The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1891-07-29
THE w. @. T. u.
What a Member of the Local Or
C~aniza+iop Hos to Sow

WnaC a m or the Local Or
ganization Has to Say.
Mr.. EDIToR;-Having read the article
in this evenings issue of your paper, in re-
gard to4he W. G. T. u, the thought came
TO me, that if those persons, who condemn
the work of the w. O. Il. u, knew more
about the work that has and is being &C.
complished, they would not be so severe in
their criticisms. Our time, energies and
money are not spent alone in trying to re-
form those who are the slaves of strong
drink, but our work, State and National, is
divided into thirty-three departments with
an active and efficient superintendent in
charge of each. No one Local adopts all
these, but each selects those departments
which they think best adopted to the local
ity in which the Union exists. These de-
partments come under six different beads,
namely: Organization, Preventative, Edu-
cational, Evangelistic, Social and Legal.
1t is very evident that our organization is
not looked upon in other places with the
disfavor il is in this rum-cursed county, or
il never would have reached the vast num-
beers it has in the sixteen years of its exist
ence, there being in the United States a
membership of 1899. Ia Pennsylvania
we nave a membership of over 5000. Nor
is our work confined to this side of the
water, as will be seen from the following
taken from the report of our missionary,
Mary @. Leayitt, who has encircled the
globe with the white ribbon.
I'm her eight years absence she held
over l 600 meetings in China, Japan, In
dia, Northern and Southern Egypt, Austria.
liza and the Hawaiian Islands, talking in At
different languages. To do this she en-
ployed 23l interpreters"
She not only organized unions in these
places, but also introduced scientific tenn
perance instruction in the schools and
secured the regular study of temperance
literature such as recent laws have intro
duced into the curriculum Of the public
schools in our own state.
At a convention Of teachers, held in
Copenhagen at which was gathered all the
leading teachers of Scandinavia, Mrs.
Leavitt was one of the principal speakers.
The outcome of her address being tho sub
sequent passage Of laws compulsory in the
schools throughout Scandinavia, including
Denmark, Sweden, Finland and Norway.
There is no way in which humanity can
be benefited but what there is a depart
ment reaching out to help along, Were
one to try to do here for erring girls and
fallen women what has been done in
Wilkes Barre and other places, we would
be dubbed b~usybodies and requested to
stay at home and keep our houses clean, as
we were in former times when efforts were
made to protect u boys and girls from
temptation and a lowering of their morals,
for Nhen the sacredness Of Gods day is
disrespeeted the road to ruin is very easy.
The indifference of mothers on this subject
Is greatly to be regretted. They stand
aloof and then when their boys and girls
fall prey to temptation 6nd fault with the
w. O. Il. U. for not doing more, But re.
gardless of croakers and fault finders, we
shall still wage our peaceful war for God,
Home and Native Land.
MEMBER w. O. 7. U.
Shenandoah, July %, 1891.