The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-20
LUDLOW RATED
mo. z DRY PET
Senator Arthur Robinson
Still Holds the No. | Post
With League.
BY DANIEL M. KIDNEY
Times staff Writer

Senator Arthur r. Robinson still
is the white headed boy of the In
diana Anti Saloon League, with
Congressman Louis Ludlow as
runner up"
Thus did Superintendent L. E.
York sum up today the batting ave-
age of the home boys at Washing
ton in an interview with The Times.
The league still sticks to it's stand
that if you are dry you can be a
Republican or Democrat and its o. k.
with the brethren.
SO Mr.. Yrk also has a good word
to say about Congressman Arthur
H. Greenwood of the Seventh dis
trict. He and Congressman Ludlow
stuck to the dry side in defeat, as
did Senator Robinson. That gave
the Indiana league two Democrats
in the house and a Republican in
the senate.
Following Former Tactics
Mr.. York emphasizes this BIZ
psrtisanship in his speeches each
Sunday For the league is back in
he field again with a record of 224
speeches in the churches. counting
those scheduled for next Sunday.
The speakers are outlining a legis-
lative program and the league will
follow their former tactics of ques-
tioning all candidates, Mr.. York
said.
The program calls for a local
option law, law making the liquor
traffic pay indemnity in accidents
where use of liquor was involved and
another forbidding sale of intoxi-
cantS near schools and churches.
IN support of the local option idea.
Mr.. York cites the fact that thirty
seven of the nineUy-two Indiana
counties voted dry and six more
went wet by less than 100 votes.
Most of them were rural.
Under the accident indemnity
plan. the league wants the state to
set up compensation board to de-
termlne awards, the entire setup to
be f1anced by tax on the beer and
liquor traffic.
All the Same to Him
Mr.. York breaches the doctrine
that beer. wine and liquor are all
intoXicants and one leads to an
other. He admitted. however, that
there has arisen in Indiana no sit
1lofinF1 1.ol A1n - tho ~
days with the return of liquor to the
state.
Il think, however. that is beca use
many persons we're weaned away
from using liquor by prohibition, he
explained and added:
= Certainly it is not because of the
way the matter is being handled I'M
der the present political control"
Refusal of the state to authorize
blythe drink sales has nothing to
do with the case in Mr.. York's
opinion.
1T doesn't make any difference
whether you drink liquor out of a
glass, bottle or washtub. it's no good
anyway" he concluded.
Recalls Good Old Days"
fitting back in his somewhat
rickety chair, Mr. York recalled
what he considers "the good old
days" Those were the days of the
late Wayne B. Wheeler and Dr.
Edward F. Shumaker, when it was
much easier to become a great man
by the Anti-Saloon League route.
Those were the days when the In
diana headquarters occupied a
sumptuous suite of offices in the
Roosevelt building. Mr. York is now
holding the fort in rather bare
offices in the building of The Peo-
pies State bank
His co-workers are, like himself,
veterans of the halcyon days of yore.
They are Attorney A F. Miles, j.
Frank Jenner, educational secre-
tary, and Leroy Huddleson, financial
secretary