The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1916-06-23
". C. 7. U. CONVENTION
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nay IHOllu. Lie HuSudlo UCIlS WIN W
Myrtle Phenice and Grace Phenice,
the second prize being pretty pin
won by Helen Stage. All other con-
teStants were presented with Fran
ces Willard button.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gray delighted the
audience with a couple of good tenn
perance songs.
In the short time that was left Mrs.
A. C. Mckinney spoke briefly on "Im-
puted SIM" Among other good things
she remarked on having heard a man
say that he could not worship God
who would punish a child for the sin
of father" She pointed out that
the suffering of the child is not meant
as a punishment but the conditions
come about through the law of in
heritance. When the mother spends
her time at the card table playing for
prizes, the chances are that her child
will be a gambler. We are engaged
in a great battle against right and
wrong and we must be on one side or
the other. If we are not soldiers then
we are deserters. There is not one
thing in favor of the liquor traffic ex-
cept the underworld. We are to
awake to our individual responsible
| ity in this matter and rise to the high
standard God has set for us and let
US do it in our might.
Thursday Morning.
Devotional exercises were conduct
ed by Mrs. Mckinney which reports
from Parish superintendent were re-
ceived. Mrs. Mcdowell, the Parish
Treasurer reported: receipts $47.50;
disbursements, $34.S2; balance on
hand, $12.75.
Committee on place reported that
the invitation from Welsh had been
accepted as to the meeting place for
next years convention.
Election of officers for coming year
resulted as follows: President, Mrs.
R. E. Camp; vice president, Mrs. EN-
ma Bertrand; corresponding secre-
tary, Mrs. Harvey Marshall; record
ing secretary, Mrs. Stage and treas
urer, Mrs. Nellie Scoggins.
Superintendent of Departments
S. T. |. Anti Narcotics, Mrs. Bertha
Bradbury; Superintendent of Legisla-
tion,, law enforcement and franchise,
Mrs. McCorkle; L. T. L., Mrs. C. C.
West; S. S. Temperance, Mrs. ]. B.
Lee; literature, Mrs. Anderson.
Thursday Afternoon.
Devotional exercises were conducted
by Mrs. Bradford, Hutchinson. Re-
ports of committees were then re-
ceived and the new officers introduc-
ed to the convention.
! Mrs. Anderson chairman of the en-
rollment committee reported 27 men,
bers present with 81 visitors and
eight honorary members.
! Mrs. Camp, chairman of courtesies
and credentials reported IL new re-
lcruits.
Committee on membership report
ed through Mrs. Scoggins three new
members and five honorary members,
being, active: JIM. sowell, Minnie
Fritz, Ivy Brown; honorary: T. A.
Mcclure, G. M. Brown, Rev. R. R. Ell
lis, E. F. Gray, F. D. Rankin.
Mrs. R. R. Ellis being made COM
plimentary member with her hus-
band.
A letter of greeting was then read
from the corresponding state secre.
tary.
A paper on Temperance activities
in the Sunday School was read BY
Mrs. Gray. "As the Sunday School
is the teaching department of the
church and IS per cent of our church
members come from the Sunday
School we should be very careful what
we teach and to be a front rank
school we must have one temperance
| lesson each quarter. We must bring
this work down to individual respon-
sibility then the work will be done.
Let US have each member Of our Sun
day School able to say
"I'm a temperance engine don't you
see
/ Al At L 4 s