Evening Star Newspaper, May 12, 1929, Page 26

THE SUNDAY STAR.. WASHINGTON, D. ¢, MAY 12, 1929—PART 1. DRINKING BAN AIM I OF SOCIAL LEADER Mrs. Strawbridge Believes It | Can Be Made “Smart” Thing to Do. BY FREDERICK WILLIAM WILE. Women of the country—pioneers in || temperance and prohibition activities— || zre about to return to the firing line, | but on altogether novel and widely di- | vergent lines. One group. led by & Quaker hostess of distinguished name, Mrs. George H. Strawbridge of Philadelphia, is waging | a campaign to induce the “first families | of the land,” as she calls them, to get solidly behind President Hoover in his desire for individual and personal law | observance. Mrs. Strawbridge cites as an example of what she has in mind the innovation recently introduced by a prominent Washington family, which || this Spring began serving bone-dry luncheon parties to Capital society | after years of notably wet functions on | the same premises. ‘While this prohibitionist society wom- an is organizing people of her social standing throughout the country, an- other social leader, Mrs. Charles H. Sabin of New York, former Republican national committeewoman, is linking up |/ “key women” all over the United States for the purpose of an Amazonian drive against the eighteenth amendment and | the Volstead act. Expects to Get Results. The woman who hoisted the dry || § colors in this unique contest has per suaded herself that when the Nation's | so-called “better class people” by visible, || personal habits in their own homes make prohibition ,the cause President Hoover calls “the dominant issue” will be immeasurably omamced. Mrs, Starwbridge goes fur-| iher than that. She is convinced that | no advance is possible until that kind of an example is set in the higher-up }| in question. cirgles 1o Geninitely of the opinion that a vast amount of drinking in homes in | the United States is the Tesult of ':\;yl‘r;: | t thing, or i o do the smart thing, ot to CS°p 03 “fashionable,” automatic. be’l'he dry Joan of Arc considers that {he practice of abstinence in the homes will also have an jmmense influence on and children. These, it i young PeoPl® are taking their drinking is contended, cues nowadays from parents and other |} Grown-ups. 1f parents and grown-ups || wil quit serving cockta Tole, “he 15 _positive that youth W not fail, sooner or later, to lose terest in booze. Making Abstinence Smart. 3 | cease, in other words, to it Thing. to 'do.” _ What the Phila- delphia_hostess-crusader aspires to ac- Complish is to make abstinence “(he fhing.” She creates the impression ihat the White House shares her view | a5 to the all-powerful importance of | §! example in the circles of society which || are enabled, throu}h ‘wealth and posi- on, to set examples. | uThP reasoning of the dry Diana is | challenged and _controverted by the | lines along which the wet women are working. The leader of the anti-pro- hibitionists. Mrs. Sabin, has just re- turned from the West, where she Weqt 1r to do missionary Work among women's | clubs, other ups. She reports she found | | them ‘my alive to the perils inherent | '} in the present program of national pro- hibition.” The womt Sabin’s views hold that it Hoover’s plea for “personal observance' of the liquor laws fails to go to the | roots of the situation. | These roots, according to the argu-| ments now being addressed to “key | women” in the country, are in the theory that a tremendous group of people does not want prohibition, | and, disbelieving in it, declines to con- sider that they are law-violators be- |} cause they continue their drinking || habits. In this connection, the wet || woman crusaders put forth an entirely | novel idea. They say the thing that || bothers them most is that as long as | the bootleg industry exists, and as long | as the public is able to obtain drink- ables to its hearts’ content, the people will in time lose interest in trying to}| change the liquor laws. i See Plentiful Supply. The result, it is feared, will be whole- sale and habitual disregard of it, just as the wets insist there has come about || with time a disregard of the (mn'mn(h} and fifteenth amendments to the Con- stitution. It is pointed out that home manufacture of strong drink is keeping the supply plentiful, along with ‘boot- legging, although ‘the bootleg lnfluatryl is more talked about. The net result, 5o the argument of the wet women runs, is -that the eighteenth amendment will be nullified not by those who advocate a change in the law to bring the United States “the real temperance desired by all,” but will || be set at odds by the people who ignore || the drink provisions of the Constitution || and who will be too lazy and too in- different to agitate for a change in the |/} law. President Hoover had that sort of thing in mind when he lamented || “the possibility that respect for law as law is fading from the sensibilities of our people.” These, at any rate, are the rival|}l schools of thought which are now be- || ing quietly, but systematically and || zealously, put before the foremost wom- en in the United States. The wet|| women appear to be planning a rather more compact fighting and working organization than the dry women. The latter seem content to Test their case || on private missionary work _afnong worth-while families, induce them (o || taie the pledge not to serve liquor any Jonger on formal occasions, and let the || “power of example” accomplish cumula- tive results. i By the time President Hoover's law enfcrcement commission swings into action later in the year it is tne pur- pose of both groups of women to lay before the commission chapter-and- verse evidence of such results as they have respectively obtained. Both, of course, are hopeful that the adduced testimony will be so overwhelming that corresponding recommendations _ will eventually be made to the President and the country. The net of it all is that these United States of ours may be politically united, out on the endless theme of prohibition | are rather considerably disunited. (Copyright, 1929.) GERMANS ARE HOPEFUL OF ECLIPSE OBSERVATION| | Clouds Obscured View Part of Time in Philippines, on Island of Cebu. By the Associated Press MANILA. May 11— Astronomers from | | the University of Hamburg who brought || several tons of observation equipment 1o the Island of Cebu to obtain views of the sun in eclipse, reconsidered their work today and announced that it was at least partially successful. First. announcements {rom the Ger- man party said that clouds obscured the view, but a re-check of the observations today showed greater success than Was at first beljeved. 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