Evening star., 1933-05-23

to his support, saying he understood
the resolution includes Mrs. Roosevelt
also, since ''she stood for the serving Of
beer in the White House as was her
personal right to do So"
He pronounced the convention pro-
posal mot in keeping with high ideals. I"
Although the vote was overwhelming
against him, the convention did vote
with DR.. Binns to strike out section
of the report saying Baptists looked
''withs great concern on the unusual
and extraordinary grants of power to
the President by Congress" and a rec
ommendation that these powers be re-
turned to Congress as soon as the pres
ent emergency IS over.
Starts Boycott Campaign.
The convention was in no mood.
however, to temporize on the prohibi-
ton question. Almost to a man the
1000 delegates have rolled up their
sleeves and are prepared, as result Of
last nights rousing call, to pitch into a
campaign Of boycotting business firms
which sell the new leganzed beer and
to blacklist members of Congress and
State Legislatures who voted to make
beer legal and who may vote for repeal
Of the eighteenth amendment. They
think the blockade to prevent repeal
can be made effective in the South.
DIR. Barton called the passage of the
beer bill ''open defiance and violation
Of the Constitution" that legislators
had sworn to uphold, and proposed a
resolution condemning in strong Ian
guage all these who treat lightly their
oath of Office"
He said the beer law was "the most
reckless and shameful piece of legisla
ton ever enacted by the Congress Of
the United States"
The President, he said, had used
the power and prestige of his high po-
sition in the interests of recognized
and outlawed evil"
I'VE especially deplore that the
White House. both by announcement
that beer would be served there and
allowing the delivery of truckloads Of
beer at a minute after midnight April
7, photographed under flashlights and
broadcast over the land, should sur
render its dignity, allow itself to be
turned into a billboard for beer" DR..
Barton said.
Opposition Crushed.
Last nights session had been set
aside for consideration of the Social
Service report. Premature publication
of the tenor of the recommendations
had paved the way for some OF the op-
position that arose, but it was crushed
under wave of dry sentiment that
swept the convention. The viva voce
vote of cenSure was so loud in the ma
jority that it was unnecessary to order
a count. In his exposition of moral
questions, DR.. Barton put forward and
secured the adoption of a series of
recommended resolutions
One called on Baptist people every
where" to give their patronage in all
lines of merchandise to individuals and
concerns which do not engage in the
sale of intoxicating beverages" trade
boycott of restaurants, hotels and other
business places selling legalized beer.
Pointing out that 13 States could
prevent ratification OF the repeal, DR..
Barton called on the Baptists to plunge
into "the seven-year battle before us, +"
seven years being the limit set on action
by the States.
In the last campaign, DR.. Barton
said, both parties had been captured
by pro-liquor forces through "a strange
and powerful combination of under
world and 'upperworld' resulting in
the disfranchisement of friends of
prohibition.
Senators and Representatives, he
added. had been forced upon peril of
forfeiture of party regularity" to do
the party's bidding instead Of repre-
senting the will of constituents" Added
to these factors which he termed de
structive to representative govern
ment" DR., Barton named as a further
danger the powers given to the Presi-
dent by Congress,
Public Mind Dazed"
Never before in the history of the
Republic have We seen such radical AMI
revolutionary measures adopted or pro-
posed" he said. THE public mind
seems so daZed and stunned by existing
conditions it seems not to be aware of
the real nature and import of many of
these measures and movements"
His appeal to the convention to ex-
press its disapproval of these extraor-
dinary grants of power to Congress.
however. had no avail with the con-
vention.
DR.. E. Hilton Jackson of the First
Baptist Church here opposed the beer
boycott" approved by the convention.
He claimed the convention had no
right to boycott merchants selling a
legal product. He made little or no
headway with the protest.
The convention last night also went
on record In denunciation of lynchings
and lawlessness; disregard of obliga-
tions by public servants. and Endorsed
| the Presidents international program
for peace a<d disarmament.