sort
OF piatIorm ne ran on" DR.. Barton said.
AS co-planner with Bishop James Can
non, lr., OF the Asheville Conference ir,
1875, Or. Barton was active throughout
tne south IN organizing opposition to
tne Democratic presidential candidate
he SAID toEay he thought dry forces
would have no more difficulty opposing
Gov. Roosevelt than they had in oppos-
ing the former New York executive
DR.. Barton Joined with other dry
leaders in commencing the manner OF
and the impression created by Prohibi-
tion Director Amos w. w. Woodcock.
VINO addressed them late YESTERDAY.
Col. Woodcock, who was invited to
the conference by Mrs. Boole, gave the
leaders picture of enforcement and
answered numerous questions relating
10 policy and recent DEVELOPMENTS. His
address was made in executive session.
II told them" Col. Woodcock said
after the meeting, that our efforts
viii be successful against the CONNER
eial violations OF the national proI1ibi-
ton act. I asked them TO cooperate
IN meeting the non-commercial viola
tons through education.
We propose to use the courts and
the law against commercial violators
and education to combat the nom
commercial violations"
Depends Upon Intent.
Questions about the Prohibition
Bureaus attitude toward the sale of
grape concentrates were asked the d.
rector, and in reply Woodcock said the
question hinged upon intent to violate
the law. Where intent is proved against
grape concentrate manufacturers prose-
cutions viii be instituted, he said.
Members Of the conference of dry
leaders. many Of whom were meeting
Col. Woodcock for the first time. said
later they were impressed by his frank
Straightforward manner and his evident
grasp of the problems involved"
They are fine group of people
Woodcock said. They gave me A cor
dial reception"
His address was the first Woodcock
has made before a group of prohibit
tion leaders since he took over direc-
ton of prohibition last September.
After hearing Col Woodcock, the
conference formally expressed its an
proval of the new non poisonous alco-
hoI denatlIrant which DR.. James NJ
Doran, commissioner, of industrial alco-
hol, announced yesterday would soon
be substituted for the poisonous de-
naturant now used in manufacture.
The dry leaders indorSed all the ap-
preparation bills touching on prohibi-
tion enforcement including the Howell
bin for more rigid enforcement In the
District Of Columbia.