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 BAINBRIDGE HAYDEN
Associated Press Staff Writer

Associated ifeSs STAR NTilcf
KANSAS CITY, June II.-(P1-
The bright buntings in the canyons
Of Kansas City's downtown streets
we're put 10 shame today by the
bright wardroiks of women dele
gates, women spectators and women
~hostesses. as 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 to push are
grooming ten or a dozen speakers
for the resolutions committee to-
morrow, and women's organizations
without planks have representatives
backing those they approve.
Borah Is Played
Senator Borah's name IL being
played as a trump card in the wom-
ems fight for a prohibition plank.
He had been invited by Mrs. Henry
w. Peabody as the luncheon guest
or honor today 40 the Woman's Ma
.lonal 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 Mss NJ.
louise Gross. president Of the ma
tlonal woman's volunteer committee
Ct the association against the pro-
h.bition amendment.
at is as absurd 10 have a prohi-
lition enforcement plank as il
would be to have planks for the en-
forcement of every law in the land"
said Mrs William h. Dupont, IA
tional committeeman and dele
gste at large from Delaware.
Federation Heads Quiet
81 am strongly in favor of temper
aace, and ! wanted TO sec prohibi-
ton given a trial." she added, "but
il has been determined that this
type OF prohibition is n failure, and
has no brought temperance. What
we need Is a workable system Of
strict local legislation. I favor re-
peal Of the prohibition amendment
Representatives Of the General
Federation Of Women's clubs. in
Guiding Mrs. John u. Sherman. for
-ier president; Mrs. Robert Bnrdette.
ot California, vice president. and
Yrs. George White Speel. new ma
.ional committeeman from the
District of Columbia. have arrived.
but will take no official action for
the federation in favor az "
p'anks. although they approve NJ
the adoption Of an enforcement
riank.
Senator Borah's name also ~ men
toned at the League OF Women
Voters headquarters, in connection
with his proposed plank favoring
q multi-latqral treaty renouncing
a This, il is argued. is in line
with the leagues international CO.
cTcration plank.
The notional woman's party'S sin
Gle plank for an equal rights" con-
stitutinnal amendment il opposed bv
the League of Women Voters as
blanket legislation" preventing pro-
t~ective laws for women. but il will
be defended by the woman's party
before the resolutions committee.
Hoover women encouraged bv
the arrival of Alice Longworth. re-
garded as a Hooverite, were as busy
today as the men.
"Lowden women" also were active