The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1920-02-14


few Of the several conferences I att
tended on my washington Dca MONIES
trip will be all I may record now
While absent 1 visited the Child Well
fare Research station N Iowa uni
verslty that our organization has u
dowed with fifty thousand dollars
This In . wise Investment that viii
give 10 N inynluable data for The
highest Development Of the normal
The two meetings I attended while
IN Iowa wers the impressive closing
Sunday niKht service Of the student
Volunteer Convention AZ Dos Moines
with ten thousand delegated and on
the following day The biennial con-
~ven.ion OF the intercollegiate Prohihi-
ton association. The Association has
honored me by appointing me one OF
the board o. directors. la 1895 coli
lege program II glorious In lta posi-
bilities both here and overseas.
I spent the great Victory day,
January IS. In Washington. -. ..
with you my hear was thrilled az
the bells rams out h Old and rang
In the new. How j%ubliantly we
thanked God and how tendcr.y crate
fui were our memories % great Lead
eyH who plinted ur into the promised
lnrf Of national constitutional pro-
hlbition. The Washington meetings
OF the National Temperance council
and the National Legislative confer
ence with their respective executive
committee councils were held on
January as Ind ie nj Hotel Raleigh.
They were well attended and very
profitable. Our Washington letter In
The January 2e Union Signal gives
details. A glimpse Of the District OF
Columbia W. G. =. T.. IN a lively
quarterly conferences { dinner given
BY the International Reform bureau
al which ! was invited 10 pay a trih-
ute 10 our venerable friend. ex-scna-
tor Henry W Blair Of New Hamp-
shire; a victory Banquet under the
auspices OF the United Committee ON
War Temperance Activities IN the
Army and Navy at which We dissolv-
ed this successful committee made up
OF twenty-five temperance forces; n
mass meeting on the night OF the f6th
with Colonel Bryan. Secretary nan-
icls. Internal Revenue Commissioner
Roper. Prohibition Commissioner
Kramer. and members Of congress
who have been at the front In pushing
our prohibition measures. a. speak
erss a meeting In liberty hut under
the reform bureau, where Attorney
General Palmer. Clinton Howans.
Mrs. Boole. and othels spoke. a visit
with Miss Norvilie TO the onice OF
the rruguayan tegation-are some OF
the outstanding features OF the mem-
orabie celebration week Ia washing
ton.
visited our esteemed comrade
and former Legislative superintendent
Mrs. Ellis In her Newark honne.
on behalf OF tho national organ
ixation ! presented at the Y. W. g. A.
headquarters In New Yorc City. a
gift OF $4,000 10 tho seven organ
~ixations allied In health work, 20 en-
dow the health station TO he eH-
tabiished outside New York cts.
Fitiing perfectly into dates for a
capital city meeting came n call ~
wire from The League To Enforce
Peace. needed by EN-prcaidsnt TAFT,
Inviting the National w q. II. ".
president and one delegate 10 come
to Washington Tor a conference.
Tuesday January rs. with all ether
orFanizationt that had favored the
dom have ! been In 20 unique an
assemblage with twenty six national
societies, covering Protestant. Jewish
ana Catholic churches. educational.
social welfare, labor, agriculture and
press groups Women'a organizations
with an aggregate OF twenty million
In their membership were represented
by seven We invited Mrs.
Boole but other engagements made
this impossible. and Mrs. Nost was
with me. ON converting at the New
willard Hotel all were asked 70 reg
. lister names and organization. Oscar
straus OF New YORK.. whose brother
went down In The Luaitania and who
was a member Of the Versailles Peace
Commission from the United states,
presided. The first motion made
, was Tor the appointment by the chair
: Of a committee OF five 20 prepare a
statement concerning the reason Tor
our presence In Washington. 10 20
addressed to the treaty-making pow
ers-Prcsident Wilson and the United
, states senate. A spirited debate
started by a labor delegate who
= wDnted His pet reservation noted ~
such n document threatened for .
t. time to defeat the object OF the get
q together. Al last the chair appoint
ed tho Committee OF five, and To oul
surprise named the president OF ths
National w. &. T. u. as the fifti
y member. The memorial as prepared
y is recorded the January a2 Signal
n The delegates In a body were in m
~ afternoon received by Senator isodg'
and by senator Hitchcock, Bi1hol
y Mcdowell and Mrs. Burton Hartman
conveyed the appeal TO the priyaii
secretary OF the president I'M
: massing IN one day at the capitol .
the potent influence OF about scventl
million OF the best brain. Drawn an
Z, heart OF the American natto~. Is en-
titled to speedy recognition by IN
treaty-making powers. Let ua mop
J. and pray u may prove helpful.
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