The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-06-20
BY PETER EDISON
Monitor-Leoder Washington
Correspondent


Sheppard bill, which would
prohibit all kinds Of beer, wine.
liquor and vice at or within G
Reasonable distance" Of any
Army, Navy, Marine or oil
bose, have had to revise their
strategy and the likelihood
thot anything will be done
about this bill for some months
is rather remote.
The stoge had been all set
for public hearing in the
caucus room Of the Senate Or
flee building, on June Y. Sen
otor Theodore Gilmore 1.-THE
Mani BiIbo Of PopIorviIle.
Miss, was the name around
which this hearing was to roIIy,
and the invitations went out on
stationery Of the Senate Com
mittee on Agriculture and For
estry, of which BiIbo is q mem
Der, although the Sheppard bill
is before the committee on
Military Affairs and, logically,
any hearings should have been
called by this latter commit
tee.
In other words, there has
been more to this crusade to
dry up the camps than meets
the eye. It was BiIbo whose
name was used to call the
hearing, and it was BiIbo who
issued the settlement calling
it off. It was BiIbo political id
vice which dictated this stro-
tegy Of O delaying action on
the grounds that with the Con-
eress now going into q two
months series Of recesses, it
would be O mistake to stir up
the animals, only to have the
effects wear off, like q hang
over, before Congress would be
in any position TO do some
thing about the Sheppard bill,
even if it had q mind to.
That was the public reason.
Perhaps much more important
was the simple fact that the
drys in Congress haven't the
strength to push this one over.
The most optimistic count dry
leaders can make as TO the
number Of congressman who
ore personal drys or vote dry
is q mere 100, and they have
trouble thinking Of the names
otter they reach 50. It is
doubtful if there ore more
than 90 in the entire dry bloc
Of both houses.
MEET THE CAPTAIN
While BiIbo and oppY
O'OonieI Of Texos - what q
poirl-with Edwin c. Johnson
of Craig, CoIo., have been the
principal Senate hackers Of the
bill since Senator Sheppord's
death, and while Congressman
Joseph R. Bryson Of GreenviIIe,
S C., and u. S. Guyer Of Kan
SOS City, Kan, have been the
bockers in the House, the real
oqitotor for the Sheppard bill
today is Edward Poge Goston,
who has been known to greet
perfect strangers by pulling q
piece Of candy from his Pock-
ct, proffering it with q big,
friendly SIN e and soying,
"Hove q sweet?"
CASTOR probably would like
to be known os Public Prohibi-
ZIONIST Number One but some-
how he Just misses. His print
&c literature about himself re-
fers TO him as "Coptoin" Cos
ton, but his military service
wos confined to 1918, when he
wos O coptoin in the New York
National Guard reserve.
The Captain also likes TO re-
fer, in handouts, to the toct
that WHO'S Who has carried
Captain Goston's biographical
entry for many eors." A
checkup on Who's Who, how
ever, shows that the Captain
has been among those obsent
since Volume u, published in
1882. The entry is interesting
in other woys, for it reveals the
Captain climbed PopocotepetI
in Mexico, and made recon-
noissonce of bottIefieIds Of
Belgium, recovering effects Of
the dead. " Thot odds to his
military stature.