Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1906-10-08
VIC. T. u. COLUMN.
REASONS FOR ENCOURAGEMENT

ook uron il with optimism ana boV
with pessimism. In looking over bne
work of the W. c. 7. u. we must not
take the results of any one time OF
of any one place but a general survey
of the whole work. 1t is world Wlue
and in its ranks are some OF the mosU
courageous and God-fearing
women that have ever given them
selves to work in righteous cause.
Let US glance at just a few OF Inc
many, many things that are source
Of encouragement to us.
Among the many things noted oy
Elizabeth Greenwood in her sermon
preached at the last national con-
vention are the following: PRO
lection to the Pacific Isles against
opium and rum; liquor selling pro-
hibited in immigrant stations; curfew
secured in three Thousand CT les anu
towns; liquor selling prohibited III
Capitol building; over two hunoreo
thousand dollars saved By the child
rem in our school savings BANKS;
legalized prostitution abolshed IN
the Philippines"-and SO on. Inc
last national convention at Los
Angeles last fall was the largest ever
| held. At that time thirty-tive states
had made gain in membership ABOVE
all losses and nine Of those states
had made a gain of five hundred or
more.
Temperance instruction in the
schools is d marked sign of progress.
In France temperance instruction Is
taught in all state, schools. In Bel
GUM temperance lectures are ordered
to be given from time TO time IN all
state schools, temperance readlrg
books are used and temperance wall
sheets displayed. In German schools
; occasional temperance lectures must
be given by order of the government.
; The education department of Vienna
: has di ected temperance lectures TO
be given and further that all libraries
. maintained for the use Of teachers
: shall contain certain number OF
!, books treating scientifically of the
INJURIOUS effects of alcohol. The wal
, depart ment of Great Britain is help
ing along scientific temperance teah
. ing. In every army school IN Englafss
and the colonies this teaching
Y compulsory. IN our own countr!
!. temperance instruction is given II
:; our schools of every state and terrl
ct tory. -
. Many great corporations are refus
-, ing to employ men who drink. Man
X labor organizations do not admit 9
: members drinking men, salo6A keef
<: ers or men who deal in intoxicatin
/; liquors.
S, 1t seems strange to US that SO man
81 boys are using cigarets when thel
is so much published telling of tt
9 dreadful effects of cigaret smokin
'e but it is encouraging to know tn
~ many large firms are refusing
M employ boys who use cigarets and
80 is being brought more and more
80 the minds of the people. Swift & u
o0 John Wanamak er, and Ayers Sars
parilla Co. are among the firms W
? refuse to employ cigaret smoke
ieIi Chief of the U. S. Weather Bure
. Willis NJ. Moore has placed the 3
h . on cigarets in this department..
Those who read the Union Sigma
lsh- and all W. G. T. .. members sho
es- if possible-cannot help but feel
25c couraged that SO much is be
bel; accomplished in the different depa
ess' ments. Medical temperance IS
ceiving its share of notice and in
80 of the late papers there is a repor
aan the meeting of the British Med
Association at Toronto in which
tur Martha Allen gives extracts II
ton; several noted physicians, all of WI
expressed as their opinion that
ush- use of alcohol was unnecessary II
harmful. One made this STATEN
fre'' Gin the infrmary at Salisbury tWel
'77S five wears ago fifteen hundred dol
6 was spent annually on alcof
IS, 81 liquors. Last year the cost was
&c 4 Twenty-Five dollars. This was du
box; the increased knowledge OF
75c nature and effects of alcohol N
egg of our first class magazines
rate; paners are refusing liquor adver
III Oh ments. and not only that, but de
advertise patent medicines WI
,s is large per cent of alcohol in them
While some. things .have see
Tough discouraging in our own state u
nged. what Mrs. Denny, state treas
5. 90 says in Home Guards, 1.-The cont
'QSc; lions and interest shown ana
lIg accomplished have never been o
i-fss in the history of Vermont W. u
haen than in this ear since our last
, have meeting in Swanton." L nav