Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1909-10-23
Over a Hundred from Iowa Attends
in Body.
YELLOW" SUPPLEMENTS SCORED
Superintendent of Press Department
Tells of Crusade Against Them.
MRS. STEVENS REVIEWS YEAR
National President Lauds Taft's Posi-
tiOn ON Temperance Question, De-
nOunces Revenue Tax and
Urges Anti-POIygRmy Law.
Omaha. Omaha. we love vou.


Omaha. Omaha. we love you.
Omaha. Omaha, wen see you through
To prohibition
with this significant chorus and with
handkerchlefs fluttering the convention OF
the National women's Christian Temper
ance union greeted Mrs. Frances Beveridge
Heald. president OF the Nebraska organl-
zation, when she was presented as one Of
the hostesses at Friday afternoons session.
THAT is why we are entertaining YOU"
Mrs Heald replied as she smlingly stepped
back to her place on the rostrum.
Contained in this greeting TO Mrs, Heald
was the substance of the declaration made
earlier in the day by Mrs. Lillian M. N
Stevens of Portland. national president
that the convention came to Omaha for the
avowed purpose Of fostering the movement
to make Nebraska a prohibition state.
Several hundred out OF town women had
been added to the convention when the
afternoon session opened, one delegation OF
over 100 having come from Iowa occupying
spectators seats. Another nearly as large,
composed of members of the Nebraska un-
ions, also came as visitors.
Reports of officers and superintendents
and secretaries occupied the session.
Yellow Journals and especially the colored
Sunday supplements came in for a flsying
at the hands of Mrs. Minnie Baker Horning
of Illinois, superintendent of the press de-
partment She said the principal work OF
the press department for the year had been
a crusade against the so-called colored,
comic supplements. She advocated a sys-
tematio appeal to parents, teachers and the
moral people of every statei asking them
TO try to persuade the editors OF the yell
low journals to do away with them, en-
tirely.
Work of Two AuxiIiaries.
The real merits of both sides of the one
issue promised in the Omaha convention
were presented in the reports Of Miss
Rhena L. @. Mosher of New York. general
secretary of the Young WOmen's Christian
Temperance union, and Miss Margaret
Wintringer of Illinois, general secretary OF
the Loyal Temperance Legion. While
neither hinted at the consolidation intended
in the proposed amendment to the consti-
tuition tina would unite these organizations
in new body to be known as Frances
Willard Branch. each emphasized in detail
the strong points of her own work and it's
necessity and Importance supple
mentary department Of the mother organi-
cation. All these points viii be weighed
when the amendment comes before the
convention next week
Miss Mosher pointed out the "Y's" as her
department Is called, constitute one
twentieth of the membership of the whole
Women's Christian Temperance union
organization and that 1t had made gain
of nearly 1000 members during the past
year She especially emphasized that 400
young men held honorary membership and
paid dues to the '"s" and that the ranks
OF these young people, men and womeh
were furnishing the trained lecturers
evangellsts and organizers that are ad-
vancing the work of the Women's Chris
tian Temperance union.
Gains in Loyal Legion.
Miss Wintringer told of gain Of 15,OOO
among the Loyal Temperance Legion. 700
new branches haHing been formed during
the past year, of which .475 were junior
branches. These children have been used
effectively in campaign work and all have
taken the pledge of total abstainance Miss
Wintringer laid especial stress upon the
necessity, proven through experience, OF
holding these young people through state
conventions state organizations and such
other means as carry with them attractive
features. Fourteen state Loyal Temperance
legion are now at work and recently new
organization, including 100 colored children
has been formed in Texas. The Loyal
Temperance Legion is proud OF the fact
| that II supports a missionary to the boys
and girls OF Japan, who is doing for them
the same work as is being done In this
country. Some significance was attached
| by the delegates to a bouquet presented
Miss Wintrlnger at the close Of her address
| by the Illinois delegation and the Loyal
Temperance Legion of the world.
Alcohol scOrned as Drug.
/ "An inquiry which I sent to 300 professors
OF medicine in May as to present teaching
in regard to alcohol as medicine brought
nearly 100 replies, some too late for the
paper which / was preparing for the Lon
/ don congress on alcoholism" said Mrs.
Martha NJ. Allen superintendent Of the
medical temperance department. They all
show that alcoholic liquors are no longer
looked upon as the physicians main re-
Iliance IN his combat with disease but that
| rather, alcohol occupies a very limited
! place in theraphy and some of these pro-
fessors In their own practice have no use
for It, Dr. Mann. dean of the Medical
! school of Buffalo, n. Y, said: think the
medical profession could get along per-
/ fectly well without the use OF alcohol eX-
/ cept / nthe manufacture OF drugs. | do not
suppose / have used a pint OF alcohol In
the last ten years 1 think the tendency
Of the medical profession through the
country is TO give up alcohol in the treat
ment OF disease g.
! The Importance OF the temperance and
labor department must be recognized by
the wealth OF its opportunities said Mrs.
Mae NJ Whitman of California in speaking
on temperance and labor Like IL thread OF
gold it runs through nearly every other
department In our roster ready with help
along all lines OF human needs.
I'VE hear much In thes edays about the
conservation OF natural resources. our
mineral wealth, our great forests and our
water supplies, and Il is wei. But the
temperance and labor department Is inter-
ested In the conservation Of the highest