Evening Star Newspaper, December 1, 1935, Page 18

A—18 1. VAR PENED BY UNTED DRYS Better Observance of Laws and New Act Two-fold Purpose. The United Dry Forces of the Dis- trict of Columbia today launch their week's campaign in the interests of | temperance, and eventual prohibition for the National Capital. Realizing that enactment of a new prohibition law at this time is im- possible, the United Dry Forces have started a two-fold educational cam- paign to stimulate public sentiment against what is considered *‘worse” conditions since repeal, and in favor of better observance of present laws, | ahd finally, enactment of a new pro- hibition act for this city. One meeting will be held today to | n a series of public gatherings in otestant churches throughout the | city during the week. They will cul- minate in a mass meeting next Sun- | day afternoon at Nationa! City Chris- tian Church. Start of Campaign. Brightwood Park Methodist Episco- pal Church starts the campaign off | with the only session at 8 p.m. today. Rev. 8. Carrol Coale, pastor, .will pre- | side as chairman, and the speaker will be T. B. Jarvis. % Meetings will be held each nilht‘ during the week, except Saturday, at | various churches scattered through- | out the city, according to a schedule made public last night by the Spenk-:‘ ers’ Committee of the campaign, | headed by J. Raymond Schmidt. | Dr. E. M. Ellison, president of the United Dry Forces, will take an active | part during the week as a speaker, and will preside at the closing ses- sion next Sunday afternoon at Na- tional City Christian Church. | “Our campaign is predicated on the | failure of repeal” declared Schmidt. | “Drinking conditions are far worse than before in the city of Washing- ton. crime is on the increase, instead of the decrease, as the wets promised us. Sentiment is swinging back to prohibition as evidenced by the inter- est displayed in this campaign. Twofold Purpose. “The United Dry Forces have a two- fold purpose—First, encouraging total abstinence on the part of the individ: ual; and. second, creating sentiment | looking toward curtailment of the|sary, authorities announced tonight,| pajgn which the distillers were badly | Dr. Haven Emerson’s text book on lquor traffic. and its eventual pro-|in an effort to hang Douglas Van|geareq and spending not less than | “Alcohol” for all colleges and normal hibition in the District, as provided ; Vlack, confessed slayer of his pretty | ¢19000 a day for advertising and schools. 8 = for by the Guyer bill. “The Guyer bill, introduced in the last session of Congress, July 1, by Representative U. S. Guyer of Kansas, | hanging at the first trial,” said Prose- ' 1s pending in the House District Com- ' cutor Edward E. Babcock, “I shall | mittee. The measure is a revision of the Sheppard law, which put the Dis- trict dry in 1917 and was repealed | repeated to Sheriff E. F. Prater the y.,¢ . pe said; “no scheme of theirs with the ratification of the twenty- first amendment. It is a greatly im- | proved bill, without the loopholes of former dry legislation, which greatly | found yesterday pinioned in a culvert | aided ‘scofflaws’ in violation of pro- hibition.” Signatures are being obtained by | the United Dry Forces during the eampaign this week to a petition ask- ing enactment of the Guyer bill. Schedule for Week. The schedule of churches, chair- men and speakers for the week's eampaign, is as follows: Monday, December 2. 8 p.m.—Mount Vernon Place M. E. Church, speaker, Dr. Deets Pickett. 8 pm.—Shiloh Baptist Church, Ninth and P streets, chairman, Rev. E. L. Harrison; speakers, John B. Hammond and James R. Moss. Tuesday, December 3. 8 pm.—Ninth Street Christian Church, chairman, Rev. C. H. Jope; speaker, D. Stewart Patterson. 8 p.m.—Ebenezer M. E. Church, Fourth and D streets southeast, chair- | man, Rev. F. F. King; speakers, W, O. | Tufts and John D. Hammond. | 8 p.m.—Clarendon Methodist Church, Clarendon, Va., speaker, J. Raymond Bchmidt. Wednesday, December 4. 8 p.m.—Eldebrooke M. E. Church, ehairman, Rev. Walter W. Michael; | Speaker, Harry S. Warner. 8 p.m.—Hyattsville Baptist Church, | ¢hairman, Rev. B. P. Robertson &peaker, Charles M. Pidgeon. *8 pm—John Wesley A. M. E. Church, Fourteenth and Cochrane | #treets, chairman, Rev. W. O. Carring- | ton; speakers, E. M. Bryan and John B. Hammond. Thursday, December 5. 8 p.m.—Union M. E. Church, chair- | Mman, Rev. J. E. Fort; speaker, Miss Laura Lindley. 8 p.m—Calvary Baptist Church, ¢hairman, Dr. W. S. Abernethy; | speaker, Dr. Deets Pickett. 8 p.m.—Zion Baptist Church, F street between Third and Fourth streets southwest, chairman, Rev. J. M.| Ellison; speakers, E. M. Bryan and | John B. Hammond. 7:30 p.m.—Mount Rainier Christian | Church, Thirty-third street and Bun- | ker Hill road, Mount Rainier, Md., | PROGRESSIVE OIL BURNERS See This Oil Burner Before Making a Decision! 5-Year Guarantee Free Service and Parts Any nationally advertised product completely installed in_six rooms. NO MONEY DOWN 3 YEARS TO PAY Without Extra Charge 1st Payment 30 Days After Completion of Work ® B and G Summer and Win- ter Hot Water Attachments. ® All makes of nationally known boilers on display at our mew showroom—906 10th St. N.W. Heating ECONOMY c:..x, 906 10th St. N.W, chairman, Rev. F. L. Miller; speaker, J. Raymond Schmidt. Friday, December 6. 