The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-01-31
URGE HOUSE TO
PASS LIQUOR BILL
Temperance League lndorses
Anti-Jug Measure Pending
in Congress.
RAISE AGE OF CONSENT
Next Virginia Legislature
Asked to Increase 1t From
Fourteen to Eighteen.

At its final session last night, the con-
vention of the Virginia Division
Woman's Temperance League Of ATneri-
ca adopted 4 resolution urging the
Judiciary Committee of the national
House Of Representatives to report
without amendments the interstate
liquor shipment bill now pending IN
Congress.
The action followed the news from
Washington that the committee has
fixed February for a vote upon the
measure, and that liquor interests arc
endeavoring to cngraft upon 1T amend
ments which would destroy the object
of the bill. The resolution carried "A
vote of thanks TO the Judiciary Com
mittee for its decision to give the
measure carly consideration \ com
panion bill to the one pending IN the
House will be brought TO d vote in the
Senate on February 10.
The resolution was adopted in the
closing minutes of the convention at
the conclusion of addresses by Secre-
tary J. ID. NcAhster. Of the Anti-Sa-
loon League of Virginia. and Rev. T..
J Richardson, of Falls Church.
Raise Age of Consent.
BY a unanimous vote the convention
adopted yesterday afternoon the re
port of the resolutions committee, me
morializing the next General Assem- bly,
Of Virginia TO raise the ago of consent
from fourteen years. the present stat
ute. to eighteen years.
The convention also Endorsed a reso-
luton addressed TO the Virginia State
Fair Association. asking that the sale
of liquor be prohibited within the fair
enclosure during the annual exhibitions
Two other resolutions asked the next
Generla Assembly TO pass an enabling
act. and to enact compulsory educa-
ton law.
Among other things Endorsed by the
convention was d single standard Of
morals fir both sexes, and equal pay
for the same work whether performed
by men or women. 4 vote of thanks
was extended TO the congregation or
the Seventh Street Christian Church
for providing the league with meeting
place.
Mrs. Jobson. President.
The annual election Of officers re
suited as follows: Mrs Georgia NJ ay
Jobson. president: DR.. olive Ingersoll.
vice-president: Mrs. {. {. Satterwhite
recording secretary Mrs Willie Lewis
Wingneld. corresponding secretary Mrs
Imogen Austin. treasurer. and Mrs.
Jennie Bates. secretary of the Kings.
Builders" childern's work.
Mrs. b. Lacy Hoge opened the last
days session yesterday morning with
prayer MIS- y l. ADAMS. OF tiuS'ti
Springs read d paper on the subject.
The Lords Supper-Shall We Use
Wineg" a solo by Miss Marie Stutz
and the annual election Of officers con
Guided the morning session.
The feature of the afternoon meeting.
which opened at o'clock with devo-
tionaI exercises led by Mrs. NJ +. Evans,
was an address by Superintendent J. a
c. Chandler. of the Richmond Public
Schools on the subject. he Inn
portance of Teaching the Effects of
Alcohol on the Human System in the
Public Schools" Mrs. w. o. Petty,
of Louisa. read paper on our Duty
to the Childhood of the State and
George Jordan. of Richmond College,
smoke on the subject. The Cigarette
Its Attending Evils
Other afternoon papers were Wo-
mems Responsibility to Future Genera
tions." by Miss Marie Leahy. The
Cigarette Evil" by Mrs. NJ J. Milliken.
of New York Responsibility of Young
Womanhood. =" by Miss Edel Holdcroft ;;
and The Boys Place in this Fight for
the Home" by Joe Sydnor. of Cluster
Springs