Evening star., 1933-04-14
1000 Prohibitionists March
to Lincoln Memorial, Where
Petition Is Read.
'BARTERING OF WELFARE
FOR REVENUE ATTACKED
Law Enforcement Group Will Send
Plea to Capitol Hill and
White House.

A thousand women prohibitionists
this morning marched to the Lincoln
Memorial, where there was read to
them a petition to the Government for
redress OF grievances" challenging
the right Of Congress to legalize beer.
The outdoor assembly marked the
conclusion of the tenth annual con-
vention of the Women's National Com.
mittee for Law Enforcement, which last
night set up Woman's National Union
for Political Action. This group plans
to organize political machinery in the
States to fight repeal of the eighteenth
amendment.
Under the leadership of Mrs. Henry
w. Peabody, chairman Of the Law En-
forcement Committee, the women as
sembled this morning at Constitution
avenue and Seventeenth street and
walked to the memorial to commemo-
rate the anniversary Of Lincoln's as
sassination.
Mrs. A. Haines Lippincott, one of the
dry leaders, read the petition to the
women and was enthusiastically ac-
claimed. She announced 1t would be
presented on the floors Of the House
and the Senate, and to the President.
Medical Authorities Quoted.
"The action of the Seventy-third
Congress In passing beer bill author
izing manufacture, sale and transporta-
ton of intoxicating liquor Is illegal un-
der the eighteenth amendment" the pc
tition set out, 'and any State allowing
this beer bill to become law Is In de-
fiance Of the Constitution"
Medical authorities we're quoted to
show 80 beer is intoxicating, and the
women held it would impoverish fam
lilies of workers
This Government has no right to
barter the welfare Of the people for
revenue" 1t was stated. The beer bill
was said to offer no protection against
saloons, no provision against advertis-
ing through the press and radio, no
clause prohibiting locating saloons close
to schools, churches or homes or ad-
vertising in school cafeterias and no
limit to the hours during which beer
may be sold.
Delegates to the convention which
helped draw up the petition came from
81 States and represented 10 national
organizations.
Constitution Adopted.
: The fern of the new. womap's Ma
tional Union for Political Action was
approved last night and constitution
for 1t adopted. Its plan is to organize
women drys in every voting unit, with
State, county, city, ward and township
chairmen.
Mrs. Peabody announced that an ann
of the Woman's Union would be mobn-
ization of community opinion for law
observance, with attention also directed
against immoral literature, exploitation
Of women and children In industry and
for more just distribution OF the COM
forts and luxuries OF life.
The organization Is expected to afford
the practical avenue for the actual day
by-day fight by the women for the
retention Of prohibition.
In an address broadcast over a
Nationwide hook-up, Senator Morris
Sheppard of Texas, author of the
eighteenth amendment, advised the
the movement for repeal Is to attack.
False Insinuation Charged.
"The return of beer and the submis-
sion to the States of the question Of
repeating the eighteenth amendment
make 1t necessary to press with added
energy and determination the fight on
beverage alcohol" he declared. THE
most extensive campaign Of false in
sinuation and assertion any natien ever
knew has been constantly under way
against prohibition"
The Senator said 1t Is true that
arrests for drunkenness increased under
prohibition, but this, he pointed out,
does not mean drinking increased, since
enforcement Of the law was much more
strict than before. He denied also that
increase in crime was due to prohi-
bition.
Repeal, he concluded, would signify
reversal of form which would make
this country the jest and sport Of all
mankind and would extinguish as pure
light as any nation ever lifted for the
leadership and guidance Of humanity"