The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-07-06
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mansion, Ill, July 6.-Unalter-
shIs opposition to any change In
~ prohibition laws b being ex-
dressed by many prominent women
& letters received by The Union
Gisnal, the official publication Of
the National Woman's Christian
Tsnvsrance Union. It was announc-
ed b that organ today.
Tho expressions were OCCASION
=. Il Us stated, by statements at
tributed I'd Miss Elizabeth Marbury
81 New York, author and publicist,
snd made according to the publ
cation at recent meeting of the
Association Against sthe Prohibi-
ton Amendment in New York.
The women Of this country
were the first to demand prohibit
ton and they will be the first to
repeal 1t" Miss Marbury was
quoted as having said.
when this statement came to
the attention Of various leading
women, they protested in no uncer-
tain manner" the announcement
by the Union Signal continued.
Some of their opinions were given
by The publication as follows:
Mary Anderson, director of Wo-
mems bureau, U. s. department of
labor: Prohibition has been Of
benefit to the country. l have OBJ
served that a better standard pre-
walls among the families of the
working people and that the chill
dren are better fed and clothed
That statement can be substantial
ed by figures showing that every
place where prohibition is enforced
more goods are being sold than pre-
vious to the time of prohibition
Instead Of having the corner sa.
loon as a working mems. club, we
have transferred that club to the
home"
Mothers Stand.
Maud Wood Park, president Ma
tional League of Women Voters
"The mothers of the nation are NJ
more likely to wipe out the Eigh
tenth amendment than they are t.
demand the cultivation Of typhoit
germs in the water supplies science
has purified"
Nina c. Van Wrinkle, president o
International Association Of Polio
women: National prohibition j
one of the greatest safeguards I,
youth and to the home. There hav
been more broken homes, more de
struction of character throug1
weakening of the will, and NOR
crime induced by drink than by an
other known cause"
Catherine Waugh MCCULLOUGH
master of chancery of superio
court, Cook county, ILL.,: "Prohibi
ton has improved home life AM
promoted the welfare of women an,
children. The women with whom
= assS eiate are Congregationalists
college women, teachers, W. G. r
U. women, League Of Women Voter
members, women lawyers and doc
tors, members OF the Federated Wo
mems club the Democratic Wo
mems club, the Daughters Of tn,
American Revolution, and the wive
and mothers of my home city, ami
they are almost unanimously II
favor of the Volstead act and IL
strict enforcement and will oppos
its weakening by any light win
and beer adjustment. The welfar'
Of the home and the nation impera
lively demands national prohibi
ton"
Helps Homes.
Mary e. Woolley, presiden
Mount Holyoke college: my ex
perience and observation have beef
that prohibition has had a great in
fluence on the betterment of hom
life and the welfare of women ant
children among the classes that fire.
Quented the open saloon"
Grace Abbott, chief of the chill
dren's bureau of the United State
department Of labor: From m.
own experience and observation
and a study of the available report
with reference to the effects of pro
hibition, I see no reason for chang
ing my attitude concerning tn,
eighteenth amendment and the en-
forcement law. l regard nationa
prohibition as necessary for tn
protection Of the health and wei
fare Of children"
Note Betterment
Mrs. Booker T. Washington, Tus