Evening star., 1933-09-29
DOUBLE BIRTHDAY
HELD BY D|NW|DD|E
Dry Crusader Plans Con-
tinuing Fight Against
Liquor Traffic.

Observing the 66th anniversary of
his birth and the forty-fourth year Of
his service as a dry crusader, Dr. Ed
win c. Dinwiddie, head of the National
Temperance Bureau, disclosed in an
interview at his home here today his
plans for continuing a Nationw wide
fight against liquor traffic.
DR.. Dinwiddie, first of the dry lead
ers to establish headquarters in the
Capital, left sick bed to outline to
a reporter the proposals Of his bureau
for mobilizing temperance workers III
every city, town and hamlet into q
co-ordinated network of vigilance
committees" intent on winning the
States to the cause of self-regulated
prohibition.
Comedies Repeal.
Conceding his long fight against
repeal of the national prohibition
amendment Is a lost cause, the vet
eran dry campaigner is awaiting i'm
patiently recovery from a recent ILL
over again." with the States as a bat
tlegrbund.
There is much to do," DR.. Dinwiddie
declared. land we are getting our plans
laid to do it. I have not wanted to
sound the defeatist note, but think
We all realize now that the eighteenth
amendment Is doomed. That does not
mean. however, that the cause of pro-
hibition itself is doomed. 1t means
that prohibition by Federal constitu-
tional mandate will be rejected. State
prohibition now must be our goal.
Nor do I mean that because repeal
is inevitable that drys should give up
the fight in the remaining States on
the ratification front To lay down our
arms now would be interpreted as a
surrender in the campaign for prohi-
bition. We will not surrender. We
must. however. realign our forces and
remake our battle lines SO as to aid the
people of the States in their individual
fights against the evils Of liquor"
DR.. Dinwiddie emphatically chal-
lenged the contention that the over
whelming tide of votes against the
eighteenth amendment is a rejection by
the American people of the cause OF
prohibition He insisted that this Is
"a mistaken conception" and that the
campaign of the drys after repeal Will
prove it.
I'VE are going to continue to tell
the people the truth about prohibition" p"
he said, in discussing his program.
Prohibition has been misrepresented. d.
IL
ton is charged with responsibility for
all the crimes in the catalogue. 1t is
time to realize that this charge Is pure
hooev-bunk.
"You ask If I think national prohi-
bition will ever return. I don't hesi-
tate to say that when and If national
dry amendment should come again, 1t
will be the result of another siege Of
bitter experience by the people under
the liquor rule We have a new gen.
Grafton. It must learn by experience.
Problems Up to States.
with repeal of the eighteenth
amendment the problem of prohibition
will be transferred to the States. except
for Federal responsibility for interstate
commerce, taxation, use of the mails
and Jurisdiction over the Army and
Navy, Federal reservations and the Dis
trict of Columbia The National Tenn
perance Bureau plans to conduct de-
partment of fact finding and dissemina-
ton of the truth concerning the oper-
alton of the new legislation. Already,
with the advent of beer, have been
getting alarming reports, fully authenti-
Gated, concerning the increase in crime
and Of automobile fatalities and acci-
dents.
"As far as possible we shall assist
the States in their efforts to maintain
their present anti-Hquor status, or to
make advances in the matter OF ef-
fective State control. If the State has
a prohibition policy. it will be our
policy to aid in maintaining it."
DR.. Dinwiddie received an armful Of
letters and kilograms from well wishers
in all walks of life-many Of them in
closing contributions to the cause y
He expects to announce a formal pro-
gram within tow weeks.