Evening star., 1917-10-25
MRS. SHELTON AGAIN
HEAD OF. ". GIL u.
Chosen President of District
Branch for the Seventh
Consecutive Term.
OTHER ELECTIONS TODAY

Mrs Emma Sanford Shelton was
elected president of the Womeo's
Christian Temperance Union of the
consecutive term at this mornings see-
sion of the forty-third annual oonven-
ton of the organization, which con-
vened yesterday at tho Mount Vernon
Place NJ E. Church South.
The election of other officers was Sus-
pended until this afternoon after two
ballots had been cast for vice presi
dent On the first ballot for this once.
Mrs. Theodore T. Moore tho present
vice president. was reelected. but on
account of tho uncertainty Of Mrs.
Moore being able to appear at tho ma
tional convention Of tho W. C. T. u. to
be held in this city early in December.
1t was decided to eliminate her mama.
Votes Were insufficient.
On the second ballot neither OF the
candidates for the offices received
enough votes necessary to elect. The
third ballot was cast. following which
the meeting adjourned for luncheon.
this mornings session. among them
being the report on marines by Mrs.
S. H. Wiley, white ribbon recruits by
Mrs. B. P. Whalen. legislation and Pc
tition by Miss Claire Lusby, parlia-
mentary usage. Sunday school by Mrs.
Theresa A Williams and the report of
the credentials committee.
kilograms of greetings and congratu-
lations from Miss Anna A. Gordon. ma
tional president of the W. C. T. u, and
% n II
Mrs. o. B. Brown Resigned.
Mrs. O. B. Brown, who has served as
treasurer of the board of trustees of
the local organization, resigned. She
was presented with a large bouquet of
flowers
Prohibition and Other Moral Re-
forms as Undertaken by the Present
in Mexico" is the sub
ject of an address to be delivered this
afternoon by a representative from the
Mexican embassy. Mrs. Isabel Garvin
Shelley will sing.
Want to Retain Building.
The woman's Christian Temperance
Union of the District of Columbia will
continue until the last possible moment
its efforts to prevent the Treasury De-
partment from taking over the build
ing at 141s Pennsylvania avenue, now
used by the organization as rest and
creation center for enlisted men.
This announcement was made by Mrs
Emma Sanford Shelton, the president,
in her report on that work yester-
day. at the first session Of the forty
third annual convention Of the District
body. at Mount Vernon Place NJ. E.
Church South.
The building is owned by the govern
ment and the latter has notified the union
that it must vacate by November l5 In
order that extra clerks may be housed
therein. Within it's walls since June 8
nearly 5000 men have been shown sin
cere hospitality under the direction Of an
active house mother" All the cost has
been betrayed by members and friends
OF the union.
Says Recruits Are Grateful.
ITO see the gratitude of boys suffer
ing with high fevers from various in
oculations which the Army makes it's
recruits undergo when they found
place to lie down for even little
while on the couches, or even to sit in
the chairs with which the house is
equipped. makes disappointment at the
prospect of having to give up this CEN
trally located building very keen," said
Mrs. Shelton.
In company with Mrs. Ella Hoover
Thacher, national superintendent for
soldiers and sailors, she will confer
with Secretary McAdoo on the matter
in the near future, while petitions to
the same effect are coming from the