The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-06-08
LIVE REPORTER
WAS ON THE JOB
Bellows Falls Woman Adds to What
Was writ Up'' About w. G. T. U.
Convention in That Town.

In last week S issue of the Bellows
Falls Times a report of the annual con-
vention of Windham County Woman s
Christian Temperance union was given
this heading: Attendance Small-Rc-
ports Show Many Activities Neglect
ed. My mental comment was: Who
gave this report? Surely not a member
of the convention would so report.
Reading further, where one delegate s.
little talk among friends and sympa-
thizers was given with her name in
full, the neighboring town also men
toned, l began to get light. This is
the work of live reporter ION the
job to stir up things for the temper
ance cause. / would like to add lit
tie to what has been "writ up
/ was present. at the convention held
in the Methodist church of this place
the 9th and 2Sth. 1t was very inter
esting from beginning to end The
number of visiting members and dele
gates may not have been as large as in
former years, for very good reasons.
Our only criticism was that so few or
the townspeople came in. There was a
decided lack of interest. Few came in
Friday evening to hear Miss. Lillian
Phelps s address. She is an able speak
er, one who has spoken before thou
sands in Westminster Abbey. London,
England, who is now New York state IS
lecturer and organizer. She must have
gone away with an opinion of the
courtesies of Bellows Falls people to a
visitor and speaker coming to them
| from a distance, for as the reporter
said the "attendance was small
Thursday and Friday forenoon, and il
was no larger Friday evening, when a
good speaker and good music were to
be provided.
| However, the interest and zeal of the
members of the temprance cause has
not one whit abated. The unions are
small, the county is small, the towns are
small, with the exception of Brattle
boro and Bellows Falls. Our member:
are few, but we are alive and when we
meet in the state, national and world ::
Econventions we are a part ofthe granC
whole. At these conventions we meet
women and men who are intelligent, in
huential, some of the best in the land
This temperance question is going t.
be and already is the most popular is
sue of the day. Intemperance, tipplinl
and drunkenness will be and now is
disgrace. The saloon is a blot on on
ldlE I0DuDllC. 1Hduh 00u 1Ut tHAs- L
is long step toward the prohibition
movement when such men as Hon. J
/ Frank Hanley, ex-governor of Indiana
Rev. Charles Sheldon, author and lee
turer, Hon. Oliver Stewart of the Hi
nois legislature, Miss (Dr.) Carolyl
Geisel, superintendent of the Battl
Greek, Mich, sanitarium, and others o
like prominence baud themselves tC
gether, giving of their time and mean:
travelling and speaking from coast t
coast in the interest of statewide pre-
hibition. 1t means that we shall sc
results, that we are not unpopular, bu
popular, and when those men and won
en-, II in number, called the FLYNN
Squadron, come to Vermont we trus
that they may convert some of thes
local optionists to statewide prohil
ition by. legislation. Women of the v
c. T. [. who have borne the sneers, tn
: Indifference, who have been willing
be unpopular for the cause, who hay
been faithful, to you, may there /
given a share in the honor and glory
MARY Z. w. SPRING.
Bellows Falls, June s, 1915.