"Twelve miles north-by-east of Columbus, Ohio, is the center of American morality," declared a Wet editor, referring to Westerville, Ohio. At Westerville 40 state superintendents of the Anti-Saloon League held a three-day convention to draw up plans for the coming year. On comparing notes, they agreed that the Atlantic states are not more than 50% dry and the country as a whole not more than 70% dry, and they decided that the next five years would be the hardest for them—that full enforcement of the Volstead Act cannot be attained before 1930.
They...
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