8 pm—Foundry M. E. Church, chairman, Dr. F. B. Harris; speaker, Dr. Harry E. Woolever. 8 p.m—West Washington Baptist Church, chairman, Rev. C. B. Austin; speaker, J. Raymond Schmidt. Sunday, December 8. THE BUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, PROBIHITION BACK V'S ISFOREGAST 11 am—Takoma Park ChrisianFOrces Lining Up for Battle Church, chairman, Rev. W. H. Pinker- ton: speaker, Dr. W. L. Darby. 11 a.m.—Parkview Christian Church, chairman, Rev. W. F. Smith; speaker, T. B. Jarvis. 11 .—H Street Christian Church, chairman, Rev. C. N. Willlams; speaker, Harry S. Warner. 11 a.m.—Bethany Baptist Church, chairman and speaker, Rev. M. P. German. 11 a.m.—Calvary Baptist Church, | chairman and speaker, Rev, W, 8. Abernethy. 11 a.m.— Metropolitan Baptist Church, chairman and speaker, Rev. John C. Ball. 11 am.—Hamline M. E. Church, | chairman and speaker, Rev. H. W.| Burgan. | 11 am.—Chevy Chase Presbyterian Church, chairman and speaker, Rev. J. H. Hollister. 11 am.—New York Avenue Presby- terian Church, chairman and speaker, Rev. J. R. Siz00. 11 a.m.—National City Christian | Church, chairman and speaker, Rev. R. H. Miller. 11 a.m.—Columbia Heights Christian | Church, chairman and speaker, Rev. | A. P. Wilson. 11 am—Waugh M. E. Church,! chairman and speaker, Rev. A. F. Poore. | 12:15 p.m.—Nineteenth Street Bap- | tist_Church, chairman, Rev. Walter | ¢jon by 1940, and with an aggressive | H. Brooks; speakers, E. M. Bryan and | campaign 40 States can be dry by | John B. Hammond. 3 p.m.—National City Christian Church, chairman, Dr. E. M. Ellison; speakers, Mrs, D. Leigh Colvin and others. 7 p.m.—Fifteenth Street Presby. terian Church, chairman, Rev. H. B. Taylor; speaker, C. M. Pidgeon. CONFESSED KILLER IS IN DOUBLE PERIL If Acquitted in Girl's Murder Will Face Trial in Death of Patrolman. By the Associated Press. TWIN FALLS, Idaho, November 30. —Two trials will be pressed if neces- farmer wife and accused killer of a highway patrolman. i “If I fail to obtain a verdict for proceed with the second.” The statement came as Van Viack story of the brutal killing of his di- vorced wife, 22-year-old Mildred Hook of Tacoma, Wash. Her body was near here. The head was batteres in. She had been shot through the left eye. Van Vlack, at the time his former wife's body was found, was awaiting trial for shooting to death Highway Patrolman Fontaine Cooper, one of two officers who sought to question him about the kidnaping. Two brothers today returned Miss Hook’s body to the Tacoma home from which she disappeared last Saturday after, the Hook family said, Van Viack had threatened her with death. Glasgow, Scotland, has a boom in the sale of dress suits. Distinguished pa Preeminent in to BABY GRAND Terms May Be Arranged 1330 G Met. 2132 Homel; L. as Study of Repeal Stirs Drys. By the Associated Press. ST. LOUIS, November 30.—F. Scott McBride, general superintendent of the Anti-Saloon League of America, asserted today a two-year survey in- dicated the prob- able return of prohibition by 1945. The dry lead- er's foracast was based on a study of the effect of repeal in 44 States. Summarizing results of the survey in his bi- ennial report to the "board of di- rectors, preced- ing the formal Seolt McBride. opening of the | league's annual convention tomorrow, | McBride said: “Over the country probably 2,000 | different local units have voted dry| within this 2-year period. “I believe there is every indica- tion * * * a majority of the States will again be dry by their own ac-| 1945.” Backing Required. McBride stated he did not believe national prohibition would be enacted again “until the people are back of |it in at least 40 States and until large portions of the other States are dry.” State and local elections, he de- clared, showed a significant trend to- ward return to the dry's objective. “State-wide contests- have been held !in Mississippi, Georgia, Norih Da- | kota, Maine, Kansas, West Virginia, Alabama, 7Texas and Kentucky. The drys won in Mississippi, North Da- kota, Kansas, Alabama and Georgi: In other States, he added, the drys have shown increasing power at the | polls. “Texas reduced its wet majority | more than two-thirds, and Kentucky reduced the majority 40.000 in a cam- propaganda,” McBride asserted. The veteran crusader criticized re- opening of the liquor traffic as a “miserable failure.” | “No Wet Promise Kept.” “No promise of the wets has been has contributed a single thing worth | while looking toward the solution of | the alcoholic liquor problem. The wets 0 not deny that there is a decided |increase in drinking and drunken- ness. It is conclusive that repeal has | tatled.” | McBride said the league, “realizing | the pendulum in the contest with beverage alcohol has swung from the | Capitol at Washington to the States,” ‘INCORPORATED- I'oUR PLUMBER’ OFFICIAL PIANO METROPOLITAN OPERA tronage has al- ways been accorded the Knabe. ne and superbly styled, its presence evidences a cul- ture and discrimination that is sat- isfied only with the best. ® Knabe purthase leaves no regrets. Kitt Co. Street would embark on