The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-27
PURITY FEDERATION
 ID VISIT FLORENCE
Prominent Social and Moral RefOrmers Will Visit
 Tri-Cities

Florence, February -(Special.) )-The ] following telegram sent to the World s | Purity federation has received favorable response. Florence stands with wide open arms to greet your representatives. She throws wide open her gates, her churches, her home to an event that has for it's purpose the moral uplift of so- ciety." Signed by city pastors, mayor and city council
 This federation is planning a second tour, to reach cities unable to be reached during the first tour.
 The itinerary will embrace Ontario, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, in Canada, 12 New England states and eight southern states, among which is Alabama. Natur- ally, only the larger cities are included in this tour, but as Florence is the home of Miss Lille Swinnea. who has been travelling secretary for Florence Critten- den Home mission work it was through her instrumentality the federation was secured for an afternoon and evening in the tri-cites. the convention proper be- ing held at Florence.
 Stops are only made when invitations are issued by some representative body desirous of eliminating vice, and when there is a union of spirit and effort among religious and reform bodies and workers.
 In this tour there will be 12 of the strongest social and moral reformers from two continents, men and women who have actually brought things to pass, not by theoretical preaching, but by wrest-
 ling, in vital contact with the great evils that scourge the cities and reach out to grasp the smaller towns in the clutch of the octopus. They have tested every principle they advocate.
 Men and women are invited to at tend these conventions, as the delicacy of touch and the ethical manner in which they handle the great problems, the solution of which is awakening and stirring a nation with mighty sense of rebelion-will come no blush of shame to those who desire to uplift fallen humanity.
 The tour will be under the supervis- ion of B. s. Steadwell. president of Walds Purity federation; Rev J. G. Spearer. B. A.. D. D., general secretary of social service in the Presbyterian church of Canada; Rev. r. Albert Moore. general secretary of social and moral reform of the Canadian Methodist church; Rev. J. w. Aikens. field secre- tary for moral and social reform for the Domihion of Canada; Mrs. Kate Waller Barrett. who succeeded Rev. Crlttenden as president of the Florence Crittenden home misison work; Mrs. B. r. Carroll, wife of the governor of Iowa and president of the Iowa con gress of mothers; pr. Emma F. Drake of Denver. Col, an authoress along medical and educational lines; J. Frank Chase secretary of New England Watch and Ward society; Harry E. Moore, president of Public Welfare League of Seattle. Wash.
 These are a few of the reformers who will visit Florence as a body of experts whose advice, if followed, will bring success in a determined effort to throttle the white slave traffic, all kinds of public vice and protect the ignorant through warnings and knowledge that it is just and proper.
 There is rapidly developing in Flor ence sentiment demanding clean so-j cial and personal life.