Evening star., 1932-04-20
WOMEN SUPPORT
DRYS At HEARING
Vigorous Opposition Voiced
to Any Modification of
Present Laws.


Law Enforcement. advocated withdraw
ing from the medical profession the
privilege Of prescribing liquor.
THE medical profession" she said,
"fs one OF the most honorable in The
world, but facts prove that some of
its members are no more capable of
withstanding the bootlegger'S bribe
than individuals of other professions.
ITO exempt doctors any further from
obedience to the eighteenth amendment
is to give a dangerous loophole to the
outlawed liquor traf1c."
Improved Conditions.
Mrs. A. Haines Lippincott, Camden,
N. j.. chairman of the New Jersey Com
mittee of the Women's National Com
mittee for Law Enforcement. said
New Jersey has an unsavory reputa-
ton in regard to the enforcement Of the
eighteenth amendment. -
LAS lifelong resident of New Jersey,
I can testify that conditions, as far as
liquor is concerned, are infinitely bet
ter than before prohibition.
I'VE citizens have just been too in
different in the elections of officials
and too disinterested in the appoint
ment of others who have enforcement
under control to make conditions as
they should be in New Jersey"
Mrs. Lppincott said "a Police Court
Judge in Camden, N. j., in April, 1892,
had warrants issued for the arrest Of
the officers of our prohibition admin
tstrator. Comdr. John d. Pennington,
when they raided q so-called soft
drink parlor' which was generally
known to dispense unlawful liquor and
from which evidence was taken to
prove this belief.
This lack of cooperation to enforce
liquor regulation would have been evi-
denced in this Police Court judge
whether there were prohibition or not"
Biames Liquor for Divorce.
Mrs. Richard Aldrich. New York,
said drinking brings divorce" She
said she had never known of divorce
between two drys."
There was applause as Mrs. Jesse w.
+, Nicholson, president Of the National
woman's Democratic Law Enforcement
League, asserted:
\"This country is dry. Make no mis-
take about that And If there is any
doubt about it, let one Of the political
parties again name a wet candidate for
President In 1882, and the constitu-
tional men and women Of this country
will give them such licking as they
never oIeaucu "a, dil0 40@o "oh NC
O circumstance.
THE time has come in America"
Mrs Nicholson said. for democracy to
choose between America and the Con-
stitution on the one side and OF nulli-
fcation and the vets on the other. Let
us give prohibition a chance; the vets
have had their day and failed"
Mrs Nicholson said she was glad to
see" Rufus Lusk Of the Crusaders, anti
prohibition organization, present.
Says Vets Are Young.
Lusk, standing In a corner at the
front OF the crowded room. smiled as
Mrs. Nicholson said: The head of the
Crusaders said here last week that all
OF the members of their organization
were very young men. That Is our con-
tention, those that are joining these wet
organizations were In most cases too
young to know the evils of the saloon
era.
"If these officers and workers In these
wet organizations were relieved Of their
large salaries-an this pressure
campaign they are conducting would
fall fiat.
THESE selfish millionaires." she con-
tinued, with their rich women allies.
who are demanding resubmission. re-
pea! or referendum, know full well
that II they should get what they are
demanding it would bring chaos in our
country, especially at a time when it is
staggering under the greatest depres-
sion in our history.
They say II We bring back liquor we
VIII end the unemployment and bring
back prosperity. Why hasn't this been
the case in Germany and England,
wnere every seventh person is on a
dole from the government?
Backed by DistiIIers.
1T was indeed amusing" she said,
ITO hear the head OF the Womans
Prohibition Reform Organization tell of
the rapid growth Of their misnamed
organization before this committee last
week. She did not tell how her or
ganization had paid workers to 60 from
State to State making house to -house
canvasses getting innocent and unsus-
pecting signerS that they were working
Ior reform. when as matter of fact
tney were working for repeal
IneSe rich wet society women. who
are determined to have their booze,
have the help Of their allies. the Asso-
citation Against the Prohibition Amend
ment and are backed by the brewers
and distillers IN their efforts to bring
back liquor"
Mrs. D. Leigh Colyin Of New York,
PRESIDENT OF the Womens Christian
Temperance Union of New York State,
said prohibition has been a decided
success. But politicians have failed.
wealthy men who have made money
In the manufacture of liquor and those
who expect to turn industrial alcohol
plants into the manufacture CT bever-
age alcohol by the repeal OF prohibition
these have failed.
Those who put appetite above loyal
" TO laws. the ones who finance boot
leggers and criminals, Government Of
ficials who wink at violations of law
and share in the profits Of illegal sales,
men who preach violation of laws they
DO not approve-these have failed.
Cites Other Failures.
THE city administrations which pro-
tect law violators and the politicians
who become immensely wealthy through
connivance with the underworld. State
governments which have repealed laws
against bootleggers and criminals and
prohibit the State courts from punish
Ing violators Of the Constitution-these
have failed"
Pleads for Present Law.
Continued agitation OF the liquor
question leads to lawlessness, Mrs.
Rushmore Patterson, chairman Of the
Allied Women, told the subcommittee
We earnestly ask you to vote to
retain the eighteenth amendment" she
said, and TO use your great power
toward its maintenance and enforce
mont by quieting this agitation that
has liquor as its end and lawlessness as
its means"
She said the dry women Of the
country ask this not only for the pres
ervation Of the prohibition law, but for
the preservation of all law and order
We also ask it that you may find
time to concentrate upon worthier