Evening star., 1932-05-10
VETS LAMPOONED
IN SONG AND WORD
NOtabIeS Among 700 at Law
Observance Dinner Given
by Society Women.

The vets were lampooned in song
and oratory last night before an audi
ence of more than 700 persons, who
attended the law-obServance dinner at
the MayfoWer Hotel, sponsored by a
group Of Eastern society women.
NOtabIes Present.
Among the listeners were Associate
Justice James C. McReynolds Of the
Supreme Court, Admiral William v.
Pratt, chief of naval operations, and
Mrs. Pratt; Maj. Gen. Ben H. Fuller,
commandant of the Marine Corps, and
Mrs. Fuller; Assistant Secretary of
State and Mrs. Wilbur Carr; Walter
Newton, secretary to President Hoover.
and Mrs. Newton Col. Amos w,
Woodcock. director of prohibition; As
sistant Attorney General and Mrs.
Aaron Youngquist; Senators Capper,
Dill and Shortridge, and Representa-
tiveS Charles r. Crisp and Hatton W.
Summers
Senator Arthur r. Robinson Of In
diana, the principal speaker, de-
SCllDCA IllC lSSIN 90 a NCAA
f1ict between constitutional govern
ment and an organized criminal gang"
Return of Saloon Feared.
The saloon would surely return with
the repeal of the eighteenth amend
ment he said
Senator Robinson said to overturn
the prohibition law would be bad econ
omy. If the Government raised $780,
000, 900 on beer, Senator Robinson de-
clared, it would mean that the wage
earners of the country would have spent
$4,000 900 600 that they could Ill afford
to take away from their families.
Former Senator Henry j. Allen OF
Kansas, the POSTMASTER, attacked what
he said was the apparent assumption
that before prohibition there was no
disobedience of law or drinking OF
liouor. There were outlaws in those
DAYS, he declared, as bad as Al Capone
and other gang chiefs.
The committee sponsoring the dinner
was headed by Mrs. William Ttlton OF
Cambridge, Mass, vice president of the
Unitarian Temperance Society; Mrs.
Henry Alvah Strong, head Of the Hattie
M. Strong Foundation for Education Of
Deserving Students, and Mrs. Rush
more Patterson, national chairman OF
Allied Women.
Organizations Represented.
Also on the platform were numerous
other representatives of national organ
izations including Mrs. John F. Sippel
of Baltimore, president of the General
Federation of Women'S Clubs. and Mrs.
Ella A. Boole of Brooklyn. N. Y, ma
tional president of the Woman's Chris
tian Temperance Union.
Others speakers were DR.. Richard
Cabot. head of the social service depart
ment of Harvard University; DR.. Jacob
Hollander, professor of economies at
Johns Hopkins University; Mrs. Mary
Harris Armour of Georgia and Princess
Ataloa, an Oklahoma Indian singer.
The man who is really drunk-the
excessive drinker-rarely tries to drive
a motor" Dr. Cabot said. 1T is the
moderate drinkers who do the most
harm both to themselves and others"
Prohibition Praised.
DR.. Hollander told his audience that
people are better off economically, So
Cially and financially because OF the
eighteenth amendment.
Mrs. Armour described wet sympa-
thiZers among her sex as "mule-headed
COWS with no horns"
Before speeches began, blows of ridi-
clIle were struck against the vets. The
soup course was a signal for the ap-
pearance of 80 crusaders in quest of
the holy ale" clad in medieval armor.
They carried banners bearina the