Evening star., 1935-12-03
DRY FORCES HERE
PRESS CAMPAIGN
Blame Repeal for Lax
Morals and See Prohibi-
ton Sentiment Growing.

The United Dry Forces of the Dis
trict of Columbia continued their
campaign for temperance and prohibi-
ton here at two meetings last night,
hurting charges that because of re
peal, mothers were shooting their
sons" and predicting that national
prohibition will roll back like mighty
tidal wave"
Three more rallies will be held to-
night at o'clock as follows:
Ninth Street Christian Church, Rev.
J. H. Jope, chairman, and D. Stew
art Patterson, speaker.
EbeneZer Methodist Episcopal
Church, Fourth and D streets south
east, Rev. F. F. King. chairman. and
w. o. Tufts and John D. Hammond,
speakers.
Clarendon Methodist Church, j.
Raymond Schmidt, speaker.
Flags Liquor Traffic.
Deets Picket of the Methodist Epis-
copal Board Of Temperance. Prohibi-
ton and Public Morals told group
at the Mount Vernon NJ E. Church
South last night that when the people
Of this country voted for repeal they
did so because they were led to be-
lieve that repeal would serve the cause
of temperance.
They did not vote" he said, "to
turn this country over to the liquor
traffic. For months they have been
thinking the matter through and to-
day millions of them have reached a
decision. That decision is that the
promises on which they predicated
their support Of repeal were atrocious
falsehoods, that the men who made
them had no intention of keeping
them, that the difficulties under pro-
hibition were trivial beside the conse-
quences the country is now suffering
from the ruthless promotion of the
trade In alcoholic beverages.
THE whole attitude of the liquor
trade is, you'll take it and you'll like
it. If you don't want liquor store
in your residence district, that is just
too bad, buff drunks annoy you in
the city library, just shut up about it.
If your girl or boy is run over by a
drunken driver, it's just another dead
kid
Declares ID. C. Sets Example.
"The City Of Washington belongs to
the Nation, and the Nation wants evi-
dence here that Government is ranged
on the side of the home, the church
and the school, against liquor selling.
legal or illegal, against commercialized
gambling, against all of the activities
which are in alliance with the under
world. The Nation is going to start
back to recognition of moral prin-
ciples in government and there is
ample evidence that they think this
a good place to start.
Mothers shooting their sons, young
women debauched in dives licensed by
government, mounting consumption
Of every kind of intoxicant, broken
and bleeding forms tossed into the
cutters by drivers who have had lust
coupla bottles of beer'-that is the
price of repeal, and the price which
must be paid and paid again and
again. The time has come to turn
and go back, and when we get back
we are going to have men with the
intelligence and the stamina to deal
with criminals, not trimmers and
traders who surrender to them for
money or place"
Former Police Chief Speaks.
At Shiloh Baptist Church the
speaker was John B. Hammond, former
chief Of police of Des Moines, Iowa,
and now research secretary of the
National Civic League.
Explaining the Guyer bill for pro-
hibition In the District of Columbia,
which temperance advocates are being
asked to support, Hammond said this
measure was revision of the famous
Sheppard law with every evasion gap
Of that law closed"
Hammond urged the colored mem
bers Of Shiloh Baptist Church to ab-
stain from the use of liquor and mar
cotics as the greatest enemies block
ing the advancement of their race. /"
I'm my experience as an officer,
covering many years." said Ham
mond, "Isdo not know Of a single in
stance that I was called upon to
prosecute q, colored offender who was
not at the time Of committing the
crime under the influence of liquor or
narcotics. These are your enemies.
Keep away from them as you would
keep away from mad dog. Their
bite is as fatal as the mad dogs, but
the results following are far worse,
for the effects Of booze, and snow will
not only destroy YOUR life. but will