The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-17
MRS. JEFFRIES IS HARD AT. WORK
 PREPARING FOR CONVENTION
Planning to Make w. c. T. U. Meeting in Birming- ham October 26, 27 and 2S Largest Ever Held by the State Union

The Woman's Christian Temperance
 Union of Alabama is planning for the
 biggest gathering that the union has ever
 known, to be held in Birmingham Oc- tober 26. 27 and 2S, on the occasion of the
 annual meeting of the state union. l Mrs. W. H. Jeffries has been named general chairman of arrangements for the l convention and she with her various committees. Is busy planning for the meeting
 Mrs. Jeffries, who Is one of the most
 active and most enthusiastic workers in the south along temperance lines, states
 that the reunion will be one of the big
 gest ever held in the south, and the big gest ever held in Alabama
 We intend to make the convention a
 kind of jubilee to celebrate the return
 of prohibition to Alabama, and we have asked the members of the Alabama leg islature to attend the convention, and
 join in the jubilee,'' she said. We naturally feel elated over the re-
 turn of prohibition to this state." con-
 tinued Mrs. Jeffries. "and we members
 of the Woman's Christian Temperance
 union feel that our efforts have at last been rewarded When I think of the
 trials that we had In our pioneer stages,
 1t is hard to believe that we women of
 Alabama are planning for such a wonder
 ful Woman's Christian Temperance meet ing, and in dry state.'
 Mrs. Jeffries has been closely connect ed with the Woman's Christian Tem- perance union work in Alabama for years. Her mother, Mrs. George l.. rA.@,., Il Birmingham union.
 When my mother was elected the
 union was so little known that she hardly
 knew what she was being elected pres- dent of" said Mrs. Jeffries in review ing the work of the Woman's Christian Temperance union In the state.
 "The growth of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union in Alabama has been a slow and steady one. and we feel that we will have reached 6 high standard with the convention in October" said Mrs. Jeffries.
 Tn 1882 the Alabama Woman's Chris itan Temperance union was organized, it being, with the exception of missionary societies and the like, the first woman's organization in the state. What we have accomplished since that time can be easily seen. We have 45 lines of departments classed under six general heads: Organi- zation, preventure, educational, social and legal. The Woman's Christian Temper ance union has been instrumental in pass ing for every union in the state scientific temperance instruction laws, and in Ala bama we have had one day in each year named Temperance Day" and made a legal holiday Alabama is the only state
 in the union, by the way which observes
 Temperance Day
 ''In earlier years the Woman's Christian Temperance union took the lead in all matters pertaining to progressive reform. and we were one of the first organizations to take any action in the anti-child labor movement"
 Mrs. Jeffries Is enthusiastic over the convention which is to be held in Bir- mgnham this month We intend to
 make it the biggest thing of the kind that
 has ever taken place in the state" she l said We will have with us all of the l former state presidents, except Mrs 1 Stradford of Montgomery, who is de- 1 ceased.
 We are planning many interesting fea- lures for the meeting, of the most en- tertaining of which will be the csntata