Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-06
DRY LAW ABOLITION +.
/ BY 1884 PREDICTED
| AT RALLY OF VETS
Representative Mary Norton
Believes Beer win Not
Satisfy Drinkers.
SENATOR TYDINGS ASKS
STATE CONTROL OF: RUM
Other Speakers Assert Mothers Re-
sent Government Regulation
Of Children's Habits.

Predictions that the eighteenth
amendment win be "overthrown by
1884" were greeted with cheers by an
audience Of several hundred men and
women who last night attended an anti
prohibition rally called by the Women's
Organization for National Prohibition
Reform at Masonic Auditorium.
representative Mary T. Norton of
New Jersey ventured the prediction and
AZ the same time joined with Senator
Miilard E. Tydings of Maryland. an
otner speaker, in declaring that the re-
, cent congressional elections meant de-
feat for the drys,
ON November T." said Senator Tyd-
ines' the death knell was sounded to
the 10 years Of barbarism which we
nave had since the advent of prohibi-
ZION. Mrs. Norton expressed the same
opinion. but said she doubted that a
SHOWDOWN would come before 1884.
Others State Views.
Miss Belle Gurnee, chairman Of the
D1Strlct OF Columbia Council Of the
momens Organization for National
FIompitlon Reform, presided. Rufus
LuSk OF washington of the Crusaders.
an anu-prohibition organization of men
also spoke. as did Mrs. Alexander Vol
OF washington and Mrs. Carroll Miller
Oh Plttspurgh, Democratic National
committeewoman for Pennsylvania.
Inc political afiliation of the two
members OF Congress are with the
democratic party.
senator Tydings ridiculed the propo-
sielon Lnat 5S5 members Of Congress
onOuio ieglslate on personal habits and
morals for 10000, 600 people II want
you TO look at me-" said Tydincs SUD
oenIy ana the audience looked. several
members laughing.
i am not the best member OF Com
gress, Tydings added, but I think I
Mouiont De called the worst. Assum-
ing l am fair example OF the mem
peis, 40 you mothers and fathers want
70 Curn over the habits and morals
OF your children to men like me. Do
you want 70 do like your fathers and
motners did, teach your children how
| 70 i've, or do you want 535 politicians
| them?" " A@-0e
Drys Are Criticized.
Disclaiming any wish to be facetious
Iydings attacked what he said was
hypocrisy among the drys and urged
.le women to vote so earnestly that the
wriegling drys" would stay stiIl long
enough 10 say whether they are dry
The only difference between the wets
ana the drys, the wet Senator said in
conclusion, is that the vets ask thai
the question be left to the peonle in
Cner own communities, where contji-
IONS can be COPIED with intelliqentiv
ana according to sentiment. "The wets
40 not want the saloons" he declared.
MIS-. Norton and Miss Gurnee were
equally emphatic that the saloon must
be outlawed. The saloon" said Mis-
Gurnee, is as much a horror to us as
70 tne women'S prohibition organiza-
IONS. Mrs. Norton said she was con-
Vlnceu that beer would not be q solu-
ton OF the problem. "The people who
want hard liquor viii not be satisfied
with beer" she said. Outright repeal
Is the only thing to do"
Sees Good Start Made.
Many Of us feel we have made a
fairly good start toward repeal by re-
Gently electing about 140 liberals to
| Congress" Mrs. Norton said. THAT
was good deed and it proves that
america, after long sleep, is coming
70 new hfe." A moment later, how
ever, she conceded in effect that "sleep"
Is still the order. Referring to the
| action of the House yesterday In rid
ing over the wet bloc and CONTINUING
appropriations for the poisoning of de-
natured alcohol, Mrs. Morton said she
was deeply ashamed" that three worn-
an members Of the House voted for
| the bill.
Even SO, she said, the vets 'haye
the Anti-Saloon League and the w. C.
i. Y. on their last legs. And we will
not De long in annthilating them," she
Mrs. Norton emphasized that graft
corruption and other crime" have
spread since the advent Of prohibition
ana this opinion was enlarged upon
by Mrs. Miller.
Wants Repeal Of Law.
I'VE want to repeal the eighteenth
amendment because it is the source of
the greatest political graft and cor
ruption in the history of the Govern
ment," she said, because it has
brought about the election to Office of
the greatest number of hypocrits that
have ever assembled In the State
legislatures or in the halls of Congress.
AS mother, refuse to acquiesce
in the principle that any group or or
ganization, decree or of1icial has
higher right beyond my own conscience
In regard to the bringing UP of my
children, and yet that is precisely what
the eighteenth amendment does"
Mrs. Wolf, who is leader among
Hebrew women in the Capital spoke
from the viewpoint Of the mother. She
said she was frankly bewildered" by
the controversial aspects of the law
and opinion. She urged that the prob
| lem be clarified by again submitting to
the people the proposition whether pro-
hibition should be continued as a ma
tional policy.
Lusk, who has taken a leading part
In Washington in urging young men to
affiliate with the Crusaders organiza-
| ton, projected by the son Of Mrs.
Charles H. Sabin of New York, told
the audience that the women nave in
| spired all elements of the antl-prohihi-
ton movement to unity.
I'VE are making progress, despite the
assertions to the contrary by Dr. Clar-
ence True wilson, he said.