The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1915-02-02

sell turkey or some such thing TO
pay for the Union Signal, or to pay
w. C. T. u. dues. A man in India
wanted to join the Christians as men
III his own caste would not allow him
to drink toddy, which seems to be
great slur on the Christians. There
are 2517 members Of the w. G. t. u.
IN India and 305 young men of India.
signed the temperance pledge IN one
afternoon. There are 5000 w. C. T.
U. women in Japan and 10000 tenn
perence men. They have population
of fifty-ive million and their country
is only one half as large as the state
of California.
There is book entitled, For Those
Who Love Liberty too Well To Abuse
It" gotten out by the brewers for
use in the public schools and IS writ
ten in such way as to deceive the
public; it costs $1.50 and should be
kept out of the schools. We are going
to try and have the pictures of Amer
lean heroes taken out of whiskey ads.
The W. G. 7. u. has adapted the do
everything policy and follow the mot
to, Opportunity is Obligation" Tenn
perance education fulflls Gods great
order, Let there be light" Under
the laws of Georgia no school is al
lowed to be without using the bible.
More than 1900 children in the Unit
ed States are working for temper
ance The children in the schools
have saved over 100000 in the
school savings banks. When the child
rem are examined by doctors is the
time we are preparing eugenic moth
ers and grandmothers. You people
owe the Medical Temperance Depart
ment a million dollars for what we
have saved you in drug bills. 1900
past year and 100000 pages of liter
ature has been distributed. $500
medal contests have were held last
year and have raised collections to
the amount of $4,000. Florida receiv-
ed honorable mention for medal con
test work and our state superintend-
ent received so books as prize You
cannot find drop of alcohol in all
creation. There is no doubt that ev-
cry saloon keeper could be put out
of business if our laws were enforc-
ed.
One night of the convention was
called Cotton Demonstration Night,
and every delegate was asked to wear
some cotton article they had bought
in Atlanta. Some wore cotton balls
IN their hair, others muffs, bows, ap.
rons of all kinds, shapes and sizes
caps of raw cotton batting, strings OF
spools of sewing cotton, shirtwaists
rugs, cheese cloth scarfs and wells
and any other way the could study ar
to wear cotton. The states marched
onto the platform; the west states
first, of them all dressed in BLACK
with tall peaked caps on and long
robes all black with no white show
ing except the face and the name oil
the state, even the hands were invisi
: bic. Next came the local option state:
: in black robes faced with white or
capes and caps, next 9 county optior
states all in gray, next those states
! nearing prohibition, meaning thos,
that have voted dry but it is not il
effect yet and last but best of al
) were 9 prohibition states, all in pure
: white. These were all dressed alik,
: except for color and made a plail
: demonstration of the situation in tn,
United States.
: Woman's suffrage means statewide
: prohibition and the only organized op
2 position we have to meet is the organ
lied brewers and liquor dealers. LIE
r US remember that the whiskey ele
:, ment is the same everywhere and tina
! we must be wise and cautious and per
e sistent in order to meet their tricks
e There were more than seventy-fiv
:. crates of oranges and grapefruit sent
t gratis, to the National Convention i
o Atlanta for free distribution. Tn
: Florida women, so in number, march
a ed into the choir loft, each carrying
/, a market basket draped with Florid
r moss and filed with Florida fruit
g After giving the cry that was compos
d ed for the occasion: "Rah, Rah, Raj
: who are we? Orange blossoms dow
n by the sea. What are we here for
J. Hear olIT cry. Florida. Florida. dry