Evening star., 1933-08-27
WILSON LEADS
DRY CAMPAIGN
in WASHINGTON
Anti-RepealistsHare
Swept Into Erery
Section of State.
BY JAMES DE X. BROWN.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
SEATTLE, August 26.-In last-min-
ute drive to stem the tide Of States
swinging toward repeal of the eighteenth
amendment and aroused by reports that
Washington will be the pivotal State,
supporters of prohibition this week have
staged one of the most strenuous cam
paigns seen in years.
Headed by DR. Clarence True Wilson
of Washington, D. c.. secretary of the
Methodist Board of Temperance, Pro-
hibition and Public Morals, the anti
repealists have swept into every section
OF the State in vigorous effort not only
to get the vote out, but to head of their
opponents.
"Motorcades" Of women. three in
rumber, toured the State in behalf OF
repeal, only to be offset by strongly
organized precinct workers of the dry
forces.
The radio, public debates. street cor
ner exhortations and house-to-house
canvassing have featured the closing
week of the campaign, SO that when
Washington voters go to the polls next
Tuesday to select delegates to the con-
vention in October there will be no
question as to how the State feels.
The vote will be decisive.
DIR. Wilson Arouses Drys.
DR.. Wilson started the report that
Washington, by voting dry, would stem
the tide for repeal. This has aroused
the drys to frenzy of excitement, with
the result that during the week thou
sands have been active in the field. In
cidentally, however, reports from Wash
ington showing the huge revenues paid
into the Federal treasury by breweries
has been an important factor in the
campaign. 1t has tended to more than
offset the Sentimental demands of the
dry forces and will be found to have
swung many ordinarily dry votes into
the repeal column.
Washington is now without any laws
governing or controlling the manufac-
ture or sale of liquors. If the State
ratifies the twenty-first amendment and
repeals the eighteenth Gov. Clarence D.
Martin will face a demand for a special
session of the Legislature to enact con-
troll laws. With this in view, the re-
pealiSts are organizing to bring about
the adoption in Washington of statute
modelled after that of Connecticut. This
has also been stressed during the last
week
A survey Of the field would indicate
that the State will give wet majority.
but because OF the pecUner SSt-up Oh
the legislative act under which the Spe-
cial election is being held. where dele
gates are elected by legislative precincts,
i: is not at all impossible for the State
to vote wet but the convention to hold
majority of dry delegates. Each dis
trict has two votes in the convention.
Some of the smaller dry sections will
have equal representation with the
larger wet centers
The State this week Is completing its
final drive for the N. r. A. The various
civic and Federal-named committees are
concluding house-to-house and busi-
ness-to- business canvass to bring every
corporation, firm and individual under
the Blue Eagle.
Labor troubles at Grays Harbor have
been settled and this has strengthened
the industrial situation in the lumber
| ing centers The lumber code will, when
approved, tend to halt any further dis
| turbances among the workers, so that
carly restoration of this major pay roll
is now looked for.
| Reports of continued increases Of en-
| ployment are coming in from all over
the State. The harvest in the grain
! fields and in the orchards. plus increas-
/ ing highway construction. accounts for
many thousands of men and women
back in q self-supporting capacity.