Evening star., 1928-06-11
DRYS ARE PLANNING
BATTLE FOR PLANK
Prohibition Forces Gather at
Kansas City-Wets Also
on Scene.
Nv Tie Associated pyess

BY the Associated Press
KANSAS CITY, June 1l.--With the
vets determined to hold their fire until
they glimpse the whites OF the enemy's
eyes, militant prohibition army is
mobilizing here TO demand from the
Republican party an assurance that the
prohibition laws would be actively en-
forced by sympathetic officials
Fostering plans already worked out
by a committee of representatives of
the various dry organizations. the
women's national committee for law
enforcement opened convention which
viii throw fiVe-day bombardment
upon the Republicans. Almost their
first action was the approval OF
resolution asking the party conven-
tions TO put enforcement in the hands
Of friends Of the law and 10 enact addi-
ton laws TO assure drinkless land.
Butler Opposes Dry Plank.
The smaller group OF vets. in a de-
fensive position. was proceeding slowly.
Miss Louise Gross, chairman Of the
women's committee for repeal Of the
eighteenth amendment, arrived with
the announcement that she would op-
pose any dry or enforcement planks.
She expressed the belief that such
| problems should be settled by the people
| at the polls and declared that for that
| reason no effort would be made To
secure a wet plank in the party plat
| forms.
| Her position was bolstered by DIR.
! Nicholas Murray Butler. a New York
| delegate, who characterized an enforce
! nnent plank as "the bunk" and said Re
/ would oppose vigorously any attempt TO
incorporate In the platform an approval
| Of the eighteenth amendment and the
/ prohibition laws.
| Butler said he expected to find the
prospective Borah dry plank "a bunch
Of platitudes that don't mean any
| thing"
| The women'S convention opened with
! q declaration by Mrs. Henry w. Peabody
/ OF Beverly, Mass, national chairrnar n
oi the committee. that "the women OF
/ the country want one issue above ali
others--the dry issue---settled satisfac-
torily in the party platforms"
We are prepared sto back I'D our
wishes with our votes" she said. "and
y the political leaders want 10 count
those votes on election day 1t would be
Wen Tor them u give ns adequate de-
iense OF the United States Constitution
Tor which we ask
Plan Meeting at Houston.
/ she said the committee would plan a
similar meeting in Houston during the
Democratic convention, at which the
feminine drys of that party would as
| >emble. Hundreds Of meetings are
planned by the yomen'g organizations
! Tor the campaign, she added.
Mrs. John ID. Sherman, a past presI-
cent ~ the General Federation Of
| Women's Clubs, one 0f the women 4
organizations affiliated with the commit
tee, declared that we have a right t1
/ demand that those who ask our suffrage
make straightforward statement of
Hleir views and intentions"
Ifls is crusade and we have en-
ilsted~~Ilot for battle, but f0r the
var she told them, AZ the crowd
enesfed, adding that we must not fail
~ make that demand"
Similar expressions came from other
/ representatives. and officials of affiliated
organizations, including the Salvation
Army, the Women'G Christian Temper. j..
ance Union, the Council III Women for
Home Missions. the Federation Of WON
fnE Foreign Mission Boards and the
Congress of Parents and Teachers.