The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-11-02
REPORTS ARE MADE
YEARS WORK FURTHER REVIEWED
BY TIE W. c. T. q.

One sister Reports the Marvellous Progress
Made by womankind In the Gentle Ar
of Marching Up Parliamentary Hili'
Without Having to Stay at the Top
Another Utters Golden Words Regard
Wants to Handle; as, News Versu:
Slush-SchooI Savings Banks
Buffalo, n. Y, Nov. Miss Frances
E. Willard, president of the National W
c. T. T., called the convention to order
today. Devotional exercises were fol
lowed blythe reading of a report on the
". C. T. L. school of method and par
liamentary usage, by Miss Ana A Ben
iamin of Michigan, which is in part as
follows:
To-day it is well understood by every
national superintendent that however
much she herself may know, her de-
partment work will languish unless the
local unions are intelligent as 70 lis
needs. its possibilities and its desirabili-
~. The reports of the present year
prove even beyond those OF last, tnat
1heoriZing is the exception and praci4-
cal instruction the rule. To our great
assemblies come our leaders-to our
smaller schools, held as rule IN con-
nection with conventions, greater mum
her Of the rank and file. In either case,
81 those who attend were the only ones
benefited, we might sometimes con-
cIude that the school costs all 1t comes
20. but a school Of methods is also
training school and the thought is. to
send out every pupils, not only better
equipped herself, but so trained as TO
irnoart her knowledge TO others.
On parliamentary usage, Mrs. BenJa-
min said:
..In 1881 in the national convention OF
the Woman's Christian Temperance IN
ion. held in the city Of Washington, was
moved for the first time in an assem-
fIv of women $50 far as is known the
previous question: Today there IS not
a motion in all the parliamentary currl-
culum that women cannot handle with
the same ease as do the brethren, and
the homes are better kept, the children
more intelligently taught, and tn enter
ests Of humanity better conserved than
ever before in the history of the world.
THE intelligent woman OF today can
men or amend, commit or recommit,
postponed efinitely or indefinitely, call
question or move the previous question,
consider or reconsider, table or take
from the table. adjourn or fix the time
TO which to adjourn, move privileged
question or rise to a question of priv
ilege in short, can rise to an emergency
Of any sort domestic, social, Industrial,
educational, moral or spiritual, and if it
were possible by her motion 70 add poll
tical freedom, would soon transform this
dear old world into a veritable second
Eden, and the rosy flush of the dawn Of
that glad day even now tints the hori-
gon."
Mrs NJ. z. Carman Of Illinois read a
report on the medal contests, which
gays:
This department has been so known
but one year, but dring this time the
interest has been growing in favor and
usefulness. White ribboners like the
". c. T. U. SYSTEM Of contests, because
IL agords teaching for so many OF the
departments in the recitations provid-
ed-churches and young people societies,
because there is so much gospel in it;
the ]. o. G. II and Sons of Temperance,
because there is so much prohibition in
II; the public, because there is always
something new. It is pleasure to note
the progress Of this work. We have
now thirty-one OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
and territorial-and have every reason
10 believe that the number will increase
10 forty when we hear from the state
eoncentions recently held. AT the be-
ginning OF the work 1 urged the SUPER
intendents to insist on charging an adj
mission fee, combining the financial
with the EDUCATIONAL interest. This has
been done, raising the average per con-
test of net receipts TO double the amount
Of last year This has been of great
help TO local unions. l consider the best
work has been done in Minnesota dur
Ing the same length of time. The state
is thoroughly organized and will show
decided increase next year"
The report on press work, read by
Mrs. Minnie Barker Horning of Illinois,
includes the following:
''Therei no department in the Wo-
mans Christian Temperance Union, no
line Of work, from which the sentiment
must be 50 thoroughly extracted as in
the matter Of dealing with the press.
When you approach the great fountain
head of news, the Associated Press. with
your matter, the first questioned asked:
Is Il news? Is is news the people want
TO hear? What the people want must
be the criterion-not the w. c. T L.