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Show PRESIDENT WILSON FAVORS LOCAL OPTION BUT NOT PROHIBITION Washington, April S. President Wilson Is In favor of local option on the liquor question and doe not believe be-lieve prohibition should bo made a part of a party program. Since the order of Secretary Daniels was Issued prohibiting the use of liquor by officers offic-ers In the navy, persons In a position to obtain the president's views have learned that he will stand by his letter, let-ter, written In Mar. 19U. while gov-ernor gov-ernor of New Jersey, to tho Rev. Thomas D. Shannon, of Newark, New Jersey, In which he said: "I am In, favor of local option. I am a thorough believer In local self government and believe that every self governing community which constitutes con-stitutes a social unlT should have the right to control ,the matter of th regulation or the withholding of licenses. li-censes. "But the questions lnvolved.are social so-cial and moral and arc not ruscertl-ble ruscertl-ble of being made parts of a party program. Whenever they nave been made the subject matter of party contests they have cut the lines of party organlratlon and party action athwart to the utter confusion of political po-litical action In every other field. They have thrown every other ques-tlon, ques-tlon, however Important, into the background and have made constructive construc-tive party action Impossible for long years together. Secretary Daniels told friends that the purpose of his order was in no way to give a personal aspect to the subject of prohibition or to commit the national administration but nn to promote efficiency In tho navy in conformity with recommendation of Surgeon General Uraisted- The. president presi-dent looks upon the new order as ,a departmental matter. Secretary D?n lels having acted on his own Initiative |