Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-30
DRY CHIEFS PLAN
TO CONVENE HERE
Session in January to Map
Program for 1892 Ma
tionaI Elections.

Visioning a period Of critical i'm
portance to prohibition" the Anti
Saloon League will meet here January
is to map its line of campaign for the
impending national elections.
The National Prohibition Board OF
Strategy also will meet here next month,
the gatherings thus bringing dry forces
from throughout the country to the
Capital
The call for the Anti-Saloon League
meeting was sent out yesterday by F.
Scott Mcbride, general superintendent,
who told his forces to be prepared to
give their fullest counsel.
The board Of strategy will pay special
attention to the legislative plans for the
coming session of Congress.
Beck Hits Dry Law.
While these plans were going forward,
Representative Beck, Republican OF
Pennsylvania, former solicitor general,
yesterday termed prohibition de-
stroyer of basic constitutional principles.
AS speaker for the Sentinels of the
Republic, he told radio audience that
by the eighteenth amendment Federal
governmental powers had been mex
tricably" interviewer with the reserved
police powers of the State"
At the same time 1t was announced
a constitutional amendment to permit
States opposed to the eighteenth
amendment to authorize the manu-
facture and sale of liquor under Fed
eral commission will be proposed to the
next Congress by Representative Aldrich
of Rhode Island.
Presidential Row Watched.
Mcbride told league State superin-
tendents in his call that the vets hope
that the economic earthquake will
shake drys out of Congress and wet
into the White House"
II will depend upon you," he added,
Ito be PRESENT. prepared to give the
fullest counsel and cooperation on
how best to keep Congress and the
White House dry"
Mcbride sought specifically informa-
ton on how the prohibition cause
States attitude toward presidential
candidates, whether the prohibition
stand of Senators and Representatives
would be changed, and about the next
State Legislatures.
Every one of the 800 and more men
and women in the field and Office
forces in the league must prepare for
the 1882 campaign"
"Three -fOurthS Hot Air.
The exchange between vets and drys
also brought a statement from the
board of strategy that the demands of
brewers" for beer for revenue are part
of a wet propaganda "three-fourths
hot air and the other one-fourth bad
economics and worse morals"
The board cited newspaper ac-
count of the appearance of GustaVe
Pabst and delegation before q Senate
committee on May 8, 1917, opposing a
wartime ban on brewing.
The statement quoted the delegation
as arguing that such q move would be
ineffective for conserving food because
the industry used "less than three
quarters Of / per cent of all the grain
produced in the United States and be-
cause the barley used was mot staple
human food"
This argument is now being re-
versed, the board said.
Would Protect Dry States.
The proposed Aldrich wet measure
would authorize a Federal License Com
mission to issue licenses to those States
requesting such, but would protect the
dry States from the wet common
wealthS near them.
completed a draft of the proposal
which is quite involved. The legisla-
ton proposes that the country be di-
vided into nine districts Each district,
based on population, by popular vote
would elect a commissioner to the
Federal License Commission.
The commission would be authorized
to issue licenses to the States, where
their Legislatures have approved an
application. The eighteenth amend
ment would remain in the Constitution
and would be effective in dry States,
and would prevent the wet States from
transporting liquor into their arid
neighborS.
Morgan Joins Crusaders.
DR.. William Gerry Morgan of Wash
ington, past president Of the American
Medical Association, yesterday joined
the Crusaders, anti-prohibition organi-
cation, and Endorsed it as "a sane
movement, organized and directed by
true patriots"
This country is seriously ILL.," he
said, land through lack of treatment
and ignorance is swiftly approaching
the incurable stage. No country has
or can survive continued reign of in
temperance