Show FROM FROl DRY TO WET WETS S senator Senator James J. J Davis of Pennsylvania for- for merely a dry is going to run for reelection as a wet that Is his platform urges modification modification I- I cation of the Act and calls for a referendum referendum referendum ref ref- ref ref- on the Eighteenth amendment The various wet and dry leaders can be left to argue about the significance of this conversIon conversion conversion con con- version meanwhile the general question of statesmen who change their convictions overnight deserves a little consideration It is perfectly plausible of course to argue that a statesman ought to be a mouthpiece ce for his constituents and that he is obligated to adopt new policies it if he is convinced that the majority of his constituents want him to But there used to be a theory that a statesman statesman states states- man sho should ld be a leader that he should tell the voters This is my stand and if you dont don't like it you must elect someone else That theory of course calls on a man to put principle above success at the polls and that perhaps is 15 a little too much to expect |