Women Leaders Favor Prohibition -- Oppose Modification -- Point Out That All Great Reforms Have Required Time -- Adequate Enforcement Will Ultimately Bring Complete Triumph.
{Extract from statement by Hon. Louis C. Cramton, Representative in Congress from Michigan, during hearings before [Committee] on the Civil Service, House of Representatives, Sixty-ninth Congress, first session, on his [bill] H.R. [3821], proposing to place under Civil Service the personnel engaged in Federal prohibition enforcement}
Mr. Chairman, it has been but a little over six years since the national prohibition law has been the law of this country, and while I do not desire to take your time with a discussion of prohibition as a policy, I think as a preliminary to the legislation which we have before us and the brief discussion I want to offer, I would be justified in reading a very remarkable statement and a very concise statement by Mrs. William Tilton --Elizabeth Tilton of Massachusetts -- written to the editor of the Detroit Free Press, one of the great newspapers of the country, at the time that paper a few months ago called for a modification of the eighteenth amendment, largely upon the ground that it could not be enforced; that a trial of a few years had proven that. Mrs. Tilton: [see enclosure]
So again at the end of six years since we have had this tremendous experiment it is my judgment that at this time the country [page 2] appreciates better than ever it has before the difficulty of really making good on this great national experiment. Secondly, I believe the country is better satisfied than ever that this law, which is now in a large degree being enforced, can be better enforced; and, thirdly, that the country is more than ever determined that it shall be thoroughly enforced.
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There has also come to me, without my solicitation, from Mrs. Elizabeth Tilton, national legislative chairman of the National Congress of Parents and Teachers, this memorandum: [see enclosure]
Furthermore, the attention of the committee is called to the second paragraph of the following memorial recently sent to the President of the United States. The 71 signatures appended represent practically the strongest women of the country. [see enclosure]
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