Postcards

The Brown Derby was said to have no connection with a body called the National Committee for the Repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment,* with offices at 100 Wall Street. The secretary of this committee, one Robert Athey, last week announced that 150,000 return postcards had been sent to voters. The cards bear a pledge to "vote against Congressmen who vote dry and drink wet and all those Congressmen who have received money or political support from the Anti-Saloon League, the W. C. T. U. or bootleggers, so there will be a liberal majority in the next Congress to help

AL SMITH "GIVE THE PEOPLE BEER By repealing the Volstead Act." Mr. Athey said that 20,000,000 cards would be sent out before election. He predicted 5,000,000 Wet pledges.

* Not to be confused with the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment, of which the President is Major Henry Hastings Curran of Manhattan; of which Charles H. Sabin of Manhattan, board chairman of the Guaranty Trust Co., last week, became treasurer. The A.A. P. A. acquired six new directors last week: Financier Henry Morrell Atkinson of Atlanta, Industrialist Lammot du Pont of Wilmington, Clarence H. Geist of Philadelphia (public utilities), Banker David M. Goodrich of Manhattan, Lawyer Gerald Hughes of Denver, Financier Samuel Mather of Cleveland.