Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-17
|BROOKHART SEES
| DRINK ON DECLINE
w. C. T. U. Told by Senator
Eighteenth Amendment
Has Proved Success.

The first 10 years of prohibition have
reduced the use of alcohol as beverage
by IS per cent; the eighteenth amend
ment is a success, not failure, Senator
Smith Brookhart of Iowa and other
notable speakers told 300 members and
guests of the District of Columbia Wom-
ans Christian Temperance Union last
night at the banquet held at Meridian
Mansions to celebrate the tenth anni-
versary of the passage Of the Federal
prohibition law.
Prohibition has been victorious" de-
clared the Senator, mot without its
mistakes and temporary failures, OF
course; nothing human is ever conf
plete success; but it has proved its
worth in the reduction of the use OF
alcohol, and look to the next 10 years
to bring about the reduction of that
other IS per cent of liquor consumption
by at least three -fourths."
Senator Brookhart was one Of a group
of half dozen speakers who addressed
the temperance gathering presided over
by Mrs. N. NJ. Pollock, president of the
D. G. w. C. T. u, and attended by
prominent members of national and To-
cal prohibition ranks, as well as official
society. among them, Assistant Secre-
tary of the Treasury Seymour Lowman,
who urged the women OF the country
and the men as well to work unceas-
ingly in the battle line" for the en-
forcement of prohibition.
Still on Fighting Line.
I'VE are still on the fighting line"
said Secretary Lowman. There never
was a time when the w. G. T. U. was
more needed than it is today. OPPOSE
l. I..,k ~
aged and with united effort will bring
temperance and sobriety to the ma
tion.'
Calling upon the women Of the coun-
try to realize that upon their shoulders
rests the heaviest responsibility In max
ing the prohibition law effective, Mrs.
Arthur Robinson, wife of Senator Rob-
inson Of Indiana, declared that ut can
be enforced. The answer is getting the
right men in the right places-men who
believe in the law. And it is your job
and my job to vote for the right men
and keep up the standards that will
win the fight"
when we consider that 1t took over
100 years to arrive at moral con-
science against the liquor traffic" con-
tinued Mrs. Robinson, I'VE cannot but
feel proud of the results of one short
decade"
Storms of applause greeted Repre-
sentative Grant e. Mouser, jr, OF Ohio
and Edward Beers of Pennsylvania,
each OF whom declared that the great
est victory this country got out Of the
World War was the eighteenth amend
ment. Representative Mouser brought
forth another burst of enthusiasm upon
of Congress will support Herbert Hoover
to the limit in any measure he en-
deavors to put through in the further
arce of law and order"
Removals From Once.
Senator John Robson of Kentucky
voiced the sentiments of preceding
speakers in regard to the key to en-
forcement-the removal from office or
all those not sincerely dedicated to the
law they were expected to enforce
and reiterated his belief that much has
been accomplished during the first 10
years of the operation of the eighteenth
amendment, both in enforcement and
in public opinion.
sponded briefly to toasts were the two
women from Japan, Mrs. Edward
Gauntlet and Mile. Uti Hayashi, rep
5000 prohibition1sts of their
country, who are on their way to the
London naval parley to present petit
ton signed by 10000 women for peace.
Mrs. Gauntlet, the spokesman Of the
two, declared that American prohibi-
ton, while only a 10-year-old child,
has proved an example for the whole
world to follow"
Mrs Lenna H. YoSt, national legisla-
tive director of the w. c. T. u, pre-
scented the Japanese guests. Federal
Administrator for Special Prohibition
Agents Andrew McCampbell and Mrs.
Nina Van Wrinkle also responded to
toasts.
A brief musical program was inter-
spersed among the speeches, including
vocal solos by Floyd williams and Mrs.
Ruby Smith Stahl. Mr.. Williams was
by his wife at the piano
and Mrs. Stahl by Mrs. Chester Adair.
At the reception preceding the din
ner Mrs. Pollock, with the officers OF
the District of Columbia Union and
honor guests. received informally. In
the line with Mrs. Pollock we're DR..
Lauretta Kress, first vice president;
Mrs. H. e. Rogers, corresponding sec
rotary; Mrs. Charles p. Granfield, as
sistant corresponding secretary: Mrs.
George Goss, treasurer; Mrs. Frank M.
Mann, Mrs. Charles Montgomery, re-
cording secretary; Mrs. William j.
Peters. assistant recording secretary;
Mrs. Yost, Mrs. Van Wrinkle and Mrs.
Gauntlet and Miss Hayashi and the
sneakers and their wives