The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1914-01-30
". c. 7. U.
Reviews What The Society
Has Been Doing In The Past
(By Press Reporter)

The Frances willard w. G.. T. u.
met Tuesday afternoon with Mrs. ID.
NJ. Dorsey. The meeting opened by
singing Keep Praying, Toiling On"
Mrs. Porter had the devotional exer-
cises, reading from Isaiah 61st verses
1 to II, and offered prayer After
short business session the program in
charge of Mrs. John Mason, began
with singing Help Some Body To
day. The subject for the meeting
being what the w. c. T. U. Is Do
ing" Mrs. ]. w. Walker, the presi-
dent told what our local union was
doing. That while we are very young
lin fact infants) we have had several
very good meetings and hope to have
many more. We must remember that
only by prayer and supplication will
we be given strength and wisdom for
the work before us. The county
president, Miss Farquhar, being un-
able to be present sent letter which
was read by Mrs. Mason telling what
the w. G. T. U. is doing in Knox
county. Among the many good things
Knox county has added two new
unions to her family, thus increasing
the county membership nearly one
hundred, Our county stands well to
the front in distributing literature in
holding public meetings as well as in
the matters more local, such as visit
ing the infimary, aiding the needy and
afflicted, using means to keep the
county from holding wet elections and
in many ways helping to make the
community, the county and the State
a better place to live in, safer place
for little feet and for young lives May
each member of Knox county feel
that she is part of great and good
organization. That she has a part to
perform. That God will hold her and
her neighbor responsible for her share
in the work, remembering that each
is an important part of the whole and
one weak link weakens the whole
chain. After double quartette san
"Ohio Is Going Dry" Mrs. Wineland
read a paper on what the w. G. T.
U. Is Doing in the State" 1t was
Miss Frances Willard who went be-
fore the International Sunday School
Association and pleaded for the quar-
terly temperance lesson, which has
been productive of good all these
years. The Young Peoples Branch
reaches our young men and women.
The other lines of work include Ply
sical Betterment, where a course of
study is prepared by the superintend
ent, teaching you how by systematic
daily exercise you may get along
without drugs. How you may carry
erect and instead of growing
older become more youthful year by
year. Our Suffrage Department de-
especial mention for through it
we are educating for equality and po-
litical freedom by contests, lectures,
the distribution of literature and the
enactment of the Mothers Pension
Law" and shorter hours for the work
ing woman. Through our purity work
the world is fast learning that there
is no double standard of morals; that
boys must be kept as pure as our
girls and what is wrong for women
TO do, can by no possible juggling of
words or morals become proper or
right for man to do. Through our
Flower Mission department not only
flowers and delicacies sent to those
sick or in trouble, but it dispenses
charity in it's most beautiful form. We
have recently realized this in our
distress caused by the floods, for
hoXes and barrels by the hundreds
came from our White Ribboners of
other States to our needy ones in
Ohio. Then follows Mothers Meet
ings, Prison Work, Legislative and
Literature Work, School Savings
Banks, Peace and Arbitration, etc.
At one of our recent National Con-
ventions it was asked that every wo-
man in the house who did Church and
Sunday School work would rise to
their feet and the great audience
arose almost in body. While doing
our w. c. T. U. work we are not ne
glecting the work of the church. so
take courage, Temperance Workers,
the port you yet shall win, and all the
bells of God shall ring, Our ship of
Temperance in. "a Place in the
tanks for Me-" was sung. Miss NJ
Fordney then read a paper on what
the w. G. T. U. Is Doing in the Ma
tion." We are greatly rejoiced over
the signs of progress that we see
every where in our nation. The pas
sage of the Webb-Kenyon bill over
Presnident Taft's veto was perhaps