Evening Star Newspaper, December 14, 1932, Page 5

YOUTHS RECRUITED INWAR ONREPEAL = Pnti-Saloon League Lays Down Strategy of War for Prohibition. Admitting that prohibition is “now geriously threatened,” the Anti-Saloon League of America has laid down the strategy of its new war against repeal and modification, with plans to educate youth and to win dry votes throughout the United States. The board of trustees of the league, &t the conclusion of a four-day confer- ence at the Raleigh Hotel, issued a four-page statement of policy and took @ggressive steps to carry out that policy. The statement of principles epitomizes the sentiments expressed at the con- vention, in & spirit of “no compromise,” ‘with sharp criticism of the wet pro- Tam. The steps to carry out that policy in- tlude: 1. Collection of a new war chest of funds to support the enlarged work and campaign for preservation of prohibi- tion 2. Strengthening of the national or- ganization, by executive action of Dr. F. Scott McBride, general superintendent, who was authorized to complete the slate of State superintendents, add new workers to the pay roll and wherever necessary to install new regional or dis: trict superintendents. i 3. Appointment of a new “Adminis- ration Committee” of eight to act for he league between conventions and carry forward the general new war plans to fruition. 4. “Intensified” educational program, der direction of Dr. Ernest H. Cher- ington of Westerville, Ohio, director of ghe department of education, publicity nd research. New Youth Movement. 5. Inauguration of a new {goovement,” “The Olympians.” 6. Initiating the call, not only for a Nation-wide conference of all dry forces to mobilize the prohibition strength of the country here February 14 to 16, but also a call for conferences in every State of State dry leaders and organizations. 7. Development of a Natipn-wide or- ganization plan which finally will work down to at least one man and one woman in each voting precinct. The new “Administration Committee,” ® compact group small enough to be called together whenever necessary, was named as follows: Bishop Ernest G. Richardson of Philadelphia, president of the league; Dr. A. J. Barton of Wil- mington, N. C.; Dr. Cherrington, Bishop James Cannon, jr., of Washington, Dr. Melbourne P. Boynton of Chicago, Dr. R. A. Hutchinson of Pittsburgh, William F. Cochran of Baltimore and Dr. Mc- Bride. This new committee was en- dowed with large powers by the 150 members of the board of trustees who Jaid down the war plans. The commit- tee will plan a budget and direct its ex- penditure. Dr. McBride explained that the new organization would be directed prin- cipally to strengthening the State leagues, to get the States to organize county units and reach down into every voting precinct. The plan calls for at least one man and one woman worker in each voting precinct of the Nation. The league, Dr. McBride explained, will oppose repeal and modification and it will go out to arouse sentiment in the States which have repealed their State enforcement acts. Work will be con- centrated in those States which have been “lost” in an endeavor, he explain- ed, to have them re-enact State en- forcement acts and hold the prohibition lines in the State Legislatures. “Intensified” Program. The new educational program will be “intensified,” Dr. Cherrington explained, by increase in the output of literature, including regular publications from the press of the American Issue Publishing Co., the league's printing plant at West- erville. Efforts will be made to put the league's periodicals and books into every public reading room, the 7,000 public ibraries and other places, he said. The principal periodicals on which circula- tion expansion efforts will be centered are the American Issue, official publica- tion of the organization, and Scientific Temperance Journal. The league also publishes numberless pamphlets and books. Many of the league’s documents go_into schools and colleges. The new young people's movement is designed to “promote total abstinence and_ support prohibition. A national council heas been appointed to co- operate with the Anti-Saloon League. O. G. Christgau of this city, manager of the convention of the league, has been appointed executive secretary. He will proceed to direct the formation of State councils of the Olympians throughout the country. The national council consists of Clayton M. Wallace, Wolfeboro, N. H.; B. F. Auld, Nash- ville, Tenn.: S. P. McNaught, Columbus, ©Ohio; F. A. High, chairman, Lincoln, Nebr, and Count Cruea, secretary, Mount Lebanon, Pa. The first Nation-wide project of the new organization