Evening star., 1933-09-28

The repeal issue Will not be settled
until either SO States have voted to re-
peal or IS have voted to retain the
eighteenth amendment. There are still
more than enough States in which elec-
tions on repeal have not been held and
in these there are enough drys to defeat
Nearly all of these States were dry
when the twenty first amendment res
olution was submitted.
Therefore. the question to be an
swered now Is what will be the dry pro-
gram after the repeal issue has been
settled one way or another.
The first step must be STRENGTHENING
and extending prohibition laws. whether
the eighteenth amendment remains or
goes. Temperance progress In this
country has always been In proportion
to the extent and strength Of prohibi-
tion laws. The decrease in liquor con-
sumption before national prohibition,
now frequently alluded to by the vets,
was caused by the expanding Of prohi-
bition territory throughout the country.
VIII Fight for State Laws.
The Anti-Saloon League will fight
for the adoption or re-adoption of
State prohibition statutes no matter
what happens to the eighteenth amend
ment. Whenever State dry laws can.
not be enacted, every effort win be
made to secure township, county and
municipal prohibition laws The Anti
Saloon League will insist that any po-
litical subdivision which desires to be
cry shall be given the right to protect
itself with legislation against the liquor
traffic.
The legislative program Of the Anti
Saloon League will be the extension to
the maximum Of territory under local
and State prohibition laws. whether or
effect. This will include enabling acts
for local, county, State and national
units. The Anti-Saloon League, true
, to its name, will continue to oppose the
saloon.
The second point in the dry program
will be to work for the election or ap-
pointment Of enforcement ofdcials who
are willing or able to honestly and ag-
gressively enforce whatever prohibition
laws may be in effect in their turisdic-
| ton.
Win Work to Get Out Votes.
The league will continue to maintain
! its position that whenever q law is
duly adopted, whether it be local,
State or national, the officials whose
duty it is to administer, execute, and
enforce the laws, must be held respon-
sible If they fail or refuse to do their
duty.
In order to effectively carry out the
first two points in the dry program. the
Anti-Saloon League will work to get out
the highest possible percentage of the
vote In every election. The entire his
tory of the wet and dry movement
shows that light vote Is favorable to
the vets, while a heavy vote results in
dry victories.
The elections on repeal so far. with
only half as many voters going to the
polls as took part in the presidential
election, emphasizes the importance Of
dry organization to get the voters to 60
to the polls.
The necessity of definite campaign
to get out the vote in every election
directly or indirectly involving the
liquor traffic is greater than ever now
that political party organizations have
added their influence to the activities
Of the private interests that profit from
liquor sales in working to get out the
wet vote. If the dry vote in the II re-
manning States in which elections are
to be held will 20 to the polls the