The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-02
ARTICLE NINE
Putting Prohibition Over

EulllHk OFEA
WE have seen the picture OF
wv prohibition as it exists today,
painted by DR.. Cherrington, pub
licity director of the Anti-Saloon
League. He admits that the most
serious disregard Of law by the peo-
pie exists. But the professional drys
still shout in chorus that prohibition
must be enforced or the republic
will be destroyed.
This into.arant band Of profess
sional reformers rather would see
the republic fall than give up one
0ta Of their law. yield an inch to
common sense and sanity, or re-
nounce their selfish privilege Of col
Letting from 100000 to 100000
a year TO spend on propaganda and
politics.
What other criminal laws are
there on the statute books that have
to be sustained by great professional
propaganda organizations, spending
annually millions Of dollars?
The laws against murder? High
way robbery? Burglary? Theft?
Horsestealing?
MOI These laws will stand as
long as civilization lives, because
they are recognized universally as
just and proper laws, for the
punishment If real crimes.
Why, you ask. when the prohibi-
ton law had produced such a train
of deep-seated evils, is it not re-
pealed? How did it come that it
ever was enacted?
Let the record answer.
TINE volume of prohibition propa-
Il ganda is prodigious. The
ramifications of prohibition politics,
and the undertow of prohibition
currents, are astounding.
In addition to the Anti-Saloon
League, with its board of directors
of $50 members, its executive COM
mittee of nineteen, its fifty-two
salaried state and territorial super
intendents, and its thousands or
more employees, there are thirty-one
other organizations that make a
profession of prohibition agitation.
The more important among these
are the Methodist Board Of Tenn
perance, Prohibition and Public
Morals, and the Woman'S Christian
Temperance Union. No organiZa-
ton other than the Anti-Saloon
League has been forced by in
vestigators to reveal the sources and
disbursements of it's revenues.
These prohibition organizations
constitute maze of interlocking
doctorates. Everybody has the title
of doctor. whether lawyer, preach
er, or plain propaganda. These
titles never are omitted in profess
sional dry literature. They may be
scenery to help bring in the money
The rosters of the organization
show a striking similarity of names
The leading officials of the Anti
Saloon League are interlocked with
/ the Federal Council of Churches
the World League Against Alco-
holism, the Scientific Temperance
Federation, the International Con-
gress Against Alcoholism, National
Temperance Council, the World
Prohibition Federation and a score
of other organizations. The inter-
locking directorateS Of big corpora
tons are easy to unscramble as
compared with the interlocking
doctorates of prohibition.
II n
UNTIL recently, the state and ma
~ tional Anti Saloon Leagues were
collecting and spending more than
$2,500000 a year. Expenditures OF
some of the other dry organizations
are estimated at 100000 to $500,00C
year. 1t is possible that the
thirty-one other organizations col
lect and spend each year sum ap-
proximating that of the Anti
Saloon League. These organizations
also have large pay rolls.
If the prohibition law were re-
pealed, or sanely amended, those
now on the pay rolls would lose
their jobs. They would have to &c
to work at something else. They
rather would see the government