Evening Star Newspaper, December 13, 1932, Page 4

T A4 e ANTISALOON HEADS SEEKING NEW VOTES Trustees Plan Drive in States; Where Dry Law Has Been Repudiated. A decision to seck a new vote in Btates where prohibition laws were re- | pudiated in the recent elections was) made today by the National Board of Trustees of the Anti-Saloon League. The vote will be sought whenever it | s legally possible to rcgain the status| of any and all dry laws hit by referenda. | The board met to draft general poiicy | for the league in the fight against repeal or modification of dry laws. Retarns to Dry Strategy. The determination to have States vote again where they have upset prohibition laws is & return to dry strategy of 15 years ago when votes on prohibition were demanded by the drys as fre- quently as was legally possible. Another move decided upon by the board was the crganization of & com- mittee of one man and one woman in each voting p! t throughout the Nation to get dry voters o the polls and inform them on the prohibition stand of candidates. g This program will be carried out in co-operation with other dry organiza- tions, but will not be contingent upon the attitude of oth organizations. Get Special Attention. States which were listed today in dry n sources as having turned aside from | State enforcement and destined to et | special attention from the Anti-Salcon | League included California. Michigan, Arizona, Wyoming, Louisiana, New Jer- sey and North Dakota. Several other States taken votes | on prohibition questions within the past i few years, but these wcre not looked upon by those at the mecting as pre- senting a clear-cut issue for revote, Program Is Laid Down. A program for resisting both repeal | of the eighteenth amendment and any | amendment of the Volstead act was being laid down today directors of the league at the conclusion of their four-day convention. Meantime leaders of two other Na- tion-wide dry orzanizations prepared for their sessions at -the Dodge Hectel this afternoon and tomorrow, The National Temperance Council consisting of about 80 dry leaders, headed by their presi- dent, Mrs. Ida B. Wise Smith of Des} Moines, Towa, convened at the hotel | this morning, but adjourned to attend | the hearing before the House Ways and Means Committee on modification legis- lation. Their Executive Committee planned to meect late this afternoon with 3 session of the full council slated to meet behind closed doors at the hotel tonight. Will Convene Tomorrow. the | varned leegue members that “if you | money, but it should get behind its friends. I think there is altogether too |much truth in what Mr. Blanton has 1 told us.” Further answering Blanton, Dr. How- ard H. Russell of Westerville, Ohio, | founder and now associzte general su- perintendent of the league, assured the Texan that the league was working along a new line to stand back of candidates in the distribution in Ohio cf sample ballots. He promised that you'll hear from us in the future in the name of the Lincoln-Le= chain.” (This is a new dry movement.) Dr. Morgan Warns of Radio. Sharply criticizing radio as carrying “powerful wet propaganda,” Dr. Joy El- mer Morgan, editor of the Journal of Naticnal Education Association, den't take hold of this new giant, radio, a million times more powerful than snything else in American life, every battle along civic and cultural values be lost.” The speaker declared that “if there is a single news interpreter who is a ary I have yet to hear of him. Your chil- dren listen every week to Frederic Wil- liam Wile putting out the subtle, inci- dental and powerful suggestion that prohibition is wrong and hquor is good. Kaltenborn continues to put out inci- dentally but powerfully the suggestion that the eighteenth amendment will be rcpealed.” “The Columbia Broadcasting Sys- tem,” he declared, “is cultivating the wine merchants of France, to get the advertising if liquor does come.” He referred to the nation-wide broadcast v, November 15, by Prince Jean Caraman de Chimay, prominent French sportsman and proprietor of the most famous vineyards in Champagne, on the subject, “Why Drink and What?” He quoted at length from the speech. Declaring this speech was the founda- tion for liquor advertising. he said, “this an cxample of what lies ahead if cit- izens @) not spread the alarm and de- mand that such material be kept off the radio channels.” Referring to broadcasting in this country financed by advertising, Dr. Morgan said, “probably the biggest ad- vertising budget today is that for to- bacco advertising. 