Smyrna times., 1931-06-03
WOMEN REPEAL ADVOCATES
WILL MEET TODAY AT DOVER
MRS. w. b. LOWNDES TO AID
DRESS DRY REFORM GROUP
Mrs. r.. G. Paynter of Georgetown
Is the Presiding Officer.-Oth-
er Addresses To Be Made

The Delaware Division of the
Women's National Organization for
Prohibition Reform is meeting this
afternoon in the garden of Mrs.
Henry Ridgely at Dover. The ex-
ecutive committee of the Delaware
Division and Mrs. w. Bladen Lown-
des, of Baltimore, who will address
the meeting, will be guests of Mrs.
Ridgely at luncheon prior to the
meeting. Mrs. LoWndes is a form
er Republican National Committee
woman of Maryland. She held the
office from 1928 until January of
this year when she resigned. At
present she is in charge of coun-
ty organization in her state for the
Women's Organization for Nation
al Prohibition Reform. She will
talk on the political aspect of work
for Repeal of the Eighteenth
Amendment Mrs. Rowland G.
Paynter, of Georgetown, State
Chairman of the Delaware organi-
zation, will preside at the meeting.
The program will include both
news concerning past work and the
plans of the organization for its
immediate activities. The latter
will be in general charge of Mrs.
William G. Spruance for New Cas-
tie County; Mrs. Cummins Speak
man, for Kent County, and Mrs.
Saunders M. Truitt for Sussex
County, with the assistance of the
Committee. After two
years of work by women organiz-
ed for Repeal of the Eighteenth
the 100000 members
in thirty-four states, including Del
aware, are following steadfastly
the program worked out by that
early group in Chicago, which in
cluded Mrs. Charles H. Sabin, of
New York, who became the Ma
tional Chairman. This program by
women opposed to Prohibition is
FOR the avowed purpose of promot-
ing temperance and better social
conditions, of restoring respect for
law and honesty in government.
was the second anniver-
sary of a meeting of twenty-four
women in Chicago on May %, 1929,
to consider what women of the
country might do to combat the
evils Of prohibition. This first
group Of women represented twelve
States, and were familiar with civ
ic and governmental conditions in
their own communities and were
well Informed on national issues
their active association
with various movements for the
public welfare. They could not be-
lieve that women generally were
ignorant of, or Indifferent to the
actual results of the prohibition
laws. But this was something it
was necessary to find out, since it
was claimed that all women Of the
country favored the continuance of
prohibition. The twenty-four wom-
en- formed a temporary organiza-
ton for prohibition reform, and de-
voted much of their first year to
Investigating both the conditions
under prohibition and the attitude
Of women toward them. The an
swer to the attitude of women can
oe found in the membership Of the
Women's Organization for Nation
II Prohibition Reform, which has
increased from twenty-four to
more than 100000 in two wears.
The Delaware membership, which
vas started late the first year with
! group smaller than the national,
S now 2287. The results of the or
sanization's investigation of condi-
ions have been published in stead
ly increasing volume during the
-wo years and were given to the
country recently through the sec
md annual meeting of the organi-
sation at Washington.