Evening star., 1926-10-10

~ EVIEWING the high lights OF
- the National Woman's Chris
IN tan Temperance Union con
i vention, which closed Thurs
day in Los Angeles, where
more than 5000 delegates were
gathered, one is struck by two things
the comprehensive legislative pro
more than Endorsement of prohibition
| measures, and the optimistic tenor OF
! reports on the temperance situation
brought before the convention both
| by its own officials and by outside
speakers.
Legislative work assigned to the
headquarters staff at Washington will
include, first, of course, backing for a
number of important bills bearing on
the liquor question and on law EN-.
fOrcement. The delegates voted to en-.
dorse the Cramton bill which provides
for reorganization of the prohibition
unit and the customs service and the
placing of prohibition agents under
civil service; a second Champion bill
calling for civil service status for
dry agents, the Hudson-Jones bill to
esta blish a United States border patrol
and a bill calling for the deportation
of aliens convicted of violating prohi
bition regulations.
Branching out into other fields, the
program calls for the organization to
lend it's aid in obtaining adequate ap.
preparations for the Children's Bureau
the Woman's Bureau, the Home Eco.
nOmics Bureau and the junior division
Of the United States employment serv-
ice, and to work Cor the passage of
laws for the protection Of the Indians
from the use of the drug peyote, for
EaHoroI I(ar0 of Ed,.an
an increase in the number Of Army
and Navy chaplains, an improved in
dustrial program for Federal prison
ers, Federal regulations Of the stand.
ards of motion pictures and abolition
Of child labor, acceptance and enforce
ment Of the maternity and infancy
act. the protection of wage earning
women and the removal Of legal dis
ordinations against women.
Mrs. Lenna Lowe Yost, legislative
chairman, in her report. following
which the legislative program was in
dorsed, expressed appreciation of the
manner in which the liquor problem
was handled during the past session
of Congress and great optimism for
IAN overwhelmingly dry assemblage
in the Seventieth Congress" Mrs.
Yost urged that every precaution be
taken to get out the dry vote in the
present elections in order to insure
the maximum election of dry nomi-
nees.
I'VE of the WomanS Christian
Temperance Union, who watch so
closely TIE activities of Congress. dis
approve the popular criticism Of our
national lawmakers" said Mrs. Yost.
I'VE believe the fashion of ridiculing
Congress is dangerous, in that 1t
seems to be part and parcel OF the
conspiracy to break down wholesome
respect for our laws and our national
Institutions.
Congress Is in earnest about pro-
hibition," she continued. Its good
faith and purpose are seen In the
fact that at the present session it ap-
propriated $29.000.000 to enforce the
law; that it enacted the law strength
ening the Coast Guard, one of whose
primary duties at present is the in.
Perception of rum runners and SNUG
glers, and in the great number of
treaties negotiated with foreign coun-
tries, giving us the aid Of most of Eu-
rope, Canada and Mexico in stopping
illicit rum trade.
These things accomplished by our
lawmakers are enormous barriers
against the lurking criminals of the
liquor traffic and in themselves are
complete refutations of the wet state
ment that this country is interested
in abolishing the Volstead act and
bringing back the legalized manufac-
ture, sale and use of intOXicants. II
the majority of the people wanted
liauor they would not have elected a
dry Congress-
Another optimistic note for the ulti-
mate success of prohibition was struck