1If liquor advertising is allowed. the biggest budget of tomor- row will be for liquor advertising. Such advertising if allowed to go on the air will be more powerful in spreading un- truth than home, school and church can spreading truth.” Dr. Morgan suggested that league members protest to their members of Congress against “this liquor propa- ganda” from France: that they “de- mand a congressional investigation of the entire broadcasting system of Amer- ica;” that committees be formed in dry organizations to work on the problem of radio reform. and that the league it- self appoint a “national committee op- | posed to liquor advertising on the radio, which can keep this issue before Con- gress and before the people and which Will protect our homes from this new menace. “Radio broadcasting has quite altered the intellectual life of the human race,” declared Dr. Morgan. “It has changed the background of our tastes and atti- tudes. It is today more powerful than home. school and church combined, in the formation of human character. If the human race wishes to rear its own children according to the standards furnished by homes, schools and churches it must reclaim radio from the hands of greedy exploiters, who now The national conference of organiza- | porting the eighteenth amend- ment will convene tomorrow at 104 oclock at the Dodge Hotel under lhe'. Jeadership of Dr. A. J. Barton of Wil-| mington, N. C., who has taken a premi- | nent part in the Anti-Saloon Lecague conference. Delegates from 33 dry or-| ganizations plan to attend the sessions, Which probably will run into Thursday The Anti-Saloon League directors hope to. Wwhip their resolutions 1into shape some time during the day after having made careful study of their whole program, not cnly during the ses- sions of the past four days, but also at a midnight conference lasj night fol- lowing the annual banquet. It was understood the program fo the new war on the liquor traffic would include an educational program, & new organization to be known as the Olym- | plans, and a political program designed | to reach out into every voting precinct of the United States. There has been much talk of a new party and inde- pendent dry candidates, and much in- terest surrmmdf dtrr‘:e nature of the eague’s political ve. i 'A% Cthe Jbanquet last night at the Raleigh Hotel, Representative Thomas 1. Blanton raised the question of t«_iry support of dry Congressmen, suggesting thgplElg\lP would do well to get behind dry members who were “fighting for their lives.” “Why do dry Congressmen vote wet2" uestioned Represeatative Blanton. 3 gon‘L know. I have tried to understand how a party platform can control a dry Congressman on a moral question. I have tried to figure how party plat- forms could cause a dry Congressman | to about face and reverse a lifetime of convictions.” : Referring to the Senate Committee report of January 16, 1919, which, he ‘:&0 found that “brewers and distillers were spending tremendous sums to sub- sidize the press, to subsidize leading magazines, to subsidize authors of great standing, to control Legislatures, to elect and control Governors and cven to elect and control Congressmen in the Nation's Capital,” Blanton declared: “I am here to assert without fear of con- tradiction that the money spent by them while you poor listeners were asleep was mere pittance as compared with the amount they have recently been spend- ing—a mere bagatelle,in comparison to what they are now spending to bring back beer and saloons.” Recalling & dry luncheon vears ago attended by many Senators and Repre- sentatives, Blanton looked about the room and said: “I can't sec a single Senator and but one Congressman. (Blanton was the only member of Con- gress present.) “Where are they he demanded. “What has become of them? Has the infamous liquor traffic made cowards of them? Oh, no! They are splendid men. But, self-preservation, self-preserva- tion!" “Politicians,” Blanton said, “have learned they can depend on the wets in time of trouble. Politicians have learned they can't depend on a dry organization in the United States. Self-preservation, seeking the path of least resistance. Why aren't Senators here? Why aren't Congressmen here? Afe they afraid to associate with you good men and women?” Describes Own Campaign. Telling of his own campaigns as a dry, in which he said he promised “to do evervthing to make the liquor traffic an outlaw,” Blanton said: “The Anti- Saloon League didn't help me, the W. C. T. U, didn't help me. Not a dollar has the Anti-Saloon League ever con- tributed to any one of my campaigns. Not a single dollar has come from any dry organization. The bootleggers were going_from_county to county against me, from house to house. The wets bought up newspaper space, they bought radio time over a big hook-up, spending $250 a speech. The wets threw $20.000 against me, and I had to go and borrow $2.500 from a bank. “Not one speech did a dry organiza- tion make for me. “It's self-preservation that makes dry politicians go wet. If you dry organiza- tions are onto your business. when dry Congressman is running for his life yowll get-in behind him and help him.” Referring to a message from an Anti- Saloon