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her life." Since she is not yet 46, there appears to be
considerable work ahead of her. How sincere and dedicated her fol
lowing is will be more accurately determined between now and
November. The real strength of the Sabin organization lies in the
desire of the smalltown matron to ally herself, no matter how remotely,
with a congregation of bona fide, rotogravure society figures in a
cause about which she may or may not have profound convictions. The
weakness of the W. O. N. P. R. lies in the populous class of rural
women who also vote and who bitterly suspect, envy and hate the ground
that ladies like Mrs. Sabin walk on. Crusaders. A companion
organization to Mrs. Sabin's is the Crusaders, which numbers a million
militant male members (chiefly young) and which was founded in the same
month and year. Last week. two days after the Roslyn convention, the
Crusaders, 40 trustees and commanders met privately in the country
home of Trustee Leonard Hanna at Mentor, Ohio, near Cleveland where the
organization was formed. Plotting their part in the coming elections,
the Crusader board, of which Mrs. Sabin's stepson Charles Jr. is a
member, took a more cautious course than their feminine contemporaries.
In a statement which leaned toward but did not embrace the candidacy of
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the Crusaders declared: "Our position
is now, as always, to support only those candidates for office,
regardless of party affiliations, who favor the principles for which we
stand. . . . The Democratic party has met the issue squarely and we
commend them for their stand. The Republican party has offered a plank
which is, as yet, undefined. We call upon the President, as the nominee
of his party, to state clearly and plainly where he stands on this
all-important question—whether for or against the repeal of the 18th
Amendment." Elsewhere on the Wet front, the Association Against
the Prohibition Amendment (600,000 members), oldest Wet unit, which
has the support of Pierre du Pont, was biding its time, waiting for the
Hoover acceptance speech before plumping for either or neither party.
Book. More thoughtfully statistical than the Sabin sisterhood, the
Crusaders are currently circulating a book called The New Crusade,
presented "to the thinking peoples of the United States that
they may intelligently understand the results of compulsory
Prohibition." At the University of Chicago last month Cleveland
Oilman Fred G. Clark, 38, the Crusaders' founder and commander-in-chief,
debated Prohibition with General Secretary Clarence True Wilson
of the Methodist Board of Temperance, Prohibition & Public
Morals. During this debate the greatest Wet surprise of the year was
sprung. It was evident that Commander Clark's purpose was to meet the
Dry forces well over the halfway mark; to get them, if he could, to
unite in a movement which would put Temperance above the 18th
Amendment. The only barrier existing between the Crusaders and the Drys
that he could see was the fact of the existing Prohibition laws. Much
interested, Secretary Wilson so plainly expressed his approval of
the Crusaders' "fair and constructive stand" on Temperance
that next day Chicago newspapers drew the exaggerated conclusion that
the Dry leader had become "moist." An echo of the Chicago
debate, which marked a new and startlingly conciliatory phase in the
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