Clarence True Wilson, general secretary of the Methodist Board of Temperance, Prohibition and Public Morals, revealed to-day that he had sent a letter to Senator T. H. Caraway, of Arkansas, saying that the activities of Catholic organizations must be investigated in the event that activities of the Methodist Board are considered by Senator Caraway's committee on Washing-tom lobbyists.
There has been recent agitation in "wet" circles that the Anti-Saloon League; the Methodists and other "drys" should be considered connection with lobbyists' activity and Mr. Wilson's letter was designe to prevent his" organization fron: Decoming a sole target in this connection.
Jan, 31.
Much significance was attached to-day to a speech before the House of Representatives by Congressman Franklin W. Fort, Republican of New Jersey, who advocated a clarin fication of the Volstead Act to permit home manufacture of light wines and beers which are "non intoxicating in fact.'
Congressman Fort is regarded as President Hoover's spokesman in the House and representatives listened intently to his. reman some considering the speech being in the nature balloon."
The Volstead Act, Congressman Fort declared, actually fails to prevent home brewing of light Hquors and therefore some action is required to bring the law into me with actual facts.
Tt is understood that President Hoover was requainted with Ca grossman Fort's intention in making the speech to-day, since Mr. Fore has been a frequent visitor at the White House. He was a strong supporter of Mr. Hoover in the presidential campaign, and resigned only recently from' the post of Inceretary of the Republican National Committee because of pressure of other busines Congressman Fort said that he hoped the House would acquit him of fanaticism with relation to liquor. He related how he hed first used intoxicating liquor at the age of 18 years, feeling its use at that time to be a "social necessity," but stopped using it at the age of 42 when he felt that its discontinuance was then if "social daty."
Giving conerete evidence of the high temperature to which the prohibition question in the United States has arisen,
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