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"A man in the crowd," Mrs. Sabin reports, "yelled at me, 'What would your grandfather, who was an advocate of temperance, say to your talk?' I only dimly remember my grandfather and I did not know his views on the subject and accordingly I hesitated for a minute. Suddenly another man in the crowd answered for me. 'I know what he would say,' he shouted, 'exactly what he did when some Prohibitionists called on him and asked him what to do about a saloon which was operating in the vicinity of the Capitol. He told them to move it into the basement of that building.' " When she was 16, Pauline Morton moved with her father, onetime vice president of Santa Fe R. R., whose brother is famed for his salt ("It Pours"), to Washington when he was appointed Secretary of the Navy by President Roosevelt. She had a Washington debut and when she married J. Hopkins Smith Jr. in Manhattan in 1907, the Nicholas Longworths were among the onlookers. That marriage resulted in two children and a dissolution in 1914. Two years later Mr. Sabin wooed & won Pauline Morton Smith. His friend and business associate William Chapman Potter, Guaranty Trust's President, had married her sister Caroline, now the wife of Harry Frank Guggenheim, U. S. Ambassador to Cuba. The precise moment at which Mrs. Sabin, who says she originally favored Prohibition for her two sons' sake, decided to found the Women's Organization for National Prohibition Reform occurred during a Congressional hearing in 1928 at which Mrs. Ella Boole, the crafty old head of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, spoke. "I represent," shouted Ella Boole, "the women of America!" "Well, lady," Mrs. Sabin recalls remarking to herself, "here's one woman you don't represent." As a nucleus for her organization, Mrs. Sabin called upon Mrs. Courtlandt Nicoll, Mrs. Coffin Van Rensselaer, insurgent Miss Wetmore and Mrs. Moore. The W. O. N. P. R. was founded in May 1929 at Chicago. Program— The W. O. N. P. R. program has followed that of the longtime Dry policy: trying to get men in Congress and the White House who will support the cause. This autumn the organization faces its first big test, for which the Roslyn meeting, last week, was a prelude. There are 435 Representatives, 33 Senators, one President and one Vice President to be campaigned for or against. It takes money to campaign, as Mrs. Sabin's Wet sisterhood well knows. National headquarters of W. O. N. P. R. seldom has more than a three-month supply of it on hand, but the group is happily supplied with rich husbands. If a Democratic Wet majority is returned to Congress and Franklin Delano Roosevelt to the White House, and if the party keeps its platform pledge to submit the question of Repeal to Constitutional conventions within the States, and if three-quarters of the States cancel the 18th Amendment, then the last step of the W. O. N. P. R. program will be in order. The organization pledges itself to: 1) assist in framing temperate State liquor laws, 2) insist that national Prohibition remain effective until such laws are operative, 3) conduct a campaign of temperance education throughout the nation's schools, churches, welfare institutions. Mrs. Sabin insists that she has enlisted in the fight for Repeal and revision of the nation's liquor laws "for the rest of