Norwich bulletin., 1912-10-03
GAINED FIVE BRANCHES THIS YEAR
Report at State w. C. T. U Convention at New London Presidents Report Urges Two Paid OAicers-Also a Field Worker For Loyal Temperance Legion.

o'clock opened the afternoon session.
 The report of the corresponding sec
 retary, Miss Josephine Sexton, showed
 that during the year three women's and two young peoples branches had
 been organized, making total of III
 unions in the state. There was an
 increase of 29S in membership and that the state order has ST0 honorary members, the Stamford and Mystic
 unions each claiming g. Twenty
 nine mothers meeting were reported
 as having been held. The free will
 offerings number 69 and eight mem
 bership contests were held. The Ken yon- Shepard bill to prevent the safe of liquor in dry states received much support and the agitation for the res toration of liquor in the post ex-
 changes of the army called forth viz
 orous protest
 Mrs. Nellie A. Gager, treasurer, re- ported that the free will offerings hal increased iderably during the year. and that the organizations finances were good
 Annual Report of President,
 Mrs. Caroline B. Buell. of East Hampton, president, gave her report. She recommended that the secretary or president, or both, should be paid,
 so that they could give all their time to the work of the union. She sug-
 gested that all the unions be called to day of prayer and advocated putting woman into tine field to centralizs
 the work of Loyal Temperance Le- gfons. She urged the naturalization of the work and of the providing of the sinews of war on a national scale.
 She advocated the creation in each r.f soF715faiffnn fSa afsf
 between the meetings of the union.
 The president recognized the desira- bility of having a union in every one of the 168 towns, but urged that 1t
 would be well also ito till the field we have already plowed,@ at the same time planning to put more territory
 under cultivation next year. One union has 2l3 members, which the speaker referred to as demonstrating the possibilities of intensive methods. She referred to the sale of liquor in stores and the maintenance of gam bling devices to catch children, and suggested that the society needs an attorney to take matters of this class
 under consideration.
 Educate to Better Standard. Tn relation to the white slave traffic and in answer to the question What Can We Do? Mrs. Buell. said: We can educate for a better standard of action. I am often led to ask myself if the time is not soon coming when all the little amenities and poiitenesses of life will be thing of the past. There has grown up laxity at home and in street manners that may in- duce indiscretions with a consequen. retrihution. It is one of the most im- portant matters that the mothers meeting can discuss"
 Urges Vote on School Questions. Referring to the political situation, she said: Parties have gone tumbling about the ears of the politicians. A president and an eK-president have | almost come to bglows. The former l has proved a rebellious child to his political parent, so this impetuous par ent has administered chastisement and a rumpus and row follow. It concerns us very little except that it may be one of those political upheay
 ais which sometimes come when a mighty struggle is working out greal issues and bringing them to the fore To be sure, the candidate of ono party has declared himself for votes for
 women, and we are not inclined to ! quarrel with this knight errant wan dering in search of chivalrous adven- lures if haply he may come to the
 kingdom for such a time as this and l in the meantime we will continue to l exhort to vote on school questions" The remainder of the afternoon session consisted of short addresses by Miss Emily Pierson on Woman s l Suffrage, Mrs. Mary B. Wilson o1 1 Philadelphia, Rev. w. F. Crafts and E. l.. G. Hohenthal. candidate for gov ernor of this state on the prohibition 1 ticket
 At the evening session Miss Lilliar I M. Phelps of Niagara Falls, N. r., was l the principal speaker.
 The Norwich delegates to the con vention are Mrs. S. Howard Mead 1 Mrs William P. Potter and Mrs. J ! J. Fields. 4l