The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-01-20

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them by total majorIties of 1000. It
lis worthy Of record that all OF the wet
1nniorities In the state of Virginia
4 within tho last five years will not
total 1000 votes. In the third city.
In the state, a recognized stronghold
OF tho saloon. with the judicial, NUM-
( clpal and election machinery arrnycd
| on the liquor side, and by practtcing
| the most reprehensible brinerS, fraud
and corruption, the vets were only
able to win by pitlful majority OF
only 60. In prophesying tnht the tenn
perance wave In Virginia IS reccding,
| lat the ltauor advocates consider that
within the last six years only two
towns have gone from dry to wet,
while scores of saloon towns have gone
wet.
Field work.
In The prosecution of the field work
since the last convention, TOUR men
have been engaged a great part OF the
time. although in no other year or
the leagues history has SO mnch or the
secretary and superintendent time
been given to local option elections.
The district superintendents and Sec
retary have Travelled 51,711 miles;
raised in unpaid subscriptions. $15.-
772.29; in cash. $2,919.S1. Counting the
aid we have received from the super
intendcnt and some friends. these fig
.ures are swelled into an aggregate
of 10000 miles, s1s,15S.5O IN subscrip-
tions. $4.3401S cash.
The total OF our receipts as shown
by the trcasurer's report is s14.764.2s,
our expenditures sf5,9O5, leaving an
indebtedness OF about $1,15O Over
against this indebtedness we have, IN
office fixtures and supplies. assets
to- nd n n
of 1909 subscriptions. Taking other
years as a guide at least $4,000 OF this
subscription is absolutely safe. in
brief we have liabilities amounting to
$1.154 with assets amounting to
s10.O731O in unpaid subscriptions, of
which we think at least one-third can
be collected.
In the office.
From our office records we gather
that we have used $4,000 letter heads.
$4,000 envelopes, 1O,i00 postcards, 20
900 statement cards, 100 posters To-.
600 stickers. 1000 field day reports.
$4,000 petitions, 5O,117 circular letters.
is Anti-Saloon League year books. II
newspaper cuts. 81 American Issue
cuts. The number of books circulated
is 1850. the number of American Is
sues printed, 111,600 copies. The to-
TAI IluilDer OF pages OF TIE output OIL
our literature is 2,250,O00 pages.
Contributing most effectively to this
great output OF office work arc Miss
Elizabeth Dunford. assistant to the
secretary; Miss Ada Burroughs. steno-
grarher. and Miss Elsie Bailey. card
clerk In addition to the above named
regularly employed force, we have had
at times as many as ten assistants en-
ployed. While the president and 9TH
ers are accrediting the field force with
q fine conservation and devotedness to
their work, allow your secretary to
say that these young ladies have
brought a large amount of intelligent
and consecrated effort to the success
full prosecution of the league work
They have known no limitation OF 1
hours nor abatement of zeal in our
great warfare. Without their aid and
the efforts of the secretary
would be largely paraIyzed.
Personal Work.
My personal duties have been multi
,arious. The directing of local option !
raising of funds in the re-
sular field work and for special pur-
'oscs. attending committees, arrang- |
ng for field days. keeping up official /;
correspondence looking after printing. |
ind circulating of literature, petitions, l