a militant campaign to secure State anti-liquor laws. He denied there had been any shift of attitude “from our historic dry position to a more liberal view” and said the league would continue to fight for “the annihilation and aboli- tion of the alcoholic liquor traffic.” McBride opposed suggestions by some members that the league adopt a new name. “The salloon is back, and the contest is rapidly going back to the old fight of saloon or no saloon,” he declared. NEW BATTLE PLANNED. Temperance Forces Direct Aims to Educating Young People. By the Assoclated Press. ‘Two years after repeal, the two sides of the question are marshaling forces for new battles over prohibition. With pledge-signing campaigns and social activities, temperance leaders are directing their efforts now mainly to educating young people against “the dangers of drinking.” One prominent leader of the tem- | perance movement predicted in an off- | the - record statement that national prohibition would return “within 10 years” if the “evils” of repeal were not corrected. The repeal advocates, who became | quiet after the passage of the twenty- first amendment, are rousing again to | meet the new temperance drive. | Some once-active forces on both sides have withdrawn from the fight, disbanded or turned to other fields. “Second Birthday” Line-Up. Here is the line-up as the repeal its second | amendment approaches birthday, next Thursday: | The National Prohibition Party still organized, with headquarters in In- dianapolis, but political observers here { doubt that it will offer a candidate | for the presidency in 1936. Some of its State units are reported joining | other political groups. | | The "Anti-Saloon League centering | its fight on State prohibition laws and | local-option battles. Never an in- | dependent political movement, it con- tinues to support candidates believed | favorable to prohibition, regardless cf | party. Dr. F. Scott McBride, execu- | tive director, who has held 350 meet- ings in 31 States since February 1, re- | ported “a marked upturn in senti- ment.” The Methodist board of temper- ance, prohibition and public morals | recently estimated “an increase of | | approximately 50 per cent in dry vot- | ing strength.” Works with youth, cir- | culating total-abstinence pledge cards , In schools and colleges, and advocating $40,000 & Year for Work. | Hopes to provde ultimately a $40,- | | 000-a-year income for temperance | work. Dr. Clarence True Wilson, ex- | ecutive secretary, reported renewed | interest in the 350 meetings he has | D. C, DECEMBER 1, held throughout the country since the first of the year. Allied Youth is the ‘newest of the “educational” temperance movements, organized in 1931 to “help young people face the questions raised by alcohol and have a good time as they do it.” Activities of the local posts include dances, entertainment, ath- letic teams, discussion and “show me” tours of police courts, hospitals, jails, industrial plants, asylums and settle- ments districts to observe “the con- sequences of drinking.” ‘Women’s Christian Temperance Union reports “our program hasn't been changed at all since repeal.” Still maintains its youth temperance council. Co-operating with these groups in some centers are such youth move- ments as the Boy Scouts, the Young Men's Christian Association and the National Parent-Teachers' Congress, The Business Men's Research Founda- tion maintains offices in Chicago for studying the alcohol problem from a temperance angle. On the other side: Repeal associates, heirs of the Asso- siation against the prohibition amend- ment, which dissolved in 1934, is push- ing a six-point program in defense of repeal: 1. Combat “propaganda” for return of prohibition. 2. Rid the country of bootlegging “and its col- lateral racketeering.” 3. Help elim- inate menace of automobile accidents involving drivers “who have been drinking.” 4. Collect reliable statistics concerning conditions existing under repeal. 5. Give the public “informa- tion which will familiarize them with actual conditions, and enable them to | co-operate intelligently with liquor: | control agencies.” 6. Act as a clear- | ing house for information “concerning the control of the liquor traffic.” D. C. 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An official said the organization had been kept intact for the time when “we would be needed again,” and added: “We're beginning to think that time may have come.” Distilled Spirits Institute, trade asso- clation of the distilling industry, heir of the Distilled Spirits Code Authority, under the unconstitutional Federal Alcohol Control Administration, repre- sents “the desire of the industry for strict regulation, plus an accompany- ing strictness in enforcement of all who seek by illegal means to circum- vent the collection of taxes to which the Federal and State government are entitled.” United States Brewers' Association, American Brewers' Association, Cali- fornia Wine Growers' Association, Finger Lakes and Eastern Wine Growers' Association and other liquor trade groups along with the New York Council for Moderation, a business men’s group, led by John D. 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