The Nevada County picayune., 1921-11-10
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of the Arkansas WOmans Christian Temperance Union closed one of it's most enthusiastic conventions in it's history Friday evening. There was not one dull moment There was present Miss Anna A. Gordon, president of the National, and acting president of the Worlds w. C. T. T.. since the death of Lady Carlisle of England, who was president many years.
 Miss Gordon has just completed tour of the British Isles and of Europe also of South America. where she yis ited several of our neighbor republics She brought many messages of cheer and hope for the temperance cause in those countries, especially from South America, which seems teeming with activities along these lines. Scientific temperance is taught in their schools. and both teachers and government au thorities are in full sympathy with Ethe work. So much SD that in one re public. to prove his sincerity the pres idont cut down all the grape vines on his estate and declared that his entire family were total ahstainerS
 #"0nc grcat#thing= they do. which M would do well to follow. Miss Gordon said. was not to display in great head Hines. the crimes that are enacted. say ing. It k nat good Tor cur yoang folks.
 Miss Rocna Shaner vice president of the Missouri ". (. TT L. WAS q sprs ited speaker, thoroughly alive 10 all that the work includes.
 The superintendent of the Farm for Women. of the Girls Industrial school. and the parole officers for these imSti tutions were also present. II seems pity that everybody in the state could not have heard what these good men and women are doing for the dciin- auent> of the state Mr. Cassie, the parole officer fer the Boys Industrial school. told of the work of this insti- tuition
 After all these speakers concluded 
 their talks. it was plainly evident that the responsibility for the WayWard girls and boys lies with the homes where the children are not taught the beauty and dignity of life. and are just simply neglected.
 Mr. Thad w. Rowden, Federal Pro hibition enforcement officer. said he was ill the work because he liked It. and insisted on our having the local officers get after the moonShiner. and convict him if possible, because the fellow was not quite SD likely to be pardoued and his punishment Was greater. but if the local officers failed in thc;r duty. report to him in Little Rock Mr Rowden k Il very earnest speaker. and impressed one as very conscientors He begged that We Hot grow Nlrclcss in continuing teaching the children in the schools and the Sunday schools the facts concerning the evil effects of alcohol on the human system He also insisted that the mia isters of all churches preach oftener on the subject and for them not h think the battle is over.
 Mr TiSdale, an enforcement officer -a firm, earnest man. showed Whol" room full of stills, mash, opium, pipes and scales, quantity of liquor in var ious degrees of distillation, some of which contained q quantity of coneen- trated i've which eats out the lining of the stomach. He also showed gun he captured which was sawed off hali it's length so as to make the shot scatter, that when fired it would kill Methodist Board of Temperance en- dorscd resolution requesting the en- forcement officers to shoot to kill, whenever moonshiner showed the least sign of reaching for his gun. This bootlegger told Mir TiSdale that he had kept watchman out for him. and intended to kill him. Whenever a man makes up his mind to so violate the constitution of his government by stealthily creeping out in some seclud- ed place to make liquor, he is mean enough 10 do anything. Strange, in- deed, that the poor fellow can not see that the reaction is on his own life. He makes the way hard for his own self. How deluded After he is