Milford chronicle., 1934-02-09
ORGANIZE FORCE TO
FIGHT LIQUOR TRAFFIC
Anti-SalOOn League Directors Adopt
Resolutions on Subject at Dover
. HOPE to Make State Dry

At a meeting OF the directors o.
the Anti-Saloon League of Delaware
held at Dover last week, resolutions
were adopted calling on all temper
ance organizations and individuals
in sympathy with the movement ia
continue the fight against the liquor
J traffic.
There was also a conference OF
workers of the Anti-Saloon League,
the w. c. r. U. and other temper
ance advocates held in the Peoples
Congregational Christian Church to
discuss the matter of organizing the
anti-liquor fight.
The main thought of the meeting
was as TO whether the temperance
forces should maintain the same at
titude as taken by them last year,
that OF having an independent ticket
i'm the field at the next general elec-
tion or endorse dry" candidates
placed on the ticket by either party.
as had been the custom for many
years. o"
Lengthy discussions were had on
the question in which Hon. Oliver
Stewart. president of the Flying
Squadron" Scott Mcbride, snperin-
tendent OF the National Anti-Saloon
League. and many ministers and lay
men took part. There was differ
ence of opinion as to the hest method
10 pursue. the matter to he finally
decided at another meeting 10 be
held two weeks hence.
Those who took part in the discus
sion included Horace Greeley East
burn. chairman of the Independent
party OF Delaware: the Rev. Alfred
l.. White. Dover; District Superin-
tendent DisStOn W. Jacobs. Whining
ton; tho Rev. r. c. lIelfensteih. ID.
d., Dover: Mrs. Anna Lee Waller,
Delmar; Mrs. l.. S. Nelson, Whining
ton; Mrs Fannie r. IT, Hay. New
Castle: Mrs Bringhurst, FELTON,; L.
Frank BuIis. Houston; the Rev.
Kanhoe Willis, Wilmington; Jeffer-
son Cooper. Cheswold, and Arthur
A. Wilmo,. Wilmington.
A meeting of the workers in the
Delaware W. c. r. u. was held prior
to the Anti-SalOon League meeting
presided over by the State president.
Mrs. Anna Lee Waller.
The resolutions adopted by the An
ti-Saloon League directors follow:
Whereas. the repeal of the 18th
TO the Constitution of
the Uhited States of America and
the local option laws and the pro-
liquor laws of the State of
Delaware has permitted the traffic
and sale Of alcoholic beverages in I
every part of the State OF Delaware, /
be it
Resolved, that we endorse the I
program adopted by the Anti-SalOon I,
League at its national convention in /
on January CLIO, 1884, I!
and that We urge an aggressive pro- /
gram throughout the State of Del !
aware under the leadership of the /
League and that we
earnestly solicit the cooperation /
and support of all the pastors and /
members Of all the churches of the .
States OF Delaware. and the Women's /
Christian Temperance Union, and all I
the Vi SdHildtiuHS ana tHe lnuifluudIS (
who believe in temperance and pro- |
libitiOn of the liquor traffic.
THAT the program shall endeavOr
10 organize. educate and agitate I'M :,
il every precinct. district and coun-
y in the state shall be under local
option and prohibition control of al
,OhOlic beverages.
And that we pledge 0nr efforts
Without reserve to The warfare
against the liquor traffic. We will
axe no backward step. We will not
hesitate. We will not eduivOcate,
Dut will press the fight until the
asst stain of the liquor traffic shall
,e eliminated from Our civilization. ."