Imperial Valley press., 1934-01-11


the nation and what the drys plan
next, were the subjects that DR..
Clarence True Wilson, executive
secretary of the Board of Temper
ance, Prohibition and Public Morals
of the Methodist Episcopal Church,
elaborated last night in a talk at
the Presbyterian church.
"The 21st amendment leaves the
18th in repeal" said DR.. Wilson,
"and the liquor traffic will start
on another career. Its rights i'm
bedded in the Constitution of the
Republic, it is singled out for spe-
cial mention as pre-eminent above
all other enterprises. 1t will come
back full powered. The distillers
will reopen their works, the brew
ers will start business and inaug-
urate the reign Of the brewers as
sociation. The saloon, the gambling
den, and the brothel will all be in
evidence and the brewers will make
common cause with any of the three
that get into trouble with the de
cent element of the community.
"Every law which we once had
for the regulation of the traffic has
been shot and the laws that we af-
terward enact will be violated by
the most laWless of all mankind
the keepers Of the saloons and the
accompanying evils. This organ
lied traffic will put its brand on
judges, sheriffs, district attorneys,
and give us the kind of politics that
used to reek like sin.
$50 the public is going to open
the flood gates of booze in the ma
chine age, with airplanes over our
head and automobiles and traffic
jams in our streets. Liquor can
make a good auto driver a menace
to society. Every auto in the world
will be just as drunk as its driver.
An automobile with a drinking
driver is a deadly weapon.
"The 21st amendment goes into
the constitution and will ruin q
dozen great industries that the
selfish may have their beer at the
expense Of home and trade.
Plan New Program
"With the 18th amendment gone,
the conscientious anti-liquor men
will start a new program of more
basic, personal and social education
against alcohol which is a habit
forming, irritant, depressant, mar
cotic drug, detrimental to the hu-
man system in its every function,
not even satisfying the appetite for
drink An inebriate was asked
Haven't you had enough yet?' No,
often had too much but never had
enough was his reply.
I'VE must shift our emphasis
from law enforcement to personal
conduct and create conscience
and an intelligence against drink
ing. We must teach the public that
the manufacture, sale and purvey-
ing to the public of Intoxicating
liquor in a tense machine age is
not a business but a crime and that
crime ought not to be imbedded in
the constitution of this republic.
All temperance organizations will
have to revamp their programs in
some instances change their names
and reach out for the leadership Of
educated young, vigorous minds
and start a no-drinking crusade.
Perhaps the words total abstin-
ence' and prohibition will be large
ly eliminated, but no drinking as
safe rule and the utmost possible
restriction upon the engulfing liq-
uor traffic will be the motto of the
reform.
GA civilization that is wedding
out narcotics and teaching intelli-
gent people to avoid them should
not license traffic in Intoxicating
liquors. The schools must be made
to obey the law of the states in
teaching the effects of alcohol, mar
cotics, and opiateS upon the hu-
man system. We must show that
only a doctors prescription can
justify the drinking Of intoxicants
and that no human body needs an
alcoholic stimulant. We must Gre
ate a public conscience and a senti-
ment in harmony with the best in
terests of the human race and
make public welfare predominant
over dollars, especially the almighty
dollar that we do not have.
Not Financial Help
"This unbridled craze for getting
rid of prohibition and inaugurating
reign of rum will bring its ex-
perience of bitter regret. 1t will be
disappointing to the money-mad
people who want dollars circulating
again. 1t will not look well in his
tory that the administration of