will be a novel demonstration of the injurious effects of intoxicating liquors through public displays of posters and exhibits. Ad- ditional activities, Mr. Christgau an- nounced, will embrace a Nation-wide movement to encourage abstinence and develop organized support by youth of ‘prohibition laws. Legal Beer Fought. The league trustees, in addition to their general statement of policy issued last night, also adopted a lengthy reso- lution opposing the legalization of beer, which Dr. McBride was to present to the House Ways and Means Committee today when he appeared as & witness in_the beer bill hearings. ‘The policy statement declared the League's position on the “salient fea- tures of the prokhibition situation,” sent greetings to its constituency and to gll the friends of prohibition through- out the country, and made an “appeal to the candid and patriotic citizens of the United States.” “We would not, we could not in eandor,” said the statement, “minimize the seriousness of the present situa- tion. For reasons not necessary here and now to enumerate, reasons for the most part familiar to our people, the persistent, highly financed and un- scrupulous wet propaganda in the last year or two has deceived many good people. “The greatest achievement of the American people in constitutional and legislative enactment, the greatest both in social, moral, economic and com- mercial value, is now seriously threatened. It is not lost, as the wets assume and would have the people be- lieve; it can and will be maintained if its friends can be brought to see the danger and can be aroused to united, aggressive, persistent, heroic action. Our reliance is uj the common sense and integrity of our fellow Americans. Views Set Forth. “We deem it expedient to state quite frankly our views on the following im- portant matters: “youth far-reaching | h through organization of | legalizing intoxicating liquors, do so either through a failure to consider the facts, or through a desire to restore to the sanctions of law and the protec- tion of government the law-defying, criminal uor trafic and to fasten in the yoke of bondage to this traffic upon the necks of the American Ppeople. “A sacred and fundamental principle in representative government, such as ours, is that United States Senators and Representatives, as also members of State Legislatures, owe their primary obligation and allegiance to their own consciences and then to the constitu- encies that elect them and not to national party platform declarations. If this principle is ignored or violated, representative government ceases, gnd we have an oligarchy controlled by political machines and bosses. If rep- resentative government is to be de- stroyed, we might just as well have an autocracy with a hereditary ruler as to ave the autocracy of a centralized political machine controlled by a small group of wealthy men drunk with power and greedy for spoliation and plunder of the masses. For any politi- cal party to attempt to bind United States Senators and Representatives by the declarations of its national plat- form on a great moral issue, affecting the health and happiness and morals of the people, is a bold and unblushing attempt at the usurpation of the power which belongs to the people themselves. “Unless the masses of the American sense of self-respect, they will rebuke the party that makes such an attempt and elect to stay at home such Senators and Representatives as bow to the bosses and yield to such shameless and un-American doctrine and demand. “Let the people of the several States | and congressional districts speak prompt- ly and in unmistakable terms to their Senators and Representatives upon this vital principle of government and upon the retention of the eighteenth amend- ment; let not representative govern- ment of the United States fall: let not our institutions established by the founders of the Republic be destroyed. Condemn Repeal Move. “We unhesitatingly condemn the un- seemly effort in the House of Repre- sentatives to rush through a resolution proposing the repeal of the elghteenth amendment immediately upon the as- sembling of the House, and even before Congress had notified the President of the United States that the Congress had assembled and was ready for the transaction of business. ““We heartily congratulate the Ameri- can people upon the failure of this ef- fort to belittle the process of amending the fundamental charter of our liberties and institutions and we heartily com- mend the members of Congress whose sense of propriety and whose patriotic devotion to the right defeated this effort. “The wets have urged not only an