Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-08-18
|DEHORES ATTACKS
ON SMITH AS WET
Mrs. Ross Tells Institute
Democrats Will En-
force Law.
BY THOMAS r.. HENRY.
stat Correspondent Of The Star.

UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA. Au-
gust 1s.--The prohibition issue cannot
logically be raised against the candi-
dacy of Gov. Smith, the Institute Of
Public Affairs here was told today BY
former Gov. Nellie 1ayloe Ross Of Wyo-
ming.
The widespread tendency to inject
this question into the present campaign,
Mrs. Ross said, denotes irsincerity, mis-
information or doubt of the Democratic
candidates veracity, since the nominees
of both parties stand pledged to support
the eighteenth amendment, the Demo-
Gratis going trifie farther than the Re-
pubiicans.
Neither party" she said. either
through its platform or the utterances
of its presidential candidate. proposes
to repeal 1t. Both parties have pledged
themselves to enforce the amendment.
The chief difference is that the Demo-
cratic party, through the declaration O.
its platform and candidate, has de-.
more frankly and honestly with the
public.
Calls Smith Honest.
Gov. Smiths views 20 years ago are
not pertinent to the question today. 1t
is with the pledges and opinions OF Gov,
Smith the experienced executive that
We are now concerned. When he speaks.
the people believe him, for he is known
to be man Of his word"
Woodrow Wilson. Mrs. Ross pointed
out did not believe in the Volstead act
and vetoed 1t, yet he enforced 1t as Wig
orously as possible. with the result that
drinking actually diminished during the
closing years of his term, only to in
crease again under the Harding admin
iStration.
Doubtless, she said. there are prohi-
bition violations in New York State un-
der Gov. Smith, but these are found
even in Washington, where 1T Is mat
ter of common knowledge that even
among the Congressmen who vote ap-
preparations to enforce the prohibition
law there are those who set the ex-
ample of violation to subordinates
whom they invest with authority to en-
force it."
Says Coolidge Liked Beer.
President Harding, she said, was GER
talnly not dry and only shortly before
his death announced that he would stop
drinking. while President Coolidge
never has declared himself in sympathy
tell how, as a young man, he enjoyed
beer as beverage"
Following closely on the heels OF the
religious issue, introduced Unexpectedly
Thursday, the equally delicate race issue
was brought into the deliberations OF
the institute yesterday at the round
table on political parties conducted by
DR.. A. r. Hatton OF Northwestern
University.
Prof. Hatton said that, in his opinion.
the Republican party had long passed
the point where it would try to inter-
fere with the methods of dealing with
colored voters In the South. and that
they would drop the colored man ike
a hot potato" If they thought there
was any real chance of carrying the
South
The colored vote in the North. ne
said. Is breaking away from strict Re-
publican adherence, as Is the case with
the almost solidly Democratic vote Of
Harlem.
Asked Ii he thought the colored race
had advanced to point where 1t could
take part In Democratic government,
Prof. Hatton said: "No-nor all the
white race either"
Discusses Treaty.
A hitherto unsupported source of
weakness In the multilateral treaties
now being arranged by Secretary KEEL
logg between the principal world powers
Is that Latin American countries are
left out, DR.. John II. Latane OF Johns
Hopkins University told the round table
on Latin American a.airs. This, DR..
Latane believes. was Intentional, and he
pointed out that Gr@at Britain, as an
Offset had reserved her own sphere
OF influence" which could only be in
terpreted as Egypt and India. Thus. he
said. two Of the most fruitful sources Of
trouble are left out altogether.
The vast extent Of cutover Land in the
United States constitutes an economic
problem Of the first Importance. George
H. Rommel Of the Department Of Agri-
culture said yesterday. These lands. he
pointed out, are recognized as so useless
for farming that some States have pre-
vented colonization projects on them as
fraud under the "Sky-blue laws and
hundreds of thousand of acres have re-
verted to the states for taxes,