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ERNEST H. CHERRINGTON Director, Anti-Saloon League of America, Washington...
...ancestral business. But last week he said: "After eight years of miserable Prohibition failure, with its paralyzing corruption, its demoralization of youth, its rum-running, moonshining, bootlegging and consequent terrifying crime and other deep-seated evils -for all of which the Anti-Saloon League is directly responsible- Mr. Cherrington ["Educational Director" of the League] seems to be in mortal fear lest what was once the brewing industry should exercise good citizenship by helping to clear up the nauseating mess into which the Anti-Saloon League had dragged the country...
Secretary Ernest H. Cherrington of the World League Against Alcoholism cried out: "The gage has been thrown in what promises to be the greatest 'wet and dry' battle that the nation has ever seen...
Last week, the League bigwigs compromised. They continued Dr. McBride as Superintendent. Promptly U. S. politicians were warned that only Drys need hope to have Anti-Saloon League money spent on their campaigns. For Mr. Cherrington, the bigwigs created the post of "Director of Publicity, Education and Research...
...observers imagined the bigwigs had known in advance what would happen. To the League came Sebastian Spering Kresge (5¢ & 10¢ stores) of Detroit and Manhattan, long a League admirer, and declared that $500,000 of a 25 million-dollar charity fund which he lately set aside, was at Publicist Cherrington's disposal for 1928. The League had said that it wanted a million for 1928. Mr. Kresge promised to get the rest at once from fellow businessmen. Within 20 minutes of the opening of the League's campaign for "education" funds, subscriptions totalled...