Evening star., 1932-12-11
DRY MOBILIZATION
PARLEY Is CALLED
TO DEFEAT REPEAL
Continued From First Paee.)

director of the Anti-Saloon League.
, characterized the present situation as a
crisis" to test whether a democracy.
a peoples government, is impotent to
obtain obedience to its own law. and
enforcement Of that law by its duly
elected officers of the law"
The speaker traced through the his
tory OF the United States several move
ments which he declared had shown
stern resistance to the power of the
Federal Government, in vain. He told
OF the whisky rebellion quelled by
President Washington by the threat of
marching troops; the slave trade,
through its various legal phases; re-
slstance OF South Carolina to the tariff
act Of 1882. and others.
Referring to Lincoln and his pre-
diction that the country could not exist
nalf slave, half free, the speaker de-
clared that the prohibition situation to-
day called for enunciation of a similar
prediction, that you can't take one
policy toward a social evil in one part
OF the country and another policy
toward that same evil in other parts
OF the country"
Challenge Is Seen.
1T Is proposed to make a checker
board out of the United States" he
declared. "The situation is a challenge
to people who believe In Righteousness
and the application Of Christian prin-
c1ples to the problems of state"
Sergt. Alvin G. York, World War
nero, made plea for the Nation wide
daily use of prayer In the campaign for
prohibition. He related stories of
prayer at the front during the World
war, and declared his belief that he
would not have been there last night
had it not been for prayer before the
worst battle in which he participated.
he called upon the league to carry on a
great education program" to let youth
Know and understand not only the
Denents OF prohibition, but the evils of
the saloon.
Let us dedicate ourselves again to
S1ou Tor new fight" said the sergeant.
with new determination to Surround
tIle enemy, so that we may destroy the
EVIL of liquor"
Whiting Williams of Cleveland, an
investigator. who has spent many
months during the last three years liv-
ing with the unemployed, sleeping on
PARK benches and haunting employ
ment agencies to learn the real view
point OF the unemployed, credited pro-
nlpltlon with being one of the chief
Shock absorbers in this period of de-
preston. He said it was largely re-
sponsible for the fact that the unem-
ployed were taking their misfortune, as
IL were, "on the chin" and with "amaz-
ing courage and good spirit
Proh1bition. in his opinion, had saved
America from riots and bloodshed dur
ing the depression. The absence of the
saloon, he said, has been one of the
chief factors In the inability of the
Reds, Communists and other agitators
TO break up our form of government
and bring about political chaos"
The old saloon" said Mr.. williams,
was the great ripening room for the
hatchery of violence and riot. The
Reds have not caught our men be-
fuddled or confused by the issue. The
last election proves this. The small
radical vote was not surprise to me.
The Reds have been unable to drive
Wedge between the unemployed and our
form Of government.
'The speakeasy," he declared, "has
not taken the place of the old saloon
with the workers. The speakeasy Is
another breed of cats. People who say
that 1t carries on the function of the
saloon as a meeting place for workers,
a hotbed for agitators, free-for-all
hang-out, do not know what they are
talking about"