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J 4 - | $y . WOMEN DRYS CITE ‘POLITICAL CREED " INHEARING TODAY (Continued From First Page) .12,000,000 women were in favor of re taining the dry law. Cross Examination Deferred § Mrs. Peabody obtained an agree- nent with the committee to defer cross examination of the women until after all had completed pre- sentation .of their prepared state- ments. Mrs. John . Sippel, of Baltimore, president of the General Iederation ® of Woman's clubs, who said she had received a threat of injury if she ap- peared, was among the first to give ler yiews. /o tion was emphaticaily modification. The next witness was Mrs. Clar- ence ‘Fraim, legislative chairman of the General Federation of Woman's clubs. .She told of resolutions the organization had adopted in sypport of the 18th amendment. . Church-Leader Heard Mrs. ¥. I. Johnson of New York, pregident of the Federation of Wom- an’s Boards of -Forelgn Missions -of North America, then appeared. She opposed to \l ' ‘‘We represent many millions of organized church women who have expressed themselves in their own church denominations and have raffiliated with this woman's nation- al committee for law. enforcement in fayor of the 18th amendment op- posed to repeal or modification of 4 the Volstead act our obligations as loyal citizens. We also thank God for the answer to the prayer of the ages—'Lead us not , into temptation, but deliver us from | evil} answered in part by the. free ct. of this free people In its prohi- bition against an ancient curse which has wrecked homes and lives and character. “We stand on the moral issue as obligatory on every Christiah man and woman responsible for the care pand training of youth in obedience to the command of God and the | state. We are not a church ‘lobby.’ We are compelled, howe bat the persistent unending lobby of @ men pledged to the liquor traffic for their own gain or their own destruc- tion." Mrs. Orrin R. Judd, of New York, 4 President of the Council of Women for Home Missions, the next wit- national woman's. democratic law cnforcement committee, said she had no quarrel with persons or 4o groups, seeking by lawful means aad through orderly procedure to amend modify or repeal the Volstead act and the Eighteenth amendment. “What we do condemn and de- nounce,” . she asserted, “is the at- tempt to nullify existing law, to re- before this committee has had a definite workable plan if the Eight- geenth amendment was repealeil. Nearly all have said ‘we leave it up 10 congress,' thus throwing off the responslbility.” Says Drinking Less Mrs. Lewis Jerome Johnson, of Cambridge, Mass., told the commit- tee that while thoughtless people D} ness, said her organization worked among all classes and races of peo- ple to teach them democracy and Vlaw enforcement. Y. W. C. A. Statement \ Mrs, Peabody then presented a statement from Mrs. Robert E. ,Speer, president, national board of the Young Women's Christian asso- ciation, opposing repeal. Mrs. Morris Leibert, of New Yorl, ,president of the International Order o0t King's Daughters, urged support of prohibition. 5 Mrs. Jesse Nicholson, of Chevy Chase, Md., who said she represens sed 200,000 democratic women of the pudiate a_solemn obligation to de- ride and flout the constitution of our » ccuntry and to insult the law abid- ing, God fearing men and women ot America by openly advocating nulli- fication and contempt for lawful a:- » thority.” Says Nation Has Referendum ‘Some of the wet witnesses,” sh2 said, ‘“claim they want a referen- dum. Surely they don’t want to put ) the government to the expense of having a referendum oftener than every two years, which has shown that each congress has been driar [ » than the last. “Not one witness who has spokzn * than before prohibition, those who remember when there were legally protected saloons on street corne and bars in hotels and restaurants lg and alcoholic punches at college commencemients and saloons at col- lege gates, know from observation as well as from government reports that with saloons, breweries an‘ * distilleries closed, the drinking on the. way o and from work, betwesn classes in universitios and other casual drinking, is very much less- senéd.” brewers, moonshiners, bootleggers and bootleggers' patrons is a smail yfaction of the legalized liquor mani- facture and sale which existed be fore the passage of the 15th amend- ment,” she added. "I have jus ceived statements from officials of *five different Massachusetts welfare and charitable institutions showing the incontrovertible benefits ascrib- able to prohibition as revealed in “their work. These give the verdict | of those who deal with some of the innocent victims of alcoholism. - It i3 evidence based on observation ‘n each case of from one to five thou- b “sind families nceding help through- out Massachusetts and upon years of carefully kept records.” Blames Pepeal of Law Miss Grace Van Braam Roberts, chairman of the New York staie women's committee for law enforce- sent, blamed the increase in speak- { scasies in New York state on repesl of the state prohibition law. { “When we had a state prohibition law supplementing the national act, we cnjoyed excellent result: she said. he legislators and the gov- crnors who are responsible for our petng without a state act and* the corrupt public officials who take ad- anntage of our lack of a state act, are (o blame tor the present mush- room growth of speakeasies; prohi- bition is not to blame.” (3-“We agree,” she added. “with Evangeline Booth that ‘it (prohibi- . She said her organiza- | s church’ women we -recognize | er, to com- | sert there is more drinking now | “The total liquor business of home | tion) is the greatest Sjy3 uodn PaYiS|A UL Joad sBY country. Don't.tell me about its evils. - Whateyer they are, they are as nothiag compared ,to. the good that it has done throughout . the country Mrs. John Osgood Blanchard, Mrs, Richard' Aldrich, and Miss Dertha Rembaugh, all of New York, were the next speakers in support of pro- hibition. Flays “Strange Alliance” Mrs. Aldrich who' is vice presi- dent of the New York State Wom- en's Committee for Law Enforce- ment, spoke as a ‘“woman of lelsure,” criticising the “strangest alliance our country has ever seen— the alliance between liquor interests and ladies.” Miss Rembaugh, a New.York at- torney and treasurer of the state committee for law enforcement, sald the country's revolutionary fore- fathers were “lawless in behalt of something beside the gratification of a physical appetite.” Statements Issued Mrs. Ford and Mrs. Edison agreed in favoring proliibition. “I stand for'the law .that has proved a blessing for one station in life and would be «an_equal blessing to those enjoying greater privileges in this world if they would give the law a ‘fair chance,” the inventor's wife wraote. .. . “I am heartily ‘in 18th amendment without * modifica: tion,” Mrs. Ford's statement read. “It is a law of the United States and should be observed by all of us. In my opinion it has been of untold benefit to the women as well as men of our country in improved living | conditions and a more prosperous nation.” = : Mrs. Peabody explairied that her organization was affiliated with or- ganizations having an aggregate membership of 12,000,000 “These great organizations,” her statement said, “have stood in sup- port of the constitution and its laws for eight years—since 1922—when organized opposition began. - They concentrate efforts on the 18th amendment. ' Opponents Criticized “Opponents of prohibition among women ‘do not ring true ‘in state- | ments regarding their sudden dis- covery of the awful menace to youth through alcohol,” she continued, “and their inconsistent demand that it- thereforc be restored to a legal status. Youth has not changed es- sentially. We have always had flam- ing youth, the flame increased by al- cohol.. Today we have a new type. flying youth—the finest yet and most likely to dispense with alcoholic stimulants.” The grey haired grandmother, who is as prominently known on Beacon Hill as in her Beverly home, said the battle of alcohol was “primarily a woman’s battle.” “The normal woman,” the assert- ed, “not the sub-normal or !\eurouci | blessing that favor of -the type, knows alcohol-to be a habit- making drug which wrecks - body, soul and mind, as. dangerous as opium to the individual—more dan- gerous-to the family -and communi- t. The advocates of personal liberty, she said, did not rebel against prohi- bition of opium, but “the alcoholic taint from past generations persists in rebellion against this necessary law ‘against the alcoholic traffic, xxx. “Hrere are twelve million women pledged to loyal service of this gov- ernment. They hold convictions and conventions and instead of depend- ing on the hatchet of pre-prohibition | days to enforce law, they use their ballots to secure loyal representa- |tives. Women will