Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-05-23
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To the Editor of the Evening Star;
There are few movements to which ap-
probation comes 80 tardily as it does to
the Women's Christian Temperance
Union But 1t is sure to come. 1 am
glad to be able to say to the citizens Of
Orange, or rather of the Oranges. that an
opportunity has come to them to how
their appreciation of the earnest and
thorough work done by this organization
in the past and of the same earnest and
thorough work marking its present eff
forts. The opportunity is that presented
by the unusually interesting and valuable
exhibit now open to the public in Union
Hall.
I have seldom had reason to do what
/ am doing herewith, but tho temptation
to say these words Is Irresistible. There
are, of course, those among us who have
no desire to know what the Women's
Christian Temperance Union has done,
both because of personal prediction and
because Of unfortunate Inheritance. But
there are also those among us who still
retain In the background of their mem
DRY certain slight antipathies which they
gathered in the days when this work was
Those were the days when sentiment
and emotion were not quite sufficiently
and efficiently supported with demonstra-
ton and fact. But those we're the child
rood days of the movement.
The adult work that is being lone now
bears every trace of satisfactory and
adequate workmanship. The exhibit tells
a remarkable story. The thing which
most of us talked about, even before DIR.
Goddard, of Vineland, did the wonderful
work which is now engaging the atten-
ton of every earnest student of socio-
economic conditions, was that much II
not most of the dependency, of the men,
degeneration, of the moral delinquency
down the aisles of Inheritance
from original human soil that was soaked
and stepped In alcohol.
The writer has no little experience in
many of those departments of human life
that concern themselves directly with
the various forms of delinquency and
wreckage, and he has never hest
to say that an immorally heavy
percentage of 1t is due to drink. In the
here exhibited the student will
find verifcation for all snch thoughts and
assertions, and he will find material
gathered, not by hose whom he suspects
of being Influenced by what has been
cynica1ly termed 'hyphenated hysteria,"
by sober-minded men and women who
and have reason to know what
they are talking about.
Let me, for the sake of emphasizing
the startling value of these charts and
diagrams, quote Just n few names of
those who furnished the material for
them. Beside the familiar American
names, which. of course, we expect to
find there, 1 found these: Sir victor
Horsley, of London; Professor S. Won
Bungo, of Basic. in Switzerland; Lieu
Bengt Boy, of the Swedish army;
Demme, of Berne, in Switzerland;
Professor T. Laitiner, of the University
of Helslngfors. in Finland: DIR. It. N.
Stehr. of Wiesbaden, in Germany; Herr
J. Petersen. of Kiel, in Germany; Herr
T.. Bayer, of Vienna, In
Austria; to this name I want to call
especial attention because of the coun-
try and the city which Professor Bayer
for he is certainly upon
ground that was a few years ago consid-
cred the most hopeless in all the world,
SO far as temperance work was con-
The fact that the names of the
of Vienna and Muenchen appear
at all in temperance work is one of the
startling propositions in a world
full of revelations of new and un-
dreamed Of human forces, a world real
Izlng as never the world realized before
promise that came from on High in
days of st. John the Revelator, In
the sentences: Behold, / make all
things new"
1t is this fact. that the work for these
charts is actually lone in those places of
world which everyone had thought
of as being most HOPELESS in this partic-
ular cause that struck me as l went
carefully over the exhibit yesterday.
l beg most earnestly to call the attens
tion of the public to this exhibit, and
to ask the citizens of the Oranges to
their appreciation of 1t, of it's Tar
reaching nature, of its educational values
and of the earnest devotion of the men
and women who brought all this mate
rial by attending the lectures to be given
Saturday, by visiting the exhibit them
selves and by getting the children out
to the morning session Saturday and
their adult friends to the afternoon ses-
sion.
Taken in connection with what we
were shown during the session of the
on charities and corrections a
few weeks ago, it forms a most interest
ing and enlightening background to much
that the other exhibit may not have
left In the mind OF the spectator in an
entirely finished condition.
ADOLPH ROEDER.