Pamphlets
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Pamphlets cover a wide range of topics from the harmful effects of liquor to how the Federal government should provide better control over the illegal liquor traffic.
Undated Pamphlets include many pamphlets and leaflets describing the background, principles and operations of the Anti-Saloon League and various aspects of temperance and prohibition. They include "To Drink or Not to Drink," "Wet Slanders of Abraham Lincoln Refuted," "Catholics and Prohibition," "The Battle for National Prohibition," and other articles by Edward B. Dunford, Wayne B. Wheeler, William E. Johnson, Ernest H. Cherrington, Cora Frances Stoddard, Evangeline Booth, and other prohibition supporters.
Pamphlets, 1883-1918, contain: addresses and sermons concerning the harmful medical effects of alcohol, the cost of alcoholic beverages to consumers, and religious arguments against liquor license laws; the A.S.L. "Blue Book," entitled "The Church in Action Against the Saloon"; "The Birth of the Anti-Saloon League"; and pamphlets concerning prohibition laws and the effects of liquor. Pamphlets for 1919 consist of "The Eighteenth Amendment," by Wayne B. Wheeler; the report of Congressional hearings on enforcement of prohibition; and a Congressional report by A. J. Volstead on "Prohibiting Intoxicating Beverages."
Pamphlets, 1920-1922, consist of printed materials concerning prohibition and prohibition organizations, including: the annual report of the New Zealand Alliance for the Abolition of the Liquor Traffic; copies of United States prohibition laws; the annual report of the Virginia Commissioner of Prohibition; "The Prohibition Question, Viewed from the Economic and Moral Standpoint"; the program for the International Convention of the World League Against Alcoholism; and several leaflets regarding prohibition.
Pamphlets for 1923 include: "Beer: Is it Intoxicating Liquor?"; "Laws Relating to National Prohibition Enforcement," published by the Internal Revenue Service; President Harding's address on law enforcement; extracts from Congressional hearings on establishment of an independent prohibition bureau; and other materials concerning prohibition enforcement, search and seizure regulations, and the effects of making liquor easily available.
Pamphlets dated 1924 include: Ernest H. Cherrington's "Report on Behalf of the American Committee on International Relations"; "Regulations Relative to Intoxicating Liquor," published by the Prohibition Unit of the Bureau of Internal Revenue; the report and addresses of the Woman's National Convention for Law Enforcement; extracts from Congressional hearings on manufacture and sale of 2.75% beverages; and other pamphlets concerning prohibition.
Pamphlets for 1925 include: information concerning the International Reform Federation; "Is Prohibition a Success After Five Years?," by Wayne B. Wheeler; the annual report of the Legal and Legislative Department of the A.S.L.A., by Wheeler and Edward B. Dunford; articles from The Ohio Law Bulletin and Reporter concerning prohibition cases; and other materials.
Pamphlets for 1926 include: "The League's Policy in the Smith-Brennan Campaign" in Illinois; articles citing the economic benefits of prohibition; "Proposed Amendments to the Constitution" (1889-1926); an address by Howard Hyde Russell; and other materials concerning various A.S.L.A. interests.
Pamphlets dated 1927 include: a biographical sketch of Herbert C. Hoover; "The 18th Amendment," by Edward B. Dunford; a Senate report on "Denaturization of Industrial Alcohol"; a Bureau of Prohibition report on permits for manufacture of and traffic in intoxicating liquors; the report of the A.S.L.A. Legal and Legislative Department, by Dunford; and other printed materials.
Pamphlets for 1928 contain: materials concerning state and national elections; "Alcoholism Mortality as a Problem of Health Officials," by Cora Frances Stoddard; "Education Against Alcoholism," by Ernest H. Cherrington; articles about Herbert Hoover; "Kernel Corn of Kentucky," a novelette exposing the methods employed in trying to head off prohibition in the South; "Some Factors Influencing the Toxic Effect of Alcohol"; addresses to the legislature by Governors Alfred Smith of New York and Harry F. Byrd of Virginia; a copy of Virginia's Layman Prohibition Law; and other printed materials concerning prohibition.
Pamphlets dated 1929 include: "They Almost Had Me Fooled," which refutes criticisms and misrepresentations regarding prohibition; "Proposed Amendments to the Constitution," a compilation of facts published by Congress; an address on making the 18th Amendment effective, by Senator Wesley L. Jones; "Education: The Only Permanent Solution of the Alcohol Problem," by Ernest H. Cherrington; "The Problem and Policy of Prohibition," by Commissioner of Prohibition James M. Doran; proposed revisions of the National Prohibition Act; and other materials concerning prohibition.
Pamphlets for 1930-1931 include: a report of the work of the American Issue Publishing Company, 1910-1930, by Ernest H. Cherrington; the report of the Legal, Legislative and Executive Departments of the A.S.L.A., by Francis Scott McBride and Edward B. Dunford; "After Ten Years," an address by James J. Britt, Chief Counsel of the Bureau of Prohibition, before the A.S.L.A. national meeting in Detroit; "Educating the Masses and the Classes Against Alcoholism," by Cherrington; "The Cigarette as a Physician Sees It"; a report on prohibition enforcement, by the National Commission on Law Observance and Enforcement, and other prohibition materials.
Pamphlets dated 1932 include: a compilation of Virginia "Prohibition Law Amendments"; "Hoover's Betrayal of National Prohibition"; "Constitutional Aspects of National Prohibition," discussing its antecedents, objections to repeal and advisability of modification; the report of the Legal and Legislative Departments, by E.B. Dunford and F. S. McBride; the annual report of the Women's National Committee for Law Enforcement; "Proceedings of the Board of Directors" of the A.S.L.A. at the Washington conference (December 9-13, 1932); Senate committee hearings on amending the National Prohibition Act; and other printed materials concerning prohibition. Pamphlets for 1933 consist of three items: Senate Committee hearings on modification of the Volstead Act; House committee hearings on taxation of "nonintoxicating liquor"; and "Education Against Alcoholism," E. H. Cherrington's report and preview of educational efforts of the World League Against Alcoholism and the A.S.L.A. Department of Education.
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