Evening star., 1932-12-14
YOUTHS RECRUITED
IN WAR ON REPEAL
Rnti-Saloon League Lays
Down Strategy of War
for Prohibition.

ana mOQlIlCdIlOIl, Will 1di -iCaSAAiiA6
plans to educate youth and to win dry
votes throughout the United states.
The board of trustees OF the league,
at the conclusion of four-day confer
ence at the Raleigh Hotel, issued a
four-page statement Of policy and took
aggressive steps to carry out that policy.
The statement Of principles epitomizes
the sentiments expressed at the con-
yention, in a spirit of mo compromise" !"
with sharp criticism of the wet pro-
gram.
The steps to carry out that policy in
clude:
/. Collection Of a new war chest OF
funds to support the enlarged work and
campaign for preservation OF prohlbi-
ton
2. Strengthening of the national or
ganization, by executive action of DR.. F.
Scott Mcbride, general superintendent,
who was authorized to complete the
slate of State superintendents, add new
workers to the pay roll and wherever
necessary to install new regional or dis
trict superintendent.
g. Appointment of new Admins
tration Committee" of eight to act for
the league between conventions and
plans to fruition.
4. intensified" educational program,
under direction Of DR.. Ernest H. Cher
fington of Westerville, Ohio, director OF
the department of education, publicity
and research.
New Youth Movement.
S. Inauguration Of q new youth
movement" through organization OF
s'The Olympians."
6. Initiating the call, not only for a
nf all drv
forces to mobilize the prohibition
strength Of the country here February
IA to 16, but also a call for conferences
in every State Of State dry leaders and
organizations.
I. Development of Nationwide or
ganization plan which finally will work
down to at least one man and one
woman in each voting precinct.
The new Administration Committee.
a compact group small enough to be
called together whenever necessary, was
named as follows: Bishop Ernest G..
Richardson of Philadelphia, president OF
rnington, N c.; DR.. Cherrington, Bishop
James Cannon, jr., of Washington, Dr.
Melbourne P. Boynton of Chicago, DR..
r. A. Hutchinson of Pittsburgh, William
F. Cochran of Baltimore and DR.. Nc
Bride. This new committee was en-
dowed with large powers by the $50
members of the board of trustees who
laid down the war plans. The commit
tee will plan budget and direct its ex-
penditure.
DR.. Mcbride explained that the new
organization would be directed prin-
cipallv to STRENGTHENING the State
leagues, to get the States to organize
county units and reach down into every
voting precinct. The plan calls for at
least one man and one woman worker
in each voting precinct OF the Nation.
The league, DR.. Mcbride explained,
will oppose repeal and modification and
1t will 60 out to arouse sentiment in the
States which have repealed their State
enforcement acts. Work will be con-
centrated in those States which have
been lost" in an endeavor, he explain
ed. TO have them re-enact State en-
forcement acts and hold the prohibition
lines in the State Legislatures.
Intensified Program.
The new educational program will be
"intensified," Dr. Cherrington explained,
by increase in the output of literature,
including regular publications from the
press of the American Issue Publishing
Co. the leagues printing plant at West
erville. Efforts will be made to put the
leagues periodicals and books into every
public reading room, the 1000 pubic
libraries and other places, he said. The
principal periodicals on which clrcula-
tion expansion efforts will be centered
are the American Issue, official publlca-
tion of the organization. and Scientific
Temperance Journal. The league also
publishes numberless pamphlets and
books. Many of the leagues documents
20 into schools and colleges.
The new young peoples movement is
designed to promote total abstinence
aaa aonc ha Beeh appolnted to
operate with the Anti-Saloon League.
o. G. Christgau of this city, manager
of the convention of the league, has
been appointed executive secretary. He
will proceed to direct the formation of
State councils of the Olympians
throughout the country. The national
council consists of Clayton M. Wallace,
Wolfeboro, N H.: B. F. Auld. Nash
vile, Tenn; S. P. Mcknight, Columbus,
Ohio; F. A. High, chairman, Lincoln,
Nebr., and Count Cruea, secretary,
Mount Lebanon, Pa.
The first Nationwide project of the
new organization will be novel
demonstration Of the injurious effects
of intoxicating liquors through public
displays of posters and exhibits. Ad-
ditional activities, Mr.. Christgau an
nounced, will embrace a Nation wide
movement to encourage abstinence and
develop organized support by youth Of
prohibition laws.
Legal Beer Fought.
The league trustees, in addition to
their general statement Of policy issued
last night, also adopted a lengthy reso-
luton opposing the legalization of beer
which DIR. Mcbride was to present to
the House Ways and Means Committee
today when he appeared as a witness
in the beer bill hearings.
The policy statement declared the
Leagues position on the salient fea-
lures of the prohibition situation" sent
greetings to its constituency and to
all the friends of prohibition through
out the country, and made an appeal
to the candid and patriotic citizens of
the United States"
I'VE would not, we could not in
candor," said the statement, minimize
the seriousness Of the present situa-
tion. For reasons not necessary here
and now to enumerate, reasons for the
most part familiar to our people, the
persistent, highly financed and un-
scrupulous wet propaganda in the last
year OF Two mas deceived many SOOO
people.
"The greatest achievement Of the
American people in constitutional and
legislative enactment, the greatest both
in social, moral, economic and COM
mercial value, is now seriously
threatened 1t is not lost, as the vets
assume and would have the people be-
lieve; it can and will be maintained if
its friends can be brought to see the
danger and can be aroused to united.
aggressive, persistent, heroic action. Our