Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-09-28
OPENING Session.


nearly on time with over 100 delegates
and officers present. The service OF
praise and prayer was lead by Miss
Harriet J. Loring of East Otisfield.
Directly following this the convention
was formally called TO order by Mrs.
Stevens with brief speech of well
come. Then the entire number of
ladies' present joined in reading re-
sponsiveiy the Crusade Psalm. follow
ing this BY singing the Crusade Hymn.
In the absence of Mrs. Hannah j.
Bailey OF Winthrop Center prayer was
offered by Mrs. Stevens.
The roll call by the recording scere-
tary, Miss Clara NJ. Farewell of Rock
] land shovel that nearly every state
county and department officer vas
Mrs. Stevens spoke fer the. Executive
COMMITTEES say ing that while the COM
Iuitiee had held a meeting Tuesday
evening il was informai and although
they had considered many things they
would offer no report at that time.
AZ this time the president. Mrs
Stevens. presented h"r recommended
lions aud In opening SIZE made an
apology because for the first time
since she had been $ntr president
she came before them without any
definite recommendations. She .ex
planned that this was due 10 the fact
that she. with all the others. had been
so busy during the strenuous times
preceding and up to the eleventh day
of September to take the time 10
Formulate any and 1t had been i'm
possible to give the time and attention
10 it. However she presented the fol-
lowing: to first present the thought Of
Organization and the value of organ
lied effort. This principle is the
first among the officers of the worlds
and national bodies and for this the
w G. ~ L. is indebted to the late
Frances Willard. Along this line Mrs
Stevens said in part as follows:
Last fall at the annual convention
the burden of what we were to en-
. counter was seen and never before was
there so much need of organization
seen as when she received the tele
gram from Augusta telling of the
tight that must be Waged to save the
State of Maine 1t was glorious to
such Il fight and as soon as the word
was received hundreds Of letters were
on their way from headquarters telling
what was to come and for the women
to work and pray And they were
ready for the battle I" protect the
homes against the greatest curse that
ever could come upon the homes of
the state The White Ribboners have
proved themselves true to their call
ing | need not tell you how you have
worked You are to tell the story
yourselves.
we are well organized in every city
and in all the larger towns but some
work should be done for the little
Unions. in the smaller and remote
places, whose work in the battle has
counted largely as the returns have
shown. There has been a great awak-
ening and many new Unions have
been organized in the heat OF the bat
tie and many more are to follow and
it will be one of the plans to formu-
late here. So the first recommends
ton will be, if any little community
has no Union, it is the work of the
county president to confer with the
state and general officers and also
each local president to go and get
them organized.
In brief the three recommendations
made by Mrs. Stevens were organiza-
ton, education and law enforcement.
Regarding the second recommendation
Mrs. Stevens urged the members to
work to bring about the education IN
the schools of the effect of alcohol on
the people taught the children at the
expense of the State. Further that
all the branches for the young people
he KEEP, trained and to formulate
plan whereby TO hold them. Also that
all the departments of W. G.. I o..
work be pushed as they are all need
ed.
Law enforcement was the third
recommendation. 1t has been discov-
cred If 1t was ever doubted before,
that women can do something in this
.saine.. The wofhens Know now with
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