The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-10-23

one OF planning and preparation for
the next year, when many States,
has been indicated, are to be the scene
of vigorous campaigns to abolish the
saloon. IN Indiana, where more than
two-thirds of the population of the
state already live in dry territory, an
effort is now being made to have a
prohibitory amendment submitted to
the people In Delaware, two of the
three counties have prohibited and
the third, New Castle, Is asking for
q special election on the question.
No-license territory has been greatly
increased In Arizona, and a strong
fight is to be made for prohibition in
Statehood. Nineey-six of the one
hundred ard nineteen counties in Ken
lucky hayo banished the saloon under
local option and the campaign is for
Statewide prohibition. All the tenn
perance organizations OF Missouri are
united in the Missouri Constitutional
Amendment Association to abolish the
saloon. New York State has its first
dry county (Yates), and more are to
DE added South Dakota legislators
are pledged to refer the New Church
Federations bill for local option TO
the people in 1910. Resubmission of
prohibition amendment Is demand
ed in Vermont.
These are n few of the pressing
legislative movements in which the
National Woman's Christian Temper.
ance Union Is actively enlisted in var
ious parts of the United States, OF
which but one-third now remains OPP
en- TO the liquor traffic.
One OF the most interesting new
endeavors of the w. c. T. U. is the
Independent Japanese Coast Work,
Whose third mission has been recent
ly erected Jed by Rev. Mary A. Bow
en-, of California. The Japenese wom-
en- are actively at work. and fly the
white emblem Of temperance and
purity with great enthusiasm.
Signal work has been accomplished
this year by Mrs. Edith Smith Davis,
of Wisconsin, and Mrs. Martha NJ.
Allen, of New York, heads respective
ly of the departments of scientific
temperance instruction and of medi-
cal temperance and representatives OF
the Woman's organization at the great
International Temperance Congress
In London last July. A novel and
helpful course of study in scientific
temperance instruction has been plan
ned by Mrs. Davis for the use OF
missionary training institutions. and
has been adopted by the Chicago NJ.
Il. Missionary Training School and
others.
Through its medical temperance de.
partment. led by Mrs. Allen, the w.
Z. T! U. IS enlisting the aid OF nurs-
ing associations in the educational
work among women dn the homes:
Tor the nurses can do much to warn
women OF the danger OF nostrums, and
of the many prescriptions of alcoholic
and other powerful and habit produc
ing drugs. The nurses Associated
A.umnae of the United States and the
Society Of the Superintendants of the
Nurses Training Schools in annual
session at st. Paul and Minneapolis,
last summer unanimously adopted the
w. G.. Il. l.. resolution;
in as much as the poverty, misery
and crime, resulting from the use OF
alcohol aud other narcotic drugs, are
an aftermath OF their action as physI-
cal poisons, and they are scientifically
proved, 10 be direct contMbutory
cause OF many diseases. as tuberculos-
Is. Bright's Disease, and, above all,
the Black Plague, we, as women, as
nurses. as health teachers, and as hu.
manitarians,
Resolve, That we will do all we
can, with professional propriety, TO
teach their nature and effect, and dis.
courage their use"
During the six months of the ex-
position the National Wonan's Christ
ian Temperance Union had 4 repres-
entatiye exhibit and rest room at
Seattle, In the Manufacturers Build
ing. An exhibit was also made at the
biennial convention of the Christian
Endeayor Society in st. Paul, and
schools OF methods have been held in
the various Chautauquas. Jane A.
Stewart in The Christian Herald OF
Oct. G, 1909.