Drys Gird

With the G. O. P. splitting on Prohibition, with the crest of a Wet groundswell growing weekly higher and more apparent, the U. S. Drys, Consolidated, last week girded themselves for two years of action more militant than ever.

League. In Washington, Superintendent F. Scott McBride of the Anti-Saloon League announced that his organization would raise $5,000,000 to spend during the coming year--$3,500,000 more than it spent last year. He also hinted that a "committee of 15 industrialists" might be formed to match the prestige of the Wet du Ponts and John Jacob Raskob. He published a list of 25 businessmen "determined that the Dry cause shall have the fair trial which it merits." Most notable name on this list: H. W. Hoover (no kin), vacuum cleaner man of North Canton, Ohio. Other names: Senator Arthur Capper, Dr. John Harvey Kellogg, Admiral William S. Sims, Horace Taft.

Union. In Houston, Texas, the Women's Christian Temperance Union closed its convention with resolutions against all critics of President Hoover, scofflaw cinemas, hip flasks. It warned both parties to choose Bone-Dry Candidates in future.

Board. In Cincinnati, General Secretary Clarence True Wilson of the Methodist Board of Temperance, Prohibition & Public Morals said: "I believe a [national] referendum would reveal [that] an astounding majority of the American people would sustain the Amendment. . . ." He also announced: "Any one who thinks we would not oppose President Hoover if he reverses his Prohibition stand, just as quickly as we opposed Mr. Smith in 1928, is badly mistaken."

Herald. In Manhattan, Editor Stanley Hoflund High of the Christian Herald (monthly) assured members of the Anti-Saloon League: "The fate of Prohibition will be the fate of President Hoover!"

Century. Editor Charles Clayton Morrison of the Christian Century (weekly) decided that his magazine was unique, that every Dry in the U.S. should buy it, look to it for leadership (see p. 25).

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