Show Owner of Great Fortune Favors Repeal of Amendment I i FINDS DRINKING GAINING Ardent Drys Are Amazed by His Views en Br Associated Press NEW YORK June 7 Jubilation 7 reigned in the wet camp toda today for lor forJohn forJohn John D. D Rockefeller Jr a long life dry has decided that the eighteenth amendment ought to be repealed The oil magnates magnate's change of opinion opinion ion disclosed in a letter to Dr Nicholas Nicholas Nicho Niche las Murray urray Butler brought of amazement and sharp disagreement disagreement dis dis- dis agreement from supporters of the prohibition prohibition pro pro- hib l on amendment which Rockefeller ler and his father helped make the law of the land In expressing hope that both major parties would adopt repeat repeal planks and remove the question from partisan strife Rockefeller made it plain he had not altered his views on tern tem perance He said he had been a teetotaler all his lis life me Neither my father nor his f father ever tasted a drop of intoxicating intoxicating intoxicating cating liquor nor h have l e I he said He said he and his father had contributed con- con to the Antis league to support prohibition legisla legisla- tion PLAYED QUIET PART Mr l Rockefeller was credited with a quiet but effective part in the movement movement move move- ment which culminated in adoption of the prohibition amendment Though he was never a spectacular propagandist for prohibition the dry forces and particularly the loon league regarded him as one of their greatest p pillars There appears to be no record of any contributions by him to the Anti Anti- saloon league after afler 1925 It was at al about aboul that time that he broke with the organization as result of irregularities irregularities exposed in the prosecution and conviction of William H H. Anderson New York state stale superintendent Anderson served a prison term In 1924 for tor third degree forgery and at that time Mr Rockefeller demanded demand demand- ed cd a full inquiry into the affairs of the lea league ue and in this connection he came rame to the support of Raymond D. D Fosdick who was in controversy with Anderson CHALLENGES CHARGE He challenged Andersons Anderson's charge that he was the victim of a wet conspiracy conspiracy con con- saying If Mr Fosdick is guilty of participation pation patton in an any wet vet conspiracy I am guilty too loo for he has represented me mc mein mein in this matter mailer for two Iwo years and I have fully approved of oC his every action ac ae ae- ae tion and he has had and still retains my complete confidence Slowly and reluctantly Rockefeller ler said he had come to lo believe that the amendment had not been supported support support- ed by public opinion sufficiently 1 lo to hasten the day when the value to society of oC men with minds and bodies free from the undermining effects of ol alcohol would be generally realized Rather he declared he found that thai drinking generally has increased the speakeasy has replaced the saloon Continued on Pate Pare Two Rockefeller Stand Cheers Wets Upsets Plans for Party Planks Owner of Great Fortune Favors Repeal of Amendment Continued from Pare Face one on not only unit for unit but probably two twofold fold fold if not three fold that a vast army of law breakers has been recruited recruited re re- recruited re- re and financed on a colossal scale cale that many of ot our best citizens piqued at what they regarded as an infringement in- in of their private rights have lave openly and unabashedly disregarded disregarded the eighteenth amendment that hat as an inevitable result respect for or all law has been greatly lessened that hat crime has increased to an unprecedented un un- un degree COMPLETE CO SYMPATHY Rockefeller told Dr Butler president president dent of Columbia university and prominent Republican foe of the amendment that he was In complete s sympathy with a rc resolution Dr Butler But But- sI sn I ler cr will vIll seek seck to have the Republican n national convention incorporate in its platform The resolution calls for r repeal by submission to state con- con v pledging the party to fight t the he saloon and urging that the amendment amend amend- ment mont be obeyed while in force The oil magnate said id sufficient time ought to be given before repeal became became beame be- be came ame effective to permit the states sLates t to o insure control of the liquor traffic He Ic He declared however that he did not not favor lavor coupling repeal with an alter alternate 1 nate measure o offered as a substitute because it would be df difficult f cult for people peo peo- pie pIc to agree and unlikely that any anyone anyone anyone one method will fit the entire na na- na tion Lion Mrs Ella A. A Boole Book president of the I W. W C. C T. T U. U commenting on the letter asked Will people who have refused refused re re- re fused to obey the prohibition law agree to obey the restrictions that must of necessity be a n part of any other law I CANNON CANNO OPPOSED Bishop James Cannon Jr of the I Isaid Methodist l Episcopal church south said the amendment had been successful successful suc sue and that certainly we do not propose to exchange what we have far far better than the legalized traffic and saloon of the old days daJ's for days for or something something some some- thing thins that is unformulated and un Un- tried Dr D. D Leigh Colvin chairman of the prohibition national committee deel declaring ring Rockefeller made wild statements said government figures show that the source of ot liquor supply supply sup sup- ply is not over 35 per cent what it was before and that crime has bas de de- de creased Dr Butler on the other hand h hailed Mr Rockefellers Rockefeller's support and said it would have bave a very great influence in the public opinion of the country and Mrs Charles H. H Sabin chairman of the Women's Organization for National National Na Na- Prohibition Reform praised the oil man for his courage |