The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-10-20
NEAR BEER AND CIGARETTES
CONDEMNED BY WOMAN'S CHRIS
TIAN TEMPERANCE UNION.
pulsOry Education Demanded.
Militarism Denounced.


At the recent annual convention
in Macon of the Womans Christian
Temperance Union of Georgia the
following resolutions were adopted,
and embody the platform and basis
of the organizations:
We, the Georgia Woman's Christ
ian Temperance Union, assembled in
our twenty-seventh annual conven-
ton, thank the Giver of All Gifts for
the blessings of the past year, and
with increased faith in His all-wise
guidance and devotion to our cause,
resolve:
/. That every possible effort be
made to rid Georgia of the traffic in
near beer and similar alcoholic
drinks, to make illegal the various
ways of advertising liquor and its
being sold by shipments from other
states, and to secure constitutional
prohibition.
2. That the attention of the pub
lie be directed to violations of the
law regulating the sale of cigarettes,
that steps be taken to strengthen it
during the 1910 general assembly
and, to prohibit the sale of tobacco
to minors in any manner, shape or
form.
3. That the presidents of every
union and the county presidents be
urged to win the cooperation of
school teachers and to give them
their assistance to bring about
more thorough instruction in scien-
! tific temperance, to maintain a sim
gle standard of morals and to secure
more conscientious training for the
duties of citizenship.
4. That since the ignorance in
which the poor white children in re-
mote country districts and mill set
Elements are allowed to grow up is a
menace both to the material and in
tellectual development of the state,
and efforts be made to impress the
people with the evils of child labor,
and to agitate the matter until law
is enacted making education compul-
sorry.
8. That where provisions for that
effect have not alread been made
both county and city boards of ed
ucation be petitioned to appoint phy-
sicians to examine applicants for ad-
mission to public schools to prevent
the spread of infectious diseases and
to obviate as far as possible the diff
flculties under which the mentally
and physically weak labor.
6. That, since unchastity is a
growing evil and the white slave traf
nc a reproach to civilization, and
labor conditions tear hundreds of
young girls away from the protection
or nome life to throw them at the
mercy of the INSCRIPTIONS in the
grind of making a living, whatever
steps are necessary be taken for rails
ing the "age of consent" from ten to
eighteen years during the 1910 gen
eral assembly; that where none al
ready exist city governments be Pc
Iltloned to appoint police matrons.
and that greater vigilance be exer-
clsed to prevent the disseminating of
the impure in general literature. fic-
ton and art
l. Ihat, as christian organiza-
ton, We protest against the growing
tendency toward militarism in gov
eminent, the extravagant expendi-
ture Of national funds on battleships
ana the horrors of war, and advo-
cate peace by arbitration.
3. That, since to prohibit the sale
OF intoxicants and to prevent gamb-
ling and immortality are especially
conducive to well being OF woman
and the preservation of the home.
Judges of the different courts. grand
juries, sheriffs, mayors and chiefs of
police be importuned and pleaded
with to effect their just and equitable
enforcement"
Mr. II n Er;t, Oro4 ~ "