Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-29
v. c. 7. j. TO MEET
HERE NEXT FRIDAY
Convention of Unions in East
Will Present Dry Petition
to President Hoover.

National and State officers of the
Woman's Christian Temperance Union
will meet with delegates from unions
in the middle Eastern States at the
Mayflower Hotel from next Friday to
Monday to map out a program dedi-
Gated to 1.-The promotion of law observ-
ance, the study of problems of enforce
ment and 10 RE expression Of prohiEi-
ton sentiment everywhere"
Every phase c. the vet and dry ques-
ton Will be discussed at the meeting,
which will be the first of a series of 25
regional gatherings throughout the
United States ending with conference
In Chicago the end of March.
Drys Plan to Show Strength.
A practical means will be sought to
demonstrate the strength of prohibition
sentiment to legislators, platform max
ers and political party leaders and can
didates
A high light of the conference here
will be the presentation to President
Hoover at the White House of petit
ton favoring prohibition and signed by
a million Americans between the ages
of IA and 80. The petition was circu-
lated by the w G. T.'U. in fulfillment
of pledge by it's president, Mrs. Ella
A. Boole, to show the President the
sentiment of young people on the pro-
hibition issue. A hundred young peo-
pie will carry the petition to the PreSi-
dent at noon on Friday.
The key note address will be deliv-
cred by Mrs. Boole. followed by dec
laration by Mrs. Ida B. Wise Smith. of
DeS MoineS. Iowa, vice president OF The
National w. c. T. U.
Wilbur Will Be Speaker.
Federal and State officials to address
the conference here include E. p. San
ford. chief of the Prohibition Bureaus
research division, who will discuss THE
Necessity for State Cooperation in En-
forcement" on Friday afternoon; John
A. McSparran, secretary of agriculture
of Pennsylvania, Friday afternoon:
Senators Morris Sheppard of Texas and
Henry D. Hatfield of West Virginia,
who will speak at. a banquet in the
Mayfower Hotel Saturday night, and
Secretary Wilbur of the Department of
the Interior, who is to address a Spe-
cial meeting in Foundry Methodist
Episcopal Church between 3 and
o'clock next Sunday afternoon.
In addition to national officers of
the w. c. T. u. the conference will
be addressed by Mrs. Jennie B. Wad-
leigh, president of the District of
Columbia Chapter. and the presidents
of the State organizations in New
York, Missouri, Oklahoma, Delaware,
Virginia, New Jersey, West Virginia,
Pennsylvania and Indiana.
Women to Address Drys.
Among leaders of various large Or
CARNATIONS Of women to address a
special meeting Saturday afternoon are
vi ,yY OF ~ hi n F1
representing the National Congress of
Parent Teachers, and Mrs. H. NJ. Ken
drick of Washington, representing the
Federated Missionary Societies. DR..
William L. Darby of Washington, rep
resenting the District Council of
Churches, is also scheduled to speak
at this meeting.
The evening of the first day will be
devoted almost entirely to organization
matters. A plan for the celebration
of the sixtieth anniversary of the W.
c. T. u, which falls in the Winter of
1888 and 1884, viii be discussed by
of the Indiana State organization. 1t
is thought that this observance will
take the form of a memorial tribute
to the "cruSading mothers" who took
the first practical step against the sa-
| loon with the organization of the
w. c. T. U.
On Monday, December 7. memorial
service will be held at the statue OF
Frances E Willard in Statuary Hall
with Mrs. Boole presiding. Mrs. Smith
will deliver the principal address. and
those participating in the ceremony
viii! include Mrs. Vesta Pollock and
Miss Alice Olsen; both of Washington
and Mrs. Alice G. Ropes of Boston
president of the Massachusetts, w. c.
T u.