Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-06-11
WOMEN MAKE
CITY BRIGHT
ON meet Eve
Groom Female Speak
ers to Offer Pet
Plans to Committee
On Resolutions
BY MARY CAMBRIDGE HAYDEN
Associated Press Staff Writer

KANSAS CITY, June 1f.-tPl-
The bright buntings in che canyons
Of Kansas City's downtown streets
we're put to shame today BY the
bright wardrobcs Of women dele
gates, women spectators and women
hostesses, H. they swung into action
on the last lap Of their preparations
for the opening of the convention
tomorrow.
AS If in an effort TO make up for
their decrease in official representa-
ton, women have thronged the ma
tional committee headquarters and
headquarters of both the leading
candidates, while women's organ
nations with planks 10 push are
grooming ten or a dozen speakers
fer the resolutions committee to-
morrow, and women's organizations
without planks have representatives
backing those they approve.
Borah Is Played
Senator Borah's name is being
played as q trump card In the wom-
ems fight for a prohibition plank.
Ec had been invited by Mrs. Henry
W. Peabody as the luncheon guest
OF honor today at the Women's Ma
.ional League for Law Enforcement.
Other guests at the luncheon, which
took the place Of a militant meeting
in the leagues five day campaign.
were Mrs. Mabel Walker Willie
brandt. assistant attorney general,
and Miss Bertha Lindsey, Seattle's
woman mayor.
The law enforcement plank has
been dubbed absurd" by women of
the opposition. headed by Miss NJ.
louise Gross, president Of the na-
tlonal woman's volunteer committee
Ct the association against the pro
h:bition amendment.
1T IS as absurd to have a prohi-
lition enforcement plank as IL
would be 20 have planks for the n
forcement Of every law in the land"
said Mrs William N. Dupont. ma
tionGl committeewoman and dele
rate 81 large from Delaware.
Federation Heads Quiet
II an strongly in favor Of temper
ance, and | wanted 70 see prohibi-
tion given a trial." she added, "but
Il has been determined that this
type Of prohibition is a failure. and
has not brought temperance. What
We need is a workable system Of
strict local legislation. | favor re-
peal of the prohibition amendment"
Representatives of the General
Federation of Women's clubs. in
Guiding Mrs. Johp ID. Sherman, for
"ier president; Mrs. Robert Burdette.
OF California, vice president, and
Hrs. George White Spcel. new ma
fional committeeman from the
District Of Columbia. have arrived.
but will take no official action for
the federation in favor Of any
p'anks, although they approve az
the adoption Of an enforcement
Flank.
Senator Borah's name also ~ men
toned az the League OF Women
Voters headquarters, in connection
with his proposed plank favorinr
q multi-lateral treaty r%enouncing
var. This. it Is argued. is in line
with the leagues international CO.
eIeration plank.
The notional woman's party's sim
Gle plank for an equal rights" con-
st'tutionai amendment is opposed BY
the League of Women Voters as
blanket legislation preventing pro
tectlve laws for women, but il will
be defended by the woman's partv
before the resolutions committee.
Hoover women" encouraged By
the arrival Of Alice Longworth, re-
garded as a Hooverite, were as busy
.oday as the men.
"Lowdcn women" also were active