Salt Lake Telegram | 1930-12-07 | Page 5 | Friends and Foes of Prohibition Plan New Drives

i Friends and Fo Foes of Prohibition Plan New Dri Drive v j r Both Factions Call all Conferences Monday f i t T To 0 Outline Programs b Dry rys Plan Big Ca Campaign Wets w eta Seek Single Substitute t WASHINGTON Dec 6 AP Al' Individual wet and d dry y a advocates advocate Were nvere converging upon Washington tonight with ono one group seeking seeking- to harmonize on a single substitute for tor pr prohibition and the other to plan a nationwide drive In its Us support C Coincidently thero came camo a n statement state state- me mC ment t from F. F Scott McBride superintendent super super- enl of or tho the league that for Cor tho the second ond time In the history of ot tho the dry or organization thedr thedr the dr dry forces are aro getting ready to catTy carry on an aggressive nationwide program to overcome wet wot activities tl tI ties s bR s LAY PLANS The Tho dry leaders will wUI meet In a n nl national temperance council on Monday and Tuesday and then at a national conference of or organ organizations BU J tho eighteenth amend amend- net ment The They have laid plans for lor threshing th out outS among other things tho troublesome question of or whether prohibitionists should support a a. na nn- na- na tl nal al referendum The likewise will vill convene Monday In what has been called a national constitutIonal constitutional convention Its leaders said tod today it might last from five days two too weeks They estimated op ap approximately approximately ap- ap proximately persons persona might be bc pr present but neither the tho association against Im t th tho prohibition n amendment nor nor nor- northe the crusaders two of tho the outstanding out- out standing wet organizations will wilt be ber r represented pr SE SEEK K SUBSTITUTE PLAN Tho The purpose of tho the meeting wa was Elven In n a statement today as the lIng of ot a concrete answer to the demand of ot the militant prohibition prohibition- I show them some plan to sub sub- for the tho modification of the eighteenth amendment and tho thoOl Vol- Vol Etel d act rv leaders who already have bave expressed widely divergent views upon the tho advisability of ot a a. prohibition 1 tion n referendum have agreed that the vet wet forces should settle BelUe upon a single Ingle substitute for lor prohibition before be he- fore lore any vote voto is taken T o subject was kept alive today by the Methodist board o of temper temper- ance EDITORIAL CITED In n an editorial In its weekly clipsheet clipsheet clip clip- sheet heet tho the opinion vas was expressed that up no consid consideration ration of repeal of ot the Jaw would havo any merit unless s the results will be supported by the wet et or organizations and tho th millionaires million million- aires s who are at present financing t against uc tho the law If Lf these organizations and Indi the editorial said Id would cease their obstructive o tactics and no longer langeI encourage crime th there re would be he little difficulty in enforcement enforce enforce- ment of ot the tho prohibition law