Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1911-09-27
VIC. 7. u. HELD
BEST Meeting
IN ITS HISTORY
Delegates to jamestown Con-
ventIOn Greatly Pleased
Over Results

JAMESTOWN, N. D., Sept. 27-The
State convention Of the Women's
Christian Temperance Union held al
jamestown from the 22nd to the 25th
was one of the most successful in
its history
Mrs. Necia E. Buck, of Starkweath
er, acting president, presided, assisted
by Mrs. Elizabeth Preston Anderson
| the beloved president.
The sessions Friday morning and
ternoon we're devoted principally to
the consideration of reports of state
and district officers and department
superintendents. AS the record Of the
years work was spread before the
invention, the interest and enthusi'
asm increased. 49,. T. .
Friday evening Jamestown voiced
her welcome to the visitors.
The addresses of welcome by Mayor
Blewett, for the city, Judge Ellsworth
for the bar, DR.. Kroeze, for the COL
lege, Prof. Crane, for the schools, Rev.
Morrison, for the churches, and Mrs.
Wanner, for the local union, all ex.
pressed hearty appreciation of the
work and aims of the w. C. T. u, and
cordial welcome to their city. Mrs.
R. M. Pollock of Fargo, editor Of the
White Ribbon Bulletin, responded in
ehalf of the convention. At the
close Of the addresses an informal re-
ception was held.
Saturday morning the consideration
of the reports was continued and sew.
eral conferences held.
A resolution was passed addressed
to President Taft protesting against
Secretary Wilson becoming honorary
president of the National Brewers
association.
The work of the anti-tuberculosis
association was ably presented by Mrs
Maize Stevens, of Grand Forks, treas
urer. She spoke Of the necessity of
education as to the nature of the d.
sease and means of prevention and
cure. She told of the anti-tuberculo-
sis car of California and said taht
North Dakota is planning for SINH
lar exhibit. Mrs. Quain and Judson
LaMoure, she said, should be given
great credit for their work in secur-
ing the sanitarium which will be com.
plete and ready for patients the first
of the year.
In closing she said IF We could
remove the liquor traffic the great
cause of tuberculosis could be gone.
Drink means poverty, poverty means
poor sanitation, poor sanitation means
disease.
The paper, Physical Training in the
Schools, by Mrs. l. A. Burley, of Penn
bina, was received with interest She
said that the average length of life
has increased from twenty-five to for
ty-four years in America. That the
schools are doing much for the health
and morals of children. ION the play
ground the child lives, in school he
prepares to live. Play grounds are
cheaper than ! reformatories. The
play life of people is an index of
the moral life. Health of body de.
ponds upon health of SOUL"
A paper on medical temperance by
Mrs. Mary r. Mcleod, was read by
Mrs. Best of Fargo, She spoke Of
the lower rates of insurance by tenn
perance companies. Stated that the
use of alcohol is decreasing in hos
pitfalls and general practice. That in
is mental paralysis. The
pure food law is help in regulating
the use of alcohol in medicine. She
believes the doctors are more ready
~~al H. a.
She commended the work OF organ.
zed nurses for medical temperance. !!
Rev. w. A. Snow, Gen. Sec. 8. 8.
ASSN, spoke on the new International |
Graded lessons and Temperance In
'truction in the Sunday School. He I
laid IN the forty-three years in which |
he Uniform Lessons have been pub
ished, one hundred lessons on tenn