Martinsburg statesman-democrat. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1906-1921, 1912-01-19
w. C. 7. U.
COLUMN.
Edited by the Losai Chapter Of the
woman's Christian temperance Union.
The Little Mountain State"
Bestirring Itself.
STATEWIDE PROHIBITIONS IN 1912
Special correspoudauce

mountain or valley. Rivers, like spi
der-webs, cross aud recross il. Its AL.
pine-like scenery never loses in charm
its mountains are clothed with oak anc
tulip trees and chestnut and beech O
great size; its valleys and banks arr
green, even in winter, with pine anc
spruce, laurel and RI dodendron. Il
ranks as the second state in the Unior
for coal and gas and oil. Mines, lum
Der mills, potteries, paper mills, glas.
factories aud manufactures Of all
| kinds are found within its borders, anc
the little state is indeed beehive OF
industry. No other state is so loved
by its inhabitants. II is the only one
in the Union where ninety three out Of
every 100 inhabitants were born in the
state.
w. C. 4. U. BRAvELY FACES RESPONSE.
BILITIEs.
| Like the state itself, the w. q. L. U.
of West Virginia is not large body,
wideawake corps CT general officers.
Two Of these, Mrs. Lenna Lowe Yost,
the president, and Mrs. Blanche M.
Pickering, the CORES pOnding secretary
are exceptionally young to hold such
! responsible positions. One of the
workers who came in from anothe.
state remarked that it made her jealous
to see how intensely loyal all these
West Virginia white ribboners are to
their young president, because it put
her state tc shame!
POPULAR SPEAKERS ENGAGED
Mrs. Yost is making large plans and
wise ones. Mrs. Lora 5. La
Nance has just completed six weeks of
work in the state and, will return in
1912. Miss Christine 1. Timing, who is
special favorite in West Virginia,
comes shortly. In February, Mrs.
Mary Harris Armer will arrive. Other
special workers are to follow. Billy
Sunday is to be in Wheeling in Febru-
AIRY, greatly TO the disgust of the vets,
and Hon. Richmond Pearson Hobson
Is to ill some early dates
How ripe is the field for harvest is
shown by the fact that the frat speak
er mentioned, in her six weeks Of labor,
though rain fell fully third of the
time and The mud was terrific, succeed
ed in putting In thirteen new unions
and recognizing two others, and in
gaining la active and thirty-three
honorary men4 bers. Nearly every one
of these new unions is to be mothered
by some older union, which will meet
with it two or three times, instruct it,
| show it what to do and encourage il
generally.
YOUNG PEOPLE COMING FORWARD.
1t is significant fact that nearly
half of these new unions have young
ladies as president. The young people
are coming to the front In one place
where the opposition was so great that
1t took real heroism to stand, two
nineteen-year- girls took the lead,
one as president, land the other as
corresponding secretary. Mrs. Yost
has passed on the word that the work
of the Young Canpaigners lie to be .
permanent feature in the campaign.
She is sending every speaker to the
schools and the way in which the
children respond is remarkable. In
another town where the sentiment
unfortunately was against the w. e.
L. u, only three women came out
two of these were very young and
Temperance. Nevertheless, eighty
school c1ildren, to whom the spea ker
had talked earlier In the day, were en-
thusiastic hearers.
MUD AND RAIN DO NOT DETER
In spite of mud aud rain, the aver
age attendance is above the average
In Richmond, the president, Mr..
Higby not only arranged series OF
meetings at the churches, but sent the
speaker 10 crowded picture show,
where the manager gave her twenty
minutes between the acts in which TO
tell her story, This is bright idea and
worth remembering.
AT Sutton, the president had two
women from each church write TWEEN
ty notes Of personal invitation TO
church members 10 come out to the
lecture. Others wrote to those outside
of the chuIcnes. IL cost less than ~ ~;
result, 10 out, nOng Wa"h were
more men thyn womet.. "A .,lendld
contribution was also made TO the
campaign fund and seven new mem
bers were gained.
Mrs. Miuta Ridgeway, president OF
/ Monongalia county, went with the
speaker to four different points. Mrs
Ray Hawker of Warrington, Mrs. Liz
zie Toothman of Fairview, Mrs. Jennie
| =. Mclaughlin of Webster Grove, Mrs.