Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-02-11
FORMED
BY MRS. ARMOR
Georgia Cyclone Stirs
Americas Women To
Action

A local Woman's Christian Tenn
perance Union was formed here
Thursday night, when Mrs. Mary
Harris Armor lectured to a represent
ative gathering at 4 o'clock. The
Georgia Cyclone" was not disap-
pointing, for she cut wide swaths
through her audience by the force
fitness of her language hurled at
those who still remain passive during
an era of prohibition which does not
altogether prohibit, as Mrs Armor
said
Mrs. Armor told of the need of a
Woman's Christian Temperance IN
ion in Americas, as we'll as in other
cities, because of the fact that much
good can be and is being accom-
plished through the determined eff
fort of women in the right direction.
Mrs. Armor spoke of the coming re-
sponsibility of women in the suffrage
movement when women will have
the right to vote in municipal mat
tiers, and then is the time, she said
that affairs will feel the iron hand
of women who will vote from cons
cientiousness for the right man in the
right place.
She also spoke of the welfare
movement connected with the work
of temperance union. Not here in
Americas, she said, was the need,
perhaps, of movement of the kind,
but in other larger cities, where chill
dren are left days alone without the
guidance of a mother, the welfare
movement becomes factor for great
good among the children. In many
places, she said, young boys who had
been sentenced to the penitentiary,
had been released from Jail and con-
signed to a reform school instead,
in order that they might learn the
lessons of citizenship which had been
denied in their street homes. This,
she said, was the work of the temper
ance union.
Again, said Mrs. Armor, the object
of the union shall be to educate pub
lie sentiment to the standard of total
abstinence, to train the Young in
the way of sobriety so that they snail
never know the use of intoxicants, to
reform those who have been already
overcome by inebriety and to secure
the enforcement of the present pro-
hibition law This, she said, was a big
work, worthy of the undertaking Of
women, and to be undertaken by
them alone. Not to the fathers of
the country shall we look, she said,
but to mothers who from infancy
have the training of children, land
whose influence is felt in other
spheres.
Many have asked the question, con-
tinued Mrs Armor, why in days of
of supposed prohibition, does not the
Woman's Temperance Union disband
and go into other fields. She answer
ed this query by a volley Of reasons
for the continuance of the organiza-
tion for many years to come in so
convincing manner that many Wo-
men voluntarily offered their assist
ance in every way possible.
At the conclusion of her address
which covered period of AS minutes,
II women pledged their support to a
union here and a continued activity
therein.
The following officers were elect
ed: Mrs. T. H. McGillis, president;
Mrs. R. P. Stackhouse, vice presi-
dent; Mrs. L. B. Lott, corresponding
secretary; Mrs. E. B. Everett, treas
urer, and Mrs. George B. Turpin,
recording secretary. The Baptist
church will be represented by Mrs. N.
H. Vaughan, vice president; Mrs.
j. M. Bryan, First Methodist; Mrs.
c. P. Payne, Lee Street Methodist
Mrs. E. P. Morgan, Presbyterian.
Other members enrolled were Mrs
L. B. Smith, Mrs. Mary B. Clay, Mrs.