amendment to the Constitution repeal- ing the eighteenth amendment, but they have also insisted that such an amendment be proposed by Congress to ratifying conventions in the several States instead of Legislatures. to which all previous amendments, including the Bill of Rights, have been proposed. “Ratification of a constitutional amendment by State conventions would be an effort to open the way for politi- cal jobbery by corrupt political bosses in a large number of States manifestly contrary to the original spirit of the amending clause of the Constitution. “If the real purpose of the wets were, as they profess, to have the people more directly express their choice, consistency would indicate that they first of all se- cure an amendment to article five so as to provide that ratification’ of pro- posed amendments provided for by State legislatures or by a direct vote of the people in each of three-fourths of the States, as the one or the other method of ratification may be specified by Congress in the resolution proposing an amendment. Hold Congress’ Rights Exceeded. “We deny the proposal now being sponsored by the advocates of repeal that amending the Federal Constitution is a congressional function and that ess has the right to call State conventions for the consideration of | amendments. “Nothing more revolutionary or de- structive has been proposed. The States reserved to themselves the right of amending the Federal Constitution. Congress can only propose amendments and specify “the one or the other” method of ratification. Whether a State | shall act at all upon the question of ratification of any amendment is en- tirely for the State to decide. The last | vestige of States’ rights would disap- | pear and State autonomy would vanish | like a dream of the past if the Federal Government can so domineer over the | States in a matter which the States | people have lost all their spirit and | ENING STAR, WASHINGT! fit accruing to the Government from the enforcement of the law the Govern- ment is under the highest obligation to make adequate provision, financial and other, for as full, complete and effective enforcement of all its laws as is hu- manly possible. For, uch a policy the Anti-Saloon League ‘and its friends throughout the Nation take their stand| and we hereby call upon the President and Congress for appropriations for the enforcement of all leglislation enacted in pursuance and support of the eight- eenth amendment.” BECK RAPS PRACTICE OF BLOC OPPOSITION American Party System of Demo- cratic Government Threatened, He Says. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, December 14.—Represent- ative James M. Beck of Pennsylvania told the Illinois Manufacturers’ Asso- ciation that if the American party sys- tem of democratic government is to | stand, the practice of bloc opposition | must 80. “It cannot be denied,” he said in an address last night, “that today in America the party system, through which alone democratic institutions can function, is now yielding to the creation of blocs, like the farmers’ block, the soldiers’ bloc and others designed to force compliance with some special ob- jective and wholly disregarding the common good.” Such attempts, he said, to cocerce Congress threatened to disrupt the unity of the Nation. Francis H. Sisson, president of the American Bankers' Association, sound- ed a cheerful note by stating that the Nation's financial outlook has been im- proved unmistakably. “Our banking structure is very much sounder at the close of this year than it was at the beginning of 1931 he sald. “It is apparent that the Federal Reserve banks have withstood the se- verest test since their creation.” MUsIC “TOO.EXCLUSIVE” Fritz Reiner Sees Diamonds Overemphasized. PHILADELPHIA, December 14 ().— The trouble with music in this country, says Fritz Reiner, musician and conduc- tor, is overemphasis of ermines and diamonds in accounts of musical events. “The news should read,” he told the Matinee Musical Club yesterday, ** ‘Mrs. Smith of Hogan's alley attended a Philadelphia Orchestra concert in a four-year-old dress.’ “In this country, where there is no Government appropriation and the list of wealthy sponsors is rapidly diminish- ing, musical interest will die unless Mrs. Smith and her ilk are stimulated to an interest in musi 300 PRISONERS ABED BALTIMORE, December 14 () Dr. Robert H. Riley, State health di rector, yesterday reported 300 prisoners at the Maryland House of Correction were {ll in bed and the cases of 73 inmates had been diagnosed as influ- enza. A speclal corps of health officers was ordered there to take charge of the situation. The institution now has between 1,300 and 1,400 prisoners. Ermines and | ROUND TRIP 15T CLASS 5382 4p AN, wantes. wverandahs. GIBRALTAR, ALGIERS, PALERMO, RAGUSA i excursions. Privilege in Europe and return eny L] TOURIST $210 carefully reserved to themselves. It comes with poor grace from those who | have mude loud acclaim about States'| rights in the matter of controlling or | abolishing the liquor traffic, that they | should now propose to abolish the States in order to restore the liquor | trafic, “The Anti-Saloon League is unalter- ably opposed to any and all proposals and efforts to legalize the manufacture and sale of beer with any increase in alcoholic content over and above the one-half of one per cen established in | existing legislation for the purposes of effective enforcement. The standard of one-half of one per cent of alcoholic | content in permitted beverages was established many years ago when the | liquor traffic was licensed. It was estab- lished at the suggestion of the liquor dealers themselves and had as its pur- | pose effective enforcement of the tax provisions of the statutes and was di- rected against the illegal traffic. No in- crease in the alcoholic content of beer or other permitted beverages would be satisfactory to those desiring intoxicat- ing liquor, unless the alcoholic content were sufficlently large to make the bev- erage intoxicating in fact. On the other hand, if Congress should attempt to legalize an alcoholic content that was intoxicating in fact this would be a plain effort to nullify the Constitution. The American people do not believe in and will not stand for nullification. Not a single argument has been ade in | favor of legalizing beer that is sound or | has any basis of fact upon which to | stand. Intoxicating liquor in all forms | is a destructive force in civilization. For the Government to attempt to legalize | and protect an evil is commercially and | economically unsound and_is sqcially immoral and destructive. People can- not drink themselves sober nor drink themselves into prosperity. Against such a theory of government and such an effort on the part of the friends of liquor the Anti-Saloon League enters earnest and solemn protest. “The Anti-Saloon League, as always, believes in and stands for appropria- tions by Congress adequate to make the enforcement of the prohibitory laws ef- fective. As shown in the reports of the prohibition commissioner, fines and for- feitures accruing under the administra- tion of the law approximately cover the total expense of administration and en- forcement as heretofore conducted. Al- together aside from any financial bene- lamous de lux and TRIESTE. Sho 1o ol U. S. AGENTS ACCUSED OF BRIBE ATTEMPT Dentist Says He Was Offered $1,000 to Pose as Uncle of Renaldo, Actor. By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, December 14.—A charge that New York Government agents had attempted to bribe a it ness in the Federal ition trial of Duncan Renaldo, fi ctor, was made yestérday by Dr. Dennis Macris, New York dentist, who said he was offered $1,000 to testify he was Re- raldo’s uncle. The deportation trial of the acior opened with Fred Horwitz, special as- sistant to the Attorney General, telling the jury that Renaldo’s true name is Vasile Dumitree Cughieanas, and that he is a Rumanian immigrant unlawfully in the United States. Federal attorneys claimed Renaldo came to the United States in 1921 as a fioker on a French steamer. He repre- i ted himsélf, authorities said, as a Greek and obtained a 90-day seaman’s permit to go ashore at Baltimore, The actor then went to New York, authori- tles said, and lost himself. Horwitz said that in March, 1929, Renaldo made application for life in- surance, giving his birthplace as Ru- mania, but on the next day he went to a passport office here in connection with a trip to Africa and gave his birth- place as Camden, N. J. “They told me they would give me $1,000 and a nice trip to California if I would agree to testify that I was Re- noldo's uncle,” Dr. Macris, a Govern- ment witness, testified. R e Film Cowboy Faces Arrest. LOS ANGELES, December 14 (#).—A bench warrant was issued yesterday for the arrest of Jack Hoxie, cowboy film actor, when he failed to appear in Su- perior Court to explain alleged non- payment of alimony to his wife, Marian Hoxia She complained he was $355 in arrears. WRIST WATCH Ladies’ Wrist Watches In all shapes and designs; 14- kt. white gold filled, guaran- teed 25 years; fully jeweled. A regular $15 value 36_75 Buy at the Upst: Jewelry Store and save 40% on standard make watches, ri and other jewelry. 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