The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-04-10

Washington, D. C., April 10.-De- termined to make prohibition ma jor issue in the 1892 campaign, at least 600 women, representatives or the Woman's Organization for Ma tional Prohibition Reform, coming from thirty-two states and the Dis trict of Columbia, will meet in Wash ington, April 14-15 to lay plans for organizing the woman vote In sup port of anti-prohibition candidates in the 1892 primaries.
 This conference promises to be the largest and most representative dem- onstration against prohibition staged since the passage of the 18th amendment. It is especially signif- icant in view of the fact that women have been credited with the respon- sibility for the adoption of national prohibition.
 The confernece, which will be held at the Mayfiower hotel, will last for two days and consist of four ses- sions. The delegates will arrive early Tuesday and the morning hours will be devoted to a reception and meet ings of the various state groups.
 The conference will be formally opened at 2 o'clock in the afternoon and will be addressed | = Mrs Charles H. Sabin, national chairman, and Mrs August Belmont, of New York city. The following committees will be appointed, and upon adjournment of the first meeting. will go into ex- ecutive session: The committee on rules, the committee of legislative and political activities, the commit tee on platforms and resolutions, the ways and means committee, and the committee on constitution and by laws.
 The representatives will be enter tained at a banquet at o'clock in the hotel, to be followed immediately by the second session beginning at 8 80 to which the public is especially invited to hear a discussion of pro hibition from the economic, social, and civic viewpoints. The speakers will be as follows: Mrs Sabin. pre- siding; Matthew Wol1, vice-president of the American Federation of La Dor; pr Esther Richards of Johns Hopkins university; and Maurice s. Sherman, editor of the Hartford, Connecticut Courant.
 The third session, converting at 1O o'clock on Wednesday morning, Will be devoted to reports of the national and state officers and to committee
 reports. Action on these reports will take place at the final session on Wednesday afternoon.
 Mrs Henry Leonard, who is the
 wife of Major Henry Leonard. U. s.
 M. C., retired, and sister of Mrs John W. Garrett of Baltimore, whose husband is our ambassador to Italy. is chairman of the committee on arr
 engagements for the reception and ac- commodation of representatives at the conference.
 |. "Since women are being held re- | or fny fhiQ costly mistake called prohibition, women should rectify it." Mrs Charles H. Sabin, national chairman of the organiza-
 tion, declared yesterday in announc- | ing the conference program.
 "We accept the challenge and am confident that the vast majority of women in this country have had
 enough of prohibition and are now
 ready to say it with ballots" | Prominent among those expected I to attend the conference are: Mrs
 Lawrence O'Donovan, Albama: Mrs
 Mona Shelton, Arizona; Mrs John B. | Casserly, California; Mrs Stuart | Clement, Mrs Wilmarth Lewis and Mrs Lucius Robinson, Jr. Connecti- | cut; Mrs Frederick M. Alger, Mrs
 Edwin S. Barbour, Mrs Henry B Joy, Mrs J. J. O'Brien and Mrs Rob-
 ert E. O'Brien, Michigan; Mrs H
 Gunnar Nasburg, Minnesota; Mrs | Scott Porter and Mrs Fred w 1 Thompson; Missouri; Mrs W. A | Simons, Montana; Mrs Ward w Pickard and Mrs R. Stuyvesant
 Pierrepont, New Jersey; Mrs Cor
 nelius N. Bliss, Mrs John S. Shep- | pard, Mrs Courtlandt Nicoll. Mrs | Archibald Roosevelt, Mrs Edward l McCagg, Mrs Coffin Van Rensselaer,
 Miss Maude K. Wetmore, and Mrs Marion Booth Kelley, New York; Il Mrs Augustine Healy, North Car olina; Mrs George Hoadly, Mrs Allen House, Mrs Henry Nelson Rose. and
 Mrs H. P. Mcintosh. Jr. Ohio; Mrs
 l. l.. Leventritt, Oklahoma; Mrs
 Graham Dougherty, Mrs Carroll Mill