Evening star., 1943-05-18
xAnti-Sa|oon LEAGUE
.ssUrqes Wartime Decree
10 Effect Prohibition
ss.s
Resolution Also Asks
- Dry Zones Around Camps
= And Industrial Plants

"prohibit the sale of alcoholic
liquors throughout the Nation as q
genuine help in the promotion Of
sobriety" was made last night by
the Board of Trustees of the Anti
Saloon League of America, and read
to the closing session of the leagues
32d national conference at Calvary
Baptist Church.
: Other resolutions called on the
Commander in Chief of the Army
- and Navy to:
liquors, including beer, to any man
eor woman in United States uniform;
Ito create dry zones around all mill
Atary and naval establishments and
industrial plants engaged in war
production, and to prohibit sale of
Intoxicating liquors, including beer,
on railroad trains.
Would Prohibit Advertising.
Follow the example set by Canada
and prohibit any form of advertising
which will promote drinking of in
toxicants, while the Nation is at
war, as "wasteful and detrimental to
both civilians and military manpoW-
er and morale"
A separate resolution urged Con-
gress to cooperate with the Presi-
dent in meeting his great RESPONSE
bility by passing any additional leg
islation which may be necessary for
him most effectively to prevent dur
ing wartime the evils growing out of
the use of Intoxicating liquor"
A concluding resolution favored
passage of any and all legislation
which will aid in accomplishment of
the great aim of the Anti-Saloon
League of America, namely. the ex-
termination of the beverage liquor
traffic"
Bishop James Cannon, Methodist
Church, retired, acting as chairman
of the leagues Resolution Commit
tee, asserted in a preamble that re-
peal of the 18th amendment had
brought in its wake increased drunk
enness, vice, juvenile delinquency,
absenteeism in war plants and traf-
f1c accidents.
Calls for pulpit Responsibility
Lashing at liquor with the crusad-
ing fervor that was characteristic Of
him during the prohibition era,
Bishop Cannon warned ministers
that "if our pulpit will once again
recognize its responsibilities, there
will be a great response from the
pew"
At the afternoon session Dr.
Edward B. Dunford, Anti Saloon
League of America attorney, said it
was inadvisable to single out serv-
icemen and omit civilians from the
operations of any restrictive meas
ures.
Bishop Cannon said the 'indict-
ment of prohibition by Mr.. Roose-
welt in his acceptance speech of his
nomination at Chicago unfortunate
ly gave the voters little to choose.
- The friends of the 18th amend
ment had no candidate for whom to
rally their forces" after the confess
sion of utter failure to enforce the
law by Mr.. Hoover"
1t was loudly proclaimed in the
campaign by men like Alfred
Emanuel Smith and Franklin D.
Roosevelt that the saloon must never
return in any guise whatsoever, but in
the City of Washington. under the
shadow of the White House, in place
of the 400 oldtime saloons, with a
typical bartender, there are approxi-
mately $500 taverns in the Capital
of the Nation, with as good looking
girls and young women as can be
hired to stand behind the bar and
sell intoxicating liquors." Bishop
Cannon said in reading a prepared
statement.
Liquor Is "Church Fight
That the fight against Liquor is a
church fight and I'VE will get no
faster than the churches move" was
a point emphasized by DR.. George
w. Crabbe, general secretary of the
league. He warned, however, against
abusing ministers who "do not go
along with us as rapidly as we might
wish," adding that it is time for
men and women who believe in the
dry cause to stand up and be
counted"
Dry leaders from many sections of
the country predicted an ultimate
return to prohibition through edu-
cation of youth and utilization of
preachers as "inquiring reporters in
their own areas"
A political note was injected by S.
p. McNaught, Columbus, Ohio, who
expressed the hope that "the rest of
the country will help us send our
great Ohio Governor, John w.
Bricker, to the White House"
Others who spoke briefly were
Albert D. Belts, Orangeburg, S. c.;
w. j. Herwig, Seattle, Wash; r. D.
Dexheimer, Chicago; Wallace H.
Marsh, Albany, N. Y, and Robert S.
Tinnon, Nashville, Tenn.
Stressed as AbsenteeIsm Cause.
Mr.. Dunford, declaring that serv-
icemen are under rigid discipline
and physically the best group in the
Nation, told delegates that "the
liquor soldiers and sailors drink on
week end leaves is nothing like as
harmful to the war effort as alb
senteeism in war plants" He said
there are only three prohibition
States today compared with q dry
States at the start of World War T..
He thought the remedy for present
conditions lay in molding public
sentiment for sobriety, with "the
churches our first line of strength" :"
Side by side with Washington's
proud position as the worlds po-
litical center is record of increased
consumption of alcoholic bever-
ages, vice and Jail commitments for
drunkenness, Miss Laura Lindley,
Anti-Saloon League of America re-
search secretary, asserted.
The consumption of alcoholic
beverages reached its highest point
since repeal in 1912" she said.
Washington, the National Capital,
had the highest per capita consump-
tion of spirits of any subdivision of
the country-42 gallons-over four
times the national average"
Fer every 81 the Nation spent for