Jefferson jimplecute. (Jefferson, Tex.) 1907-1926, 1913-10-23
MAYES PROCLAIMS NOV. z
AS Temperance SUNDAY
Asks That Texas People Observe
Day by Attending Church
Wants all Ministers Of the
State TO Deliver Sermons
on Some Phase Of
the Temperance
Question

Lieutenant and Acting Cover
nor Will H. Mayes issued the fol-
towing proclamation designating
Sunday, Nov 2, as Temperance
Sunday" in Texas:
THE public mind is directed,
as never before, to the appalling
evils due directly to the use of
intoxicating liquors. 1t is mat
err in which every citizen, having
at heart the welfare of the peo
pie and the good of the country,
is vitality concerned. The in
temperate use of liquor is the
largest factor in crowding our
penitentiaries with convicts, in
filling our asylums with insane
in the causation Of chronic dis
eases. in pauperizing thousands
of homes, in increasing the nun
Der and cost of our courts and in
bringing misery, vice and power
ty to numberless men, women
and children. Nest thinking
people are now agreed that the
use of intoxicating liquors, even
in moderate degree, is harmful,
and is, therefore, Incorporate.
THE worlds w. G.. II. u. Con-
vention is to be held in Brook
Ign, N. Y, October 23 to %, fol-
lowed by the National w. G. n.
u. Convention at Asbury Park,
N. j., October 20 to November 8,
1913. During these two weeks
many of the brightest women of
our land and of the entire world
will be assembled to discuss and
adopt methods for still further
impressing upon the people the
evils resulting from the use of
Intoxicating liquors, to the end
that men and women may be
made to realize the advantages
to come from abstaining from the
use Of intoxicants.
WELFARE, HAPPINESS,
PROSPERITY.
THE welfare, the happiness
and prosperity of the people de-
pend upon the sobriety and in
telligence Of the citizenship of
the country. 1t is, therefore,
we'll that the minds Of the people
everywhere be directed at this
time to the important work that
these noble women have under
taken, and are rapidly bringing
about, that their attention be
called in every possible way to
to that the use Of intoxicants,
opiates and narcotics result in
in great harm, not only to the
users, but to their families, their
friends. society and the State.
Therefore, |, Will II. Mayes,
Acting Governor of the State Of
Texas, having in mind the good
of all the people of the State, do
proclaim Sunday, November 2,
as Temperance Sunday" in
Texas, and urge that, where
church rules do not prohibit,
minister Of all denominations.
and in all of the churches where
the people gather for worship,
deliver sermons and addresses
upon some phase or phases Of
the temperance question. ! re-
spectfully ask that men, women
children, even at Inconvenience
to themselves, attend services
where such sermons or address
eS are to be delivered, and espe-
cially that an effort be made to
impress upon the youth of the
land the evils resulting from
drink.
COOPERATE WITH CHURCHES
Il also request that all Wo-
mems Christian Unions, temper
ance organizations, and all fra
ternal. social and literary clubs
cooperate with the churches in
efforts TO direct the attention to
this important subject, and to
secure the largest possible at
tendance at such meetings.
Such cooperation on the part
of all parties interested in any
way i'm spreading temperance
will not only result in much en-
enlargement 10 the thousands
of selfsacrihcing workers, but
will rebound in immediate and
lasting good 10 our State.
Given under my hand and the
seal OF State, at Austin, Texas,
this the 9Th day Of October, a ID
1913.
WILL III. MAIES,
Acting Governor.