Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-07-21
ASSEMBLY MEETINGS
". C I. U. DAY AT THE MOUNDSVhLE
CHAUTAUQUA.
Mss Nswconb Discusses Dress Rsform-Mrs
Hoffman Tells Of tho Injurious Effects Of
The Post Exchanges in the
.. s. Army.


Prohibition Assembly at Moandsville.
The children and adult classes in
gymnastic exercises were presided over
by Miss Lydia ]. Newcomb. Excellent
vocal music was rendered by Mrs. Frank
Stanton and Miss Bird Chapman, of
Wheeling. At 1920 o'clock. five min
ute address was delivered by Miss Van
dalia Varnum. of New York. At 1880
Miss LYDIA J. Newcomb addressed a
large audience, and held the undivided
attention of her hearers. Her topic
was 1.-THE Penalty of Compression"
She followed the address with an ex-
hibition of Indian club swinging.g
At 4:30 p. m, a meeting was held In
the Young Peoples temple in the inter-
est of dress reform, or ''eGffeCf Dress"
as Miss -NeYcomb prefers to term it.
a lady who was present informs us that
the Temple was well filed and that she
wished every woman, young and old,
had been there to hear the lecture on
the benefits that dress reform would Do
to present and future generations.
Miss Newcomb asserted that
women sin against both
God and self by the mode OF dress popu-
lar at the present day, and that II was
not the design of our kind Heavenly
Father that woman should suffer more
than man, bnl that her sufferings were
due In q great measure to the modern
mode Of dress and living.
All mothers who have growing daugh-
ters should have heard the lecture. The
afternoon session was enlivened by
song and instrumental music, Mrs. Ora
ham, Prof. Bentley and the Silver Lake
Quartete taking part therein.
In the evening Mrs Hoffman gave a
graphic account of the Post Exchange
as it now exists in 81 military posts In
the United States. A law established
by Congress making the post command
er responsible for the post grog shops,
detailing the young enlisted soldier TO
attend bar, as he is summoned TO any
other service, and using the profits
made at the bar TO furnish lux
uries for the soldiers tables.
She showed how young men who would
not drink were often tannted by their
drinking comrades because they shared
the good things at table, yet did no
drinking to help supply'these things.
Not many dry eyes were In the audi
ence as the speaker described the young
soldiers listening ia chapel to earnest,
Christian words, some Of them signing
the pledge as they remembered early
home teachings, thought they knew
that they might be called on any day TO
deal out liquor TO their comrades
and bear the jeers and
taunts around by their abstinence
great Christian government thus
educating those enlisted in It's defense
into the most dangerous and most per-
nicious habits! o, the pity Of 1t! o.,
the shame OF it!
The speaker described the so-called
"beer hall' established by Congress In
seven of our eight National Soldiers
Homes. She asked, does our govern
ment pay the United States permit tax
when it goes into the retail liquor busl-
ness? She spoke Of the millions
of pension money paid, aud said,
"What a spectacle for the world,
Christian nation paying with one
hand a pension to its old soldiers, and
with the other hand holding out TO him
the "cup of curSing," and getting back
all OF the pension IL can through the de-
Element and degradation OF its de-
tenders.
She asked, chow long would this
outrage continue II there came united
protest from all churches, all preachers,
all Christian men and wOmen?"
Not long! Then where rests
the responsibility? Leaving this sub
ject the speaker answered the
the oft asked question, what has the
w. c. Z. q. done?" She pointed to
forty States with laws for teaching In
the public schools the effect of liquor
and narcotics on the human system; to
Uhirty-one States with ahti-tobacco laws
for minors; to the great number Of
States that have more decent laws for
the protection of young girls; to the
police matrons In all great cities; to the
efforts made among lum bermen, miners
cowboys, soldiers, erring women. be-
trayed girls; each and every class
OF SHINING. suffering perish
ing humanity. This is what the W. C.
Il. u. has done-is doing. Yet some
ministers Of the Gospel, many Christian
men and women, are doing all then can
to freezs them out. Futile effortl The
w. e. 7. U. is here to stay, to stay IN
I'll Gabriel blows his trumpet, unless
the liquor traffic is banished, ami
hilated, prohibited, before that time.