Evening star., 1934-01-08
Attitude of No Compromise
With Rum Maintained
by League.
NO ONE PARTICULAR
METHOD is SUPPORTED
Reports of Work in States to Be
Presented This Afternoon at
Calvary Baptist.

| Although not altering their stand
against all forms Of liquor sales, Anti
Saloon League superintendents and
workers in conference this morning in
dicated the league would enter the field
of control and regulation.
DR.. F. Scott Mcbride, general super
| intendent of the league. said the work
ers would not support any one particu-
lar method of control, but negatively
would seek enactment of the strictest
| law by not opposing it. He explained
| this method would enable the league
| to maintain its traditional attitude Of
| no compromise with liquor and at the
same time influence legislation, both
national and in the States.
Superintendents to Report.
The 500 or more delegates attending
the league convention were to gather
| this afternoon in the Calvary Baptist
Church. L. D. Dickinson, president
of the Michigan Anti Saloon League
will preside.
| After an invocation by Rev. William
! T. Green. Natick. R. l.. the roll call of
States was to begin with each State
superintendent reporting on the work
and plans of his organization.
The meeting will be concluded with
an open forum discussion on the legal
| problems created by repeal, led by
| Edward D. Dunford, attorney for the
| league.
| This evening the delegates will hear
addresses by William E. (PuSsyfoot)
johnson, McDonough, N Y; DR..
Ernest H. Cherrington. director Of the
leagues department Of education, and
| Dr Tra 7 O %
Ind
Not Interested in Alibis.
! Bishop Ernest c. Nicholson, Phila-
! delphia. president of the league. struck
the keynote of the convention at the
| opening meeting yesterday afternoon
with a call for a revivified war on
J liquor despite the serious defeat" tenn
/ perance forces received in repeal.
I'VE are little interested in alibis
| and post mortems," he said. There
| is greater need for devotion to the true
| temperance cause than there was
hitherto There are many ways in
| which We can continue our efforts for
| genuine temperance"
Saying there were Is States where
the sale Of liquor is illegal and in
nearly all other States there are dry
| areas, the bishop insisted these should
/ be maintained and additions made.
He made plea to the newspapers
for fair treatment in showing the re-
suit of legal liquor.
Publicity" he said, must be given
to the evil results of legalized liquor.
Some Of these bad results have already
| been manifest. More will appear as
| the months pass. Accidental deaths in
1884 will be double what they were in
1882. Accidents will greatly increase.
| Suffering in cities, as seen by social
agencies, will greatly increase. The
| death rate will rise, especially from
| certain diseases. These facts we must
make known. We must demand fair
| treatment from the newspapers. AL
| ready many of the wet newspapers
have shown disposition not to give us
fair treatment"
Urges Groups Continue.
| The drys must insist that the ad-
ministration live up to its promises,
| Bishop Richardson asserted, reminding
his audience that the promise was
passed that the saloon was not to
return. He pointed out that under
| the new amendment the Government
| is obligated to protect dry States.
These promises need to be Observed -
he said. LET us insist upon them"
He urged continuance Of all dry or
| CARNATIONS despite demands from the
liquor interests that they disband.
| 'AS long as these organizations last,
Bishop Richardson declared, "the liquor
interests will continue to be afraid.
That should be enough for us. We
| should do what the enemy fears and
not what the enemy wants.
Now we are back where we were
before 1918. We must declare our
selves at the polls. That is the voice
the enemy is deadly afraid of. That
is the voice the enemy will understand
the meaning Of"
At the same meeting Rev. Melbourne
P. Boynton, Chicago, presided, and
spoke briefly. He invited all those who
have said they do not want the saloon
| to return, ''including the President.
the members of his cabinet and all
| former saloon keepers and brewers, u
to join the ranks Of the Anti-Saloon
League.
He said the league has gone back
into the business of washing the flag
Of another foul STAIN"
Mrs. Ida B. Wise Smith, national
president of the w. c. T. u, said the
repeal of the eighteenth amendment
was merely the loss of means to ar
end and the fight against liquor will &c
4 on. She attributed repeal to a general
breakdown in the morals Of the age.
She warned against sending men to
Congress who vote dry but drink wet.
Government Monopoly Urged.
Rev. Howard Hyde Russell of West
erville, Ohio, who founded the first
league 80 years ago, also spoke briefly.
| Last night an audience in the Cal
vary Baptist Church heard Fred G
Bale, Columbus, Ohio, lawyer and lee
turer, urge Government manufacture
| and sale of liquor at "rock-bottom
prices" on a cost-plus basis.
He said that since prohibition has
been repealed, the Government should
create liquor monopoly SO as to elm
| mate the profit from the traffic and
| at the same time conduct an educa-
tional campaign against consumption
! of beverage alcohol This, he declared
| would do away with advertising OF
| liquor, which has the tendency to build
up an army of drinkers. He advocated
scientific instruction on the effects OF
! alcohol in the home and in the schools
+, Charging -prohibitionists with
making "a complete hash of their re-
FORM" Deets Pickett of the Board OF
| Temperance, Prohibition and Public
Morals of the Methodist Episcopal
| Church declared in an address at
Foundry Church last night that he has
| "yet to find any one in responsible
| position to approve the form Of the
twenty-first amendment to the consti-
| tuition"
If the drys had assumed direction Of