Salt Lake Telegram | 1932-04-12 | Page 1 | Women Leaders of Nation Seek Dry Law Repeal

SAY VOTE WET i 4 I. I c i F i 4 4 jl Mrs C. C H H. Sabin Top Mrs A. A Roosevelt Women Leaders Of Nation Seek Dry Law Repeal By MAXINE DAVIS United Press Correspondent WASHINGTON April 12 12 Like Like pages from the social register reads the list of 1000 women delegates who gathered here today loday for tor the third annual convention of or the women's organization organization or for national prohibition reform Nearl Nearly all socially prominent and wealthy they poured into Washington Washing Washing- ton with maids secretaries chauffeurs chauffeurs chauffeurs feurs Liberty Bells on the lapels and the light of battle in their eyes New England temperance fighters never approached their cause with more zeal w with th more of or the crusading spirit than these women women although although for most of them buying liquor is isas isas isas as easy as buying perfume Before beginning their sessions to today today today to- to day the delegates planned to invade Capitol Hill and present their demands demands demands de de- mands for prohibition repeal to congressmen congressmen con con- gressmen and senators from the 41 states where the feminine have organized The formidable formidable for for- army was composed of such women as Mrs Pierre DuPont Mrs Archibald Roosevelt Mrs Amasa Stone Mather Mrs Coffin Van Ren- Ren Mrs Stuyvesant Pierpont Mrs William Cabell Bruce Mrs Robert Robert Rob Rob- ert crt W. W Lovett Mrs Joseph M. M Cudahey Cudahey Cudahey Cud- Cud ahey Mrs Walter Damrosch and hosts of other equally impressive and ardent campaigners The convention later Inter will ill draft formal formal formal for for- mal resolutions asking for tor repeal of the prohibition law and a referendum plank in the platforms of ot both ma ma- jor parties I IThe The organization announced that its its- total membership is over half a million which it claimed greatly outnumbered outnumbered outnumbered out out- numbered the 60 year old old ear Women's Christian Temperance Union It asserts that its ultimate purpose like that of the W W. C C. T. T U U. is to promote temperance It claims prohibition pro has failed to do this If It you want to be dry dr vote dry vote vote wet is js its battle cry Mrs Charles H. H Sabin national president in her opening speech declared de de- de- de dared It is sheer impertinence to ask the country to sidetrack prohibition prohibition prohibition tion repeal for national budget bal bal- She said Professor E. E P. P A. A Seligman famous tax authority estimated estimated esti esti- mated a tax on distilled and fermented ferment ferment- ed liquors in 1931 would have yielded approximately Battle for Beer Breaks Out Afresh WASHINGTON April 12 UP UP- UP The battle for Cor beer broke out afresh in the house today when Representative Representative Representative OConnor O'Connor Dem N. N Y placed placeda a petition on the speakers speaker's desk asking asking asking ask ask- ing for the discharge of ot the thc ways and means committee from further consideration consideration consideration con con- of or his bill The OConnor O'Connor-Hull bill would le legalize legalize le- le beer containing per pel cent alcohol by weight Discharge of oC the committee would speed d up debate in the house OConnor O'Connor OCon nor said He made public a letter from labors labor's national committee for tor modification of the act signed b by Matthew president asserting that there is no other legislation legislation legis legis- lation which would produce such beneficial results OConnor O'Connor said aid he hoped to bring the bill to a vote by May May- 9 9