Evening star., 1931-04-11
WOMAN DRYS URGE
: EDUCATION DRIVE
Group of 22 Recommend
Plan for Improving Prohi-
bition Situation.
~ the Associated Press.

ID the Associated Press.
"a Nationwide educational campaign
&rtifed by good example in the home, u
was named today by an unofacial law
enforcement commission Of % women
4 its chief recommendation for i'm
growing the present prohibition situ-
ation.
This was the conclusion of q COM
riosite prohibition report presented yes
terday to President Hoover and de-
sAribed as a "woman's postscript" To
the Wickersham Commissions study.
rhe report was made public today at
a. luncheon OBJ the Woman's National
Committee for Law Enforcement.
sIn one of the % individual studies
faom which the consensus was drawn
Mrs. Clement L. Shaver, wife of the
former chairman of the Democratic
National Committee. urged women TO
ferget they were Democrats or Pepub-
llcans and vote only Ito overthrow The
liuuor traffic" She said President
Hoover was in strong position" be-
cause of his prohibition stand.
"Tough Nut to Crack"
sMrs. Clifford Pinchot, wife of the
rennsylvania Governor, conceded en-
fercement was "a tough nut to crack,
ending that if the dryS did not want IL
ehougn to fight for it the amendment
'1nieht lust as well be repealed"
mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait, woman
suffrage leader, said she had never OBJ
served a liquor law that was enforced,
hnt that prohibition was "a better law
and better enforced" than any system
she had seen.
sMrs. Irving Fisher, wife of the Yale
economist, quoted her husband as say
ing prohibition had raised productivity
by at least three billion dollars year. "
Better Chance With Bandits.
sComdr. Evangeline Booth of the
Salvation Army cited statistics 70 sug-
zest the conclusion that man mas
ketter chance of life in this country
With her bandits than in Britain with
her brewers"
1--WE believe" said the composite
statements of the % women, that the
report of the Wickersham Commission
has done much to strengthen opinion
favoring the eighteenth amendment.
~"We believe their conclusions, arrived
az in spite of the personal preferences
Of at least half the commission, TESTIFY
more strongly than anything else could
have done to the social and economic
benefits already evident as a result OF
the eighteenth amendment"
sThe report stated its authors were
opposed to the revision of the amend
uaent suggested by the Wickersham
Commission, as well as to modification,
repeal, q national referendum and the
lfcuor control plan put forward by
Commissioner Henry w. Anderson.
I'VE maintain" the report said, that
the question has been referred to the
people in every congressional election,
with the result that after flve 6uch
elections there are today more men,
bers Of Congress favorable to prohibi-
ton than at the time OF the passage
Of the amendment.
Public Misinformed.
~We find the public not only misin-
formed, but largely miSinformed because
many channels of publicity are vir-
t1ally closed to prohibition factual in
formation.
I'VE find the opponents Of prohibit
tion, while voicing their approval OF ar
educational campaign and training fol
temperance, have prevented the dis
sernination OF information from Fed
eral sources by blocking appropriation
Of funds for this purpose"
Excerpts from some of the other In
dividual reports follow:
Mrs. Richard C.. Cabot, wife Of the
Harvard medical professor: Many oi
the best doctors do not even apply
for the amount of liquor they are en-
titled TO have for their patients"
Asks Dry OfficialS.
Miss Margaret K. Harrais, Mccarthy
Alaska educator: GIVE us Judges
district attorneys and United States
marshals, who are not dry law VIOLA
tors themselves and the dry law vii
be observed in Alaska"
Miss Catherine Waugh McCulloch
Chicago lawyer: "One weakness OF
the law is shown in the decision that
the purchaser is guilty Of no offenSe
against the prohibition act"
Miss Edna Giles Fuller, Florida legis-
1ator: "One of the outstanding weak
neSseS in the enforcement Of the law Is
the impressive lack of men and money"
Miss Edna Barnett, Chicago lawyer
'Much Of the present congestion in the
Federal courts could be done away with
11cials in charge would adopt the policy
of going after the big offenders instead
of the small fellows"
Mrs. william r. Pattangall, Augusta
Me: ANY one who thinks that letting
the States handle the liquor business
independent Of Federal eontrol,' is 9
solution Of the problem never lived in @
prohibition State surrounded by wet
States"
Or. Jennie Callfas, Omaha: 1.-The very
thing that will destroy the youth of oul
country is being Haunted in their face;
continually"