The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1913-08-22
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w. c. T. u. Notes

On the date of our last meeting, al
though a very busy time and heat in
tense, with excursion, shows, etc. pend
ing, yet twenty women were present.
We hope some helpful seed thoughts
were sown. The various articles from
eminent writers and physicians that
were read during the program on SUBJ
jects that are vital to mothers and
women in general; if followed must
prove beneficial.
There are now four hospitals in the
United States where no alcoholic medi-
cine is used.
Mrs. Calkins, our state president,
writes that it was her privilege of late
to attend great meeting held under
the auspices of the ''newly made citi-
zens" of Illinois. She heard from the
lips of noted speaker, Jane Adams,
a fine report of suffrage meeting re-
Gently held; where our Rev. Anna Shaw,
native of our own state and gradu-
ate from one of our own colleges, was
one of the speakers, and was greeted as
enthusiastically as any of those of world
wide fame and who told of women who
refuse to pay taxes; and year after year
allowed their property to be seized and
offered for public sale, while they voiced
their protest against the injustice of
taxation without representation. She
says, that from all over Illinois came
notes of victory in local option elections.
The report of the woman suffrage COM
mittee in the United States Congress by
Senator Ashurst which recommended
the passage of the Chamberlin resolution
for constitutional amendment extend
ing suffrage to women, says the people
constitute the government and to deny
one half Of its citizens the right Of
franchise becomes odious and abhorant.
The report also says that the particular
half thus excluded is the identical one
half from which springs much wisdom,
courage, cheer, hope and good counsel.
Our State Superintendent of S. T. /.
work in the public schools of Michigan,
Mrs. Caroline Humphrey, says that the
year just closed shows the best work
done in all the seventeen years she has
had the work in hand. One thousand six
hundred ninety-fve prize essays have
been written by high school pupils in
our state on subjects similar to the fol-
lowing: Effects of Alcohol on School
Children, "The Liquor Traffic Law
Breaker" /" etc. ''The Effects of Alcohol
Oii IhC 1NCiNOuS oyotCm was LIlc SUI
ject used by Miss Witey of Benton Har-
Dor for which she received the $40. 90
prize. Every superintendent of S. T. /,
work should be ready at the opening of
school to work up an interest in writing
these essays, for the good of the pupils
as well as the cause.
Corporations may not possess souls,
but some of them show a fine sense of
responsibility for their employees, as
every check given out by the Escanaba
(Mich.) Manufacturing Co. to its eight
hundred employees has across the face
of it in bold type these words. ''Not to
be cashed at saloon. 1.-THE eighty sa-
looms which infest the town of Escanabs
are not destined to grow wealthy at the
expense of the company's employees.
All white ribboners know that oul
badge is bow of white ribben, wore tt
designate the wearer's servic; and that
it stands for God and home; and it is one
that good people admire and evil doer:
despise. 1t is the tie that binds. Let u:
be loyal show our colors everywhere.
Our next meeting will be held will
Mrs. Barber in her apartments on MaiI
street east. A large company is deslreC
and visitors are always welcome. Th'
date is Wednesday, Aug. 9th.
Mrs. A. B. Hathaway, Press Sup't