The morning times., 1896-09-21
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| \ carefui record at Yale for eight wears
shows that noI-SmoE.rs are 20 per cent
taller, 20 per cent heavier. and have 80
per cent more lung capacit than smokers.
| y recent graduating class at Amherst pre-.
! sented similar difference in favor of
! non smokers. who have gained in weight
"A per cent over the smokers, and in
| height 81 per cent, and. also exceeded in
lung capacity.
| The Port Elizabeth W. c. T. L.. South
| AFRICA. has Joined with the Salvation 4 Armv
J IN opening a refuge for unfortunate wo-
men. Some rooms OF which are set apart
for inebrintrs. There are already four
| girls there most OF them came without
| invitation and begged to be taken I'm that
| they might have a chance to reform
The Willard Girls Club at Melbourne.
Australia. is proving such success that the
| energetic Victoria white ribtoners are
| ABOUT 10 undertake another enterprise
| the opening OF a home for working girls
| 10 be called the Isabel Somerset House
The following is an extract from the
officlal call for the twent y-third annual
convention OF the National W. c. T. L.,
at st. Louis, Nc. November 1918;
Into the midst of this universal unrest,
INTO this epoch OF campaign buttons and
campaign yells, into this confusion of dis
cordant sounds, We are sending forth our
national call; not disheartcned because OF
tne clamor, nor downcast because so many
other issues are enSrossing pubs thought
but sure, since God is God and right is
right. that the principles we represent will
IN time come to be recognized as the prin-
c!pies OF eternal righteousness: the issues
we stand Tor will be seen to be the only
issues worthy to be called dominant
1t Is Il significant fact that our annual
convention is this year to meet in the same
city where three great conventions have
already bcen held. The streets which re-
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list and free silver feet will know now
the tread OF the white -ribboners, as from
east and west. north and south, they keep
step in their grand march toward the future
Inc roofs which echoed to cries OF sound
money are to echo back our Voice as we
affirm that neither the money nor the ma
ton standing back OF the money, can be
sound il unrighteousness is placed before
righteousness, greed OF gain before the well
fare Of citizens.
I'VE shall meet not as a political party
yet as those to whom politics seems a
sacred duty. not as finauciers and vet
as those profoundly Interested iu finance;
not as statesmen, but, we trust, as states
women-the women of a great nation,
baptized with mighty earGestDess, eu-
dOWed with the clear vision which enables
us TO see that whatever else the nation
and individuals constituting that nation
may need, the primal need is applied
righteousness.
Truth, not alone in the inner parts OF
individual conscience and life, but truth
in its outward expression as seen through
righteous laws, righteously executed; So
cal customs upon which has been set
the seal of the Christ Spirit; the estab-
lshment or a nation whose recognized
province shall be to seek, not alone the
greatest good to the greatest number, but
the greatest good of all; these are our
issues.
Surely we should lift our white banner
high when we realize the holy things Of
which it is the emblem! When Protection.
as au issue, shall have been for ages for
gotten aud the fact that finance was
ever problem shall seem like a dream;
in the good da daytowardwbichw y W are hasten
Ing, when each man shall live for all other 4
men, the world over, and altruism shall
win its final glorious victory over egolsnt-
in that day the full significance OF our
white-rfbbon movement will be seen, and
1t will be recognized by all that, more fully,
perhaps, than any other gathering Of 1895,
the one which will meet in st. Louis Music |
Hall. November 1918, will have repre-
sented the larger hope for humanity-God's
coming morning."