Evening star., 1932-08-14
|HOOVERS REELECTION FAVORED
FOR CONSTRUCTIVE" DRY STAND
Gov. Roosevelt Yielded to
"Mob CIamor," Says DR..
E. c. DinWiddie.
Doubts if People Want Whole.
sale and Unconditional
Annulment.
By The Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Speaking for himself and the National
Temperance Bureau, and not the Ma
tional Prohibition Board of Strategy Of
which he is secretary, DR.. Edwin c.
Dinwiddie said last night that President
Hoover's reelection "is favored because
he follows constructive and net
destructive course on the dry laws.
Declaring Gov. Roosevelt yielded" TO
at the Chicago convention and en-
dorsed outright repeal, while President
Hoover "braved the mob's displeasure
and refused to take his blind leap back
to old evils" DR.. Dinwiddie said:
After consideration of this entire
situation in all its bearings and from
all angles, President Hoover's re-
election is favored because CT his desire
to reach satisfactory solution Of this
problem; because he follows a con-
Structive and not destructive course;
because he has shown himself above
mob influence, and because CT his high
conceptions of his duties as President,
which have impelled him to place duty
as he sees it above mere expediency."
Drys to Oppose Repeal.
However, DR.. Dinwiddie said go
Cdlleu OlNS ilOJ dCCCPb SOlLlC
sections of the Republican platform"
He added they were opposed to the
Democratic repeal plank, were opposed
to submission and were against the con-
vention system of ratifying amend
mentS, which is provided in both plat
ferns.
The drys, he said, were for the eight
eenth amendment and its enforcement
land they are unconvinced that the
American people are for wholesale and
unconditional annulment."
He said he believed enforcement
in some States could be corrected with
out the ruthless destruction" of the
eighteenth amendment. and therefore,
find myself in accord with President
Hoover's insistence that the admitted
gains under prohibition must be pre-
served at all hazards while the abuses
which have arisen must be eliminated
Dr.. Dinwiddie'S statement follows:
Speaks for Himself.
"In stating my reactions to the stand
of President Hoover on national prohi-
bitten as expressed in his acceptance
address, speak for myself personally
ard for the constituency I have for
years represented in the Natiorcl TEN
perance Bureau, and not for the BoarS
Of Strategy of which am the execu-
tive secretary. Until the board itself
speaks further than it has already in
its authorized statements subsequent
to the Chicago conventions, no one can
officially speak for 1t in the matter of
presidential candidates..
THE immediate reaction Of a con-
firmed dry to the section dealing with
prohibition, if voiced without carefully
weighing the possibilities involved,
would naturally be a feeling of disap-
pointment.
THE eighteenth amendment came
through constitutional methods by tre-
mendous majorities after a trial of
practically every known method for
liquor control. 1t has never had a fair
chance to demonstrate its full potential
value. Nevertheless 1t has accom-
plished enough good results during its
short trial under severe handicaps SO
that it is almost universally admitted
the the cld-time saloon should be per-
manently barred from American life.
Interstate Traffic Stand.
Another contention of prohibition
lists has also become well-nigh unani-
mously conceded. 1t Is that the facili-
ties Of interstate commerce and the
mails, under the exclusive control OF
the Federal Government, shall not be
Used by people in wet States to hamper
the efforts Of dry States to protect
themselves against a hurtful traffic
from the outside which they have legit-
imately denied to their own citizens.
The President stressed the need of such
provisions. His opponent has conceded
them in speeches and interviews over
and again.
But the vital difference between the
two positions Is that Mr.. Hoover in
sisted that these points shall be effec-
lively safeguarded if any change is
made. while Mr.. Roosevelt yielded to
the mob clamor for outright repeal, to
be preceded by practical notification in
legalizing beer, and he and the Demo-
cratic platform merely express the
pious hope that the wet States, nearly
all with boss-ridden cities like New
York, Chicago, Philadelphia, and the
like, will respect these proprieties in
their legislation. OF course, may be
in error. but unless I completely mis-
taken the mind and conscience of the
American people, We are a long way
from such an unconditional repeal of
the eighteenth amendment.
There are other vital differences be-
tween the platform declarations of the