Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1909-11-03
w. 7. C. u. COLUMN
Dear w. C. T. u. Sisters of Orleans

county:
1t has been a long time since
we have seen the heading ''W. C. T.
U. Column in this paper. Why?
Partly because your press superintend-
ent has not been ION to her job" and
partly because you have not done your
duty. At the Craftsbury convention |
had several promises of original pa
pers for our columns but none of them
have been forthcoming. You certain.
ly every union must have ability
enough among its membership to pro-
duce at least one article once year
but if you can't do that won't you
send items that will be of interest to
other temperance workers. Let us
know what you do at your meetings,
how you raise money, what you are
doing for the children, etc. Please
help me in sustaining this department
of our work. Below is an excellent
paper which l wish every teacher in
the county would reai.
Mrs. P. L. Webs ter
A paper given by Mrs. II. K. Cut
lerat the Teachers Reception at Bar
ton, Oct. IL.
My subject is 'Why Should Scien-
tifc Temperance be Taught in the
Schools" Nearly every paper l write
in this organization has something to
do with scientific temperance and it
seems as if had treated it from near
ly every standpoint but today | am
only going to make one point. Why
should scientific temperance be
taught in our schools? Because pre-
vention is migatier than reform.
Every child should be protected
from the liquor habit by instruction
as to its effects on brain and body.
BY instruction do not mean that it
n aet s to be compulsory but it rests upon
you teachers as moral obligation to
do this for there is no habit that has
such far reaching influence or is such
menace to free institutions, national
character and ideals as this.
The teacher will say 1e have 50
much in our school curriculum already
that it is impossible to find the time
to do anything in the way Of scientific
temperance instruction. There is
only one way to get crop and that is
by sowing seed. A little seed dropped
here and there will find no ground
more fertile than the plastic mind of
child. What teacher says and does
is all right and do you realize teachers
how much responsibility rests upon
you not only in imparting correct in
formation in all branches which you
teach but also in giving the correct
view of life. for childhood is the train
ing ground for manhood and this build
ing up of character.
l know of a teacher in this school
some time ago, who was not mem
Der Of the w. G. T. u. but in her
quiet way in the school room she in
stilled into the minds of her pupils
some little truths of the effects of al
cohol and narcotics on the brain and
BODY. That teacher just sowed a bit
of seed.
We know that lessons learned in
the schoolroom, carried to the home,
put into life give the result that nc
railway, telegraph, telephone, bank OF
factory manager is longer willing to
entrust the management of costly
equipment or the protection of hun.
dreds OF lives to brains that are be-
fuddled and nerves that are shattered
by Indulgence in drink. 1t is the man
or boy with the clear brain and good
habits that succeeds.
l know a teacher has a great many
opportunities to SOW, if he or she
will only improve them. Oftentimes
the seed will not take root but lie upor
hard, unwilling ground but SHARP
stick, hole, there it is planted.
But to DO this teachers, You must be
thoroughly equipped yourselves ir
physiology and hygiene with specias
reference to- the effects of stimulantI
and narcotics. To be sure you have E
general knowledge of the subject but
you must be scientifically equipped
| presume some Of you studied scien
t1flc temperance when it was compul
sorry in the schools some years ago
For the purpose of keeping the teach
ers in touch with this movement We
have put thirty Crusader Monthlies
INTO the live lowest grades. | do hope
you Will make a good use of them
Study them, read from them and give
them to the children who need them
most in their homes. Our Union is
poor and l want you to know that we
make struggle to give these Crusa
decs to you and | am sure you will
make good use of them.
Sow seed, teachers, ga sower went
forth to SOW This remark is surely
trite, If one has in mind only the har
vests of fruit and grain. But the
| He truth nOIuS IN the world Of prog.
ress and moral reform. 1t is a fact
hat some people who have full knowl
/ edge that bread set to rise still needs
hands to mould the loaves and put
them in the oven, in the realm of less
material action, think that things will
get done somehow: if not that pre-
cisely. yet "do not see Why this OF
that result has not come to pass they
themselves having done nothing tt
help it along.
Whatever the phase of human en-
deavor when examined, this truth is
found: success or fail ire hinge always
upon the one finally. And in no de-
partment of any work is this oneness
so solely the pivot on which the whee
OF advance turns as in the department
of scientific temperance instruction
So, teachers, "scatter seeds.'' The
great fields are planted by measure
and method-drills and burrows anc
lines-so much seed to so much GROUND
neither time nor space wasted MOI
seed, and as one teachers creed. 40 lei
all teachers creed be.
II believe in BOYS and girls tho mo,