Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1903-09-25

law 10 tii, ahh ~ NHeN -
enforced. The National Superintendent
has called for pledges from five million
boys against cigarette smoking.
PHYSICAL EDUCATION.
Some attention is being given to phys
ical education in most of the graded
schools of the state, and good work is
being done although there is room for
more.
SCIENTIFIC TEMPERANCE INSTRUCTION
has been put into the week day schools
and quarterly temperance lessons into
the Sunday schools.
PURITY IN LITERATURE AND ART.
Here the scope is very broad and there
are many ways in which to work, plans
for which will be sent on application.
There are six superintendent in this
department and over 1000 leaflets have
been sent out to these, which they have
distributed.
MERCY.
About 1000 pages Of literature have
been distributed. Earnest effort has
been made to secure the cooperation OF
clergymen, superintendents and teachers
of Sunday and week day schools, usually
with success. Our State Humane law is
enforced, and practically all Loyal TEN.
perance Legions have Band of Mercy
work. The teaching of children to be
kind to the lower creatures, prevents
crime and cruelty towards each other
Our superintendent are doing goot
work and there is general awakening
along these lines all over the state.
LUMBERMEN.
Lumbermen have received comfor
bags with bibles in them, literature ha
also been sent, magazines and children
papers. Morrisville and Barnet hav
done good work in making comfort bags
MINERS AND QUARRYMEN.
There have been improved methods o
work in this department during the pas
year and Il deeper interest is shown il
the uplifting and betterment of 10000
underground workers.
Unfortunately the only open doors O
resort in many localities, are doors tina
lead to intemperance, vice and crime. !
good report comes from Washingto
County, 25 children have been secure
for Sunday School, personal visits hav
been made and emergency boxes hav
been placed in 4 of the largest quarrie
RESCUE WORK.
The outlook here is encouraging
Many of the class who apply for admit
sion to the Home for Friendless Wome
have in them the making of true an
worthy women, and gladly they grasp ii
opportunity to regain their good nam
and the respect of friends.
The debt on the Home is reduced
$1,000, and the gifts from local union
consisting of groceries, bedding, clotl
ing, and infants clothing, have bee
gladly received.
In the departments of Mothers NEE
ings and Purity the work done cannt
j, be put into words, also the work of tt
Y. w. c. T. U. and the Loyal Tempe
ance Legion would each require papt
to tel! of them. There are 32 depar
ments of work in the w. C. T. U. an
= some of these have branches, making
in all.
The work of every department is VOL
that makes for righteousness, even if il
o perfectly carried out, and is a power fl
-, good in the state inestimable.
The local unions are auxiliary to Il
State and National organizations, the
:, are auxiliary to the Worlds Christia
!, Temperance Association which is secor
to none in number and influence.
There are those who say that the
. c. I. U. does more harm than good, a,
no doubt they believe it. 1t would
. interesting to know just how much tin
has been spent by such, in finding o
= what the W. c. T. U. are doing. The
!, are also those who profess to so belle
that the prohibitory law is bad la
. and that the license law is more NOR,
the principal argument against the pr
hibitory law being that it is not kept.
:, Who shall affirm that the license Ia
has been strictly adhered to in tho
:, states where it has taken the place
the probibitory law?
We have no right to doubt the since
ity of another's protested opinions unle
such opinions are plainly contradict.
. by the actions of the person holdir
. them, but an impartial mind may We
y ask, why should it be moral to break Of
law and immoral to break another?
Those who believe that man has
. perfect right to spend his money as
y pleases, as good right to spend it on
, slow, cumulative poison, that will ipiu