New Britain herald., 1930-03-12
WOMEN DRYS CITE
 POLITICAL CREED'
 IN HEARING TODAY
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 Mrs. Peabody obtained an agree fment with the committee to defer 4cross examination of the women ' until after all had completed pre- sentation of their prepared state. ments.
 Mrs. John r. Sippcl, of Baltimore president of the General Federation of Woman's clubs, who said she had received a threat of injury if she ap- peared, was among the first to give her views. She said her organiza {. tion was emphatically opposed to modification.
 The next witness was Mrs. Clar- ence Fraim, legislative chairman of the General Federation of Woman's clubs. She told of resolutions the organization had adopted in support of the 18th amendment ,.. :, .. Church Leader Heard 7. Mrs. F. I. Johnson of New York president of the Federation of Wom- ans Boards of Foreign Missions .ot North America, then appeared. She said:
 i've represent many millions of organized church women who have expressed themselves in their own church denominations and have affiliated with this woman's nation al committee for law. enforcement in favor of the 18th amendment op- posed to repeal or modification of the Volstead act. "As church women we recognize our obligations as loyal citizens. We also thank God for the answer to the prayer of the ages-'Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil answered in part by the free act of this free people in its prohi- bition against an ancient curse which has wrecked homes and lives and character.
 I've stand on the moral issue as obligatory on every Christian man and woman responsible for the care ,and training of youth in obedience to the command of God and the state. We are not church lobby We are compelled, however. to con- bat the persistent intending lobby of " men pledged to the liquor traffic for their own gain or their own destruc- tion.' -s..
 Mrs. Orrin R. Judd, of New York. H president of the Council of Women for Home Missions, the next wit ness, said her organization worked among all classes and races of peo- pie to teach them democracy and Flaw enforcement.
 Y. W. c, A, Statement
 Mrs. Peabody then presented a statement from Mrs. Robert E. .Speer, president national board of the Young Women's Christian asso- citation. opposing repeal. ...
 Mrs. Morris Leibert. of New York president of the International Orde.' 70: Kings Daughters, urged support of prohibition. .,
 Mrs. Jesse Nicholson, of Chevy Chase, Md, who said she represent sed 100000 democratic women of the national woman's. democratic law enforcement committee, said she had no quarrel with persons or j groups, seeking by lawful means and through orderly procedure to amend modify or repeal the Volstead act and the Eighteenth amendment. ,> What we do condemn and de- nounce," she asserted, lis the at tempt to nullify existing law, to re- pudiate a solemn obligation to de- ride and flout the constitution of our > country and to insult the law abid- ing, God fearing men and women Ci America by openly advocating nulli- fcation and contempt for lawful all {, thority."
 Says Nation Has Referendum
 Some of the wet witnesses" she said, ''claim, they want a referen- dun. Surely they don't want to put the government to the expense of having a referendum oftener than that each congress has been dri.er than the last
 Not one witness who has spok an before this committee has had a definite workable plan if the Eight L eenth amendment was repealed. Nearly all have said we leave it up to congress- thus throwing off the responsibility"
 Says Drinking Less
 Mrs. Lewis Jerome Johnson, of Cambridge, Mass, told the commit tee that while thoughtless people assert there is more drinking nov than before prohibition, those who remember when there were legally protected saloons on street corners and bars in hotels and restauran: IS |, and alcoholic punches at college Commencements and saloons at col lege gates, know from observatio l as well as from government reports . that with saloons, breweries and " distilleries closed, the drinking Jn the. way to and from work, between classes in universities and other casual drinking, is very much less ,ened."
 'The total liquor business of home brewers, moonshiners, bootleggers and bootleggers' patrons is a small ,faction of the legalized liquor mana- facture and sale which existed be- fore the passage of the 18th amen.i- ment," she added. 'I have just re- Ceived statements from officials Of , five different Massachusetts welfare and charitable institutions. showing the incontrovertible benefits ascrib- able to prohibition as revealed m 'their work. These give the verdict Of those who deal with some of the innocent victims of alcoholism. 1t is evidence based on observation Tn sand families needing help through out Massachusetts and upon years of carefully kept records"
 Biames Repeal Of Law Miss Grace Van Braam Roberts, chairman of the New York staie women's committee for law enforce