New Britain herald., 1930-03-12

| sIql uodn pealsh us9q leAe seq country. Don't tell me about its evils. Whatever they are, they are as nothing compared to. the good that it has. done throughout the country.''
 Mrs. John Osgood Blanchard, Mrs. Richard Aldrich, and Miss Bertha Rembaugh, all of New York, were the next speakers in support of pro- hibition. -,-. -..
 Plays "Strange Alliance"
 Mrs. Aldrich who is vice presi- dent of the New York State Wom- ems Committee for Law Enforce ment, spoke as a woman of leisure" criticising the ''strangest alliance our country has ever seen the alliance between liquor interests and ladies'" =.
 Miss Renbaugh, a New. York at torney and treasurer of the state committee for law enforcement. said the country's revolutionary fore fathers were Hawkes. in behalf Of something beside the qualification of 8 physical appetite.".s #
 Statements Issued
 Mrs. Ford and Mrs. Edison agreed in favoring prohibition. :-': ..
 T stand for the law that has proved blessing for one station in life and would be an equal blessing to those enjoying greater privileges in this world if they would, give the law a fair chance,' the inventors wife wrote. .. ...i..
 '.I am heartily in favor of the 18th amendment without modifica- tion," Mrs. Ford's statement read. Tt is law of the United States and should be observed by all of us. In my opinion it has been of untold benefit to the women as well as men of our country in improved living conditions and d more prosperous nation." - | Mrs. Peabody explained that, her organization was affiliated with or ganizations having an aggregate i membership of 12,00O,Oo0.
 "These great organizations" her statement said, ''have stood in SUD- port of the constitution and its laws for eight years-since 1922-When organized opposition began. They | concentrate efforts on the 18th amendment. .
 Opponents Criticized
 Proponents of prohibition among women do not ring true in state ments regarding their sudden dis covery of the awful menace to youth | through alcohol,". she continued, ''and their inconsistent demand that it. therefore be restored to a legal status. Youth has not changed es- sentially. We have always had fam ing youth, the flame increased by all cohol. Today we have a new tyRe. flying youth-the finest yet and most likely to dispense with alcoholic stimulants."
 The grey haired grandmother, who is as prominently known on Beacon Hill as in her Beverly, home: said the battle of alcohol was primarily a woman's battle." --t "The normal woman," .;he assert | ed, mot the sub-normal or 5neurotic type, knows alcohol to be a habit making drug which wrecks body soul and mind, as. dangerous as opium to the individual-mored dan gerous> to the family and communi ty."- ,-.
 The advocates of personal liberty, she said. did not rebel against prohi- bition of opium, but the alcoholic taint from past generations persists in rebellion against this necessary law against the alcoholic traffic, XXX.
 -"Hrere are twelve million women pledged to loyal service of this gov- ernment. They hold convictions and conventions and instead of depend ing on the hatchet of pre- prohibition days to enforce law. they use their ballots to secure loyal representa- tives. Women will cheerfully grant to men management of the tariff, finances, problems of transportation. and water power. Men need the help of women to control the alcohol power.'
 Mrs. Sippcrs Statement Mrs. Sippel's statement said:
 The general federation of wom- ems club is an organization. of H. 500 clubs in 2,5OO of the 5000 coun- ties of this country, and I am ex- pressing the will of this group when I say they wish the eighteenth amendment carried out"
 Mrs. Peabody presented 10 the committee statements from many prominent women who favored the eighteenth amendment. Among them were Representative Ruth Bryan Owen, democrat, Florida; Mrs. Per cy V. Pennybacker of Austin, Texas, former president of the general fed eration of women's clubs and Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, the New York suffragist.
 Mrs. Catt said:
 T give my testimony that in my own considerable circle of acquaint ances and friends, with two excep- tions, I have found no man. woman or child, who drinks, brews, snug gles, purchases, sells or distributes any form of alcoholic liquor. These enormous dry circles, stretching from ocean to ocean, appear to me to represent the climax of normal civilized growth. .-1 l
 Must Acquire Self Control ''Thosc who still crave alcohol must acquire sel.-discipline before they attain the civilized standard. Therefore; for them prohibition is necessary" .-.- =..: y
 Mary F. Woolley, president of Mount Holyoke college, wrote that she believed fin the eighteenth amendment without modification of the Volstead act in favor of wines and beer" and said she was glad to assert her allegiance to the consti- tuition and my own rigid personal observance of the law in favor of