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...Mabel Willebrandt lives down in Washington...
Senator William Edgar Borah of Idaho plodded into the Department of Justice last week to demand of Attorney General Mitchell that the whole system of prison spying cease. Col. Mitchell weighed the question thoughtfully, and Senator Borah withheld comment until a decision should be announced. Meantime, Mrs. Willebrandt hinted that the prison-snooping system had originated with Attorney General Sargent. At the same time, with feminine inconsistency, she hinted that if she could not continue to snoop on her prison wardens she would resign...
Said Mrs. Willebrandt: "The [snoop] system seems the only way at present to find the facts necessary to keep conditions wholesome in the penitentiaries. It [snooping] has been' fairly and equitably'applied...
...Drys, Consolidated, last week nominated the "Personification of Prohibition,"* Mrs. Mabel Elizabeth Walker Willebrandt, Assistant Attorney General, to take charge of enforcement following its projected transfer from the Treasury to the Department of Justice. The Christian Herald opened her campaign under the caption: "TO DRY UP AMERICA: MABEL WALKER WILLEBRANDT." Dr. Daniel A. Poling, the Christian Herald's editor, declared that "every prohibitionist in the U. S. . . . will experience disappointment and regret" if this "remarkable woman" is allowed to retire. He called her "the first figure in the whole field of law observance and law enforcement...
Seconding the nomination of Mrs. Willebrandt in the Christian Herald were: Bishop Thomas Nicholson, Anti-Saloon League president; F. Scott McBride, Anti-Saloon League superintendent; Raymond Robbins. "personal friend of Herbert Hoover"; Mrs. Ella Alexander Boole, W. C. T. U. president; Chairman Fred B. Smith of the Citizens Committee of 1,000; Edwin C. Dinwiddie, secretary of the National Conference of Organizations Supporting the 18th Amendment, and many another...