Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-10-23
IHE w. y. I. U.
Each Session ExceIs the Last
in Point Of Interest.
Largely Attended Services and Bust
ness Meetings on Wednesday.
Delegates and Visitors Highly Pleased
With Program.

| the adoption OF these TWO important
T. L.:
THAT we stand committed to the
| principle and practice of compulsory
| scientific temperance instruction for ali
pupils in all public schools of this coun-
TRY. We rejoice that this study is now
| universally mandatory in the United
| States. and urge our organization ev-
| eryNhere to resist every effort 10 weak
en- the laws that require it. to work
| for good, well-graded text books on
| this subject in the hands OF the pupils
who use books on other subjects, and
| to oppose books that fail to teach total
| abstinence as revealed by modern sci
| ence.'
| "Whcre:ls, President Charles w. Eliot
of Harvard College, in his recent New
| Haven speech. has presented no evil
| dence to prove that total abstinence is
| not supported by the exact experiment
| tation of modern science:
| "Therefore. resolved, that we re-
| spcctfully differ from his statement
that the attempt to teach total absti-
| hence through the medium of the pub
| lie schools has been an injury to the
teachings of science inasmuch as IDEAS
| concerning tine effect of alcohol We're
| taught which could not be proved true.
and remind the public that the teaching
| on this subject in our public schools
| has the approval OF men of acknOwI-
edged eminence in science and has
never been proved false. We believe
| that its removal from our schools
would be a national calamity. which
we pledged ourselves to do everything
in our power to avert.
| Fraternal greetings from the ST.
preme Grand Commandery. knights OF
Malta, were exchanged.
Mrs. Ingalls, of St. Louis, commits
sioner for the w. c. T. U. for the
Worlds Fair, invited the National w.
G.. r. l.. to hold the annual convention
at St. Louis in 1905. Invitations from
the Worlds Fair managers, the mayor
of ST. Louis and the business Men 5
I.ea-ue of st. Louis and the state w.
C. r. L. were read.
Several reports were given, TINS al
ternGon.
| According 10 the report oI MIS-. >. l..
,Obari;oltzer Pennsylvania. supe'ih-
tendcnt of school savings banks, the
school savings bank has become iea-
tur. of 1900 schools, Scattered through
Northwestern. Western, Eastern ana
Middle states) and the pupils IN THESE
schools have saved and deposited TO
their credit Sl,350,61l. Hawaii mas us
school savings bank system ana IL 70
| ANTICIPATED that the schools OF fioiio-
mlu will adopt it this coming year.
| Mrs A. f.. Carman, Illinois. superin-
| teudent of medal contests, stated tha'
nearly 1900 medal contests have beeii
held during the past year. Inc ciiio-
| no, and Young people have given reel
t,,io,s on Prohibition, Total Absti-
n.pcc Anti-Narcotics. Mercy, FRAN
cb;.e and Christian Citizenship. during
tho year. numbering $4,000. 1t is esti-
r,,tad that through this agency the
PRINCIPLES Of the w. {. I. I. nave
| ,.a,.bad 200 600 people. Besides the
cold and grand gold medals won, there
tbaye been eight diamond ana one
Grand diamond awarded IN inc sta'e
~ II,;,o,s Thousands of dollars nave
-one into the W. c. 7. I. treasury th's
yaar from the proceeds OF medal con-
| ,.,e Contest classes of cOlored Wo-
NON and one of Indian women nav
h..n report.d. las result Oh ',i.
I'll, of the contest department, Saiu
Me- Carman. eve have an army Vi
ai,1drap young men and young wo-
49,, who are radically opposed 10 the
,;l,,,or traffic. having imbibed the SEN
.;r,ont and truths of their oratio"s,
and several of them are taking asai'''
Enc c,il on the public platforms.
NJ T. Il. ingalls, of Missouri, SUI
of the department. u
narcotics in her report sta'eu ..'
-cie,rette leagues have been FORM :
"a ,ootures given, sermons preachee
~, country aroused as never pc
800 very careful Statistical en
,,a1a by educators by boE'
drawn by lot, shows the average EN-
cheney of non-smokers is 70 per GEM,
,bot is o. per cent. out of loo wouic
nrobablv acquire a good edncauoii' oi
the other hand only SIX GU, VI W
cigarette smokers could nope 10 pa.'ie
successfully against the mental III
efficiency produced by the cisa'e''s
habit of smokers. 90 per cent h""
moor memories: 40 per cent. We're uh
.rptbful. 80 per cent. had bad man
ners: 90 per cent. were $40" .iiii'he' .
Mrs. ingalls, said in conclusion. ou'
ral,vipr CIV is Five Million Boys
pledged Against Tobacco Before
November. 1906 This year we have
n,edped aa.93s boys and many girls.
Miss Elizabeth W. Greenwood OF
New York. superintendent OF the
evangeiistic department in her report
said that the past year shows record
(and only l6 states give ngufesl Oh
2s. 26o evangelistic meetings. 10y.
TIA
Bible readings: l4.is' Slsiis' o-os
nledses. 2 Sas.44s pages of literature
f,istributed. 1906 conversions: s53 adj
dresses before societies, on ships. IN
lumber and mining camps. coffee
houses. gospel missions. prison gate
missions. before newsboy ana boot
black missions. sailors rests, rescue
homes. settlements. etc. ETC. stc. ne
e,,,,r..s ,s;van should be multiplied by
10 10 even approximate results. The
banner states because Of statistical
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