League official in Texas that he would like to get behind Blanton, but would have to have “unanimous co) sent” to do it, Blanton said he replie “I have been a dry all these years in spite of the Anti-Saloon League and hope I can pull through without it.” Referring again to the absence of members of Congress from the banquet, Blanton concluded: “If you'll get be- hind some of these dry Congressmen, you'll have your next banquet full of them.” Bishop Ernest G. Richardson, presi- dent of the league, said after Blanton spoke: “The league does not have much L) dominate broadcasting in America.” Court Action Suggested. John R. Sampey. president of e Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Leuisville, Ky., said he believed “suit could be brought against the broad- casting compan; for allowing the Prench wine companies to advertise.” Bishop Ed H. Hughes of the Methodist Episcopal Church presented to the banquet 10 prophecies, _“Within the present political quadren- inum.” he predicted, “there will be a terrific reaction of public sentiment with Teference to the prohibition ques- ion.” Had the Democratic party been n power during the pest four vears, said, “it would not have had at the esent time such an embarrassing ma- {7 in the more representative branch 3 Republican wets and Republican shared a common fate.” ~“If the platform in power is kept within any near realm of honor,” said Bishop Hughes, “the framing of the double legislation—re- oeal and anti-saloon—cannot be accom- plished as a Monday afternoonis hasty half-holiday, but will require long po- litical art. * * * I confidently foretell that if this miraculous legislation is produced in a juvenile and whooping hurry, the frankenstein will destroy many of its misguided creators within the next four vears,” “Save in constityfencies that are al- ready hadly muddled or befuddled,” said the bishop, “or are related to un- savory urban conditions in certain greal cities, representatives in _either branch of Congress who now become primarily partisans of beer are arrang- ing for themselves an unwholesome fu- ture, and for their descendants the necessity of filial apology or filial si- lence.” “‘Our enemies, who have indulged in the negative sport of attacking imper- fect condition which they have helped to make more imperfect,” speazer, “will find themselves on a frightful and tormenting defensive if now they stampede our country into legislation that reintroduces a legally recognized iniquity. Hitherto we have becn placed on the defensive. Soon we will be attacking. “Uncomely Emblems.” “Any political party that now "hangs upon itself the label of the stein and keg cannot quickly rid itself of those uncomely emblems, but must wear them for an unhappy period. Let our politicians, whether Republican _or Democratic, be careful lest they under- estimate the tremendous acreage of idealism in the United States. “The return of legalized beer and wine will bring back into our political life the influence that, having been most destructive and debauching under the old saloon regime, will renew the program of destruction and debauchery upon a scale commensurate with our larger population and our more com- plex life. “The legalization of breweries will in- evitably lead to the legalization of blaces where the products of breweries may be sold; and that, consequently, the entrance of the camel’s nose will mean the coming in of the entire afore- said animal, hump and hoof and hide, and. hoarse cries, until the tent will have to be respelled with a word be- ginning with S and ending with 'loon.’ “If we allow -the return of the one devil that has been walking through dry places, seeking rest and finding none, we shall discover that he will bring him seven other devils, supposedly more wicked than himself—stout, ale, porter, brandy, whisky, absinthe, unimproved white mule, and the last state will be worse than the first. “The people who through social con- formity, or political prudence, or moral weariness bring back & liquor regime to the United States, will be compelled to live amid the tragic tokens of their folly and will be unable to rid them- s of responsibility for the re-estab- ished curse. “The ' people who have fought to make the trade in alcoholic beverages an outlaw, and who, being lawful, have not been promoters of lawlessness, will live in company with clean consciences, but will go forward with a ceaseless campaign for an utterly sober Nation. ‘Those people who have steadily derided and discounted and defied the eight- centh amendment to our Constitution cannot accuse us of their own treason. We are against the alcohol beverage traffic in all its forms.” “Great Mistakes” Cited. Mrs. Lon Hocker, president of the Daughters of the American Constitu- tion, St. Louis, Mo, warned that the “great mistakes” of dry organizations had been “the stopping of education; that