World League Against Alcoholism

As ratification of the Eighteenth Amendment creating prohibition in the U.S. neared, Anti-Saloon leader Ernest Cherrington promoted the creation of the WLAA, which was founded in 1919.

She spoke at a conference in 1922, in Toronto, and her message was "a plea for closer cooperation on the part of all temperance organizations everywhere for the great common objective of ‘the fight for a clear brain.

He thought this because, even though Germany was one of the most beer drinking countries in the world, German scientists and educators had done scientific studies on alcoholic beverages and the negative effects of them.

[5] Following the repeal of prohibition in 1933, the Anti-Saloon League's fortunes fell dramatically, with its bank failing.

This league pledges itself to avoid affiliation with any political party as such, and to maintain an attitude of strict neutrality on all questions of public policy not directly and immediately concerned with the traffic in alcoholic beverages.

A pamphlet written by Cherrington for the WLAA says that youth should have the right to know all the facts about alcoholic beverages, since it could greatly affect "physical fitness, social hygiene and the general public weal".

[8] The WLAA assisted speakers and educational materials to advance an international temperance movement spanning six continents.