Evening star., 1940-11-27
Anti-Sa|oon League
Asks Protection Of
SeIecfeesFrom Drink
Calls Also for Safeguards
Against Vice Equal to
Thut in Last War

Worried about the danger Of Gin
temperance and vice" in the military
camps set up for drafted men, the
Anti-Saloon League Of America last
night closed its 31st national con-
vention here with song and prayer.
A special appeal was made to Presi-
dent Roosevelt that soldiers and
sailors be given adequate "protec-
ton"
Resolutions embodied q demand
by Bishop James Cannon-in the
concluding convention address-that
Government regulation of the living
conditions Of selectees be made at
least as strict as in World War days.
I'VE unite with the Federal Coun.
'cil of Churches" said the resolution,
''in calling upon the President and
the Secretaries of War and Navy to
frame such regulations concerning
intemperance and vice as will give
to our soldiers and sailors as great
protection as was given to them by
the provisions of the Selective Draft
Act in 1917.
Fear "Ungodly Profits"
1--WE protest most earnestly that
the calling of our young manhood to
the training camps shall give to the
liquor traffic an opportunity to in.
crease the profits of their ungodly
h,,ci,,occ of tho ovroy,ea of tho ,,o,,r r.
manhood and the homes of our
country"
Drunken driving also was. con-
sidered in the resolutions. 1t was
decided to urge 'the use of a scienti-
flc test to be applied to all suspected
drinking drivers, and the severe
punishment of men who are con-
victed . . in view of the continue
GUS slaughter on our highways by
drinking drivers"
The traditional position Of the
league was reiterated in demands
for "the creation Of such a public
sentiment in our Nation as will once
again put the ban of the criminal
upon the beverage alcohol traffic. !"
Local option was stressed for the
present, rather than Federal pro-
hibition. Temperance education in
schools was advocated and more
adequate Federal help to dry States
recommended.
Hit at Liquor Ads.
Throughout the three-day con-
vention, held at Calvary Baptist
Church, speakers had voiced criti-
cism of press and radio for carrying
liquor advertising. The solution off,
cially urged in the resolutions was
prohibition by State and national
laws of all advertising of intoxicas-
ing liquors"
Bishop Cannon's address con-
tanned criticism of President Roose-
welt. Crippled with arthritis, the TO-
year-old Methodist churchman sat
on a choir bench as he spoke.
Mr.. Roosevelt, he said, was re-
sponsible for repeal Of prohibition
in the District of Columbia; this
city is "as intoxicated a city as
there is in the country" and yet
mot one word has come from the
White House expressing solicitude
over the condition" of Washington.
On the other hand, he asserted
that none Of Mr.. Roosevelt's prede-
cessors In Office ever gave them
selves unreservedly to enforcement
OF the 18th amendment"
Statistics Cited.
In a recital of the s'follies" of
repeal, the Rev. Sam Morris of
Del Rio, Tex, gave delegates sta
tistics. He said arrests for intoxi-
Gated driving in relation to popu-
lation have increased 61.3 per cent
since the last year of prohibition.
Total Federal revenue from legal
drink has been under $4,000, 900 900
in the seven years since repeal, less
than the average budget deficit
for a single year of this period, he
said. He estimated that 1900, 900
young women serve as mattresses,
clerks, bar maids or hostesses in
drink establishments.
DR.. r. Scott Mcbride, Pennsyl-
vania State superintendent Of the
league, urged temperance advocates
to "get back into the trenches"