Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-11-23
GRAPE JUICE WAR
STUDIED BY DRYS
'voIstead Act Amendment May
Be Sought to Clarity
Latest Development.

There were indications in dry politi-
zeal circles yesterday that an effort would
be made in the next Congress to amend
the Volstead act so as to specifically
forbid the manufacture and sale of any
fruit juice or concentrate susceptible to
being converted into an intoxicant.
DR.. F. Scott Mcbride, general SUPER
intendent of the Anti-Saloon League
said yesterday he was not prepared to
give an opinion whether the concen-
trate product of a California cooper
ative was within the law" The pre-
sumption would be, he said, that Fruit
Industries. Ltd, of which Mrs. Mabel
Walker Willebrandt, the former AS
sistant Attorney General, is general
counsel, is within the law in marketing
q concentrate which becomes wine
through fermentation.
IF the supporters Of prohibition de-
eide that the sale of such concentrate
Is wrong, or harmful, and that it Is
being done within the law. then the
recourse is to try to change the law
and not attack the enforcement ma
chinery," DR.. Mcbride said.
WusOhS views supported.
He expressed the opinion further
that a great majority of the supporters
of prohibition probably would be OF
the opinion that the sale of a concen-
trate which becomes wine through fer
mentation or the adding of ingredients
Is in violation of the intent of the
eighteenth amendment.
Agreeing in part with the views ex-
pressed Friday by DR.. Clarence True
Wilson, general secretary of the Metho-
dist Board of Temperance, Dr. Mcbride
emphasized, as did Wilson, that the
temperance forces are not willing to
exceed the law in enforcing prohibi-
ton.
The grape concentrate plan is being
studied by E. B. Dunford, attorney for
the Anti-Saloon League, Dr. Mcbride
disclosed, and will be the subject of a
brief Dunford will submit to the annual
meeting of the organization early next
month. This new development will be
taken up then" Mcbride said, land
undoubtedly will be discussed by the
Conference of Organizations Support
ing the Eighteenth Amendment. which
will gats.eI delegates from more than
Is Temperance organizations here De-
cembeT 8, 9 and 10.
Sees Violation Of Intent.
81 is probable that this conference
w. axe some expression with regard
to Tie riar, but such action will Tot be
binding on any temperance organiza-
ton. The procedure will be for each
grou'' to consider independently any
recommendations made by the confer
ence and decide for itself what its
policy will be-"
The larger groups, such as the
Methodist Board of Temperance, the
Anti-Saloon League and the Board of
Temperance and Social Welfare of the
Methodist Episcopal Church South,
maintain legislative groups in Wash
ington. DR.. Mcbride pointed out that
it Is through these groups that the
temperance organizations make their
opinions known, but he emphasized that
they do not urge upon Congress any
program as coming from them.
IF this new DEVELOPMENT is deter
mined harmful and the supporters Of
prohibition oppose it as something that
can be done under the law but in vio-
lation Of the intent of the law. then
our problem is clear" Mcbride stated.