The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-01-27
And None Will Deserved
While She Presides
Over Mansion.
DRY FUNCTIONS
ARE ENJOYABLE
Mrs. Mann Tells Temperance
League That Whiskey Is
Wrecking Too Many Homes
and That It's Use Must
Not Be Encouraged.
War on Saloons.

Mrs. William HodgeR Mann, wife Of
the Governor Of Virginia, III IN address
yesterday afternoon bcfore a meeting
of the Womcn's Temperance League or
America, nclu in The Sunday school
roof OF the Broad street Methodist
Church, told about lif,y members OF
that organization that since she had
been mistress OF the Executive Mansion
no !ntoxicants had ever come within
It's doors that all Of the entertain
ments had been dry anu Here- APP
parently, enjoyed equally as Well as
those at which punch ana other concoc-
tons or rum were served.
AIrs. Munn's talk to the league was
her maiden effort as q puLlic speaker,
and though Il was brief IL was never
theless enthusiastic. II deeply inter
ested the temperance WORKERS.
svhishey Wrecks Homes,
"Wh!skey,' said the VIE OF III /. Gov
crnor, has wrecked thousands OF
homes, destroyed the brains of men,
iilied our jaiia and spread disease. 1t
should no longer he tolerated in any
home. The day when 1t Was used FOR
medicinal purposes has passed, and
the doctors 40 more prescribe il as a
stimulant, bu, use harmless substi-.
tutcs.
''As long as am in the Mansion
there shall! nc no intoXicants. My en-
&tertainments arc fully US Well enjoyed
without them S when they acre scra
cd during former regimes. People
who visit my home Will ncycr touch
the vino cup.
The use OF whiskey is habit. and
we must curb this habit ana save our
boys and girls 1 We can stop liquor
drinking for ore generation tie saloons
Will perish
The saloon Must Co."
The meeting yesterday opened at
20 a. NJ. with devotional exercises hy
Rev. S. c. Hatcher. pastor o Broad
street Methodist Church.. Reports OF
officers and chairmen OF committees
were made which showed the league,
yc, In It's infancy, TO be in q flourish
Ing condition and growing rapidly.
The Saloon Must Co. wcs the slo-
gan OF the organization suggested at
q meeting of the board Of directors and
unanimously adopted BY tnc entire
body
Preliminary plans were formulated
looking toward the establishment OF I.
league in every church in Richmond
Rev. Joseph 7. Mastin. secretary OF
Inc state BOARD OF Charities and Cor
rections, addressed tho meeting and re-
ferred at length TO the work OF the In
dustrIal School for Girls. at bon Air.
Must Help Save Girls.
Much has been done and said With
reference TO save our boys but up TO
the present time little attention has
been paid TO save our girls" said
Mr.. Mastin. The first step in this
direction" he continued. was the es-.
adjustment Of the girls home at Bon
Air. This institution, though 1t has
been in operation but a short while.
has already outgrown its Ircsent quar-
ters. An additional building Is need
ed. 1t has become apparent to those
In charge of the home that the older
and younger girls must be separated"
Mr.. Mastin urged the league to help
provide extra facilities
There were numerous brief speeches
by earnest workers in behalf Of the
abolition of the saloon. The league
has been recognized by the Virginia
Anti-Saloon League, which has asked
that delegates from each branch be
semitic the next meeting.