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acrimonious Wet v. Dry conflict, is to be found in Commander
Clark's preface to the Crusader book: "There are three sides to
the Liquor Problem. The Dry Side, the Wet Side and the Right Side! . .
. The new Crusader ... is going to make every possible effort to get
the old temperance forces to cooperate with him in his present
challenge to the speakeasy, the bootlegger, the corrupt politician
and the gangster! He believes that when sincere temperance people
understand his motives they will back his Crusade, since the principles
he stands for are practically the same code of the principles the W. C.
T. U. adopted when present-day grey-haired mothers were children in
short dresses." Focus. Last week Wet & Dry eyes turned to
Congress, ultimate focus of their next big fight. There they beheld
frothy turmoil over legalizing beer, heard noisy clamor for immediate
Repeal. Beneath surface politics, however, was the solid fact that no
serious move to effect a Change would or could be undertaken until
after the People speak Nov. 8.
