Evening star., 1922-03-12
FIRST WOMAN PROHIBITION AGENT SAYS
HER, SEX MUST SEE TO LAW ENFORCEMENT

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ing, without Quibbling about inter-
fering with his personal right. In
all three cases he is liable to arrest.
Then why should the general public
not be interested in and indignant at
the cruelties that are perpetrated in
the home where drunkenness pre-
vai.s?'
cPECIAL interest attaches to the
~ fact that this first woman pro-
hibition agent halls from the state
where were born the four great tenn
perance movements-the Woman's
Temperance Crusade, organized at
Hillsboro Commissioner Haynes
home), in 1873; the National w. c. T.
y. at Cleveland. November. 1874: the
prohibition party. Mansfield, 1859. and
the Anti-Saloon League, Oberlin, 1873.
Beginning her temperance work as
q high school girl, Miss Hopley took
up the crusade started a generation
back by her mother. Fifty years lat
er, she, as director of publicity and
organizer Of women in the municipal
campaign at Columbus. gave the wet
candidate for mayor the worst licking
Of his political life. She wrote half
page advertisement for Columbus
daily which was declared the finest
piece Of literature brought out dur
ing the campaign. The women's cam
paign for civic betterment attracted
SO much attention that the assistant
editor of prominent woman's mag
axine was delegated to go to Column
bus to write it up.
Coming from family of republic
cans. Miss Hopley has taken an active
part In politics ever since the oppor-
tunity was given her. She is vice
president of the Woman's Republican
Club Of Ohio; during the Harding
campaign she was in charge of the
organization and publicity work at
the Columbus headquarters, and at the
Chicago convention served as hostess
at the republican campaign head
quarters. She has three times been
the chief executive of Ohio. In 1900
she was appointed q member Of the
board Of woman managers to the
Paris exposition, a year later was
named a member of a similar board
Of the Pan-American exposition at
Buffalo. and later was appointed spe-
cial examiner OF workshops and fac
tories in Ohio.
Her father. the late John Hopley,
was editor and proprietor Of the
Bucyrus Journal and Evening Tele-
gram. and was spoken of as the
'nestor of Ohio journalism" 1t was
while working in the Office Of one OF
her brothers. who at the time was
secretary of the state prohibition
party. that Miss Hopley conceived the
idea that a young woman should be
better qualified to report certain
events for newspapers than a man,
and she wrote the editor OF Colum-
bus newspaper to that effect.
"Of course, It was not customary
in those days." she told the writer,
"for young women to engage in any
public work. and when the editors
reply promptly came suggesting my
coming to Columbus to talk the mat
ter over. carried the letter in my
pocket three days before I gained
sufficient courage to show 1t to my
family.
my mother accompanied me to
Columbus, and I was retained as
society editor and feature writer at
ten dollars a week-a fortune in
those days. later became corre-
spondent for other papers Of the state
and also supplied a syndicate of re-
ligious, temperance and trades papers
with special matter.
Besides the four brothers who are
connected with the Bucyrus news
papers. Miss Hopley has two sisters
engaged in mission. tenn
perance and newspaper work. Miss
Harriet Hopley, secretary Of the
Chinese Sunday schools of Chicago, is
recognized as an authority on the
Christian Chinese. She has taught
for twenty years. Miss Mary Hop
ley, the other Chicago sister. IL head
Of the "open door, department Of the
Woman's Temple and assistant editor
of the Temple Appeal.