The Penn's Grove record., 1921-10-28

he will not drink, smoke, or indulge
in anything which in his heart he feels
is not good for him, or in which he
does not c-onscientiously believe, and
adheres to that principle, no matter
under what circumstances he may be
placed, holds in his hands one of the
most powerful elements of success in
the world today. Edward Box, for
mer editor. of Ladies Home Journal.
= 4 s.
A Birds Eye View of Ocean City w.
c. T. u. Convention
They are just as marvellous as ever,
these State gatherings of the Woman's
Christian Temperance Union, and to
find ones self in the midst of the
clans at the opening meeting of the
forty-SeVenth session of the New Jer-
sey organization after an absence of
two years from a State gathering,
causes one to realize that in order to
keep up with the procession one must
be constantly on the job. As our for
mer State President, Mrs. Emma
Bourne, once said, IF you miss a sin
gle State meeting where the delegates
are gathered from all the counties,
from the hills of Sussex to the plains
OF Cape May, you are just that much
behind And it is true. For new
and younger leaders are constantly
being pressed into service at the head
of counties and departments OF work
and if one is away from 1t all for a
year or two, as the younger, newer
women come forward TO present their
special lines OF work, the question
quickly arises in the mind of the one
who has been absent, why, who is
that, that is preaching her viewpoint
with such a degree OF assurance and
u~p-to-date ability and common-sense 2"
Then, too, many of the old and
tried and true leaders of the old days
are present and giving out their WIS
dom and years OF experience as only
Emma Bourne, of East Orange; Mrs.
Isabella Hammond Demarest, of Ber-
gen County; Mrs. Mary d. 1omlinson,
President of Union County; Mrs. A.
Swan Brown, OF Passaic, who since
the early days has been State Super
intendent of the Department of Sci
entific Temperance Instruction in the
public schools, a line of work that will
constantly need to be taught in the
schools as regularly and as energetic
ally as is reading, writing, spelling,
arithmetic, OIL any other fundamental
branch of a common school education.
DR.. Eva w. Lake, formerly of Pleas
antville, whose husband is a son of
one of the three founders of Ocean
City, the banner prohibition sea-coast
town, Americas greatest family re-
Sort" is their slogan, and DR.. Lake
leads in that intricate department of
characterization, which applies as
well to native as to foreign-born citi-
zens, for it is the descendants of early
Americans as well as those who have
recently come to our blessed shores,
in too many instances, who are sadly
in need of the patriotic duty and i'm
pulse of law-enforcement, the prime
factor in true-blue Americanism so
sacred and necessary to the perpetu-
alton and preservation of the worlds
greatest and truest republic.
There were others of the old guard
present, also. Among them, our pres
ent State President, Miss Esther H.
Elfreth, of Haddonfield; Mrs. Julia A.
Powell, and Mrs. William c. Gebhardt,
of Hunterdon County; Mrs. Julia F.
Senser, of Camden County; Mrs. T. C.
Bodine, long years Superintendent of
Evangelistic Work; Mrs. M. L. Nun
son, of Atlantic City, and Mrs. Frank
lin Patterson, of Atlantic Highlands;
Mrs. S. n. Johnson, formerly of Sa-
lem County, now of Wenonah; Miss
Helen P. Strong, of Matawan, State
Publicity Superintendent-the wit of
the convention, and Miss Elizabeth H.
Goodwin, of Cumberland County;
Miss Ida Lillian Page, of Hudson
County, who can win and hold the at
tention of the children and the grown
ups as well, as few others can. In
the spring Miss Page is likely to come
into Salem County where she wants to
interest and organize the children in
to Loyal Temperance Legions. 81
shall never be satisfied until Salem
County has some L. I. L.'s.,' she
said.
Salem County's delegation to the
convention was a creditable one,
numbering fifteen, as follows: Mrs.
VIM. B. Richmond, Mrs. Charles S.
Richmond, Mrs. Julia A. Beal, Mrs.
Anna Halter, Mrs. Margaret Beal,
Miss Louisa Powell, Mrs. Sarah Fogg,
Mrs. Fred J.. Peters, Mrs. Naomi Bat
ten, Mrs. Mary E. Lawrence, Mrs.
Anna NJ. Weatherby, Mrs. Emma 1.
Wiley. Miss Annie S. Casper, Mrs.
Hannah R. England, and Miss E. r.
Kirby.
The Tuesday evening banquet, the
welcomes, the response, the evening
addresses, the automobile drive thru
out this most delightful resort, given
the convention by the business men of
the city, ETC., must be deferred to
Ia+ar w e. # IT notes.
Old ocean,, with its ceaseless roar,
the bays, the lagoons, the bayous, the
splendid streets, the rich autumn col
orings of woods and fields, were a
continuous and constant delight as
were the people of Ocean City who
We'd with each other in making the
delegates comfortable and at home in
their delightful town.
Woodstown, 10 mo, 25, 1921 Ruth.