Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1919-01-16
REGULAR MEETING
OF THE W.C.I.U.

The regular meeting OF the Wom-
ans Temperance Union, held at the
home of Mrs. ]. HI. Hubbard, was we'll
attended and enthusiastic. In the
absence of the president the meeting
was called to order by the vice-presi-
dent, Mrs. George Hanson. After the,
regular business was disposed Of,
Mrs. F. A. Nehs read a report of the
state convention held at Rhinelander,
where she acted as delegate from the
Baraboo union. The report was the
most complete ever furnished cover
ing every department of work.
Forty-three unions have taken out
$107,500 in bonds and $139,S10 in
stamps. Several war orphans have
been adopted.
Disappointment swept over the con-
vention when word came that the ma
tional president would be unable to
be present, but it was their privilege
to listen to a wonderful woman tell OF
her experiences in travelling twice
around the world-Mrs. Helen Barton.
- NAA oSOCAS'AAAs OAAC AdS UCSA III
Afr ca, India, China, the Philippine
Islands, Australia and the United
States, in the three and one-half years
since leaving home she has knit 400
pairs OF socks, slept in 500 different
beds, given 1000 addresses, organized
125 unions, also lost one son in the
war. She told of soldier who had
spent his allowance and wrote to the
Lord for $780, directing the letter in
care of the army Y NJ C. A. When
the secretary received the letter he
asked the boys to chip in and they
raised SIS. The soldier was so pleased
he wrote another letter thanking the
Lord for the money, but said, Next
time don't send the money to the Y.
M. c. A., for them fellers kept half
of it,
Mrs. Carpenter read some articles
showing good results of prohibition in
different states. All crime shows a.
sharp decrease. Vice from thievery,
to plain drunken brawls has been
brought to a standstill, as result Of
closing up the booze joints. The gov
ernor Of Kansas says that on dollar
basis merely, prohibition has paid
Families of all classes are in better
condition. There are fewer divorces,
wives and children wear better clothes
and live happier lives. They are not
paying dearly for this decency. The
state tax of Kansas is only $125 per
th0usand-the lowest with two ex.
ceptions in the United States. 1--WE
know that no saloon ever contributed
taxes enough to pay for the trouble
caused. They don't produce revenue
enough to pay for the jails and places
to hold the criminals they create"
according to the governor
Prohibition has been in operation
sc years in Kansas. More than five
million dollars was spent by the cities
of Kansas, for the year ending 1916,
for paving, parks, electric lights, wa
ter works. and not a dollar of it came
from the liquor traffic or commercial
lied vice. Kansas sends more boys
and girls to school, to the university
and colleges in proportion to it's popu-
lation than any other state in the
union; Also the smallest number of
persons who can neither read nor
write. The brewery interests proclaim
to the world that Kansas is on the
road to financial ruin, but at the same
time they invest their surplus in Kan
sas municipal bonds because they
know that sober Kansas pays it's
debts and it's bonds are worth more
than 100 cents ON a dollar When the
coupons come home to roost they
show who owns them. 1t is a great
thing to be governor of a state that
has SO county jails empty, Sd county
poor houses and almshouses empty,
81 counties that have not had Grim
nal prosecution for more than a year,
35 counties from which there has not
come a prisoner to the penitentiary
tor three years-a state that has q,
million girls and boys who never saw
a saloon-a state that has the small.
EST consumption of liquor and the
largest bank deposits per capita Of
any in the union Every governor Of
has said prohibition is great
success.
The next meeting will be at the
home of Frank Morley if the sleighing
IS good. A picnic dinner will be
served.
If the weather is stormy the meet
ng will be with Mrs. j. S. Griggs.-
Secretary.