Evening star., 1935-12-04
DRYS PUSH DRIVE
ON THREE FRONTS
Repeal Complete Failure,
Say Speakers, Urging
Awakening.

Charging 'Tbooze and crime always
go hand in hand" and repeal has
proved an utter farce and a complete
failure" in settling the liquor problem
the united dry forces pushed forward
their weeks campaign at three differ
ent meetings last night in the Nation
al Capital area.
Efforts to rouse the public to
danger of repeal, and to support OF
! the Guyer bill for prohibition in the
District, will be continued at two
meetings tonight.
At Eldebrooke Methodist Episcopal
Church, where Rev. Walter w. Michael
will preside, the speaker will be Harry
S. Warner.
John Wesley A. M. E. Church will
hold a rally with Rev. w. o. Caring
ton presiding, and E. M. Bryan and
John B. Hammond as speakers.
The campaign will be concluded with
sermons at many churches Sunday,
followed by a mass meeting at
o'clock that afternoon in the National
City Christian Church.
Judgment First Hit.
"Alcohol hits the judgment first"
declared j. Raymond Schmidt, secre-
tary of the National Civic League, in
his address last night before Arlington
County Post, No. 13, of the Allied
Youth, in the Clarendon (Va.) Metho-
dist Church.
when judgment is impaired, the
individual isn't dependable where
quick action is required, and where
fine distinctions between right and
wrong should be observed. A small
amount of alcohol in motorist tends
to carelessness; the driver hasn't the
usual control of his thinking powers,
his vision and his nervous refiexes.
"One of the paralyzing effects Of
alcohol is that upon the ability to
make fine moral distinctions. When
only slightly under the influence of
alcohol, individuals find their will
power greatly reduced. With moral
control shattered, acts of delinquency
are committed which are invariably
Stunned by sober individuals.
Discussing the effect of alcohol on
health, he went on to say that "f
physicians told the truth on their
death certificates, the trek would be
away from instead of toward the
LIQUOR establishment. The certificate
says death was caused by a specific
disease, but the physician neglects to
say that alcohol drinking brought on
the disease, such as cirrhosis OF the
liver, fatty degeneration Of the heart
and Bright's disease. In view Of these
facts, for the protection Of public
health, in which we are all greatly in
terested, all containers of alcoholic
beverages should be labeled with the
croSS-bones and skull"
Safety Endangered.
"The increasing widespread drink
ing Of liquor, with its resultant TRACE
dies and accidents, is actually endan-
gering the safety of people in Wash
ington and the Nation as a whole"
declared D. Stewart Patterson at
Ninth Street Christian Church. Mr..
Patterson, who is president of the Bal
timore Methodist Lay Conference, Is
widely known in church educational
circles and is promotion secretary OF
the Methodist Board of Temperance,
Prohibition and Public Morals.
Washington has nothing to be
proud of in the reputation it is gaining
across the country as a city Of freely
flowing liquor" he said. Congress,
which acted like hysterical adolescents
in passing liquor legislation for the
District, cannot escape responsibility.
It is so very easy for these men and
women to enact legislation for our city,
then hurry back to their own COM
munities leavir 9 behind the deplorable
conditions their silly actions make
possible.
Repeal has proved an utter farce
and a complete failure as far as settling
the liquor problem is concerned. Not
one promise made before repeal has
been fulfilled, nor can those promises
be fulfilled. The prosperity argument
went over In large way, but it now
comes home to plague us. What q
laugh for posterity--America trying to
drink its way to sobriety and pros.
perity!"