Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-26
,DRY FORCES READY
FOR g CAMPAIGN
Board OF Strategy Named at
Caucus Here viii Map Out
Vigorous 20-MonthS' Work.

Prohibition forces of the country are
set to demand dry candidates and drv
planks for the 1882 presidential cam.
paign.
Heralding vigorous campaign that
will be carried to the election, some %
months away. leaders OF 80 national
prohibition organizations last night
wound up a three-day meeting at the
Hamilton Hotel, after selecting board
OF strategy" that will direct their huh,
and laying the ground work for opera.
tions in each of the States.
Work in States.
Work in the States will be carried on
by poiitico-dry units. comprised of local
or State organizat lions, whose formation
was authorized by rewriting the consti-
tuition OF the conference Two members
OF these individual groups would be nd
nitted TO the conference under the plan
as devised H''
The conference adopted a resolution
recommending an extension Of the vorlr
OF each OF its 80 component orpaniza-
tlons, by speaking campaigns. the hold
ing OF prohibition institutes. increasiro
publicity. larger distribution of literae
ture, ana wherever and whenever posi-
PIE increasing use of the radio, the pub
tic forum and the moving picture"
Committee Enlarged.
In winding up its deliberations the
conference also enlarged the personnel
OF an Executive Committee which Will
guloe the activities OF the SO dry or
CARNATIONS between meetings. This
group mad been intended as the BOARD
OF strategy. but the designation was
changed wnen the new militant board
was decided upon.
New members added to this Commit
Tee were DR.. Clarence True Wilson. sec
rotary of the Methodist Board of Tenn
perance; DR.. F. Scott Mcbride. super
lntendent of the Anti-Saloon League.
Mrs. Elizabeth Coffin of the Board of
Temperance of the Unitarian Church:
DR.. j. w. Claudy Of the temperance
agency of the Presbyterian Church. Col
P. H. Callahan. Louisville. of the So
clety of Catholics favoring prohibition
and DR.. Ira Landrith of Chicago, sl-
perintendent of the department of cit
izenship of the International Christian
Endeavor.
Board Of Strategy.
The Executive Committee will COM
plete the formation OF the board of
strategy, five members of whom were
chosen at the outset. About 10 more
are to be named.
Those already designated are: DR..
Ernest Cherrington, secretary Of the
World League Against Alcoholism; Mrs.
Ella A. Boole, president of the w. C. T.
u; z. L. Crawford Of the Methodist
Episcopal Church South, DR.. Edwin C.
Dinwiddie of the National Temperance
Bureau, and Dr.. Renwick Martin Of the
National Reform Federation.
Summarizing the work of the con-
ference, DR.. Charles c. Morrison of
Chicago, editor of the Christian Cen
fury, asserted there had been created
body capable of speaking for the dry
movement"
New Dry Force Seen.
Morrison said the new political board
of strategy will eclipse other agencies
of the national conference and will
bring new force into legislative
affairs"
Mrs. Ella A. Boole, president of the
w. G. T. u, said the alterations made
by the conference upon its constitution
would provide machinery by which all
the groups supporting the eighteenth
amendment may confer upon measures,
harmonic their efforts, and secure a
co-oridinated and united political
action"
Supt Mcbride of the Anti-Saloon
League, explained after the appointment
of the board of strategy that a similar
method had been followed in the 1928
campaign.