Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1905-10-08
by going to the next annual conven-

by going to the next annual conven-
ton, which opens here October 81.
THE w. c. T. u. is edLcative," de-
clared Mrs. Cash, further. ut stands
for the uplift of the community and
the home. 1t has broadened from its
original purpose. 1t started with a few
earnest women who used to meet on
the sidewalks in front of saloons and
work and pray with the saloon keeper
to close his place up. We closed many
saloons that way.
But methods of such work have
changed. Naturally, that was a way
that lost it's efficiency after a while.
Out of it grew an association. and out
of the association grew a strong organ
ization. We now have national, state
and local officers, and many depart
ments of various forts of social work.
I'VE do more than merely keep men
from intemperance. We try to educate
the children in the evils of alcoholism,
in the schools: there are state laws re-
quiring that this be dune, and we aim
to see that they are carried out. We
look after the prisoners, we maintain
rescue homes, we hold noon meetings
at the railroad shops.
do the men attend? You just go
down there some noon and see. Do
they!"
And Mrs. Cash was almost indignant
at the very supposition that railroad
"roughnecks" would not tumble over
one another to be prayed for at their
noon hour.
Oppose Use of Alcohol
"And we also oppose the use of alco-
hol in medicines; we have a depart
ment devoted to that also. And hosts
of other things. Each department has
national head, and a state head. and
q local mead and thus is in charge of
competent persons all through. These
departments meet and hear papers and
talk and arrange lectures and print
leaflets, and distribute them. And in
some places we have a column in the
newspapers, and each department
takes it in turn for it's own purposes.
No: we have none here
Then we have our contests; we give
these and the children compete for
prizes. 1t does them all good, besides,
some one of them gets prize. And we
have lectures and the like.
"It is an educative work now; meth
DDS are advanced from what they were
formerly. We stand for all that will
help uplift the people, to make the
home better to purify the life; we even
try to teach mothers so that they will
bring better children into the world"
But what about the branch of your
organization that denounced the pres-
dent because someone sent him some
beer?"'
Yes; yes. And we believe in doing
all those things that will tend to make
better citizens"
Mrs. Cash didn't want to talk about
the beer, but the question was repeated
later on. She "bucked" a little, but
finally said:
mot all of us approve what all of
us do. We are a large organization
and there are sometimes differences
of opinion about things"
"In other words, then, you think
this was a mistake? That it merely
advertised it to talk about it,
Eyes, that's it,"
Objects to Canteens
"And what also about the statement
that the army canteen should be re-
stored?"
1--WE do not think that it should"
"But the best army officers say 1t
should. Gen. Fred Grant, for in
stance"
1--WE can't help it; we do not be-
lieve that the canteen should be re-
stored. Statistics show that there is
less drnkenness in the army now than
there was with the canteen."
but the army claims that there is
more. That the men now go out to
towns and drink where before they
used better stuff. and made the money
from it for themselves"
"That is wrong. 1 haven't the sta
tistics with me, but L have them al
home to show that the men are better
off now. And they will be presented
at the convention this month.
MANY men enter the army to escape
the habit of drinking, and they should
not be exposed to the temptation. 1t is
as If you permitted saloons to be every
other door along the main streets here;
wouldn't there be much more likelihood
of men drinking, with the constant
temptation, than if there We're only -
in a block? That Is the way in the