Norwich bulletin., 1914-11-12
W. C. r. U. PARLoR MEETING
 WITH MRS. M, A. RIDER
Emperor Williams Advice to the Ger
 man Army Is Quoted.

The W. c. T. U. held a very in- terestfng and soeiable parlor meeting
 Wednesday afternoon with Mrs. M.
 Ryder, one of it's members. Mrs
 5. Howard Mead superintendent of this department, presided, and carried out very interesting program. Miss
 Howfe added much to the pleasure of
 the afternoon by favoring the ladies
 with several vocal solos, sung in her
 usual sweet voice.
 The meeting opened with a short de-
 votional service ard all were pleased
 with the encouraging articles read
 Yrs. Ryder read The Petition of the
 Children. to the Members of the Leg
 islature of the Commonwealth of
 Pennsylvanta. It is an impressive plea
 for the abolition of the liquor traffic
 which is being circulated by the Penn
 sylvania Sunday School association in
 the Sunday schools of the Stae, and
 which will be presened to the legis-
 lature of the state. The closing par
 agraph reads: We earnestly pray
 you to give Us now, laws that will
 banish this poison from our state:
 avs that will protect your boys and girls from this dreadful contagion as
 fully as you now protect your sheep.
 Is not boy or girl or more value than a sheep?''
 of the progress made along temper
 ance instructions.
 Mrs. Thomas A. Perkins read an ad-
 dress of Emperor William of Ger l many to the naval cadets at Murwik He said in part: "I k~ow very well
 that pleasure in drinking is an old 1 heritage of the Germans. but we must by self discipline free ourselves from
 that evil" He described the import anee of strong and steady nerves and said: Victory will. lie with the na- 1 tion that uses the smallest amount of | Alcohol.'
 Dart to Be a Daniel. was read by
 Mrs. Arthur Wyrnan. and it illustrated | the influence that expression made upon young man. and in him dar- ing to return a toast in water. The
 rest of the benquetters followed his | example.
 | Mrs. Perkins read, Kansas Temper
 anee Harvest. 516.000 children in the public schools of Kansas never saw an | open saloon. More than one-haIf of the county jails are empty and 65
 counties have no prisoners in the state penitentiary: S7 of her 105 coun- ties have now no insane: 54 counties have no feeble-minded; as counties have no inebriates; 29 counties have not a single inmate on their poor farms. The entire number of paupers falls short of 500. Some counties have not called a grand jury to try crim- inal case in 10 years. Kansas is the second richest state in the union; fits 1 average wealth per capita is $1,70o Kansas has a death rate lowest in the | world. Only per cent. of the en- 1 tire population is iIIiterate. The nor tality rate has dropped from 17 per 1000 to per 1900.
 For the Sake of His Son was an other interesting article, letter writ ten aby a moderate drinker in the Port ! land Oregonian. telling why he was going to vote to close up the saloons | that his son and all other sons mighi be able to stand better chance ir the world. l Even the Federation of Women's Clubs adopted with great enthusiasm lat their last convention in Chicago the following resolution: Whereas. the liquor traff1c is responsible for three kourths of the crime. vice and misery | in our country be it Resolved, that l the women of the General Federation place themselves on record as opposed l to the liquor trah1c and in favor oi ! such federal and state laws as will | tend to eradicate this evil.
 Several other topics were discussed and final arrangements made for the food safe to be held the first week ir December. The instructive afternoon
 closed by the hostess serving hot choc-