Evening star., 1932-12-11
DRY MOBILIZATION
PARLEY IS CALLED
Leaders to Gather Here in
February to Defeat Re-
peal and Beer.

To mobilize the dry strength of the
country for defeat" of the wet move
ments on repeal and modification, the
Anti-Saloon League of America late
yesterday decided to initiate the call
for a great Nationwide conference"
of dry organizations to meet here in
Washington February IA to 16.
The league will ask the Woman's
Christian Temperance Union, church
and temperance and social service
boards and commissions to join with
the league in this call. On account
of the interlocking directorates Of many
of the dry organizations, with most of
them represented in some way on the
league, it was predicted. therefore. that
Joint call in the name of the princi-
pal dry organizations would go forward
within few days.
Proposed by DR.. Barton.
The resolution to initiate the invi-
tation for the conference was presented
by DR.. A. j. Barton of Wilmington,
N. c., chairman of the executive COM
mittee of the league and president OF
the National Conference of Organiza-
tions Supporting the Eighteenth
Amendment. The resolution adopted
said the February meeting would be de-
dry sentiment of America, and to de-
feat the movement for the repeal of the
eighteenth amendment and the modifi-
cation of the Volstead law, and other
wise to promote the cause OF prohibi-
ton"
Invitations to participate will be sent
to churches, church and temperance
bodies, social service and civic clubs,
and other bodies in sympathy with the
purposes of the conference.
The Executive Committee OF the
league has been charged with respon-
sibility of perfecting all plans and de-
tails for calling the February con-
ference.
Today Is "Field Day."
Today is designed as "Field day. by
the league, for officials and leaders OF
the organization attending the confer
ence to appear in % churches, some
at the morning service, others during
the evening, at the regular church
service hours.
A union citizens rally IS scheduled
for this afternoon at 2:3O O'Clock at
the First Congregational Church,
Tenth and G streets, which Is planned
to be one of the largest attended gather
tngs of the conference.
Representative c. Ellis Moore OF
Ohio, and Bishop James Cannon, jr.,
of the Methodist Episcopal Church
South, will deliver the addresses, while
the convention sermon will be given by
Dr. Howard Hyde Russell of Wester-
Vile. Ohio, founder of the league, from
the subject, "Sobriety's Second War"
DR.. r. A. Hutchison of Pittsburgh will
preside and DR.. A. A. Stockdale, pastor
OF First Congregational Church, will
offer the invocation. There will be
music by the Washington White Rib
bon Quartet.
End Convention Tomorrow.
Tomorrow will be the closing day of
the convention, with an executive ses-
sion of the superintendents' and work.
ers' conference during the morning at
the Raleigh Hotel, mass meeting at
the First Congregational Church at
2:30 pm, and the convention BAN
uuet tomorrow night at the hotel, be-
ginning at $50.
Speakers tomorrow afternoon will in
clude Fred B. Perkins of Rhode Island;
Dr. Clarence True Wilson. executive
secretary of the Methodist Board of
Temperance Prohibition and Public
Morals; Edward B. Dunford, attorney.
Anti-Saloon League, and Mrs. Ella A.
Boole, president of the Women's
Christian Temperance Union.
The constitutional caravan which
was to have made a patriotic pilgrimage
to the Lincoln Memorial, Arlington
House and other shrines yesterday
afternoon was called OF, temporarily at
least, on account of inclement weather.
Despite the snow last night, how
ever, large audience turned out at the
Calvary Baptist Church to attend q
patriotic rally
DR.. Ernest H. Cherrington, research
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