cheerfully grant to men management of the tariff, finances, problems of transportation, and water power. Men need the help of women to control: the alcohol power.” Mrs. Sippel's Statement. Mrs. Sippel's statement said: “The general federation of wom- en’s club is an organization of ‘14,- 500 clubs in 2,500 of the 3,000 coun- | ties of this country, and I-am ex- pressing the will of this.group when T say they wish the eighteenth amendment carried out.” Mrs. Peabody presented the committec statements from many prominent women who -favored the eighteenth amendment. Among them were Representative Ruth Bryan Owen, democrat, Florida; Mrs. Per- cy V. Pennybacker of Austin, Texas, former president of the general fed- eration of women’s clubs and Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, the New York suffragist. Mrs. Catt said: “I give my testimony that in my own considerable circle of atquaint- ances and friends, with two excep- tions, I have found no man, womar or child, who drinks, brews, smug- gles, purchgses, sells or «’stributes any form of alcoholic liquor. These enormous dry circles, ‘stretching from’ ocean to ocean, appear to’ me to represent the climax .of normal civilized growth. Must Acquire Self Control “Thosc who still crave alcohol | must acquire-sel:-discipline - before | they attain' the civilized -standard, | | Therefore, for them prohibition is| | necessary.” | “Mary E. Woolley, president of Mount Holyoke college, wrote that | |she believed “in the cighteenth| |amendment without modiication of | the Valstead act in favor of wines | and beer” and said.she was glad to assert her allegiance to ‘the consti- tution and “my own rigid personal | | observance of the law -in favor of | pronibition.” ¥ Says Arguments Unsound The arguments of the wets were | characterized .as unsound by Miss Annie Florence Brown, cxecutiv secretary of the Lend a Hand So- ciety, Boston, who said prohibition had not ‘“created lawlessness” but “is reducing the liquor traffic.” She declared “prohibition is here to stay.” A plea for ‘'stricter enforcement of our present laws With no modifi- cation,” was made by Hilda L. Ole son of Cambridge, Massachusetts, treasurer of the woman’s national committee for law enforcement. “It is as casy to.abolish the liquor traffic as to regulate it,” Mrs. Lewls Jerome Johnson of Cambridge, Mas- sachusetts, wrote, adding that thers is léss drinking under prohibition and that “not an inch should be vielded by cither state or nation to those who' find it irksome to abide by this law.” Tmproved conditions under pro- | hibition were pictured by Esther An- | drews of Boston, a member of the governor's council of Massachusetts. Opposition to” repeal. of the state to |lady of the land, we refuse invita- {mond Robins of Florida, honorary NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, WEDNESDAY enforcement law as expressed in a resolution of the Massachusetts Fed- eration. of Women's clubs. was pre- sented -in, a statement from Mrs. Robert Jam Culbert, . chairman of the, federatjon. council. “The American people _will not repeal the eighteenth amendment,” said Mrs. Fred 1. Crawford, chair-| man' of the Massachusetts commiit- tee for law enforcement, reaffirming | “our loyalty and our support to the | observance of the law of this land," and asking “for continued and bet- ter enforcement of the cighteenth amendment.” Support of the elghteenth amend- | ment by the women of Rhode Island | was voiced by Mrs. Walter A. Peck, chairman of the state committec for | law enforcement. She favors mak- | ing purchasers of liquor equally guilty with manufacturers and| sellers. Mrs. Gertrude M. Pattangall, Au- gusta, Maine, -declared her state. “ninety per cent dry.” | Mrs. Charles H. Greenlcaf of New Hampshire, questioned the ability of | the government to regulate the salc | of liquor under modification pro- | posals. | Connecticut “Loyal”’ | Connecticut wag described by Mrs. | Frank C." Porter of. New Haven, as “g loyal, law-abiding state” in which there had been marked improvement 4s to health and public welfare since prohipition. In all,.some three dozen women presented their statements. ‘Mrs." Vic Donahey, wife of the| governor of Ohio, said her state js | “squarely for prohibition and Jaw | enforcement” and “will support and | | Mrs.”John I Leonidas Dyer, republican repre- sentative from St. Louls, prepared a speech to be delivered later in the day before the Wickersham law en- forcement