THE CONSTANT WIFE

When Senator William E. Borah made his widely quoted speech of last week, declaring that the enforcement of prohibition should be the main issue of the 1928 campaign, he little realized how far-reaching would be some of the effects of his statement. The idea of non-enforcement of the constitution affects different people in different degrees. Some write their congressman, some tell the family what Bernard McFadden said about it this morning, and some are merely reminded to get a new corkscrew next time they are down in the market district. But to the members of the Women's National Committee for Law Enforcement the message of Senator Borah is a clarion call. And so they prayed that Mayor Walker might have "a sense of personal responsibility" and that President Coolidge might possess "a quickened sense of what it means to stand by the Constitution."

Mrs. William Edgar Gell placed her confidence in that long fallon prophet M. Coue. "Wherever you can get an audience of one or two women together, three, four or five times a day say, in a resolute voice, "I believe in the Eighteenth Amendment."

It is a sorry reflection on the powers that be that a group of women are needed to give a now synthesis of interests of Jehoyah and the Continental Congress. A long series of public woes is summed up in the statement to the press of Mrs. Henry W. Peabody: "Things have not been right in Washington."