Evening star., 1933-03-19
ME sudden shift Of the prohibition
battle front from WASHINGTON to
the State Legislatures has To-
cuSed attention 1Inop the tradi-

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battle front from Washington to
the State Legislatures has TO-
L cused attention upon the tradi-
tional dry States. The posi-
bility of ratification by SO States is
thought to depend on those key States
where the strength oS the dry forces Is
debatable. Some indication os changing
sentiment in the former arid districts
Is given by Mrs. Edward S. Moore
Chairman Of the national Information
service OF the Women's Organization foI
National Prohibition Reform, which has
now turned its campaign efforts to these
areas in which the fate Of the repea]
movement may be decided.
No State, with the possible exception
OF Kansas, Is conceded outright to the
drys, Mrs. Moore said. With CROWNS
and aggressive branches In Virginia
North and South Carolina, Georgia
Alabama, Tennessee, Texas, Mississippi
Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, Iowa
and Nebraska the organization is count
ing on woman voters everywhere to put
up q strong repeal fight.
Leaders to Meet in Washington.
Leaders Of the organization in 4:
States who are now working for con.
vention bills and liquor control commits
slonS in their Legislatures will meet liz
washington next month to plan theil
maj drlve against the eighteenth
amendment. BY that time most of the
legislatures now in session will have
acted and the plan for ratification cam.
palgns among the voters will be deter
mined, Mrs. Moore explained.
In Alabama, where bills now intro.
indicate
Mrs. Solon Jacobs is leading the ratifi-
cation forces.
Aiaoama which passed its first dry
law In 1907, even had law prohibiting
the sale OF anything that looks or tastes
like beer" Mrs. Moore noted Tast
year the Legislature repealed this near
beer law.
The most hopeful sign In the State
however, Is the development of our or
ganlzation and the prominent women
some former orys, who have Joined re-
Gently. Mrs. Jacobs, the chairman. is
an outstanding woman in the prison
REFORM held She is also an active
member Of the Southern Council Won
ems National Trade Union League She
was foremost In the suffrage fight as
president of the Alabama EQUAL Suffraee
association. After suffrage she was the
nrst Democratic committeewoman for
Alabama and secretary of the National
League OF Woman Voters.
Another active repealist in Alabama
Is Mrs. w. L. Muroch of Birmingham
former member of the Women's
Christian Temperance Union, who is
now wee chairman of the Birmineham
branch OF the Women's Organization
She Is a writer and social worker. vice
president OF the National Consumers
League and Of the Travellers Aid So
ciety. and member Of the Alabama
State Board Of Child Welfare"
Mississippi Roster Grows.
Mississippi Is another State where
the local division Of the organization i
being led by outstanding civic leaders
The branch was formed last year by
Mrs. D. H. Foresman of Meridian, pres
ldent OF the South Central regional
group Of the National Federation OF
Women's Clubs, and president of her
own State federation. She led the fight
on the floor of the federation conven-
ton in Seattle against the customary
resolution approving national prohibi-
ton. Returning from the convention
she formed the Mississippi division OF
the prohibition reform body, of which
Mrs. j. Ed Franklin is now chairman
Mrs. Franklin, in addition to being
chairman Of American citizenship in
the Mississippi Federation, is treasurer
Of the Mississippi State Maternity Gen.
ter. Under her leadership the member
ship of the repeal organization has In
creased at rapid rate.
THE fight for ratification there,
however, is still legislative one" Mrs
Moore observed.
Prospects for an early convention
are bright in Georgia, with a bill pro-
viding for a July 10 convention now
pending"
Mrs. william Healey, a prominent
business woman of Atlanta and chair
man of the Georgia division, who has
been spreading her organization into
smaller cities, says the sentiment has
changed greatly in Georgia in the last
two years.
Florida is generally conceded to be
safely in the ratification problem
Traditionally dry, the State showed q
strong wet sentiment in the 1882 pri-
maries. Mrs. r. C. Camp. of Ocala,
State chairman, in year of organizing