The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1921-10-19

WOflu snail be made safer place for
children to be born into, and grow up
in.
Sunday afternoon was devoted to a
furnished by young peoples chorus
class, and was stirring. Mrs. Perkins
told of the program Of the w. G.. Y. U.
FOR the children and the Loyal Tenn
perance Legion and Prohibition
Guards and the older ones in the
Young Peoples Branch of the w. G. II.
U. and promised to send a worker to
South Carolina especially to organize
them. A touching feature Of the Sum
day afternoon meeting was the dcdi-
cation of little George Edgar Luce as
a White Ribbon Recruit. His mother
pledged to rear the child in the prin-
ciples of total abstinence and purity,
Mrs: Perkins offered prayer, and Mrs
w.. M. Waters of Florence, Child Wei
fare Superintendent, tied the White
and the whole congregation sang,
when He Comcth to Make Up His
Jewels"
Mrs. Perkins had to leave Sunday
night for Jackson, Tennessee, to be
at their State Convention and from
tennessee. she goes tc Georgia, and
then out West.
Sunday night was "Good Citizenship
Mass Meeting" and the speakers we're
Hon. Charlton DuRant, on claw OBJ
servance," ard Maj. George c.. Bowen,
recently appointed Federal Prohibition
Director, spoke OIL claw Enforce
ment." Both of these earnest and
able men stressed the Importance,
how the absolute necessity of every
body, r'en and women, up-holding all
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operate with and hold up the hands of.
the officers of the law if this veritable
quagmire of crime in which our State
and Nation is now wallowing is ever
going to be cleaned up. Maj. Bowen
is fearless and out spoken, he does
not beat about the bush or side step,
ne calls names when he tells tales of
failure of sworn officials to enforce
the law especially the 18th Amend
ment and South Carolina is fortunate
in having such man at the head of
the Prohibition work in this State.
Most of the delegates left Monday
morning, with many expressions of
appreciation of Manning and it's peo-
pie, and inspired and enthused by the
Convention.
Resolutions adopted by the 38th An
nual Convention Of the South Caro-
Ina Women's Christian Temperance
Union:
Preamble:
The South Carolina Women's Chris
tion Temperance Union, in it's thirty
eighth Annual Convention in Mann
ing, S. c., revcntly thank Almighty
God for the victories won, and pledge
anew our loyalty to our Leader, the
Lord Jesus Christ, whose guidance we
follow; we believe His teachings
should be Incorporated in the laws of
our land, and worked out in the Gus
toms of society.
We, therefore, pledge ourselves to
the following resolutions:
!. Total abstinence.
Science has demonstrated that al
cchol is a poison, and we emphasize
the necessity Of personal total alb
stlnence, by an educational and pledge
signing campaign.
Realizing that a single standard of
morals should be the foundation Of
American homes, wn earnestly urge
the purity question be presented from
Christian viewpoint, in order to
combat the evil forces that seem to be
at work among all classes.
3. Limitation of Armamcnts
The Woman's Christian Temperance
Union has always worked for meas
ures that would promote peace and
secure Just international relations. We
herewith support the movement for
world disarmament, and commend the
President of the United States for
calling a disarmament conference of
Nations for November II, 1921.
4. Christian Citizenship.
10 emphasize the Use of the ballot
as sacred obligation, and to educate
t~r ITS int, 'ligent and conscientious
cSercisc, Is one of the supreme tasks
or the immediate future, in which we
must bear part
.. We pledge ourselves to carry
out the department work of the Ma
tl"nal Organization as it may be adop-
TED by our State and Local Union.
Child Welfare Work, Medical Tenn
perance, Anti-Narcctics, Scientific
Temperance instruction, and all other
lines will make for better public senti-
ment and urge especially the increased
activity in~the L. r. l.. and Y. p. b.,
for to these young people we must
look for our leaders of tomorrow.
6. Gambling. |
We regret tho widespread increase
in the gambling habit as manifested
in various forms, and especially warn
our young people Of the insiduous
ways by which this craze is being
fostered. We particularly condemn
the contrivance known as the "put and
take' top, the sale of which ecidentlv
comes under the State law which pro-
hlblts the sale of gambling imple-
ments.
r. We dnplor, tho ,,roeo,t e,,l,:.,,