A NEW CRUSADE
WOMEN AND PROHIBITION OUTLOOK
OBSERVANCE BEFORE ENFORCE MEXT.
(ADSTRALIAN-NISW ZEALAND CABLE ASSOCIATION.) (Received" 12th April," 10 -a.m.) »f- tr WASHiNGTON, l]lth April. ! ■ Mr. Haynes, Prohibition Commissioner addressing t^e National Women's Committee for the enforcement of the Prohibition La-w, urged. American women to launch a second crusade. He said- "The .women in 1873 started the 'dry' movement with' a-.crusa'de. ■ Now you are <mder an obligation' t 0 start another in its defence. ; -Nothing;"can■■ withstand you if you. organise for the purpose of enforcing the'law; but if the country is left unorganised and ■uhinarshalled and uninformed, then fundamental Americanism will be greatly imperilled.'.'■:-• -, : .Coolidge, speaking after.-Mr. i ;il«ynes, .expressed the. wish that' the people ■ would , emphasise observance lather than enforcement of tho law,'and adding jt was a maxim that a Government, does not make the people,' but the people make the Government. Therefore/ this gathering of a thousand women was encouraging. It represented a determination on their part to observe the law. When we have that sentiment in feST'' 7' theresult winnotlon °
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Evening Post, Issue 88, 12 April 1924, Page 7
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173A NEW CRUSADE Evening Post, Issue 88, 12 April 1924, Page 7
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