Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1912-06-07
w. c. T. U. NEWS

Last week the community had a
visit from a very gifted woman, Mrs.
Bessie Scoville, national college sec
rotary of Young Peoples Work of
the Womans Christian Temperance
Union 1t is unfortunate that every
young person and every mother of
Pullman did not hear her. On Tues
day afternoon at the Baptist church
Mrs. Scoville spoke on THE Relation
of the Mother to the Daughter"
She emphasized the need of perfect
| confidence between mother and
daughter, the need of the same stand
ard of purity for the young man as
for the young woman She said that
If we placed the per cent of the cases
of blindness in this country at it's
lowest, yet 30 per cent of all the
blindness is due to sexual immoral
ity. Many other serious diseases are
attributed to the same cause.
Tuesday evening at the M. E.
church Mrs. Scoville spoke on "The
Scope of the Work of the Woman's
Christian Temperance Union. Among
many of the splendid things she said
we quote few:
Men do one thing at time;
women do many things. God needed
women who can do many things, so
He called women to the great work
of the w. c. T. u.
In my yard stood an old tree,
so near the house that the roots were
undermining its foundation. Sc
cured man to remove it-with great
chains and teams; he came and
pulled it out, roots and all. The great
liquor tree is undermining the
foundation of our government. but
the long, strong chain of public
opinion will pull it out, roots and all.
Frances Willard, called of God to
this work, realized that the women of
our land must undertake this great
task If our nation be free of the
curse. Women had different views
as how to destroy the curse, so we
have the many departments of the
w. c. T. U. One woman said we
will get it through the schools so
through that department we have
Scientific Temperance taught in the
public schools. Another said, Let us
work through the Sunday Schools
Ninety per cent of all the children
who sign pledges keep the pledge.
Hence our temperance work in the
Sunday schools. Another woman
said, We must work through the
physicians, as long as doctors pre-
scribe alcohol we can not succeed.
So we have our Medical Temperance
department. Patent medicine frauds
are the greatest frauds.
"A man complained to me of the
extravaganza of his wife, yet his Pc
runa bill amounted to eight dollars
per week. We have hospitals in Bal
A~SiAbOh anu 1HlCdSO TO prove
that alcohol is unnecessary in the
treatment of any disease. Alcohol
Will be manufactured and used in
heating, cooking, the arts, etc. 1t is
for the outside, not the inside man.
The Union Signal is the best tenn
perance paper in the United States.
The liquor traffic exists today in
spite of my protest; it never will with
my consent.
The eyes of the world are turned
toward the great state of Washing
ton, the state with the best name.
Your women have been given the
right of suffrage and the world ex-
poets your women to do within the
next two years what the men have
failed to do all these years-to give
us statewide prohibition. You will
not disappoint u.s."
On Wednesday morning Mrs. SEQ
vile addressed the students during
the chapel hour. Wednesday she
spoke in the Christian church