Evening star., 1932-04-12
MRS. SAb|N WARNS
PARTIES TO Be WET.
Speaker Declares Half Mil
lion Women Demand Militant
Stand for Reform.

SldnQ IOT heIOTIH.
Mrs. Charles H Sabin, in her opening
address to the third annual conference
of the Women'S Organization for Ma
tional Prohibition Reform, today num-
bered the membership of that organiza-
ton at "over half a million voting
women" ready to 'refute the SANDER
that the women of America upheld ma
tional prohibition.
Addressing the repeal advocates as
SEN bled in the Mayf1ower Hotel, the
chairman opened the conference with a
challenge to politicians and to women's
dry organizations.
Il would call attention Of the parties
and their candidates to this fact: That
our one-half million women will not be
satisfied with lukewarm acceptance OF
plankS ." We will not be deceived
by haf-hearted acceptance of a plank
framed obviously for expediency," said
Mrs. Sabin, formerly Republican ma
tional committeewcman from New York.
Demand Militant Stand.
Il would call to the attention Of the
parties and their candidates that as an
organization we are not Republicans;
we are not Democrats; we are patriots!
If either or both parties urge or
offer a plank for the repeal CT the
eighteenth amendment to the people We
will not be satisfied with apathetic ac-
quiescence to such plank on the part
of candidate. We demand militant
support"
MRS Sabin linked the Lindbergh kid
naping with bootleg activities, saying
the answer" to the selection of "ac-
kEowledged criminals" as aids in the
baby hunt lies in a Wickefsham COM
missioner's statement that enormous
revenues are enabling the criminal ele-
ment to organize.
Crime is today powerful and blatant
in the United States as never before, !"
she warned.
Il wish TO say to all such public off,
cials and to all candidates for public
office that the United States is about
to go into a presidential election in
which women for the first time since
their enfranchisement have a moral
cause for which to fight. Moral causes
are still the only ones upon which
women can be aroused to white heat.
For the first time candidates are en-
tering a campaign in which they are
faced. not with 100000 paper wom-
en-. but one-haf million actual women,
voting women, enrolled during three
years for one purpose alone, to repeal
the eighteenth amendment and in its
place have sane control Of liquor, &C
ceptable to the people in the various
States"
Calling attention to national finances.
the chairman asserted lit is sheer i'm
pertinence to ask the country to side
track prohibition for national budget
balancing"
In stressing her organizations mem
bership, particularly in dry States, Mrs.
Sabin compared her total with "l2, ,000,-
900 paper dolls" by which, she said,
candidates for Office have been blind
ed" She referred to membership fig
ures given by organized dry women
Coincident with the opening of the
conference a National Repeal week, -
to begin May IS. was announced by the
organization. Mrs Edward Small Moore
Of New York. chairman OF the organi-
zation's national information service,
announced that plans for a Nation
wide demonstration for repeal will be
made by the woman -prohibitionists
at the present conference.
Plan Educational Drive.
Under the direction of Mrs. Archibald
Roosevelt of New York, Repeal week
chairman. an intensive educational
campaign among women will be staged
by the IL State divisions and the Dis
trict Of Columbia According to a state
ment released BY Mrs. Moore, thousands
Of volunteers will enroll members and
raise funds to carry on the fight for
prohibition repeal during the 1892 cam
paign.
Tie conference formally opened with
an address of welcome by Mrs. William
Beverly Mason, chairman of the District
OF Columbia division of the organiza-
ton
We Of the District feel" she began.
that the National Capital is the place
OF all others best suited for our annual
conference and while this means work
for us we are only too happy to make
this contribution to the success of the
conference end are delighted to know
that We are to have this opportunity
annually"
With respect to the depression, she
declared. in my humble opinion, the
most important step toward relieving
It, is to put stop to the transferring
OF hundreds of millions of dollars an
nually from the bank accounts OF the
taxpayers to the hiding places of the
pootleS5eTS 2nC gangSterS instead OF
collecting the same hundreds of mil
lions Of dollars in legitimate revenues
and placing them in the United States
Treasury"
Mrs. Kellogg Fairbank Of Chicago,
former Democratic national committee
woman, followed Mrs. Sabin. and as
serted the time has come when the
people of the United States. in voting
Tor the highest Office of the country
/ should be able to be guided in their
choice Of candidates by the positions
they and the parties they represent
have taken on the matter Of national
| prohibition.