we have been anti-saloon and not anti-liquor; that we have stressed the law, and not urged self-protection; that drys seem to have ledge of the party | i Treadway asked. said the ! THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, D. . TUESDAY. DECEMBER 13, 1932. IDRY LEADERS WAR | ON COLLIER BILL iArgue That Congress Lacks Power to Fix Alcoholic Content of Beer. (Continued From First Page) the prohibitionisis’ side of the hearings ‘\vhlrh have been held since last Wed- nesday. The committee will hear Secretary of the Treasury Mills tomorrow and then decide on the alcoho ic content and tax to be included in any bill reported. Upshaw Letter Read. Before Pickett was presented, Collier | had a letter from William D. Upshaw, iand presidential candidate on the Pro- | hibition party ticket. read by a clerk. Upshaw's letter said 2.75 per cent beer would be intoxicating and that “it is governmental suicide” to legalize sale of the liquid. ! Pickett said as a representative of a great church “please vermit me to enter by Congress in response to what seems to be very properly characterized as hysteria on this whole liquor question.” He sald his church was opposed to “the licensed liquor traffic, whether that traffic consist of beer, wine or stronger liquors.” ‘Testifying on the proposal to legal- ize the sale of beer, Pickelt said: “We believe the re-establishment of a vast legalized trade in beer with an alcoholic content in excess of that now permitted will decrease the revenue of the country.” Condemns Liquor Interests. He added that “while a portion of the receipts of that trade will be paid into the Treasury, vast sums now expended in the purchase of other commodities will be diverted to the liquor traffic, and consequently the revenues from in- come and corporation taxes, originating elsewhere, will decline.” “The liquor interests, like the old French regime of France, have learned nothing and forgotten nothing,” he sald. “They want liquor’ back: they want it soid on every corner; they want to advertise it over the radio, in the newspapers, and with flaming electric signs; they want no Federal control whatever, 5o that they can extend their traffic to the uttermost limits of the land. ‘They are planning to expand their trade by exploiting the boys and girls, particularly the gitls, as they | were never exploited before.” Pickett told the committee that: “I want to confess most humbly that while we urge you now not to fail us, we must admit to a certain extent that | we have failed you. Our people have ibeen asleep while heavily financed wet propoganda has undermined senti- ment. * * "= May I say that con- fession will in this case be followed by | the bringing forth of works meet for | repentance.” Hits Collier Bill. Referring _specifically to the Collier Dill before the committee, which would legalize the sale of 2.75 beer. Pickett said as it was drawn it “fatally limits court action ‘o prevent the manufac- ture of beer exceeding 2.75 by weight | ¢ alcoholic content.” | “As writfen.” he said, “the bill will insure the sale of beer containing much I more than cf alcohol by weight.” He s2id the fact that there “is noth- 1ing in this proposed legislation to pro- | I hibit the advertising of beer by radio. ! {in the press, or otherwise. to my mind presents an appalling prospect.” Pickett toid the committee that he | was not convinced that the provisions to protect the States were suf- ficient and said: “The failure to pro- | | pose & definite percentage of wine con- tent_ will certainly insure that it would be impossible for the United States | Government to prosecute successfully | any c2se involving the manufacture or sale of wine, no matter how great the | intoxicating percentage.” He said he believed the sale of beer would increase unemployment and the problems of the farmer and that be- fore prohibition “the courts were filled with drunks who became intoxicated | on beer.” Says Argument Is for Bill. As_Pickett finished, Representative Treadway, Republican, of Massachusetts leaned forward and said emphatically: “You have made the best argument in favor of reporting this bill that I have heard yet.” | Pickett stood for a moment looking at Treadway. “Well,” he observed, “I dont know about that, but if it is & compliment, I| thank you.” “What do you mean when you say beer of an appealing constituency?” “I mean beer of an alcoholic content e have meekly accepted the accusa- ia former Representative from Georg#. | A most solemn protest against action | tions of our enemles; that we have failed to debunk the lies of the wets. She urged correction of these “mis- takes.” She challenged the wet claims ot large taxes from liquors, and called upon the 25,000,000 church members to be “aroused” and express their convic- tions at the ballot box. Many dry organizations were repre- sented at the roll call rally yesterday afternoon