Article April 21, 1928 Issue

Signs of the Times

with contributions from H. L. Caldwell, Henry M. Leland

[From an editorial in the Cambridge Tribune, Massachusetts]

"All over the land, in every walk in life, women have suffered shame, fear, disgrace, heartbreak. They know their enemy, and they know that the Eighteenth Amendment was the great act of emancipation freeing more men than the Thirteenth Amendment. It was won by a war of ballots, not bullets, by the prayers of women and by the votes of good men, north and south," is a statement made by Mrs. Henry Peabody at a convention of the Women's National Committee for Law Enforcement held in Providence. It is a true statement, and because it is true, women will fight to have prohibition maintained. ... Economically the United States is better under prohibition than it was before its adoption. Not only are men better husbands, fathers, sons, and brothers, but they are better workers. Manufacturers all over the country attest the value of Volstead as an aid to business. A recent poll of twenty-four leading manufacturers in Iowa shows four to one enthusiastically favoring prohibition. Savings banks are profiting by the law. A recent interview in the Economist recounts a twenty-nine-hundred-mile automobile tour taken by John G. Shedd, chairman of the board of Marshall Field and Company, who is convinced that prohibition is making the country prosperous. Mr. Shedd is quoted as saying: "Savings have been growing steadily from year to year, and this growth in the accumulations of the labor classes has been notable since prohibition closed the corner saloon."

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