New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1919-03-28
". c. T.U. HERE Will
CONTRIBUTE $1,000
Prepared to Assist National Or.
ganiZation in Drive for Funds


New Britain branch Of the Woman S
Christian Tenn perance Union Is pre-
pared to raise 81. 900 toward the mil.
ZION dollar campaign fund the ma
tional organization is about to raise
Concerning the campaign, the fol.
lowing bulletin is issued ~ the
branch
Hand In hand with It's rejoicing
over the ratification of the federal
amendment for national prohibition
and in anticipation of the reaching of
its fifty years of organization in 1924,
the National w. c. r. u. will begin
Il five year Jubilee program by put
ting on in March drive for one mill
lion dollars and one million memh hers,
according 20 plans given out from the
National w. {. t. Z. headouarters in
Evanston, Illinois.
AT the jubilee meetings over ratf-
ftcation of prohibition. being held in
almost every city and town in the
United States, the one body receiving
tho most glowing tributes LIS the
Woman's Christian Temperance Union
referred 10 by the anti saloon league
and prohibition workers as our
mother in the temperance work.
When the Crusaders that hand
ful of pioneer temperance women,
Went into tho trenches, In Hillsboro.
Ohio, in 1873, to Danish the saloons
in that town, they faced a storm of
Hneers and stones, and literally knelt
in the mud to pray. No prophet
could have foreseen that their cour-
sc and prayers would spread like
wild fire and their work be the fore
runner of an organization literally en-
the world.
"Following the Crusaders in 1874
came the formation Of the National
W, G. T. L. which has now grown to
"a body of one-half million members,
organized in every state, territory and
territorial possession, including Phil
ippine Islands. Hawaii and Porto
Rico, and in more than forty coun-
tries of the world.
Taking a unique motto for God
and Home and Native Land and
later enlarged to For God and Home
and Every Land the w. G. T. U.
early established Departments of
Work covering a DO Everything Pol
icy of it's great leader Frances E.
Willard. and has laid such a broad
Foundation for continued service, that
3pendous activities arc made obliga-
NY for the next decade, although one
at objective has been reached
'ough the ratification of the federal
'}cndment for national prohibition
There is no suggestion or thought
That the work of the organization is
over, and in their jubilee program
plans are being made which will
cover the world.
rT
tee is composed of Mss Anna Cor
con, Illinois, national president.
Mrs. Ella Boole, New
York, vice chairman: Mrs. Frances
Parks, Illinois: Mrs Margaret Munns,
Illinois, Mrs. Elizabeth Anderson.
North Dakota. Mrs Sara II. Hose.
Virginia, Mrs. Deborah Knox Liv-
iTgston, Rhode Island. Mrs. Mary
Harris Armor, Georgia. Mrs. Eva G.
Wheeler, California, Mrs Edna Ro-
Won Harvey, Maine, completing the
: ommittee. All state and territorial
presidents aud the national general
secretaries of the young peoples
Branch and loyal temperance legion
N'll act as the jubilee committee adj
Flsory board, and Mrs. Frederick p.
Perkins Of Michigan will serve as ex-
ecutive secretary and director of
jubilee publicity. @
The budget will furnish money for
work always emphasized by the or
ganlzaton and especially needed now
in the reconstruction and stabilizing
period, Child welfare $4,000. health
and morality 100000. Americaniza-
ton 100000, women in industry $780,
600 education and interim alton a6o,-
600, world prohibition 100000, head
quarters Evanston and WASHINGTON
10000, equipment and repairs $2o,-
900, field service $50, 900, admins
tration $4,000.
"A Dig program is planned to as
sist in world prohibition and to send
to the more than forty foreign coun-
tries. federated since 1884, in the
Worlds w. c. r. T., great women
leaders to give the gospel OF total alb
stinence and prohibition. Australia,
New Zealand and Scotland. now In
the midst of nation wide campaigns,
are looking for help to the United
States w. G! r. U. China, Japan,
india, South Am erica and Cuba have
asked for help against the threatened
invasion by liquor interests driven
from the United States. The w. c,
r. L. In Mexico Ia alrea dy circulating
petitions to President Carranza plead
ing with him to prevent tho invasiors
in the republic by American brewers
Thirty-five w. C. r, y. missionaries
have been commissioned by the
Worlds organization since 1891, when
Mrs. Mary Clement Leayitt Of Bos-
ton completed her seven year pill
grimaee> as the pioneer representa-
tive or the w. c. T. y. The work
of these. temperance missionaries and
organizations in more than forty
countries give the w. &. r. u. a foot
hold in the work of world prohibit
tion held by no other organization,
and it is q we'll known fact that the
interest and sentiment of the women