Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-06
CATHOLIC LAYMAN
| TAKESUP DEFENSE
FOR DRY FORCES
Challenges Those Who Seek
to Align Prohibition With
Professionalism.
NORTH DAKOTAN AYERS
STATE HAS PROSPERED
Representative Burtness Denies
Law Has Worked Hard
ship on Farmers.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Patrick H. Callahan, a prominent
Catholic layman from Louisville, KY, to-
day took up defense of the eighteenth
amendment before the House judiciary
committee with challenge to any one
who sought to align the prohibition
movement with Professionalism alone.
He said the charge had been made
and still was heard that prohibition was
Professionalism and purposely planned
to interfere with Catholic services by
ultimately making it impossible to
offer up the sacraments of the mass. u
This he denied as untrue and said that
as a Catholic layman he held the same
influence as other leaders In the dry
movement.
Callahan was the second witness of
the day. He took the stand after Rep
reSentative BurtneSS, Republican, South
Dakota, had appeared to reply to testi-
mony that prohibition was working a
hardship on the farmer by curtailing
grain markets. BurtneSS said this was
not the case and that North Dakota
had prospered under Al years of prohi-
bition.
Presents MonSignor'S Letter.
A letter from Mgr. M. F. Foley Of
Baltimore was presented by Callahan,
who is chairman of the central CO.
operative committee for prohibition en-
forcement and general secretary of the
Association of Catholics Favoring Pro-
hibition. The communication described
the efforts of the anti-prohibition
group as a revival of the whisky insur-
rection of 1874 on q larger and more
dangerous basis"
Callahan said he had found that the
bulk Of the trouble between the Cath
Ollie and Protestant churches came from
the liquor interests. His testimony was
in reply to that received from Cath
olics presented by the anti-prohibition
lists, the number including Father
James A. Ryan of the National Cath
Ollie Welfare Council and a member of
the faculty Of Catholic University here.
Polls Society Women.
Fashionable society women in Ameri.
cas- third city were represented today
by one of their number as being In
favor of prohibition and eager in sllp-
port of President Hoover'S appeal for
general law observance.
Miss Ruth K. S. Strawbridge said
she knew this was true, for she had
polled the matrons of her home city
Of Philadelphia, where many families
proudly point to lineage that dates
back to Colonial days, even beyond the
time when the Quaker City was the
gay Capital Of the young Republic.
Wearing black hat, clad in neatly
fitting black silk dress with a white
lace collar, Miss Strawbridge took sharp
issue with recent testimony of one of
her fellow townSmen, w. w. Atterbury,
president of the Pennsylvania Railroad
and director of the Association
Against the Prohibition Amendment
She said she would criticize his state
ments "as utterly unsportsman like and
unworthy of leader of public opinion"
Mr.. Atterbury, she asserted, believed
in forbidding his employees to drink
while driving engines on protected
tracks, but failed to apply this rule to
Ibis social acquaintanceS who drive au-
tomobiles on unprotected highways"
Hold North Dakota Prospers.
The committee was told that agri-
cultural depression in North Dakota
had been Gin nowise aggravated by
prohibition"
This assertion was included in a
statement signed by residents of that
State and presented by Representative
Burtness, taking issue with Pierce Blew
EFT, North Dakota farmer, who testi-
fed during the hearings for opponents
of the dry law that decreased demand
for barley as result of prohibition had
caused hardship among the farmers of
his State.
North Dakota. to the contrary. has
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