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to them; also from the neighbor-
hood of ports visited by naval yes
sells. The "antis" believe, however.
that the real plan Is to expand
aridity beyond such areas through
out the entire country.
Repeal Associates have taken
alarm among others and voice
their apprehension In strong terms
In the last issue Of the Repeal Re
view. q pamphlet published by
them periodically.
The organization was formed as
an offspring Of the Association
Against the Prohibition Amend
msnt, when the parent body dis
solved itself following the amend
ment's repeal early In the Roose-
welt standardization. Its missions
to guard, II It can, against any
moro such legislation. Its head. a.
chairman Of it, executive commit
tes, 70 Capt. w. II. Stayton, . re-
tired naval oficer. who also was
head Of the earlier group. Among
members Of it, advisory committee
are such notabilities a. Pierre 8.
du Pont, Benedict Crowell and Con-
gressman James w. Wadsworth.
Something Of an oddly a. q
leading opponent Of prohibitions
rs-establishment u DR.. J. N. Doran
Ian oddly because he was chief
enforcement ofncer up to the time
Of the amendments repeal, when
he promptly became executive d.
rector Of the Distilled Spirits Insti-
tute. The doctor made q genuine
enforcement effort while engaged
In It, arrived at the conclusion that
It was an impossibility and doesn't
want to see It attempted again--in
zones or nationally or any other
way.
T. What Tax WIN Buy
Dwelling on the financial contri-
button that the liquor trade makes
TO Uncle SAM recent news re-
lease sponsored by the Distilled
Spirits Institute. declared. Trans
lated into terms Of national defense,
the federal governments share Of
the 1910 alcoholic beverage rev.
enue would provide 10 such bat
tleships a. the new North Carolina,
or IS modern. aircraft carriers, or
95 destroyers, or 125 submarines.
This single years collection by the
federal treasury would provide
1900 huge four-motor bombing
planes. And this doesn't include
the revenue that goes to state and
local government units"
It isn't altogether certain that
this was a judicious argument for
the institute to nut out. Prohibi-
ton spokesman and spokeswomen
instantly seized on 1t as a dis
closure of the awful amount Of
drinking that's being done.
On the opposite hand. the prohi-
bitionists occasionally say some
thing that the "antis" make the
most Of.
The VETS" Mrs. Ida B. Wise
Smith. president Of the w. c. T. u.
is quoted as having remarked, "are
bringing up their big guns. They
must be worried"
Certainly the vets are wor-
ried," answers the Repeal Review,
land for the same reason that an
owner Ii worried when he knows
that termites are at work on the
foundation Of his home. Termites
secretly attack the building struc-
ture. Drys. secretly attack the
governmental structure. It's time
for all constitutionally minded peo-
pie to be worried"
Distinctions
II appears that some drys are
prohibitionists, but not all Of 'em,
and that some prohibitionists are
drys, too, but not necessarily 30.
Public Relations Director Robert
Barry Of the National Distillers
Products corporation discussed
these distinctions a few evenings
ago at q gathering Of the Mary
land state liquor administrators In
Baltimore.
A dry. he said. may be an indi-
vidual who. doesn't drink, but who
doesn't resent having others do so.
He isn't a prohibitionist. Or may
be he does resent 1t. In that case
he's a dry prohibitionist. but. dry