Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-07-25
Educate!

Education appeals to US all as a
valued factor in making possible
any reform or forward movement.
The great National w. G. T. U.
recognized this fact when she had
emblazoned upon her banners the
second Observation-Disclosures
We yield first place to organ
ization, as all systematic efficiency
is dependent upon united effort;
upon o mastering of forces to
make possible the end in view.
This is an age of organization.
Sometimes we are all but over
whelmed with its machinery of
action. But the fact that we are
surfeited with misdirected effort
along this line is no argument
against the legitimate use of a
principle which stands for strength
and efficiency. Rather it is an
argument for, in that the combined
forces, however undesirable, real
ize, wherein reposes power.
But to the subject at hand.
"When more than a quarter of a
century ago the spirit of the temp
a crusade reached out with
its throbbing heart-sent impulse
and touched the women OF the ma
ton, it found many more of them
reading their cook books than
were reading the daily papers"
So writes a prominent white rib
boner. All honor to the women
who do read their cook books, but
the idea conveyed is this, i. e.,
that before women became inter-
ested in reform work, before their
horizon of opportunity broadened,
they were content, many of them,
with very limited information up
on any question aside from that
relating to the household, and
especially the culinary depart
ment.
The setting forth of the prin-
ciples of the w. G. 7. u, more
than any one thing perhaps, paved
the way to the liberation of wo-
mans mental powers and con-
sequent development. She con-
tinues the queen of the home, and
her realm is none the less sacred
because more expanded. The one
cry of civilization is for education.
And as the veil of ignorance slowly
lifts from the masses the prospect
is glorious for the emancipation of
all Christendom. So in this great
temperance movement a wise adj
monition comes to us ''to educate
This continues to be a slow but
sure remedial agency, and every
avenue practicable is adopted by
the w. g. T. U. to place before the
people information which makes
for the advancement of temper
ance. W. might mention the
scientific teaching of it's principles
in the public schools. The deli
cate mechanism of the human
body is gradually unfolded to the
inquiring mind. Then should be
tactfully presented the d~eleterious
effect of alcoholic stimulants upon
a being SO strangely and wonder
fully made. These impressions
indelibly stamped upon the young
mind is education that will tell in
the next generation. Then again
women have learned to WELD the
pen in book and magazine, jour-
nal and newspaper and $50 tell
the worlds story to-day as to
make the world better Tomorrow"
Press women all over the country
represent the w. G. T. u. prin-
ciples, and how can we, better
place before the masses the worlds
best temperance thought. There
is no more efficacious plan, for
some one has said, ssthe thought
world is the laboratory Of reform"
The press becomes a greater pow
er year by year. 1t speaks the
sentiments Of our people more and
more as they become capable of
assimilating some proportion Of
the subject matter, thus making it
a component part of their mental
and moral natures.
Let US adopt the plan locally
when the privilege is ours for the
asking-so that "some brain may
be to us an open furrow, some
word a seed dropped in"
Al State Woman Suffrage Asso-
citation was recently organized in
Indiana as q result Of a meeting
held at Kokomo. The new society
already has about fifteen local
clubs ofiliated with it, and, with a
very strong official board, the
outlook for growth is most prom
Using.