Scope and Content Note
he records of the Women's Organization for National Prohibition Reform span the years 1896-1933, with the bulk of the material dating from 1931 to 1933. The collection consists mainly of responses to a query by Mrs. Edward Wales Root, director of research for the organization, sent to consuls general and other representatives of foreign countries about their liquor policies and regulations. Founded in 1929, the organization favored the repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment because of concerns about the ineffective enforcement of Prohibition and the lawlessness and disrespect for authority associated with the failure of government-imposed abstinence. Included are copies or transcriptions of liquor laws and regulations of the countries queried or studied.