Evening star., 1931-12-16
ALLIED FORCES END
THREE-DAY DRIVE
DR.. Polling Calls Prohibition
at Worst Better Than
License at Best.

Campaigners for the Allied Forces
for Prohibition concluded their three
day intensive speaking campaign in the
District of Columbia at a mass meet
ing in Calvary Baptist Church last
night.
Today they moved on to Hagerstown,
Md, Fastening on their objective to
speak in 587 cities by June 1t was
recently decided to include this num-
ber in their itinerary instead of 26l,
the number originally decided upon.
DR.. Daniel A. Polling of the ]. c.
Penny Foundation and editor of the
Christian Herald, and Oliver w. Stew
art, vice chairman of the Allied Forces.
were speakers at last nights meeting,
at which Col. Amos w. W. Woodcock,
director OF prohibition, presided.
Sees Conditions Improved.
Conditions are steadily better IN the
field of enforcement" DR.. Polling as
serted, "and prohibition at it's worst is
immesurably better than license ever
was at its best" He charged that pro-
hlbltion uncovered the speakeasy" in
stead of creating it.
DR.. Polling said prohibition was not
responsible for the racket" asserting
that Chairman Wickersham of the
crime commission said: "Racketeers ex-
listed before prohibition came into ef-
feet" and that 'racketeering will be
ended as soon as we have builded out
political government miles deeper into
the earth" The speaker praised the
progress made under direction of Col.
Woodcock toward the enforcement OF
prohibition.
DR.. Polling challenged the idea that
legallZed beer would bring back pros
perity and urged enforcement as the
solution of the problem of lawlessness. "
I'VE believe in the eighteenth amend
ment because we believe in America on
the march and that the highest con-
Servation is not the conservation of
forests, rivers and minerals, but the
conservation OF men, women and chill
dren," DR.. Polling said.
Today's Tasks Pictured.
Mr.. Stewart in his address declared
"the governmental task faced by the
people today Is as great as that which
George Washington and his associates
confronted"
While asserting he did not wish to
minimize the great task accomplished
by Washington and his great leader
ship, Mr.. Stewart emphasized some of
the factors making governmental prob
lens of today difficult, stating, in part:
The old-time home is gone. The few
exceptions prove the rule. Father,
mother and the children are not shut
in five or more evenings OF the week
while all the rest of the world is shut
out Homes do not now stand for def
mite things as they so generally did
until recent times"
The old-time community also has dis
appeared, he added. I'VE face third
difficulty in that we are the generation
fated to go to grips with the liquor
traffic" he continued. The crisis ap-
proaches. The entire Nation will be a
battle-ground for the next year. Have
we any right to believe we can rally
our scattered forces and repulse the
attack? Where is our hope?"
The answer, he declared, lies in the
allied forces for prohibition and the
fight carried on by it to enroll voters
in the cause of the eighteenth amend
ment. The serious crisis for believers
in the eighteenth amendment, he indi-
Gated, was brought about, in part, by
disbanding their forces, believing the
battle was over" The allied forces,
however, stand ready for the crisis, he
emphasized.
Deplores Youths Absence.
Mr.. Stewart also spoke at meeting
in Calvary Baptist Church yesterday
afternoon, while earlier in the after
noon Dr. Polling addressed group
meeting in the Mayfower Hotel.
At the afternoon session in the
church Stewart spoke on the general
subject of wet Inconsistencies" and
told of various arguments used by the
"wets."
In the course Of this address he de-
plored the small number of young peo-
pie at the meeting, declaring the battle
of the future will have to be fought
by the younger generation. 1t breaks
my heart to go into meeting and see
such few young people," he added.
In his afternoon address at the May
flower DR.. Polling told of a broad plan
for publicity to develop a new ply
chology throughout the nation" and
predicted the allied forces would sue
ceed. I'VE began on borrowed money
and notes become due in few weeks, u
he said in reference to the speaking
and publicity campaign, adding en-
phatically: I'VE will get the money
Meanwhile the show goes on"
DR.. Polling praised the press for the
space given the campaign in the 81
cities visited by them to date, saying
my hat has been of to the fourth
estate. We've received every stick OF
news the capmaign deserves" DR.. 3
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