Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1911-07-06
The Allies of the w. c. t. U.


The Woman's Christian Tenn
perance Union has a host of allies,
working in various fields of phil
anthropic endeavor. Whoever is
helping to raise the tide OF physi-
ca; health and vigor is your ally.
Whoever is battling for justice be-
tween man and man, and equality
of opportunity for all men, is your
ally. Whoever is helping to tear
down the foul, noisome, soulless
rookeries, which even some good
Christians are willing to let swell
their bank accounts, and getting
built in their place decent habita-
tions for the poor, is your ally.
Whoever is multiplying play
grounds, baths, outdoor gynasiums
near to the dwellings of the poor,
is your ally. Whoever is teach
ing the poor girls of our poorer
neighborhoods to cook and sew
and tidily keep house, is your
ally. Whoever is multiplying the
best literature in cheap editions
and popularizing them so that the
good books and good magazines
are being increasingly read, and
occupying with interesting
thoughts minds formerly largely
vacant, is your ally.
Whoever is multiplying libraries
and art galleries and making them
free and attractive, is your ally.
Whoever is shortening the long
labor hours for women and child
e so that exhausted, lung-starved,
uIder-nourished bodies are not
giving birth to nerve-weak, blood
thinned creatures who will in
%stinctively turn to drink, is your
ally. Whoever is curbing the mad
passion for pleasure, the hunger
for sensation, novelty, extrava-
gance in the rich and. we'll -to.do,
is your ally. Whoever is laboring
to restore the old love of home, to
make it the niece of interest and
pleasure to father, mother and
daughter and son amid the thou
sand and one alluring social d.
versions OF our day, is your ally.
Every railroad hat demands
steady nerves and a clear brain in
its trainmen, is your ally. Every
counting-room, bank and office
that insists on a clear head and
alert senses, is your ally. Every
victory for clean politics that GUSTS
the corrupt boss and puts the
ward heller, who brides with rum
and vice, out of commission, is
your ally. Every faithful physi-
clan and conscientious lawyer and
honest civil officer, and public
spirited business man and devoted
minister, is your ally.
And every faithful wife and
mother, who has a realizing sense
OF what wife-hood means, and
every chivalrous husband, who
senses the divine possibilities of
the home, and every mother and
father giving, not only houses,
lands, but treasures of the mind
and heart, sympathetic, intelligent,
intimate fellowship and comrade-
ship to their boys and girls-their
supreme interest and obligation
now they have brought them into
the world-these are your allies.
Every man and woman, boy and
girl, making by their thought and
word and deed, and by their lives,
this world a sweeter, fairer, purer,
nobler place to live in, are your
allies.
You are not alone; these all
stand shoulder to shoulder with
you, even though nseen or un-
recognized. And above all is
God, the Father, in whose great
purpose your success must be writ.
ten, who is more anxious than we
can ever be that we shall not fail,
and whose almighty arm assures
that what His mind and heart
have purposed shall, through our
wills linked to His, succeed
Herald and P~resbyter.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS