Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-28
v. c. 7. i. WINS AID
:. OF congressman.
Thirty Members Promise Help
to Union in Keeping Dry
r. Laws Intact.

Thirty dry congressman reiterated
their faith in prohibition and pledged
continued support to the elghteehlh
amendment and the Nolstead Act iast
night at a banquet which concluded
q three-day conference of the NatlolaI
Women's Christian Temperance Cnlon
at the Mayflower Hotel. About oeo
delegates and guests were present.
Mrs. Ella A Boole of Brooklyn,
president of the national w. c. L. L.,
praised the stand of the President
on the question of law enforcement
and declared that the purpose OF her
organization was ito stand back of
The men who make tho laws OF the
Nation
Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, as
eistant u. S. attorney general, lauded
the work of the w. c. r. u. Il have
seen il work." she said, land | know
il stands unswervingly and is never
Eidetracked." Roy A. Haynes, prohl-
hition commissioner, predicted the
work of the w. G. T. u. wouiu bring
about complete victory for the forces
of prohibition.
Accuses Bootleggers.
In 2.minute talks Senators and Rep
resentatives gave their views on pro-
fbition, progress and presidential pos
sibilities. Senator Willis of Ohio de-
..lared that when a rum runner runs
down a coast guard ship and browns
the men aboard it the bootleggerS
uf the country have helped murder
those men,"
Vets are gaining in talk and the
drys in deeds, Senator Tyson of Ten
nessee, believed. AZ have not always
been a teetotaler," he said, but since
] have been a senator I have obeyed
the law of the country" Senator
Means of Colorado held that the only
way to do away with drunkenness
was by prohibition.
Senator Steck of Iowa, said he saw
no way to liberalize the Volstead Act
Rs long as the eighteenth amendment
was in the Constitution. Representa-.
tives Hill Of Alabama and Hayden of
Arizona, pledged their continued 10y.
atty to the work of the w. c. 7. II.
Representative Tillman of Arkansas
said he had always been a Democrat,
but 'if my party dominates a whisky
man on whisky platform I'm going
fishing on election day." Mr.. Tillman
was sounding the praises of Gov.
Donahey of Ohio as a presidential pos
sibility when the 2-minute limit caught
him.
Senator Heflin said he was with the
w. c. T. u. Senator Reed of Penn
sylvania, said he had never seen Sena-
tor Hefiin limited to 2 minutes before.
Drinks" Held Unlikely.
Senator Trammell of Florida. spoke
Of the progress made in the country
through prohibition and urged the
delegates to keep the sentiment of the
people in favor of it. Representative
Free Of California, said Congress
couldn't "vote anybody a drink as
long as the eighteenth amendment
was in the Constitution. Representa-
tive Timberlake of Colorado, was en-
phatic in favor of existing liquo
laws.
ware mentioned his State as an oasis
with Pennsylvania, Maryland and the
Atlantic Ocean on all sides. Repre-
sentative Britt of Georgia said that
as long as Mrs. Yost, w. G.. r. u.
worker, keeps calling on Congressman
there is no fear of prohibition being
weakened" He surrendered a minute
of his time to his colleague, Repre-
sentative Upshaw, who told joke.
Senator Norbeck said: "Prohibition
prohibits in South Dakota" and Sena-
tor McMasters praised Frances VIII
lard.
Denies Illinois Wet.
Representative Rathbone of Illinois,
denied that his State was wet. He
said he had fought for prohibition and
politically / still live Representa-
tive Hoch of Kansas said his State
had led three reforms, abolition. woia
an suffrage and prohibition. Repre-
sentative Johnson of Kentucky after
telling story warned of attempts
he said were being made to circum.
vent the Constitution.
Dry sentiments were expressed also
by Senator Frazier Of North Dakota.
Representative Smith of Idaho, Sena-
tor Mayfeld of Iowa, Representative
Elliott of Indiana, Representative
Green of Iowa, Representatives
Lozier of Missouri. Hershey of Maine,
Kelly of Pennsylvania, Dailinger of
massachusetts,. and Kitchener of
Michigan.