Evening star., 1935-12-13
BIG DRY RALLY
|. |SPLANNED HERE
ON JANUARY 16
Leaders in Movement to
Join in Mass Meeting on
Anniversary of Prohibition.
NATIONAL CAMPAIGN
POLICY WILL BE SET
Speakers Of United Dry Forces
Deliver Addresses in Four
City Churches.

ClCy GnurCAess
Temperance forces of the United
States are laying plans for big mass
meeting and rally here January 16, on
the anniversary of national prohi-
bition.
Cooperating in the demonstration
movements in the country, working
through what is known as the Ma
tional Temperance and Prohibition
Council.
This council is planning to hold its
annual conference here January IA
and IS, to shape up national policy
Of temperance for fight against the
vets. Its business meetings will climax
with a big mass meeting at large
centrally located auditorium or church
in downtown Washington.
Preliminary plans for the meeting
were discussed late yesterday by the
Executive Committee of the United
Dry Forces of the District of Colum-
bis, it was disclosed by DR.. E. NJ
Ellison, president.
Dry Leaders Coming.
A Joint meeting of representatives
from several of the principal temper
ance groups arranging the program
for the big session will be held next
Tuesday, DR.. Ellison said.
Among the national dry leaders to
be present, he said, will be Bishop w.
N. Ainsworth of the Methodist Epis-
copal Church South, new president OF
the Anti-Saloon League of America,
and Ida B. Wise Smith. president OF
the National Women's Christian Tenn
perance Union. She is president OF
the National Temperance and Prohi-
bition Council.
The United Dry Forces Executive
Committee also laid plans, DR.. Ellison
said, for the next regular monthly
meeting of the Executive Board of the
organization TO be held January at
the Y. M. C. A.
Meantime, as a follow-up to the
recent weeks campaign among the
churches of the city in the cause Of
temperance and eventual return Of
prohibition here in Washington, the
United Dry Forces sent speakers to
address meetings at four different
churches last night.
Urges Educational Program.
Harry S. Warner, general secretary
Of the intercollegiate Association for
Study of the Alcohol Problem. speak
ing at Columbia Heights Christian
Church, declared ito meet this new
situation that has come up since the
repeal of prohibition something more
than the passing Of national law will
be necessary.
FIRST Of all is an educational pro-
gram that will reach the youth OF
today, one in accordance with modern
educational methods. Popular propa-
ganda is not enough. Nor is it enough
to mobilize existing public sentiment,
to stir up existing 'drys.' A wide plan
of factual, scientific, discussion-free-
ly facing the realities Of increasing
accidents, crime, arrests, due to drink.
of increasing use of liquor by young
people and women-will be necessary
in Washington and every other city
where more stringent regulation or
complete Punishment are to be ex-
pected.
The liquor problem cannot be
settled without law, but it cannot be
solved by law alone. The drinking
customs that support it and the profits
that make it strong must be met with
the facts Of science and experience.
Clearly this conclusion is one result of
our 10 days of meetings throughout
the District"
Hits Many Liquor Places.
j. Raymond Schmidt, chairman of
the United Dry Forces Speakers Com
mittee, at Lincoln Road M. z. Church
declared there now are four times as
many places in the District of Colum-
bia selling liquor to the consuming
public as were put out of business by
the Sheppard law in 1917.
The liquor traffic Of 1885," he said,
"is the same old liquor traffic, drawing
to itself many characters that won't
bear moral investigation and refusing
even to be bound by such lax regula-
tions as a wet Congress has seen 1T
to impose.
Arrests for public intoxication and
driving while under influence of liquor
have shown q steady increase since
repeal, as revealed by police records,
ITO scan the papers over the week
end or holiday" he declared,
affords sufficient proof that repeal
has converted our highways into
slaughter lanes One way to minimize
traffic hazards is to require motorists
license plates to sign a
pledge not to drive within six hours
after taking drink of beer or liquor
The other alternative is for Congress
to enact the Guyer bill restoring pro-
hibition to the District"
Sees Doom of Liquor.
Speaking at Dumbarton Avenue
Methodist Episcopal Church, T. B.
Jarvis declared, ut is very easy to see
the doom of the liquor trafic in a
very few years.
'This trafhc never obeyed any laws
and is now more blatant and per-
astent to carry out its plan than
ever before"
Rev. G. H. Butler was the speaker
at the National City Christian
Church, where Rev. r. H. Miller was
officer.