Arizona republican., 1916-10-19

mi missionary and temperance lines. larger vision and deeper interest in the work from every standpoint.
 The general secretary stands on much firmer ground. so far as county, district and local organization is con- cerned. He is quite sure that better people are in the county offices than we have had before
 Much patience is necessary in this work. It takes years to perfect an organization. Little by little we eliminate the unfit and inefficient and discover the fit and efficient. A vast amount of education is neces- sary that we may have intelligent working force all over the state.
 For the last three months the gen eral secretary has been giving much tune to the prohibition amendment. working in and through the temper ance federation office The execu- tive committee felt that no more i'm portant work could be done. than help pass the amendment. Every dele gate in this convention should go back to his home and work as he never has in his life lo get votes for the proposed amendment. This is the work of the church and the Sunday schools until after the seventh of next month.
 While working along temperance lines, the Sunday school work has not been neglected. In few dis trcts. it has not seemed best to crowd in Sunday school convention, where they were planned because of the agitation along temperance and pol- tical lines. So many meetings along these lines are being held that there is no room for any more.
 Maricopa county is probably the best organized Of any. 1t is divided into six disricts, each with a full set | of officers.
 Pima, Pnal, Yuma, Navajo. Coco l nino and Yavapai are quite well or ganized. Apache, Graham. and Mo- have have no organizations Green lee, Gila Cochise and Santa Cruz are not well organized. However. condi- tions are now well enough lined out to justify the prediction that all of these counties. except Apache and Graham, will be well organized dur ing the coming year
 Six full months, including the tenn = perance work. has been given to Ari- zona.
 Conventions and meetings of vari- ous kinds have been held in Winslow, Flagstaff, Williams Ash Fork, Seig man, Blackberry, Clarkdale Jerome NONlt W lINtHtilk, NIlFIitGit, all N CT Wender. Phoenix, Washington Creighton. Cartwright, Bethel, Para = disc. Fowler. Littleton. Liberty. Palo Verde, South Side, Baltz, Wilson Tempe, Mesa, Florence. Casa Grande Yuma, Yuma Valley Tucson, Nogales Sonoita Bisbee. Lowell. Douglas Pearce, Ash Creek, Cochise, Wilcox San Simon, Bowie, Ray. Wickenburg
 Many other places have been visit ed in the interests of the work and many of the above places have beer visited more than once, some severa times
 Much more clerical and office worl has been done this year for 9ootf state Over sixteen hundred letters have been written during the year more than half of them going to Ari- zona
 Mary thousands of pieces of liter ature have been given away during the year, much of it furnished free by the more than thirty publishers in terested in our work. At our state fair, last November, booth was pre- pared and kept open each day. reg istering over four hundred visitors and distributing over two thousand pieces of free literature.
 The finances have been much bet ter this year than last as the treas