at the First Congregations Church. Edward B. Dunford, attorney of the Jeague, went into the legal phases of prohibition, explaining its present status, and warning that Congress was in dan- ger of running afoul of the Constitu- tion by trying to weaken the Volstead act, under the eighteenth amendment. A bare majority in Congress, he warned, could repeal the Webb-Kenyon act, and thus open dry States under the com- merce clause of the Federal Constitu- tion to solicitation by mail and b liguor salesmen from wet Statg Mrs. Ella A, Boolgss ¢ Woman's Christian Temperance Union, claimed that defeat of the repeal reso- Jution in the House on the opening day of Congress was largely due to “prayer.” Sne counseled women to learn how to mix delicious, ice-cold, non-alcoholic drinks, especially for young people. Her organization, she said, planned an edu- cational campaign, enlistment of the younger generation in warfare against alcohol, and among_other things would plan a practical method of enrolling and mobilizing the dry supporters in every election district, who will refuse to ac- cept the dictates of wet political bosses or to be stampeded by howls from the galleries. Dr. Wilson Sees “Crisis.” Dr. Clarence True Wilson, executive secretary of the Board of Temperance, Prohibition_and Public Morals of the Methodist Episcopal Church, declared prohibition had reached a “crisis,” that the drys were up against a “conspiracy of money.” The drys, he said, “were in the majority in the United States four years ago, are now and will be again.” Twelve million voters stayed away from the polls, he estimated, because there was no way for them to vote. “Theyll rally two years from now,” he predicted, “four years from now and prohibition will be pedestalled in triumph.” Other speakers included Fred B. Per- kins of Providence, R. I; Dr. C, 8. Longacre of Takoma Park, of the Amer- jcan Temperance Alliance of the Seventh-day Adventist Church; Harry S. Warner, executive secretary of the Intercollegiate Prohibition Association; ‘William Scheafe Chase of this city, of the International Reform Federation; Dr, James A, Drain of Indlanapolis, su- perintendent cf the Department of Tem- perance of the Disciples of Christ; Dr. A. C. Millar of Little Rock, Ark. and Rev. C. C. Rasmussen of Luther Place Memorial Church, this city. Music was furnished at the afternoon session by the White Ribbon Quartet of women, and at the banquet by the Euphonic Male Quartet, < BISHOP JAMES CA Southern Methodist prohibition leader, appearing before the House Ways and | Means Committee to present appeals from church bodies against modification of the prohibition enforcement act. —A. P. Photo. sufficlent to induce people to buy it,” | Pickett replied. I just wanted to know what you| meant by that fine language,” Tread- way shot back. vows. Do you mean to say there is| anything in the vows of the Methodist | Church against the drinking of beer?” | My statement refers simply to the | number of church members,” Pickett | answered. “It did not embrace indi- vidual views or refer specifically to church vows.” “Aren’t some of the members of vol\cxrdchurch beer drinkers?” Treadway | sked. ‘Some. T suppose.” Pickett answered, | “but not manv. I told you that my | statement referred to the number of members in my church % you not giving the impression, y continued. “that the Metho dist Church approves your coming here to oppese this bill?” “I intended to give no such impres- | sion,” Pickett told him. *I think if yon will read my statement that it will clarify itself on these points.” Then you don't intend to give the impression ‘that the Methodist Church vows have any references in opposition | to this legislation,” Treadway com- mented. | The Massachusetts Representative | then said he would like to know where | Pickett got his information that the courts were fuil of drunkards who werc consumers of beer in pre-prohibitict L hat is a matter of common knowl- Pickett “‘Approximately in rohibition davs was beer.” The discussion over the church vows ew out of Pickett's statement that the Methodist Episcopal Church had more than four million members ar# “it numbers among its member: those who have stood before its and taken the vows of the church.” “It is opposed to the licensed liquor traffic. whether that traffic consists of beer. wine or stronger liquor,” he added. | In taking issue with Pickett's state- ment that beer had been responsible | for most of the intoxication before pro- hibition. Treadway asked: “What evidence do you have to prove | that statement?” ‘ “I said.” Pickett replied, “there was more alcohol contained in beer that| was consumed than in any other | liquor.” Insists on Evidence. “You said beer drinking was greatly destructive to the mentality of the peo- | ple,” Treadway said “Isn't Germany & great beer-drinking country?” “You can't indict a whole nation like | that,” Pickett replied. Treadway insisted that Pickett pro-! duce evidence that most of the drunk- MADAM BEAN Famous S‘“.uyn For “Hubby” Suede Jacket, $8.75 For “Brother” A Shirt __.....