The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1913-06-07
MARX WHACKED
IN LETTER READ
BEFORE u.
Disgraced Self by Lobbying
Against Prohibition, Declares
Rev. +. +. Fitchett
RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED;
CONVENTION ENDS
Platform IndOrses Suffrage and
Opposes Sunday Baseball
and Sunday Theaters

The Michigan w. C. I. U. conven.
ton came to a close. Friday noon,
with the adoption OF resolutions In
dorsing equal suffrage. the teaching
OF eugenics and sex hygiene, urging
the enforcement OF laws for the pro
lection of children, condemning Sun
day theaters and baseball and binding
the society 10 unceasing war on the
liquor traffc.
In substance the resolutions follow;
That we renew our allegiance TO
our Divine leader and the cause he
has commissioned 10 US"
We declare our firm belief in equal
political rights for women. and that IL
Is essential for them TO inform them.
selves upon political AFFAIRS that they
will be able to use the ballot when y
is given them
We urge the study and teaching OF
practical eugenics. pure morals and
sex hygiene wherever possible"
I'VE decry the breaking OF the Sab
bath, which Is a danger TO our Chris
tan civilization, and state our uncom-
promising opposition TO Sunday thea
tiers and baseball games
We urge the necessity and duty OF
every Christian voter TO exercise his
right OF franchise at all times"
We urge the strict enforcement OF
laws for the protection OF children tor
which there is now crying need"
Though our work has many
branches we hereby renew our chief
aim for the destruction OF the liquor
of
complishment We hold to be COM
promise with evil"
The closing session brought to the
convention many greetings and words
OF announcement. Among the let.
ters was one from the Rev. Frank F.
Fitchett. speaking for the Pastors
union Of Detroit. of which he is presi-
dent, and bitterly scoring Mayor
Marx and the city council for their
wet" leanings. He wrote In part:
I'VE welcome you because Detroit
needs you. The city council needs
you as a tonic, for oft-times the men,
bers are afflicted with heart failure
touching the matter OF saloon reduc-
ton. The mayor nueds you to en-
tighten him az to how the mayor OF
great American city should con-
duct himself This he does not know
for he disgraced hims . and the city
in lobbying against statewide pro-
hibition"
The program was occupied largely
by papers and reports left over from
former sessions nearly dozen OF
which were given.
II was decided that next years
convention viii be-held in Flint. In
appreciation OF her long service. Mrs.
E. l.. Calkins. who was reelected
president OF the organization. Thurs
day. WAS presented with loving cup.
The Church OF Our Father was NIL
ed, Thursday evening, when an inter
esting presentation or the temperance
question was made by Mrs. Culla j..
Vayhinger, OF Uplands, Ind. state pres
ident OF the Indiana w. G.. T. Y.
Mrs. Vayhinger IL the wife OF the
president OF Wabash college. She Is
an orator OF ability and under the In
spiration OF a theme in which her
whole sympathies are enlisted, she
held her audience in unbroken atten-
with the readiness OF skillful law
yer.
We talk OF the big things we are
doing in our churches for the heather
In foreign lands, she said, and II
In great work. But d1i You know
that I'm the United States we spend
more for liquor In q days than has
been given for missions in the last 80
years."
Mrs Vayhinger made stirring plea
for loyalty to the Stars and Stripes
and to the movement for purity In po-
litical and civic affairs. In part she
said:
we cannot propagate the Kingdom
OF God by law, you may say Well.
we need not, but we should stand
against everything that Is opposed TO
II. In a Christian country, the church
must not be follower but a moulder
OF public sentiment
I'VE hold up our hands In horror at
the revelations made by our vice COM
missions. and then sit supinely in our
cushioned pews In the face OF the aw-