commission, urging it to deelare itselt.in favor.of 2.75 per cent beer, L) Political * tongues, wagged' with speculation about. the action of the National Republican .club of New York, declaring itself for repeal of the 18th Amendment in the face of the administration’s direct ciforts for law cnforcement and observance. Methods Are Debated The methods of procedure in these efforts were being privately debated | among members of the house judi- clary committee whose sub-commit- tee yesterday Teported two more of the Wickersham reform measures proposing to define casual violations of law under the Jones Act, in order that stringent penalties may not be used against minor infractions, and also to relicve congestion in the courts The private comments indicate the fate of these measures is doubt- ful, Of these four developments the the dry hearings most interest. The first witness scheduled was ippel, Baltimore, pr ident of the General I'ederation of Women's clubs, who said Monday she had -received aneanonymous telephone call warning . her not {o appear. There also was-reported (o be ‘dissatistaction among some other officials of the federation that Mrs. Sippel contemplated placing the or- contemporahcous ladics’ da in commanded - the MARCH 12, 1930. ganization on record. The 30 “three minute women” were organized by Mrs. Henry W. Peabody, Boston, chairman of the Women's ational Committee for lLaw Enforcement. A week ago the call went onut to women over the country to rally in defense of prohi- hition and the list of witnesses, she announced, was the result. Others On List Included in the list are Mrs. Clar- ence Marshall Busch, Miami, presi- dent National League of American Penwomen: Mrs. I, L. Johnson, New York, president, I"ederation of Iorc- eign Missions; Mrs. Orrin Judd, New York, president, Counsel of Women for Home Missions: Mrs. Jesse Nicholson, Chey hase, Maryland, president, Women's National Demo- cratic League for Law knforcement; Mrs. Grace Van Braam Roberts. New York, president, State Commit. tee for Law Enforcement; president, | Mary Wolley of Mt. Holyoke College: and M William Tilton, Beverly, Mz . legislative chairman the ational Comngress of Parents and Teacher Some indicated N York of members of the committee they might question the X women concerning (i action of the National Republican ub there. It voted 461 to 345 for a resolution calling upon republican representatives in congress to advo- | eate repeal. What the political consequence the club’s action will be 1s | of greatest speculation he the congressional clections on in Nov |issuc being agitated by many group: of matter With coming | five | district court here today after plead- her of leading importance, the action is cxpected to be drawn into congressional debate, although lead- crs generally are not inclined to dis- cuss it publicl Truth in Advertising Needed, Brooks Says John Lee Brooks, president of the Hartford Advcrtising before the Kiwanis club at the Bur- ritt hotel this noon, using for hi topic, “The Truth in Advertising.! The meeting was largely attended, President Hugh McKenna being present for the first time after a long illness. Dwight Skinner, president, presided. Mr. Brooks told his listeners that advertising is the greatest weapon of modern business. HeWrepeatedly emphasized the point that advertise- ments should be hased entirely and solely on facts, denouncing the prac- tice of destroying the confidence of the public by use of untruthful and highly colored advertisements, He stited that a business man, no mat- ter how small or insignif nt the article. could composc an attractive advertisement hased on facts that would appeal to the public. club, spoke vice MOTHER OF FIVE FINED Fall River, Mass.. March 12 (UP) Mrs. Bernadette Depin, mother of children, paid a $100 fine in ing guilty to a hootlegging charge. mber, and the prohibition | She had heen arrested after selling pint of liquor to a young girl. Fingal Rides Sir Lindsay As Victor in Hunt Chase Cheltenham, Whitne J third. 