Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1902-03-02
LAST BLACK GAP
HAS been REMOVED
Temperance Education
Map of United States
Is Pure White.
LAST LAW SIGNED BY
GOVERNOR OF GEORGIA
Historically Interesting Event Re-
Gently Held in BOStOn--WOrk that
Was Begun in Vermont Nearly
Twenty Years Ago.

Nearly twenty years ago the first
Temperance Education law in the
world was enacted in Vermont, largely
through the fundamentally of one de-
voted woman aided by noble workers,
especially the Woman's Christian
Temperance Union. Through the same
instrumentalities, powerfully aided in
many instances by members Of religi-
Gus and philanthropic organizations,
state after state in radpicmfwpyjpj
state after state in rapid succession
placed these laws upon their statute
| books. AS an object lesson, temper
/ ance education map" was prepared
| showing the states which had temper
! anCe education laws in white, the
states which had none in black, and as
such laws have been enacted in one
state after another the black covering
of each has been removed.
Mrs Mary II. Hunt Of Boston, whose
earnest self-sacrihcing labors in behalf
of this form of education have INSOFAR
ably associated her name with II, has
just received the pen with which the
Governor of Georgia recently signed
the last of these laws now enacted by
the legislatures of every one OF the
forty-five states Of the United States
and by the National Congress, all Of
which require physiology and hygiene
with special reference to the effects OF
alcoholic drinks and other narcotics to
be taught in all schools under state
and Federal control
The removal of the last black cap
from the temperance education map
was therefore an occasion of historic
interest, and a company of well-known
representative people gathered infor-
mally in Mrs. Hunts home in Boston,
Saturday evening, January 20, to wit
ness this removal and to welcome
Georgia to the white statehood thus
made complete. Pleasant reminiscent
speeches on many phases of this work
were made by some Of those present
i from several states among the guests
D being representatives Of the leading
D city. state, national and world temper.
I ance organizations, OF the Young PEG.
S pies Society of Christian Endeavor, oil
the press. prominent clergymen, the
2. secretary of the Massachusetts Board
I of Education, and others.
3 Letters were read from friends OF
= this education in all parts of the coun-
n try, among them one from Mrs. Sibley
State President OF the Woman's Chris.
= tian Temperance Union of Georgia
s and one from Governor Gambler oil
| Georgia who signed this last law, thus
| by a happy coincidence, browning the
. work to which he had already given
valuable aid. As member OF Tho
= Forty-nlnth Congress, Governor Cand
, led was chairman of the House Com
mittee on Education and his was The
/ decisive vote In that committee that
I led to the favorable reporting and lat
or the enactment Of the national tenn
, perance education law in 1886
The State Commissioner of Educa
, tion of Georgia, having asked that tn,
{ black cap straightway be taken from
the face Of Georgia on the map, mes
- sage drafted by the Secretary of tn,
Massachusetts Board of Education wal
read to be sent from this gathering
u testifying that the black covering hat
" been duly removed in the presence o
: distinguished and representative wit
Il nesses from different states, and ex
pressing the hope that by means o
% this instruction the lives OF the chill
h dren might be as unspotted by wron
a habits and as white as the temperate
70 education map of the United State
% now Is.
This study that gives with othc
30 laws of health the scientific reason
30 for total abstinence is now legally en-
I, grated upon the educational system {
~ this entire country, and Is fast spread
>, ing to other lands.