The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-05-15
Jubilee Drive for One Mil
lion Dollars Gave Way
to Victory Loan
CANVASS PLANNED
IN BRATTLEBORO
Amount Asked in This Town Is Only
S3oo-Appeal by Wang III Min in
Whom There Is Local Interest
Drive Now Under Way. re

Because all organizations were requested
by the government not to appeal ior
funds during the Victory loan campaign
the public drive Of the national w. {. T..
o., which was announced not long ago
was postponed to May - The loan drive
now being over, the w. c. r. T. campaign
IS under way, and IN Brattleboro a house
toulouse canvass will be made This
| towns quota is only $500, and it is not be-
lieved that the town viii fail to aid to
! this extent 50 worthy a cause
| This is known as the Jubilee Campaign
and IS an effort to reach membership
OF one million women and to secure ST.
| 100000. One million Christian women
united to guard the homeland One mil
lion dollars TO continue temperance educa
| ton for the safeguarding of our youth
Tor the protection OF women IN industry
| for the AUGMENTATION OF the foreign
| born mother and her child, and to speed
| the workers across the seas to hell
win world prohibition
/ In recent issue of the Union Sigma
/ there was published statement by Wan,
| Ii Min Frances Willard Wang, Chi
nese girl adopted into the family OF Mr.
and Mrs. O. II. Willard Of Philadelphia
who are regular visitors in Wardsboro
1t was printed III Chinese characters, to
gcther with the following translation:
The complete success of American pro
hibition has made the intelligent Chimes
people swell with Joy
But, alas, optimism is short-lived. W
are being daily told Of the plan OF til
American whisky barons to open up
new field of exploitation in China. Chin
must not be a cesspool of their iniquitie
on remember, when the British traC
ers imported opium into China, how the
incurred your disfavor, Your protest, yo,
righteous indignation Now the who'll
sale liquor merchant is an American
Shall Christian America acquiesce
the spread OF such menace? Shall NJ
Christian America be equal to her /
sponsibiiity
Help Help us to avert the devast
ton OF China threatened by wet capita
Wang Ii MIN
The same paper published the following
Ia the midst Of our JOY over the RAJ
dcation Of the federal amendment f
prohibition i'll the United States, o.
hearts ara burdened with the repeated a
nouncements made by the brewers tn
/ they are to invade the Orient and 9th
countries Australia, New Zealand al
Scotland, now in the midst Of nation-wi
campaigns, are looking for help 10 t
United States w. G. T. t. Japan,
dla, South America and Cuba have ask
FOR aid against the threatened mvas
by liquor interests driven from the Unit
States. The w c. T. L. III Mexico
- already circulating petitions to Preside
- Carranza, pleading with him to prevc
A the invasion Of that country By the Am'
4 lean brewers
u lii 1870 resolution was adopted in t
y national convention making the mtrodr
4 ton OF scientific temperance instruct
& i'll the public schools department
4 work Under this department the We
h ans Christian Temperance Union was
4 strumental in securing in every state a
4 territory Of the United States the pa
a age OF compulsory scientific tenIperar
N instruction laws. Vermont has the d
tinction OF being the first state in t
\ Union to pass the scientific temperaI
\ instruction law
The last few weeks of the jubilee II
& Ion dollar drive must be whirlwi
D weeks, says an exhortation from
Z rational headquarters, which confirms
4 Has your nnion reached its quota a
\ more? Has your state reached It's qui
\ and more? Think think of tho big p
gram fer Observation-Disclosures reachi
4 homes and schools and communities IN
care of child life to assist in safegua
] ing the millions of women in industT
for continued temperance teaching
4 America and sound the jubilee. Thin
u think Of China and South America a
\ Mexico and other countries, pleading
help against the incoming brewer "a
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