The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-10-21
WORKERS
REPORT A GOOD YEAR
Annual Meeting Held Yesterday for Election.
tliIo Workers Are Somewhat Discouraged.
The School Savings Bank Success.

Inc name or the w. =. L. L. OF the
Hawaiian Islands was changed to
the "Women's Christian Temperance
Union of Hawaii" at the annual meet
ing held yesterday at the residence of
Mrs. ]. NJ. Whitney, the president, on
Punahou street. The meeting of the
society was attended by about fifty
ladies, the largest meeting held in
years, as we'll as the most interesting.
Mrs. Whitney opened the meeting
with Scripture reading, and Miss Ada
Whitney sang a solo.
SECRETARY'S REPORT.
The report of the secretary, Mrs. C.
H Austin, for the year just closed,
showed the w. c. T. U. to have been
unusually busy in their work of re-
form. The report was as follows:
That 'time flies is a true saying
which We all appreciate most fully
when we come to the end of our year,
and feel that another year has passed
away Again we ask ourselves What
have we accomplished during the year
that has passed." 1t is a hard ques-
ton to answer. Only eternity can I'M
fold the good that has been done, but
we can take heart with the feeling
that we have tried to do what We could
though it is not what we would like
to have done. We have many things
to be thankful for, and many things
to regret.
We regret that we have been power
less to lessen the number of saloons in
our midst or in any way to stem the
tide of intemperance. There seems
now, to be an apathy on the subject
that it is hard to work against.
The different branches of the Society
have been at work, and considerable
success has crowned the efforts of the
branch of Savings Banks in the
Schools" Our president has given
good deal of time and thought to that
subject as well as the committee who
have charge of that branch. One af-
ternoon Mr.. Macintosh who has had
several years experience in that line,
very kindly came in and gave us his
experience in the matter, and his talk
quite cheered and encouraged US in
our efforts. Miss Felker, principal of
the Kaahumanu school, has given us
very cheering accounts of her expert
ments the results of which we shall
probably hear from the committee.
The Anti Cigarette committee have
met with good success though our
chairman has not been able to follow
the work up as she would like to have
done.
The Literature committee has been
busy distributing literature on tenn
perance. am sorry to report that the
chairman Mrs Westervelt, has been i'll
and quite unable to do any work for
number Of months SO that the work
has devolved upon Miss Johnson, the
other member of the committee. The
progress of temperance education in
the schools has been reported from
time to time and discussed in the meet
ings. The teachers have taken hold OF
the work with a good deal of interest
and much has been done in that line
The Flower Mission was given up in
January The work is still carried on
though it is not under the auspices of
the w. C. T. U.
The April meeting was given up to
the discussion of ''Women's work and
ard of morality and to ameliorate the
evils of mankind 1t was thought at
one time that women were not capable
of organizing and carrying on chart
table work successfully, but they have
shown themselves equal to the task,
and are conducting many associations
with success. The w. C. T. U. outranks
all others in numbers and scope as
TO- oil 70 of no
and turns its attention to every phase
of work that has for its object the up
lifting of humanity.
The meetings have been held every
month, and have been full of interest
the community of whatever creed or
denomination. The work belongs to
all women who desire country that
is desirable to live in and safe to bring
up children in.
Let US look around and see what is
being done in other places. In the
fields of legislation by means of
bureau, liquor selling at the immigra-
ton stations has been prohibited. AT
first the officials opposed it but since
it became law they have faithfully car
ried out it's provisions. As conse-
quence of this discussion liquor selling
was prohibited in the Capital.
The bureau worked with the Anti
Saloon League and the W. C. T. U.
to hold and fortify anti canteen legis-
lation Earnest efforts of interested
lawyers to repeal the bureaus divorce
law for the Capital were thwarted.
The bureau also received the thanks
of the National Humane Society for its
effective part in defeating, after it had
passed the House, a cruel act to ex-
tend from 20 to 40 hours the time cattle
might be carried on trains without
watering The exclusion of illiterate
immigrants was worked for but failed
in the Senate.
The McCumber bill to shut out liquor
from soldiers homes will be the next
step for all reformers to urge in the
movement to suppress all government
LIQUOR selling. Zone of the bureaus
greatest legislative achievements was
in the Pennsylvania legislature when
a bill to legalize the Saratoga type OF
race gambling was defeated"
THE two worst foes to progress are