The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1918-03-14
"A MODERN JOAN OF ARC
Noted Temperance Worker Is Known
Abroad as Well as In The United
States A Southern Orator
A Gifted Woman.

'EThe Georgia Cyclone 80 Whirl-
wind of Oratory and Inspiration -
"The Joan Of Are Of the Temperance
Crusade these are only few of the
appellations used in describing Mrs.
Mary Harris Armor, of Eastman,
Georgia, who will speak at the Park
Avenue Methodist Church on Thurs
day evening under the auspices Of the
local Woman IS Christian Temperance
Union. The lecture will begin prompt
ly at 500 o'clock. No admission
will be charged.
Mrs. Amor is not only nationally but
internationally famous. In 1913, Presi-
dent Wilson, recognizing her person
atty and efficiency appointed her
American S representative at the four
teenth international congress on al
coholism held at Milan, Italy, ON Sep
TENDER 18th of that year. In the SEES
sions of the conference Mrs. Armor
distinguished herself and thereby es-
tablished herself in Europe as well as
the United States.
The oratory of Mrs. Armor has
everything to commend it. It avoids
the well-beaten paths of prohibition
trail-blazers and in so doing presents
novel material in. a novel way. Tt is
charged with eloquence. A native of
Georgia, Mrs. Armor brings to her
speeches all the warmth and fire of
southern oratory, veneered with a fine
restraint that prevents mere sentimen-
talism or melodramatic effects so fire.
quently found in temperance lectures
of inferior artistry and power.
This gifted woman has created a
sensation wherever she has appeared.
Staid Philadelphia, conservative Wash
ington, and even blase New York have
been stirred and stirred tremendously
by her forceful discussions Of the
problems of modern life. Her fame
has reached the far west, too, as is
evidenced by the following quotation
from the Daily Statesman Of Salem,
Oregon
F'I went to the Methodist church
last evening expecting to take some
notes ON the address of Mrs. Mary
Harris Armor Of Georgia, both for my
Statesman, but she had not proceeded
half dozen sentences before I re-
allied the hopelessness of the under
taking. I was not that she talked too
fast for my tardy pencil-and her
words came out at times in perfect
torrent-but that she said so much that
no pencil could catch it all.
"The tremendous earnestness, the
evident sincerity, the southern fire and
natural eloquence that carried her au-
dience with her with irresistible force,
were all too much for my feeble pow
ers of description. I started to put
my pencil away but found it still in
nv hand when she had finished her
lecture and was smilingly saying good
night.
CT must confess I felt little skep-
tical when the state president of the
w. G. T. U. introduced Mrs. Armor as
The Joan of Arc Of the Temperance
Movement but the epithet is no ex-
aggeration. She is the expression of
the heart-cry of nations suffering
womanhood and she moved the audi
ence at the Methodist church last
night as I have never seen a Salem
audience moved
Other testimonials are qually fiat
tering and prove conclusively that
Mrs Armor is a speaker well-worth
hearing by every Kenoshan who can
possibly crowd his or her way into
the Park Avenue Methodist Church on
Thursday evening.