"Save America"

It was announced that on April 10 and 11 a great conference of women would assemble in Washington. They will gather under the auspices of the Women's National Committee on Law Enforcement. They will meet at two luncheons, hear an assortment of speeches, call on Mrs. Coolidge, see a pageant (America the Beautiful, in which under the eyes of the watching nations, law will battle with lawlessness, honor with dishonor, and wisdom with ignorance, showing the successive steps of the gaining of Prohibition and the means by which law is now broken), and pass resolutions.

In the words of a front page news story of The Christian Science Monitor, two of whose hobbies are women and Prohibition: "The American woman is going forth to war, a ballot in her hand and that which has been reckoned as a political impossibility--a solid woman vote--is threatening in the Spring primaries as well as in the Fall elections. . . . They are aroused over what they regard as a patriotic issue, a challenge to citizenship, an attack on every moral fibre of the nation. The grandmother with a purpose can be more formidable than the political leader or the officeholder--and these women have a purpose."

Politicians have not yet begun to worry, except socially, over the formidable "grandmothers with a purpose." But in spite of this exuberance of outlook, the conference presents a creditable list of women actively participating. Mrs. Herbert Hoover will be Chairman; Mrs. Robert Lansing, Secretary. The speakers scheduled include Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt (Assistant Attorney General), Major Roy Asa Haynes (National Prohibition Chief), Senator Frank B. Willis.

In the list of speakers is Kathleen Norris*, writer. At a preliminary meeting in Manhattan "arranged by Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr.," Mrs. Norris ejaculated:

"Every generation requires a new standard. This generation in the United States has set up a standard for the elimination of liquor. More and more people are realizing that they must defend the Prohibition Law because in its violation there is danger for all law. If a man can break the Volstead Act with immunity, he can commit bigamy; from bigamy he can go to theft. No property, no individual is safe under the law unless all law is obeyed."