The Prohibition Party is the electoral politics arm of a group of organizations with similar interests in personal responsibility and public morality.  Among these are the International Organization of Good Templars, the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, the American Council on Alcohol Problems, the International Commission for the Prevention of Alcoholism and Drug Dependency, and their state and local affiliates.

These, plus businesses and social welfare agencies such as the American Rescue Workers, support an annual co-ordinating conference, the "National Temperance and Prohibition Council."

The temperance movement, the collective impetus of all of the above, 100 years ago was a potent force in American politics.   Today, it has few adherents and virtually no articulate spokesmen.  Action Prohibitionists seek to reverse the downward spiral of the temperance movement by publicizing the history and goals of temperance movement participants, generally, in addition to those of the Prohibition Party.

The 2000 annual meeting of the temperance movement coordinating conference, the National Temperance and Prohibition Council, will take place on March 27 through 29, at the Covenant Presbyterian Church in Concordville, PA. Concordville is near the intersection of routes 1 and 322, west of Media.

Local arrangements are being made by George Ormsby (712-D Drayton Rd., Aston, PA 19014, tel. 610 459-5398)

Details of the program can be obtained from the president, Howard Lydick (box 532, Richardson, TX 75083, tel. 972 235-4960)

Most sessions are open to the public.

Ormsby is one of the Prohibition Party state committeemen for PA, Lydick is the Prohibition Party Committeeman for TX.