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Show WOMEN ENLIST IN LIQUOR WAR New Regulations for Control Favored I Women's organisations of Sail Lake City joined forces Wednesday in their war against liquor -when representatives met at the Civicl Center with the state liquor r-ontrolj communion and indorsed proposed; new rules and regulations for the! commission. The session ws an outgrowth of: an open meeting at the state capitol last week- when private interests; (Continual rn P.c Hcvtnl j (Column Twdi 1 Preparing New Strategy for 'Dry' Army i maia i n i n laxtmtje",' - ' $ V v n ii u THEY'LL REPRESENT WOMEN'S CLUBS AT LIQUOR HEARING Standing: Mrs. A. R. Curtis, left; Mrs. Lucy G rant Cannon; seated: Mrs. Ernest Urien, Mrs. John Wahlquist Women Enlist in Liquor War; Additional Curbs Are Wanted mum purchase to any amount. But violators easily get around this law by purchasing at various stores on different permits, it was explained. Answering queries of the women, Mr. Taylor admitted that undercover under-cover men had discovered some "tipoffs" by unscrupulous officers, but that action in such cases and in violations of liquor laws is drastic and that local police were giving commendable assistance In apprehension appre-hension of illegal liquor vendors. (Continued from Part On) presented their objections to the new regulations which would more strictly control advertising of liquor and classify beer with hard liquor. The state liquor control commission commis-sion was invited by Mrs. John T. Wahlquist, president of the Salt Lake Council of Women, to explain the provisions of the new regula-! tions to the representatives of the ! women's organizations. I Groups Named 1 Represented were the Immanuel Baptist church Women's society. , Y. W. C. A., Utah and Salt Lake City Federations of Women's elbs. women of the Presbyterian church, women's chamber of commerce. Salt Lake council of the Utah Congress Con-gress of Parents and Teachers, L. D. S. Relief society. Women's Christian Chris-tian Temperance union, the Y. W. M. L A., Business and Professional Women's club and tha Family and Home Mission society. Mrs. Wahlquist Wahl-quist presided. Following a discussion of the proposed pro-posed regulations, Mrs. Wahlquist urged the women to support the rules and upon a motion a committee com-mittee was named to study the regulations regu-lations and to prepare an opposition opposi-tion against the objections of private pri-vate interests at a public hearing to be held at the state capitol on November 29 at 10 a. m. Committee Llnted The committee includes Mrs. Wahlquist: Mrs. Ernest Urien. first vice president of the women's chamber cham-ber of commerce; Mrs. R. H. Mal-linckrodt, Mal-linckrodt, of the Immanuel Baptist church and. temporarily. Mrs. A. R. Curtis, president of the Salt Lake Parent-Teacher council, and Mrs. Lucy Grant Cannon, president of tha Y. W. M. L A. of tha L D. S. church. "Liquor is a curse and always will be.' said Herbert Taylor, member of the state liquor control commission. commis-sion. "But it has become lawful through an act of the people, and our duty is to put it to public sale and to control its sale." In answer to citations by Mrs. Wahlquist that children were obtaining ob-taining liquor. J. W. Funk of the commission assured the women that the agencies were well controlled, con-trolled, but admitted that some second-hand bootlegging is being practiced. prac-ticed. - Appeal Made Mr. Funk appealed to the women to report any known offenders, since the hands of the commission are tied without this knowledge. "We've got the whip hand on liquor, because of the monopoly system sys-tem employed in the state." Mr. Funk explained, "but we do not handle beer and hence are somewhat some-what handicapped in its control " The women objected to the law which allowed tha holder of a liquor license to purchase up to five gallons gal-lons of liquor at one time. The commissioners explained that over this amount is considered wholesale by federal law, but that the state commission could change the maxi- |