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Show WOMEN ARE DRINKERS I Twenty to One Man Drink Intoxicating Liquors Li-quors in Denver Denver, Feb. 5. "Twenty women to one man in Denver drink Intoxicating il liquor and they drink more than men." This was the statement made on nH the floor of the Colorado senate today lilH by Senator John Hecker of Denver '! It followed a vigorous attack by Mrs. InH Helen Ring Robinson. Colorado s first t , imMt woman senator, upon I statement iPbI 1 published in a Washington newspa i'lt per and attributed to Hecker, to tho rrllH effect that "women in Denver drink Ij !iH j more high-balls than men." B ;H Senator Robinson denounced the Ij SH I quoted statement as an insult to the I jjH I women of Colorado and threatened lo I flH move the expulsion of Hecker from I PliH the senate if it should be repeated. Ilsll |