The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-21
BY MABEL. FORD LrAKr


 The regular. semi-monthly meeting os
 the Central union last Tuesday after
 noon was well attended, the auditorium
 of the local headquarters being com
 fortably filled.
 Mrs. L. F. Harris, president. led the
 devotional exercise, reading the eight
 eenth chapter of Matthew. which she
 construed as a strong plea for a
 league of nations" She spoke aIso
 of the importance of nations forgetting
 their grievances and forgiving, just as
 iEdividuals must. Mrs. Harris said the
 eyes of the world were turned iowa r,l
 America for succor and it was her
 prayer that the famished Chinese would be fed the Armenians clothed and fed, and all other suffering peo-
 r.es be relieved"
 Resolutions were passed expressing appreciation of State Law Enforcem q | Officer Chief Austin, in his determina- ton to "clean up' Birmingham and rid the city as far as possible of vice and | the corresponding secretary was in- structed to write him letter along these lines, pledging the support of the Central union, composed of $50 members.
 There was much favorable comment or the editorial in last Sundays Bir- mingham News on the Clean Up Movement of Chief Austin" and the secretary, Mrs. Frank Ridout, in- structed to write MT. Victor Hanson a letter commenting the News for the excellent editorial.
 The Saturday evening early closing hours of the Burger Dry Goods com pany was brought to the attention If the members as well as the kindly con- sideration the company was showing for their employees by installing seats for them to rest on when not wait ing on customers. A letter was sent the firm voicipg the appreciation of the members for the helpful conside ra- ton shown their salesladies. After the business session Mrs. P. B. Bowers delivered the second of her series of lectures on The Duties of a Voter" Mrs. Bowers will deliver one 1; lecture each month until she has com p.eted the series.
 Mrs. Harris announced that at the next meeting in December she would name the superintendents of depart ments.
 Mrs. William Coates win be hostess l to the members of the Francis Willard union at her home the first Mond ay afternoon in December at o'clock. A cordial invitation is extended to ali members to attend the meeting. | At recent meeting of the Francis 1 Willard the members went on record as opposing the proposed increased rates on telephone service in Alabama | and Mrs. Donohoo so advised MT. Pat terson by letter.
 | The state president, Mrs. W. H. Jeff fries, has written the following letter 1 to her co-workers:
 "TWork for enforcement where yut ! are.'"
 CIT TAI. ..A .S , new slogan adopted at the DothaI convention You have full report of the con vention. elsewhere. so I will devote my letter to the next things to be done However, I must express my deep ap- l preciation and my pride at the splendid gains made in membership last year 1 by almost every union. Also that the unions responded to our request and sent their presidents to the conven- tion wherever possible, although Do than was far away.
 Tt was real joy to meet the rep resentatives of the unions. Each has l it's own place in my heart. "Our treasurer tells you in her let | ter of the gain--over 600-above al losses. This is the first time we have | made so large gain in one year. ani l you may be sure your president Is very very happy am sure you VIII De eh' outraged for future work, knowing what has been done, can be done again Much thought and earnest praye l was given department work in the of. | ficial board meeting at Dothan, and a 1 spec cial appeal is made to state su. perintendents to begin their work early in the year. Indeed, right now, i'm.
 mediately after convention, you are re. quested not to wait for the state min 1 utes, as in the present condition of the printing business 1t may be two