The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-05-31
W.C.T.U. Notes
BY W. c. 7. U. Publicity Agent.


Visitors to National w. C. T. u.
headquarters-and to Rest Cottage
the home of Frances E. Willard and
now the home of Anna Adams Gordon,
president of the National w. C. T. q.
during the past few weeks-have seen
upon the desk in Miss Gordon's Of
flee a beautiful pen.
This pen was first used by the Hon
orable Frank Lyon Polk, acting secre-
tary of state, on that historic day,
January %, 1919. in signing the pro-
clamation ratifying national constitu-
tional prohibition-and was presented
to Miss Gordon, who was present on
that great occasion.
Soon afterwards, Miss Gordon an
nounced that any individual contrihut-
ing $1,000 cash or more, toward the
million dollar Jubilee fund, would re-
ceiVe a note of thanks signed with the
pen, and already the pen has been
doing its work.
Fifty thousand dollars OF the fund
will be used to meet the constantly
increasing demands made upon the
organization for the special education
al propaganda which it issues, the lit
erature now going to all portions OF
the globe.
The first state to adopt statewide
ohibition-Maine-wa said to have
been won because Neal Dow sowed
Maine knee-deep with prohibition liter
ature
The Woman's Christian Temperance
Union imm ediately following it's or
ganization, began to SOW temperance
propa ganda broadcast over the land.
Its national official organ, the Union
Signal. issued weekly, goes to every
state in the union, and to twenty-one
countries. A special scientific tenn
| perance edition is sent to fifteen hun
dred libraries and schools. An inter
national monthly edition gives accu-
rate information on temperance work
! in foreign countries, Miss Anna A
Gordon, editor-in-chief, being honorary
secretary of the worlds w. c. T. o
The Young Crusader-the Chill
dren's paper-in its thirty-second vol
ume has actual paid subscriptions in
every state in the union, the Canal
Zone, Cuba, Hawaii, and the Philip
| pines, and the West Indies, and into
forty countries
Literature published includes not
only general temperance material
but material for it's forty-one depart
ments covering the care of children in
all its phases, health, moral education
/ race betterment, and Christian citi
Zenship.
Seven and one-half million leaflets
and posters have been sent out from
the National w C. T. U. Publishing
i House in response to requests during
the past twelve months.
The literature building at the real
of the National w c. T. q headquart
ers, dedicated in 1911, is now made
quate to meet the demands made up
on it.
Had the Woman's Christian TEN
perance Union only one objective
Prohibition in the United States, it
work could notsyet stop. The liquo
people will use every insidious
treacherous means in their power t,
j have the law declared unconstitution
al and to prevent the creation of ade
quate machinery for it's enforcement
Closing saloons will not immediate
ly take away the appetite for iquo
in the drinking man. Wet leaders ar
quick to grasp this point to Great
dissatisfaction and cause labor dis
turbances.
Total abstinence must still b
taught in the schools; in the hom
and Sunday schools, or later year
will see a repeal of the prohibition
law. Organized Mother Love wi
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