The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-13
Prohibition
.ASSailed by
City Woman

By Times Specfdt
WASHINGTON, April 13.-The
people of Indiana are beginning to
demand change in federal pro-
hibition laws, said Mrs Jacquelin
S. Holiday. 1850 West Forty second
street, Indianapolis, Hoosier state
chairman of the Women's Organi-
zation for National Prohibition Re-
form, in statement given out to-
day at the national convention
headquarters Of that organization.
For fifteen years before the
passage of the eighteenth amend
ment," said Mrs. Holiday, Indiana
was dry from choice. Notwithstand-
ing the fact that bootlegging and
illegal handling of liquor thrives
there as it does in all other parts
of the country, the 28-year-old,
deep-rooted conviction that prohibit
ton prohibits persists in the small
towns and rural districts. It is due
to the efforts of our division in
exposing the true state of affairs
that people formerly unaware of
conditions are beginning to demand
change in the federal laws"
Mrs. Holiday said that less than
year ago the membership of the
Indiana division of the women's
prohibition reform organization
numbered fewer than 149, and that
the membership now is approx
mately 5000.
When upper class women take to
crusading, they say it with votes.
Close Check Kept
This was apparent today at the
third annual conference of the
women's league, when the chairmen
of the forty one state divisions pre-
sented their reports of progress and
plans,
Several state divisions, including
Illinois and Pennsylvania, report
ed that they enroll and check their
membership by election districts.
Their leaders talk practically upon
records of congressman and state
legislators.
If these women have their way,
the politician who misguesses his
district will be presented with some
thing like the 'hairshirts for the
misrepr e sentatives" which Mrs
James Ross Todd, Kentucky, told
the convention her state was de-
signing for those who failed to sup
port the k-Linthicum prohibi-
ton referendum resolution in the
house.
Out for VETS
I'VE intend to see that Connect
cut elects wet congressman at large,
and to see that our representatives
and senators stay wet" Mrs. Lucius
Robinson Jr. of New Haven an
nounced grimly.
Inroads upon the dryest states
hopefully was reported. Eight new
divisions have been organized in dry
territory.
Twenty-Five divisions reported
their membership doubled or tripled
within the last year.
Fifteen states claimed a member
ship in excess of that reported by
state branches of the w. C. T. u.
and in several states the feminine
anti-prohibitionists outnumber the
w. G. T. U. as much as five times.
Mrs. Mae L. Hamilton of the dry
state Of Nebraska said her division
only six months old, has a member
ship of 3017 women. The majority
are housewives, with business won-
en- following in number.
Women in Earnest
The tone of the gathering was
earnest and determined, and if il
lacked the heroics of an earlier day
it heard many Of the same argu-
ments. These women are not look
ing for liquor, but believe prohibit
ton reform is necessary to protect
their husbands and children.
The conference closed by asking
both major parties to incorporate
in their platforms plank for re-
peal
The platform committees of both
the Chicago conventions will hear
for the first time a powerful or
ganization of powerful women ask
ing them to reverse che action fol
which SO many other women fought
so ardently and so very long.