$1.50 For “John” Pajamas .. “Uncle Al” Necktie ........$1.00 Total ....$18.25 Pay $5.00 Cash Balance during Jan., Feb. and March. D. J. enness in preprohibition days due to beer. “I can introduce the testimony as to | beer being stupefying and brutalizing, “You speak of church | Pickett said, adding that the evidence| o was in the hearings cf the investiza- tion made by a Senate committee i 1918, “You Treadway the proof? PicketlL again refy committee’s inves of his information “You say that there the part of these prog lation,” Treadway ask dence do you have of any hysteria? Don't you have some hysteria cn your side?” " Pickett replied. 'Ok ejacuiated Trezdway perfectly reasonable. I am glad to know he evidence,’ u say you have Pickett if he did not recognize “that there has been a tremendous change” | in sentiment on prohibition. | “Scme,” Pickett answered, “and I am sorry tosay it.* “Let me tell you,” Chindblom said earnestly, “that there has been a vast change in sentiment on this question. Many personal friends of mine, form- erly supporters of prohibition, have come to me demanding a change.” Pickett said there had been some laxness on the part of dry leaders, but | he argued that “we have awakened,” and said, “you will see sentiment as strong as ever.” “I have no doubt tha{ temperance forces will again assume 1he offensive, but will that aggressiveness be in favor of prohibition?” “I think so,” Pickett said. Reads Church Resolutions. Bishop Cannon, following Pickett, sald ony member of the Methodist Episcopal Church who uses “intoxicat- ing liquors for bev violating his vows.” He read from resojut changg in the liquor ibeen Bdopted by the and Louisville conferences of his church. The sheaf of papers in his hand trembled as he rcad 1esol after 2 the “legalizaticn of s were taken He presented Federal Counc Christ in Am resented abou Protestant, church: then read a resolu modification or re: satd, “that there in sentiment on thi am prepared to change in the Episcopal Church South, :hurches represented by Council.’ © Questions Power of Congress. | He said Whit williams of C! {land, ad ed labor cor 1 . had reported e un- est also and of the the Federal t parison b is of the cld-fas! The mad rush of certain groups to lize beer reminds one of Nero fid- dling while Rome burns.” Bishop Can- d. “It i admitted by L that beer without nd the W | conter | | the i per ¢ hout pow f within ment It | “you are ' that” i Pickett said the Collier bill did not I be er the and said that n on his radio 3 prevent the adverti; T o radio or news he did not wa and b your part,” Tre ai Declares Charges Unfair. Representative Estep. Republican Fennsylvania, then began questioning Pickett. You indict the spending moncy true that it was d Saloon Leagus had spent hundreds and hundreds of thousands of dollars to disseminate propaganda to climinate the liquor business and that they | of your propaganda?” “There was a marked difference in the way the money was used,” Pickett replied. “I don't understand your that the brewery interests bribe Jegislators and members Congress,” Estep said. “I have been approached by any b as my support of this bi I h be asked by some citizens who previously believed in the eighteenth amendmen to support this bill because cf the cor- ruption and disrespect of law the eight= eenth amendment has caused. “I do not doubt that, sir,” Pickett said. “Your charges of bribery and ofher Estep added In response to a question. Pickett said most of the brewing com had been in trouble since prohibiticn over the alcoholic content of beer. “Aren’t you speculating about some- thing in which you have no knowl- edge?” Estep asked don't think so,” Pickett said. “You can find out, I think, from the prohi- bition unit. Representative Chindblom, Repub- lican, of Illinois, interrupted to ask ANDY ARCARI, who is KNOCKING ’em cold with HIS accordion playing at THE FOX thea!'er this WEEK, will entertain the LADIES on our program “RED” HOLLEY, FOX theater songbird, IS another Artist CONTRIBUTING to LADIES night with “Me ‘AND the Budget Bunch” WMAL at 7:30. LISTEN in .. . "W"""' - KAUFMAN Inc. 1005 Penna. Ave.— 1744 Penna. Ave.