The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-12-01
WON'T CONSENT TO
ANY C0MPR0k|sE
President Of Virginia w. c. T.
u. Will Garry Fight to
$. Last Ditch
STATEWIDE MEASURE
NECESSARY, SHE SAYS
Organization Especially Inter
ested Now in Educational
Work, Asserts Mrs.
Hoge

I'VE are sufrragettes only 10 the
extent of showing men how to vote
In regard to the liquor question.
said Mrs. Howard Nj. HoSe. press-
dent OF the state womans Christian
Temperance Union. when asked II her
organization intended to participate
In the woman suffragfst movement
that appears to be gaining CONSIDER
able foothoid in many parts oil the
country.
Mira Hoge, who Is regarded as
lending authority on temperance mat
tiers In Virginia. lie here In attend
ance upon the quarterly session OF
the Richmond Bi-County Union. The
next legislature, she says, VIII be
urged to pass a Statewide prohibition
law, and she liz hopeful that the
measure viii go through.
Mrs Hoge does not believe in COM
promising with the liquor interests,
and she and her followers VIII never
rest content until prohibition pre-
walls throughout the state. Local op-
ton. she says, works exceedingly Well
where 1t Is in effect. but II cannot
possibly serve the same purpose ana
accomplish the same results as state
wide prohibition.
Condemns jug Traffic.
The lug traffic, IN her opinion, -
a very nefarious one and should be
suppressed because II nuliiffes the Ell
feet of local option in many COM
munities This is especially the case,
she says, along the railroads. where
liquor can be shipped without much
danger Of prosecution under existing
laws ana conditions. In the rura'
districts, however, she finds that even
the Jug traffic does not reach to any
great extent for the obvious reason
that persons had rather go without
iissfassF- than b. subjected to the sFosa-
bic OF sending money to the shipping
houses and then going TO the railway
depots to get their jug or package.
The Knox Federal law. which pro-
hibtts the shipment OF atAuor C.. Y. p.
Aua requires the deAdGnAtfru OF 3
bona fide c0nsignee on the package.
ID accomplishing much TOR the cause
Of temperance. she believes, and will
eventually prove an entering wedge
for still more effective Feaeral law.
OfYcr Prizes for Es~ays.
Just now Mrs. Hog says her or
Ga MIA ton Is especially interested in
school essay work. which Is meeting
with marked success In many sections,
Through system of offering price
for the best essay on temperance
questions, she believes the campaign
OF education In the .nteres. of the
cause will be wonderfully assisted. In
fact, she says II Is chiefly along edu-
cational lines that the w. G. T. L.
is now working 10 as to better pave
the way for efectual pr ,hihitory laws.
Mrs Hoge has been pr .sident OF the
State organization for the last twelve
years. having been elcv tted t. the po-
sition at the convention in Richmond
In 1925. She is also recording sec
rotary OF the national organization
and president of her local union in
Loudoun county.
Organization Extended.
Under Mrs. HoKe's direction. the
State organization has been extended
to practically all pats OF Virginia,
there being more than 200 local unions
now in existence, with $500 members.
Wednesday afternoon reception
was rendered the W. G.. r. L. leader
at the home of MIR. and Mrs. w. l..
Bales. 81 North Twenty-third street.
where she was greeted by host OF
Richmond friends and adnrers.
| Mrs. Hnga returns home rhursda.
evening. accompanied by her husband
who Is one OF the most prominent ag
| ricuituris,s in Loudoun. For the past
several days he has been In attend
ance on the annual reeting of the
farm demonstration agents at Muir
Der OF the W. c. T. L. and is in hearty
accord and sympathy with the move
ment-