Evening star., 1932-04-20
WOMEN DRYS HIT
WET PLATFORMS
Mrs. CoIvin Tells Session
They Will Set Up Third
Party if Needed.

Party if Needed.
Wet planks in both major party plat
| forms would cause the dryS to get to-
gether and support their own nominee
for President. Mrs. Leigh Colvin of New
York warned delegates to the three day
session here of the Woman's National
Committee for Law Enforcement yes
| terday.
President Hoover is conceded, even by
the vets. to be firm and Interchangeable
supporter CT prohibition, Mrs. Colvin
declared, but should the Republicans
adopt a wet plank it means sure defeat
for them.
Call at White House.
| Headed by Mrs. H. w. Peabody, presi-
! dent of the committee, a delegation of
| the dry women called at the White
House shortly after noon today and pre-
sented to President Hoover bound COL
| lection of his own speeches and utter
ances on the prohibition subject since
| adopted by the committee, in which it
declared that the committee cannot
accept any recommendation of either
| political party to support any dry candi-
| date on wet platform.
I'VE could not trust the sincerity of
any candidate willing to lend himself
to such a plan," the resolutions set
| forth.
The dry women turned to Congress
| this morning to lay their opposition to
modification or repeal before Senator
Blaines subcommittee Of the Judiciary
Committee.
viii Form Third Party.
THE drys mean business" Mrs. Col
win said yesterday, "and will stand by
the Constitution. If thrown out of the
two great parties, they will form, not a
third party, but dominant party"
Mrs. Lon o. Hooker of Missouri
president of the Daughters of the
American Constitution said Gov Byrd
| certainly shocked the dry women of
America when he came out for resub-
mission"
The women hold the balance of polit-
ical power, she declared, and do not
intend to be "tricked into voting for
wet candidate on a dry platform or for
dry candidate on wet platform" /"
She contended there was no need for q
resubmission plank in either party plat
form because the Constitution sets out
the only legal means of changing the
law, and change brought about by any
other method would be Illegal and con-
sequently not binding.
Hit "Wet Propaganda"
Last night four women speakers at
tackled what they characterized as wet
propaganda
Mrs. Clayton Eulette Of Chicago de-
| scribed the wet movement throughout
| the country as 'tlle most tremendous
propaganda campaign the world has
| ever known" She said 1t is being con-
| Quoted by "those determined to REIN
| state the liquor business because it
would be profitable to themselves, 1t
is foolish to blame the depression oil
| the eighteenth amendment since the
| depression is worldwide, she asserted.
Mrs. Jesse Nicholson, president Of the
| Woman's National Democratic League
for Law enforcement, told of the dry
mission of a magazine, the Woman
Voter, which she publishers. Sne ap-
pealed for support.
Mrs. Richard Aldrich, president of
the Woman's Law Enforcement Conn
r,ittee Of New York, said the physical
| effects of liquor on the nervous systems
| of the vets Is one of the principal rea-
sons for their warped moral view OF
| prohibition.
Statistics Are Quoted.
Statistics indicating that prohibition
has been of enormous economic beneha
to the country were quoted by Mrs
Helen Patten Hanson of Kansas
City, Mo.
At the afternoon meeting Mrs. Han
son had appealed to the women to COM
bat wet propaganda with prohibition
facts She said the arguments of the
opponents of the eighteenth amend
ment were the cause OF much OF the
present-day lawleSsness.
/ Speaking on the history Of the eight
eenth amendment, Mrs. Ida B. Wise
Smith of Iowa, former vice president
of the Womans Christian Temperance
Union, declared that prohibition was
the most unanimous expression Of pub
lie opinion in the Nations history"
Play Is Presented.
Other speakers at the afternoon ses-
sion we're Mrs. George Wupperman OF
New York and Mrs. William Alexander
OF Columbus, Ohio. Mrs. Alexander
said that the reason for attempts tc
tecure the repeal or modification oi
the dry law is because it is being en-
forced.
Before the regular session last evening
pay entitled The Long, Long Trail,
written by MRS. R1Shmcre Patterson
chairman Of Allied Women, was pre-
sented. 1t 6epicte6 the story of. Illicit
liquor from the time it is ordered until
1t reached the dinnzr table.
This evening, another one-act play
challenged" by Caroline AtWatel
Mason, will be pres nted under the di.
rection OF Mrs. Blanche Morgan Foote
The principal speaker at the closing
session of the convention this evening
will be Fred B. Perkins, an attorney ol
Providence R. l.