Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-25
Dan Polling, Preacher, Slated
to Lead transformers to
HamIets and Cities.
Triple Onslaught in Campaign
on Successive Days Due
Until November, 1882.
BY WILLIAM HARD.


not end till November of 1882. Mr..
Polling will lead "the allied campaign
ers." who threaten to turn out to be the
most prodigious transformers in our
country's history.
They will begin operations this Sum-
mer. They viii take to the road in
three divisions" They will stay on the
road for nine months. They will ha-
rangue every community of any large
economic or political importance in the
whole United States. Each community
will be visited by each of the three
divisions" of these campaigners and
crusaders. That is to say, each COM
munity will get three successive dry
battery shocks on three successive days.
Moreover, with the continuous col
liberation of such tireless takers as
Raymond Robins and Oliver p. Stewart,
and with the occasional Intervention of
such spacious speakers as William E.
Borah and Clifford Pinchot, the forces
Of Dan Polling will swarm into each
community for not only one meeting on
each of the three successive days, but
usually for two meetings a day and
sometimes for three.
Plans 10 Shows Daily.
Moreover, in addition to meetings for
the general public, there will be or
ganization conferences, youth BAN
quets" and other ceremonial and in
Spirational occasions. It is safe to cal
culate that Mr.. Polling and his fellow
evangelistS will accomplish at least 10
performances per diem in a minimum
of three cities per diem for a period of
approximately 80 weeks. The grand
total of performance accordingly will
rise to well above 2.5O0.
Hnf
sobriety necessary for the achievement
of such physical feats is easy for the
drys. Mr.. Oliver p. Stewart, who will
be Mr.. Poling's chief assistant orator,
made 143 speeches lately in Illinois in
more than 100 towns In 20 days. Mr..
Polling is understood to have dared Mr..
John j. Raskob to produce a wet fighter
who can go that number Of rounds in
that length Of time with Mr.. Stewart
Mr.. Stewart is assisted by Rev. N.
G. Brown, who Is young woman,
strikingly beautiful, and who began
preaching at the age of IS.
III the vets are discontinued with the
severe aspect and repressive aura of
Mrs. Ella Boole, president of the Wom-
ems Christian Temperance Union, they
will be asked to gaze upon Miss Brown,
who, nevertheless, will leave them Just
as drinkless as Mrs. Boole.
AC WCto dlcO arc hSkGO 10 nOLc LnHL
their caricaturists who display the male
prohibitionist In a long black Tapping
coat and q tall black chimney-pot hat
and who display the female prohibit
zionist in a garb equally forbidding will
derive no encouragement for their
genius from studying Mr.. Polling. Mr..
Stewart or Miss Brown.
Mr.. Polling, as this writer must adj.
init, has the clothes and the manners
OF hlgh-presSure business executive.
He has been preaching in eminent
pulpitS all his adult life, but has been
moved to write novels called THE
Hereto" and THE Furnace" and also
a non-novel called "Huts in He'll" He
Is very Snappy character.
80, in fact, are most Of the other
prohibition chieftains now looming
large on the prohibition fighting front.
The emphasis along that front Is pass
ing, even among the preachers who in
habit 1t, from the clerical black to the
business-like brown, blue and gray. The
eccieSlasticalism Of leaders, such as
bisnop James Cannon. is being rele-
gated to the rear. The primacy of
the Anti-Saloon League in the pro-
nlbition war Is being succeeded by the
emergence OF new prohibitory organi-
zations bearing no specifically ecclesi-
astical color.
Headed BY Manufacturers.
This development began with the i'm
mersion of the Anti-Saloon League
membership In the national conference
OF organizations supporting the eight
zenith amendment" of which DR..
Ernest H. Cherrington is president and
Or. Edwin c. Dinwiddie secretary. 1t
Is coming to its climax with the appear
NJ No
ling's triple triumphs. entitled, respec-
lively, allied campaigners," allied
youth" and allied business men. :"
Allied business men," which sounds
Like a merger and which might lust
about as well be called Business Men,
me- Is headed by distinguished and
determined motor-car manufacturer It
Is sub-headed by an energetic chain
newspaper publisher who defies the wet
caricaturists by never carrying an UNI
brella in the sunshine.
The umbrella will have to be deleted
II the cartoons satirizing next years
eighteenth amendment champions are
TO catch up to date. Ditto with the
stove-pipe hat. The long black coat
may with slender shadow of tustifica-
ton, be retained. This writer. after
heroic and protracted research. has un-
earthed one active dry propaganda
who delights in the wearing Of prince
Albert" that flaps and flows. 1t is Clin-
ton Norman Howard OF Rochester. N.
T., who describes his occupation as that
of "reformer" and who has undertaken
single-handed combat against the
speakeasies Of New York City, the num-
Der OF which he estimates at 1000.
With Mr.. Howard for a model. the
artlSts who depict the spirit of the
eignteenth amendment perhaps still may
cIcthe 1t in black to the knees.
Thus would they be guilty neverthe-
iess, In the main, OF the great journal
istlc crime OF living In the past. Even
=, tne oean OF all present dry Lobbyists"
IN washington, DR.. Edwin C. DinwiddIe.
Is brisk, alert, CHEEKY, chatty, frank.
friendly, free-and-easy. companionable
creature, who cannot be distinguished
from wet by any casual street OBJ
server OF his dress or gait He is re-
ported TO salute the chief lobbyist" Of
our largest liquor Interests" in Wash
ington by his first name of Levi" and
10 be saluted in return as Ed" He is
no kill-joy at all-except in his fixed
loea tnat one-half Of one per cent Of
alcohol is enough.
Stewart Explains Policy.
DR.. Dinwiddie, though a preacher,
mas come right along with the new
tendencies which are changing the pro-
hibition movement continuously into a
less ecclesiastical and more secular eff
fort. The true ultimate objective of
Dan Poling's Allied Campaigners" is
the same that recently has been pur-
sued by Mr.. Oliver P. Stewards Plying
Squadron" which now will cooperate
with the Allied Campaigners. That
objective is to establish in every Amer
lean cOn1munitv large and small local
Society in support of the eighteenth
amendment" which will be based not
on church membership, but on citizen
ship in general
The deep policy behind this transfer.
nation has been expressed by Mr.. Stew
art as follows:
mo church body can go into prima-