Evening star., 1933-12-18
|DR. WILSON ASSA|LS
|. 21ST AMENDMENT
/ Predicts Corruption in Repeal
II and Tells of Plan
OF Drys.

The plans of the drys with the repeal
Of the eighteenth amendment were out
lined by DR.. Clarence True Wilson, ex-
ecutive secretary of the Board Of Tenn
perance. Prohibition and Public Morals
Of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in
dual sermon yesterday morning at
Trinity M E Church, Seward square
southeast, on Where the Twenty-hrst
Amendment Leaves Us and What the
Drys Plan Next"
He declared with the eighteenth
= amendment gone, 'tthe conscientious
anti-liquor man will start a new pro-
gram of more basic, personal and social
education against alcohol, which is
habit-forming irritant, depressant, mar
.cottc drug, detrimental to the human
system in its every function, not even
satisfying the appetite for drink"
Declared Crime.
. We must shift our emphasis from
law enforcement to personal conduct
sand' create a conscience and an in
!, ,telligence against drinking" he add
ed. I'VE must teach the public that
: the manufacture, sale and purveying to
sthe public of Intoxicating liquor in
tense machine age is not business, but
a crime, and that crime ought not to
be imbedded in the Constitution of this
Republic. With multiplied thousands of
airplanes over our heads and 26000,000
automobiles on our streets and high
ways. we should have steady nerves
and clear brains, and will have them or
get the consequences OF our folly. All
temperance organizations will have to
'revamp their program; in some in
stances change their very names and
! reach out for the leadership of edu-
Gated, young, vigorous minds and start
: words total abstinence and prohibi-
. ton will be largely eliminated, but
mo drinking as a safe rule and the
, utmost possible restriction upon the
, engulfing liquor traffic will be the motto
of the reform.
"a civilization that is wedding out
narcotics and teaching intelligent peo-
= 5ple to avoid them should not license
TRAFFIC in intoxicating liquors. Ihe
schools must be made to obey the law
=. of the States in teaching the effects
of alcohol, narcotics. and opiates upon
the human system. We must show that
Z only a. doctors prescription can JustlIy
the drinking of intoNcantS and that no
human body needs an alcoholic stlrnu-
liant. We must create public con-
science and a sentiment In harmony
with the best interests OF the human
: race and make public welfare predom-
inant over dollars, especially the
! almighty dollar that we do not have.
Bitter Regret Seen.
"This unbridled craze for getting rlo
of prohibition and inauguratug
reign of rum will bring its experience
of bitter regret 1t will be dlsappolnt.
ing to the money-mad people VINO WanI
dollars circulating again. 1t Will not
look well in history that the admins
tration of high-grade men should nave
openly threatened the States that dld
not help to repeal with the wltnoraWai
of patronage.
THE liquor traffic has never been
financial help to community State
or nation. 1t will not balance the
budget or pay our taxes. the re-
establishment of it will be Disappointing
as a tax measure, foolish as 1nancla!
investment, and a Judas Iscar1ot deal
in morals 1T is the province OF gov
eminent to make it easy for man TO
do right and difficult for MIN to 40
wrong 1t is therefore the heignt Oh
social folly to organize temptation 1oI
men. women and children and collect
revenue out of debauching them. Many
a parent who has referred to prohlDa.
tion as a Joke will pay the balance OF
their lives by furnishing a drunken
son or. what is worse, drunken SON.
1n-law, as the inevitable consequence
of reopening the licensed liquor store:
MANY a farmer, too busy to vote, Will
find that the beer bottle has come back
at the expense of the milk bottle ana
the billion-dollar fruit and vegetable
=. business suffers the competition WIN
kbeer and every industry Will be unoeI
= Af
+; trinity of evils, the red-light dlstrlcC
: The gambling hell, and the saloon all
!. of which may be expected back with
beer.
Church Activity Urged.
"The church must get back to its
, work of moral suasion to save the
drinker and his family. The dependence
{ of its members upon law and the loss
of spiritual concern for the man &C
! counts for its failure to hold the con-
: science Of the country. The letter
killeth, but the spirit giveth life What
this country needs is the N. r. "A
! national religious awakening. The loss
of the eighteenth amendment and the
& failure to observe and enforce it was
! part Of the people and a religious
/. decadence. This generation will not
j live to see it again. There Will be
| dreadful reaction against the reign OF
/, rum, but it can be blocked by 13 States
/. and we will not get national prohibition
/. while the generation is on earth that
4 lost 1t. We should never attempt it
! until we have secured at least 40
States and demonstrated that we can
( influence and make people want to
observe the law. We must go the long
road back. No drinking. voting the
saloon out of our communities away
from our schools and churches, local
option by towns, by the county unit,
prohibition by States, but let the prob
lem be worked out by States until 40
of them have made good"
DR.. Wilson said the twenty-t1rst
amendment leaves the eighteenth IN
repeal and that the liquor trafic will
start on another career. Its rights
imbedded in the Constitution of the
Republic, it is singled out for special
mention as pre-eminent above all ether
enterprises. 1t will come back pull
powdered
He predicted the return of distilleries,
breweries. the saloon, gambling dens.