Evening star., 1933-11-06
|DRYS DRAW PLANS
FOR new CAMPAIGN
viii Start at Once on Fight
to Keep Small Areas Free
From Liquor.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Hundreds of campaigns ''to drive the
beer saloon and the whisky trafac from
limited areas" and q far-reaching pro-
gram of education on the liquor ques-
ton will be instituted by dry leaders
when and If national prohibition Is re-
pealed.
Banishment of the saloon from indi-
vidual communities is to be an i'm
mediate objective and Is calculated to
serve as means of developing stronger
local dry organizations. The work OF
organization, says Deets Pickett, re-
search secretary Of the Methodist Board
OF Temperance and Public Morals, will
proceed from county to State and from
State to Nation.
There are going to be thousands OF
local and State fights again." he said
Men and women again will be con-
cerned about the safety of their streets
the mischievous effects of whisky ad-
vertising and the integrity Of their own
homes
Doubts Control Systems,
Pickett says he has no faith in pro-
posed liquor control systems, like those
Of Canada and Sweden, which, he
maintains, are not suited to the United
States.
with us they will mean graft, po-
litical bossism and social disorganiza-
tion," he said. THE eventual solution
Of this problem will be Federal prohi-
bition in some form, different in fea-
lures perhaps, but a system which will
put the might Of the entire Govern
ment against a nationally organized
trade
He says the church has an un-
precedented opportunity to serve In the
next phase OF the liquor controversy
and that temperance leaders must as
sumo the duty Of systematic education
based upon careful research.
They say we have depended too
much upon law" he added. I'VE have.
Law Is needed, but the basis Of law is
popular conviction"
Edwin C. Dinwiddie, head of the
National Temperance Bureau and ma
tional chief of the International Order
of Good Templars, urges the introduc-
tion of bills providing for local option
votes by counties in States that have
repealed their prohibitory laws
We should get ready to clean out
the liquor saloons In every community
and county and finally in every State
where their prohibition does not now
exist" he asserted.
Would Curb Drivers.
"Other legislation" he added, "that
should be pressed for Is that the bur-
den Of proof that they were not under
the influence of liquor should be placed
upon drivers of vehicles arrested in
case Of accident or traffic law viola
tion If there is any evidence that they
have been drinking"
Dinwiddie has called upon Good
Templars to necessarily and vigorously
promote the buy dry campaign" He
says they should not only refrain from
patronizing any establishment that sells
alcoholic liquor If a dry" can be found.
but also should tell the storekeepers
that they cannot and viii not purchase
from them.
Pickett says he Is convinced that
there should be one great outstanding
dry organization to represent "the milf
tant sentiment against the liquor
traffic"
I'VE must find young men and young
women full Of the fire of youth who
Will view the temperance. crusade as an
opportunity. such men as were common
In the State work Of the Anti-Saloon
League half generation ago." he said.