Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-29

Congress and Autumnal leaves will
not be with us long in September pc
fore the "Women's Organization Tor
National Prohibition Reform" will off1-
cially clear for action in Washington.
This is the militant movement Launched
by Mrs. Charles H. Sabin, who resigned
as Republican national committeeWom-
an from New York in order to devote
her public life to modification OF the
lisuor laws. The beauteous daughter
of former Secretary of the Navy Paul
Morton and wife of the chairman OF
the Guaranty Trust Co. Is chairman
of the women's anti-Volstead crusade.
Her vice chairmen are Mrs. John b.
Casserly OF California and Mrs. Amasa
s: Mather Of Ohio: The secretary IS
Mrs. Courtlandt Nicoll of New York.
Ofices will be opened in Washington
and a regular and resolute campaign
of education waged on countrywide
lines. Voluntary contributions are to
be sent to the treasurer of Mrs. Sabins
association, Rose S. Potter. The object
Of the organization Is "to record women
who are opposed to existing conditions
under national prohibition" and to
&. in the law which will bring about
sane solution Of the problem"
Modification Of the Federal liquor
statute Is not the only important change
in national laws which George w.
Wickersham appears to favor. The
Hoover Enforcement Commission chair
man has long been identified with the
movement fomented by friends Of ia
pan in this country to repeal the So
called exclusion provision OF the 1924
American immigration law, which so
bitterly rankles in Nippon's breast. Mr..
Wickersham's interest springs from the
fact that he is chairman OF the COM
mlttee on international justice and good
will of the Federal Council OF Churches.
The committee advocates placing Japan
on the immigration quota basis, con-
tending that such a recourse would balm
Japan's wounded pride, while permitting
a mere handful OF her citizens to crash
our alien gates. Seeing as how the law
enforcement executive seems destined TO
remain in the news, it's worth knowing
that his name is pronounced Wicker
sham. The accent is so strongly on the
Wicker" that the sham" is almost
slurred into silence.
Senator William H. King Democrat,
of Utah, delivered in Baltimore last
night q stirring address on Theodor
Herzl, the great Austrian Jew, who was
did not live to see the realization OF his
dream of a national home for the Jews
in Palestine, has long been one OF SEN
ator Kings legendary heroes, and the
Utahan has frequently uttered public
panegyrics Of him. Herzl by profession
was q newspaper man and represented
the famous Neue Freie Presse Of Vienna
in Paris for many years. The late
Sultan Abdul Hanid, with whom the
Zionist leader conducted the early ne
gctiationS for his cause, once said that
Herzl was the most Christlike man the
Turkish autocrat had even known.
X X X X
Senator Frederick Hale, Republican,
of Maine, chairman Of the Senate naval
affairs committee, thought he had def
nitely won his tight for the cruisers
when he piloted the 15-ship bill to
passage last Winter. Now Hale finds
himself required to grid for battle anew,
this time against the President, instead
of against the pacifists. The tight,
which promises to be colorful, Will
range around MIR. Hoover's right, or
otherwise, to suspend construction OF
the three 1929 cruisers, under the terms
Of the bill which authorized them as
part and parcel of the building pro-
gram which Congress enacted. Hale
made the same kin of single handed
contest for the cruisers as Borah had
just previously waged for ratification Of
the Kellogg pact. Every sign indicates
that party lines will be broken, when
the Senate Is called upon TO sustain. or
to fiout, President Hoover ON the cruiser
proposition, Just as they were smashed
when the previous question was voted.
Senator Hale is the boxing champion
OF Capitol Hill. He will strip to the
bun for the coming cruiser tray