— 14th and Eye L 4 hed | | to spend money to overcome the effect dry goods, dairy, soft drink and other | forms of helpful, not hurtful, business.” Representative Treadway asked Bishop | Cannon what the attitude of his church |would be in the event the Supreme Court should rule that 3.2 per cent beer was constitutional. Against Resubmission. “If the Supreme Court rules that is constitutional, that is the dictum of the Supreme Court, but it might be overs turned by my church people who drink | it and beccme intoxicated,” Bishop | | Cannon answered. |, He said that when he was in college he used to help put friends to bad who were intoxicated on 4 per cent beer. | Treadway said his principal interest was the revenue feature of the bill be- | fore the committee, but told Bishop annon, “in view of your long expe- | vience in reference to the eighteenth | mendment, which, however, is not be- fore us, I want to ask if you are op- posed to submission of the eighteenth amendment to a vote of the people? “Every annual congress of the zleth- odis. Church has gone c recard 1.nst resubmission,” Cazzon sald. “Then you are guiz-d by the astion of your church?” Treadway asked, to which the bishop replied in tke af- firmative, but added that he also op- ed resubmission. en you personally are against | ubmission? Treadway pursued. | 1 werc in favor of submitting the cighteenth amendment 15 years ago, ur,dyi'. was edopted by the States.” | era m Chin Malter of Opinion. “Then if a majority of the people favor resubmission, it is up to us to per- mit them to vote on it. We simply are the instruments. Do you sce any valid reason why the States should not be given an opportunity to vote on 1t?” “Now,” Cannon said, “you are going up a stream that has a great many fish in it. I found that the question was not settled by Congressmen 15 vears a We did not get Congressmen to e for it. We were fought down the There was no such idea prevail- ss then that the eight- ent should be suomitted.” ith you entirely,” Tread- “It is, of course, a matter of Treadway asked the bichop what he vould do if he were a Representative d his constituents nted him 1o vote ubmission of this questio: “I'd try to show them that th wrong. “Then you wouldn't come back to ss,” Treadway commented, and pectators laughed. Bishop Cannon told the committee at he had no suggestion to offer if a were to be made in the liguor —legalizing beer or whisky, “be- e 1 believe there is no way to con- problem other than through y were | ubject to Church. Jd say,” Cannon told him, he Supreme Court can only constitutionality of bers of my chi secome intoxicated 8 bject to the discipiine o our church,” McCormack nstitue n Collier presentatives Vinson mocrats) are from Kentucky and iy S foliowed the bishop. © were no questions when she con- ded. d the commiltee thal Dassas | the exchan; CHINA HAILS SOVIET DIPLOMATIC PACT New Developments in Man- churia and Japanese Relations Seen. By the Assoctated Prezs. NANKING, China, December 13.— The resumption of normal diplomatic relations between China and the Soviet government today was regarded in gove ernmental circles as signifying a new diplomatic history. The announcement of the reinaugu= ration of the diplomatic relations was | seen 2lso as possibly the beginning of new developments concerning the fue ture of Manchuria and Sino-Japanese relations. The foreign office of the National government, following its initial ane nouncement of the new relations, indi= caled it would later issue a statement explaining the circumstances leading to g~ of notes at Geneva yes- 7 A culminated in the re- 4 relations. Officials of the National government believe the move would be hailed by China generally as “a wise step by the National government toward 1relying upon herself for the settlement of the Chinese-Ja] se dizpute in Manchuria, instead of on the League of Nations.” rc 90 per cent or ffic,” and “it will ge the nature or the effects of veczuse they cannot be repealed herent.” beer and wine for revenue is but the entering wedge to legalize liquor of larger alcoholic content,” she as- serted. “The cry, ‘Give us beer and wine,' is simply a demand for alcohol.” She added “The lack of money for necessities in and are | thousands of homes is a serious prob= lem, and legalizing beer and wine, whose T by and on on the par h making the N gainst Beer for Revenue. rexd loisure due to unembloy- nent i beer and lized will centribute to increased consumption, T er must promote his sales in der to be able to carry on. His sales Grinking. which would add to and incité wrangling and vio- Boole said that even relief uld go for beer, remarking nd she had seen unem- end their dole in the ed to legalizing beer vies because we hold the United States d for a substantial 3 the alcoholic ap= Mrs. Boole said. to balance the legalizing that down 1ather let . appeal not to finance the boote e speakeasy, insist the res for the viclation of the law of which drags Congress inatons Clr ash (2B HHEY carry the message of good cheer into the months to come, constant re- minders of your thoughtful- ness. Flannel Robes $ 4.95 ARM robes w of soft-as- down flannel, in rich, solid colors of maroon, wine, tan, blue, green and brown. Me.e Robes ... $7.95 LAI colors and shadow effects, in blue, wine, sil- ver, green, brown and wine. Collar, cuffs, pockets and sash in harmonizing colors. 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