Evening star., 1933-04-13
General Constitution Uniting
Many Groups Weighed
at Session Here.
MRS. PEABODY DECLARES
DRIVE ALREADY BEGUN
Enforcement Committee Chief
Ayers Ten Organizations Active
in More Than Half the States.

conference OF delegates aCLenQlnB TIE
:cnth annual convention of the Woman's
National Committee for Law Enforce
ment at the Washington Hotel.
Mrs Henry w. Peabody, chairman of
the Law Enforcement Committee, said
members of its 10 constituent organiza-
tions already have set up political
machines in more than half the States.
The bylaws proposed this morning, she
said, would set out general principles
and methods of conducting the fight for
retention of the eighteenth amendment.
1t will be presented to the full COM
mittee for adoption tonight.
Thomas Jefferson was pictured as an
opponent of liquor by Mrs. Jesse w.
Nicholson, president of the National
Democratic Law Enforcement League, in
an address this afternoon at Jeffer-
son day luncheon attended by conven-
ton delegates.
Few historians give the true picture
of Jefferson" she declared. Every
time Jefferson's birth Is celebrated,
speakers suggest that this man of the
hour was in favor of liquor. Nothing
is farther from the truth"
Other Addresses Heard.
Others who addressed the luncheon
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dent of the Womans Christian Temper-
ance Union: Miss Vida Milholland, Miss
Margaret Hamilton, Mrs. Joy Elmer
Morgan, Rev. Dr. William S. Aber-
nethy, Mrs F. L. Johnson, Mrs. Percy
Walden and Mrs. A. Haines Lippincott.
An address by Senator Morris Shep-
pard, Texas, author Of the eighteenth
amendment, Is scheduled for tonight.
Formation of a new Constitutional
Party of America" is bound to come,
Mrs Peabody predicted at the opening
meeting of the committee last night.
Mrs. Peabody said strictly women's
party to fight for retention Of dry laws
was not sought, but rather coalition
of man and woman drys.
Women are rising" she said. They
will drive the money changers and
brewers out of our national temple. We
thought we had sent men to represent
us, but they have betrayed the Constl-
tuition tor revenue and beer. Until
women in every State organize for
political action as they are doing In
many States the cause may be tenn
porarily lost. and with 1t far greater
cause-our free Government. There
! fore, we, representing ten millions OF
women in 10 national organizations,
will hold the line"
Prohibition has not failed, she de-
clared, but its enforcement always has
been in the hands of enemies or
cowardly friends She characterized
! the beer bill as illegal liquor declared
legal by the Seventy-third Congress"
Capper Scores Beer Law.
Senator Arthur Capper of Kansas.
guest speaker last night, attacked the
beer law in discussing his proposed
amendment to the Constitution not
to count aliens in congressional ap-
portionment.
'I believe beer of 80 per cent Of
its sale a violation of the Constitution" !"
the Senator said This beer law is not
going to assist in restoring prosperity
to the people Of the country"
II opposed the proposal to legalize
beer" he continued, because I be-
lieved it meant the inevitable return
Of the saloon and all its attendant evils.
No greater calamity could come to this
Nation
1.-The vets told us in the Senate de-
bate that they were opposed to the
return of the saloon. said to them:
There is no greater hypocrisy in this
the vets that they are for repeal and
also are opposed to the return Of the
saloon If you are for prohibition
you are against the saloon. II you
are against prohibition you are for the
saloon"
Referring to his proposed amend
ment, Senator Capper said there are
three or four Congressman from New
York alone who owe their seats to the
counting of unnaturalized aliens in the
mapping out of their districts.
Claims Unfairness.
Altogether" he said. there are at
least % Congressman allotted to States
with large alien population that really
belong to States where American citi-
Zens American born or naturahZed
foreign born, are in larger proportion
to the number of unnaturalized aliens.
The States in the great Middle West
and in the South are the ones that
suffer most from this unjust discrimi-
nation; the States with large indus
He linked the inclusion of aliens IN
congressional apportionment with the
wet-dry issue, asserting the anti-pro-
hibitionsts were making particularly
desperate fight against the amendment
because all the % Representatives in
Congress. who would be put out by 1t,
are wet"
Attacking the feminine organization
on the other side of the prohlDltlon
question, Mrs. Nicholson, said nothing
has done more to create lawlessness
and disrespect for law than has the
has the Woman's Organization for Pro-
Reform"
Repeal or notification Of the eight
zenith amendment would increase suf-
fering of women and children ana
greatly enlarge the buroen already car
ried by the juvenile and morals courts
Mrs. William L. Darby of the National
Council of Federated Church Women
and the Council of Women for Home
Missions. told the gathering.
Mrs. Harvey w. Wiley, president OF
the Federation of Women's Clubs in
the District, said her late husband tes-
titled at hearing before the New Jer-
sey Legislature that beer Of 2.75 per
cent by weight was intoxicating and
might "even produce the third state
of intoxication in which the ordinary
symptoms of drunkenness are mani
tested" She quoted similar statements
by other medical authorities.
Pledges Fight to End.
An assertion that women of the Fed
Grafton of Women's Boards of Foreign
Missions of North America would
never surrender, retreat, or compromise
in this world task of freeing world chill
dren from the blight of the liquor
traffic" was made by Mrs. johnson,
past president of the federation.
In an address of welcome to the
committee. Mrs H. Wellen Fisher, presi-
dent Of the District Council of Church
Women, said: I'VE must stand four
square on the principle Of moral