Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-27
Mrs. Willebrandt Stirs Debate
On Wet Drinking, Dry Voting

however, suggests: Nevertheless. there
is ground for suspicion that only the
most naive of the Senators will go very
far toward summoning Mrs. Willebrandt
before an investigating committee. She
is a terrible woman to meet In regula-
ton 1C-round investigation, and many
of those who have mixed 1t with her
in the past are now filling comfortable
graveyards, so far as their public ca
reers are concerned No the
Senate will probably ask for no further
information from our Mabel. Its mem
bers ought to retire to their several
places of worship and give humble and
hearty thanks that she hasn't given
senatorial names and addresses"
"Bootleggers, she says, infest the halls
of government, and she broadly init
mates" records the Akron Beacon
Journal. that were search warrants
issued plenty of liquor would be found
in the House and Senate offlce build
ings. She is in favor of doing this, and
then passes on to say that, as lawyer.
it is her opinion that no member OF
Congress could plead his immunity TO
arrest for violating liquor laws. NOW,
as a matter of fact, one is entirely In
sympathy with all that Mabel says. and
inasmuch as Congress itself has brought
about this condition, one would like to
see the suggestion put IN practice.
For her part" as interpreted by the
Hartford Courant, she would like to
see all congressional violators OF the
law brought up with a sharp turn. but.
Judging from her statements, II this
were done, both houses OF Congress
might lack quorum necessary for the
transaction of business"
The Fort Wayne News-Sentinel be-
lieves that there can be little dis
agreement with her statement that
probably nothing has done more to
disgust and ALLEVIATE honest men and
women who originally strongly favored
the prohibition amendment and its
strict enforcement than the hypocrisy
of the wet-drinking, dry-voting Con-
gressmen.' But what she
does not explain continues that paper.
others, can be made to obey the law,
even by the usual legal processes.
against this altogether too popular type
of 'crimenality.'"
Case after case comes, clearly and
wildly outlined" says the Milwaukee
Journal, from the pen of this woman
who stood for eight years on the firing
line between politics and law enforce
tions-not, Where were you last night?'
but Why were you out with that blond
last night?' Let's don't beat about the
bush; prohibition enforcement officers
may want to be honest, but Senators
and Representatives - dispensers OF
patronage-hold the real reins of power.
Let's see what they've been up to-"
1--WE believe that her point of view
is muddled," asserts the New York Eve
ming Post. Just about the time that
her intelligence Is about to assert itself,
her prejudice stalks across the scene.
She Is making out defense for her
self, but she is not recommending her
case to cold reason. On the whole,
though, her articles, however tangled,
are uhquestionably contributing infor-
nation on most troublous question"
The Little Rock Arkansas Democrat
concludes: True, she has lot of ideas
about enforcement which at the best
are visionary, overoptimistic. But she
Is making it mighty uncomfortable for
certain public officials and for that she
deserves q fair share Of the publics
gratitude" 4