New-York tribune., 1922-10-17
W cts Seek 500
W omentoWor
On Straw Vote
Enthusiasts Wanted Who.
Won't BE Fussy About
Eight Hour Day, Says
Their Youthful Leader

! Five hundred young women who be-
lieve that prohibition is menace and
are willing to take jobs as collectors
of signatures are wanted for straw
| vote conducted by the National Liberal
| Alliance.
| Miss Helen L. Baughan, director of
the women's activities Of the alliance,
| arrived at the Hotel Astor yesterday
and announced that she would begin
this morning to receive applications
for work from young women ardent in
the cause who will not be too fussy
about an eight-hour day or any sordid
detail like that.
"The girls are SO enthusiastic about
their work that they never think of
they work until midnight. The pay
doesn't interest them; it's the principle
they're working for.
How much do we pay them? We'll,
really now, that's a rather personal
question. You see some bring in more
signatures than others and so are
worth more to the organization"
Miss Baughan said she has had 125
women collecting signatures through
out the New England States and up
state New York for eighteen months.
per cent of whom, she said, were in
favor of modification of the Volstead
act.
"As goes Maine, so goes the nation"
she said. people said we were crazy to
go into Maine because it was a prohi-
bition state, but we went right into
the rural districts and found 90 per
cent in favor of repeating the Volstead
act. The farmer does not want prohi-
=, NTn AL.A
York State at the State Fair, and at
the Fonda County Fair SO per cent of
those who voted were against prohibi-
tion."
Miss Baughan produced bundle of
sample ballots with the signatures of
the voters, their addresses and occupa-
tions. Each ballot contained six sec
tions, as follows, which the voter was
to mark according to his preference:
1: | am for liberal construction and
strict enforcement of the national pro-
hibition amendment.
2. | am for light wines and beers.
3. ] am against all blue laws.
| a. | am against any liberal con-
struction and for strict enforcement
of the national prohibition amendment.
g. | am against light wines and
/ beers.
6. favor strict enforcement Of
/ Dlue laws.
What is there to prevent interested
of these :. ballots under assumed
names" she was asked.
| The blonde young director of the
referendum looked panied at this
question.
! There are, of course, people who
would sign more than once" she said,
slowly, "but we hope they won't do it."
Shn n$o IA hn,. :
dred women collectors to-day and
start them out tomorrow morning to
the most popular street corners, the
biggest restaurants and other places
where voters can be found in
abundance.
Eighteen months ago we made
preliminary survey of New York City,"
against prohibition. We had, to be
exact, 93,720 for liberal Interpretation
Of the, Volstead act, 1878 against the
liberal Interpretation and 260 for the
blue laws.
This time we propose to get far
larger number of votes in New York
City as part of the national campaign
for petitions to be presented to the
! ! next Congress. We shall have at least
j 100000 votes and nearer 10000, 900,
l believe.
Throughout the next three weeks
we shall impress upon the voters that
they should support for office those
candidates who are running on wet
ticket. In New York State you have
wet plank in your Democratic plat
| FORM. put there after our national
president, Mayor H. C. Harley, of AS
toria, Ore, had addressed the Demo
cratic delegates at the Syracuse con-
vention. All our workers, of course,
Will be boosting All Smith on the quiet.
| We shall do constructive work every
where for candidates on the wet ticket,
"Oh, yes, our young women are
allowed to ask the voters to remember
the wet candidates and, of course, they
can talk about the campaign if they
wish to. Oh, yes, they get paid for
| contribution from the Democratic cam
| paign committee"