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Sir Lord Fingal, the national mile course | on four Said Tt Is Important was sccond rian Sta At the value of social rel last it = ni nanageme applyin Dr. Annie Dyer self management most important superior | l1Ving “All have it poorly and have when we things our impulses ir (UP)- psychology by anded to- 1, riminal no1 asked 1s d on a some violenc 0 ne in with rra sorts o brutal clderly trom knife 1 Ltack poli- L our instinctive and behayior, . ar S A but orm the i organism Iy practiced P and Mrs Killed Dy were | four s cutin man. lems Aquitania today of the Americ ambassador Aquitani: to and ssur holdiy modern living.” e power, is a nd in honor with “high office only those ([T S e T who are willing to do their duty in these important matters.” | Mrs. James L. Laidlaw of the| New York committee _for'law en- forcement expressed the - opinion that young-people; are drinkhg less than they ever did in the history of the world. . Representhtive Ruth' Bryan Owen of Florida, reaffirmed the platform on which she was clected to the house, pledging ~herself to"*uphold the constitution of the United States and the amendments thereto.” Missions Stand Outlined Tepresenting the Federation of Foreign Mission Board of North America, Mrs. F. I. Johnson said: “We are not a church ‘lobby.""We are’ compelled, however, to combat the persistent unending lobby of men pledged to the liquor. traftic for their own gain or their own de- struction.” The president of the council of women for home missions, Mrs. Orrin R. Judd, emphasized the ne- cessity of preserving-the sacredness of the contstitution and laws, par- ticularly as an example to aliens, Indians and negroes. “While not perfectly enforced,” Mrs.. Jesse W.-Nicholson of Chevy Chase, Maryland, president of the | National Democratic ‘Law Enforce- ment League, saild of prohibition, “We believe itis being enforced as well as the narcotics, burglary and | gambling laws.” Y. W C.-A. Favors Law Mrs. Robert E. Speer, president of the national board of the Young Women’s Christian association, call- ed the committee's attention to. res- olutions adopted by that organiza- tion in 1924, 1926 and 1928 pledg- ing support of law enforcement and | emphasizing prohibition, Mrs. Henry Marshall Kendrick of Washington, D. C., representing the | national council, of Kederated | Church Women, declared for en- forcement of the 1Sth amendmenl‘ with no repeal “and for the Volstead | act without modification.” | Strict and impartial enforcement | of the 18th amendment was de-| scribed as a-“child welfare measure,” | by Mrs. William Tilton, national chairman of legislation for the Na- | tional = Congress of Parents and | Teachers. | Mrs. William H. Aléfander, of | Ohio, discredited charges that the | 18th amendment isresponsible for | crime and lawlessness and said | “We believe that the success already attained in the short space of 10| years in prohibition enforcement is the greatest moral miracle of the S " Former Mayor Speaks From Seattle, Washington, came the statement of Bertha K. Landes, | former mayor of that city, holding | that the prohibition law can be en- | forced - ‘“reasonably” in the same | proportion as other restricted laws. | This, she said, she knew from her own experience, adding that “th failure of those in power to carry | on honestly ‘and _efficiently is the | cause of a great deal of our present | difficulties.” | The organized women of Southern | California are definitely opposed to repeal or modification. of the 15th | amendment, Mrs. Manard F. Thayer, vice chairman of the: woman's com- | mittee for Southern California, re- | ported, adding .that dry sentiment | was growing-also in social and-un organized groups. Resolutions -in_support of prohi bition observance and enforcement adopted-by women's organizations of California were presented by Mrs. | Paul Raymond, , chairman. of the woman's commitiee of five thousand San Francisco. One said -that “fol- | lowing in the. footsteps of the first | | tions where we are reasonably sure that-the hostess will violate the pro- hibition law.” Explains Her Reasons “I am a dry,” explained Mrs. Ray- chalrman - of the - Woman's Trade Union, “as the result of living in the old 17th ward in Chicago with over 600 saloons in our ward of less than one mile square, with innumerable | bootleggers and speakeasies, called blind-pigs in thosc days.” A resolution sent by the Kentucky woman's committec for law enforce- ment set out that ‘state control would be a step backward to unsat- isfactory conditions,” discounted the amount of crime credited to prohi- bition and reported the benefits of prohibition as “very great in Ken- tucky.” Question Breaks Out Again ‘Washington, March WUP)— The' pent-up prohibition controversy Lroke out again around the capitol | today. 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