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Show Warns 1 . i .: sroa... - "' '" i J -Av " - - . .-J ' - - ,.." ti Mrs. Hen.y. Peabody Women Drys Plan Wet Solon Ousters Militant Leader of Law Enforcement En-forcement Body Serves Notice No-tice on Congressmen (St Uatted rms) WASHINGTON, Jan. It Mr. Henry W. Peabody, militant chairman of the Woman's National Committee for Law Enforcement today warned members of congress that women are organizing In ."revolt") to turn wet legislators out of office. Declaring the pending beer bill to be unconstitutionsl snd a menace to the welfare of 40,000,000 children, Mrs, Peabody said "women citizens throughout the states are in revolt as normal women always are when children chil-dren are in danger." , She appended to her statement an open letter to member of congress, wsrning them: "Take your choice. Will you protect pro-tect the children and the women, two-thirds two-thirds of your constituents, or will you yield to the wet clamor of brewers brew-ers and self-interested men who would violate the constitution on behalf of this habit-msJcIng drug (alcohol?). Your oath commit you to tha constitution. consti-tution. ... "The women of this country ara or ganizing against men who will not obey the law and defend the law un der which they hold office. We thank God for the honest men oln our con gross. We pray God to help womer remove the men who defy Him and tha laws of this nation." Mrs. Peabody said women drys would demonstrste in 30 state capitals capi-tals and file protests with state legig-latures. legig-latures. . She said the first demonstration demon-stration was to be today in St Paul, Minn., with later protest meetings in the capitals of Iowa. Nebrasks, Colorado, Colo-rado, Wyoming. Ohio, West Virginia and southern states. Mrs. Peabody pointedly noted that 13 states can defeat repeal of the 18th amendment and ssid "we expect twice that" |