Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-12-11
Delegate Tell.
Facts Concerning The
Philadelphia Meetings

rs oeoree II. BLACK OF this city
mas recently returned from the east;
where She attended the world and
national conventions of Inc Women's
christian Temperance Union in phil
adelphia, and she reports these meet
1nga to have been a remarkable i'm.
SEPARATION to all who attended.
N Three thousand women represents
Ing Europe, Asia. Africa, Australasia
North America. and South America
were in attendance at the convention,
Mrs. Black reports.
Miss Anna Gordon, who was later
elected president Of the world w. G.
i. u, presided yer the convention
sessions, n also delivered one Of the
principal addresses Of the convention.
y. part, she said: The w. c. T. u
takes counsel OF its hopes and It's
FEARS. We fully realize the financial
strength of our opponents. We also
KNEW that the association against the
prohibition amendment and similar
organizations .arrayed against the
while they may have within their
ranks some who conscientiously diff
fer with the prohibition forces as
to the best way to curb the evils grow
ing out Of the liquor traffic are backed
by all the bootleggers, buns, booze-
makers, booze-lovers, and criminals
OF the land" &
Continuing, she said: Tn a. charge
to a jury recently, Judge Webb X
pressed the sentiments of half a mill
lion white-ribboners when he said, the
hootlegger and the blockader are fight
ing a hopeless eause. The United
States has never been whipped in any
war and it will not be whipped III the
battle which has been Joined by these
enemies Of American homes. Of Amer
aHan traditions, of American institu-
tions, and of. American destiny"
Because Of Miss Gordon's election
as president Of both the national and
World. organizations. the world head
quarters have been removed from
London to'her present home in Evans
ton, III. f. "
Predict World Prohibition.
Foreign speakers at the contention
predicted a dry Germany Inc Austria
within a few years. Mrs. z. W., Ku-
bushlro of Japan In her address 81
THE Meaning Of the White Ribbon
In Japan reported, a; total member
ship of $4,000, and said that one of
the greatest steps towakd prohibition
had occurred with the passing of a
law last April forbidding the sale
of Intoxicating liquors to minors. This
law protects moro than 10, OOO, 900
minors. she declared. Z
From England, it was reported that
In that country as well as in France,
1t is exceedingly difficult to introduce
temperance because Of the fact that
large numbers of people, are earning
their livelihood from liquor indus.
tries. -.
The Near East situation" had a
prominent place on the program also,
Mrs. Black states. Mrs. H.. NJ. Jivemer
of Egypt. and Mrs. Florence Spencer
Durea. national director of women's
organizations in thesNear East were
the principal speakers; . %a WE ~
Another feature of the convention
was the presentation Of plans for a
worldwide campaign against opium
DIR. Henry Van Dyke is to outline
plans for a conference to be held in
Washington in the interest OF this
movement, y ~ ~
Miss Booth Talks.
One of the finest talks given dur
ing the convention, according to Mrs.
Black, was that given by Miss Evange-
line Booth commander Of the Saliva
ton Army.
Miss Booth talked on Shall Amer
lea Go Back?" and urged that the
w. c. T.. U. take for its motto, They
Shall Not Pass" ~ .a~
."God speed to the w. c. T. IT,"
che said. we are glad to mingle
u voices with yours in the shout Of
victory in the worlds greatest moral
triumph-for prohibition is that"
Even If the cause of prohibition
did not go a step farther" she said,
at would be the greatest moral VIC
tory Of the age. But it is going q
step farther. It is going many steps
farther. There is no power on earth
, that can stop it. What was once
legalized iniquity has been outlawed.
= and the nefariops viper shall be cast
out from the earth" ,fEt /.
Three per cent is safe,R it is said.
II deny 1t. l challenge 1t. 1t is not
/, safe. II we bring back beer. we bring
hack nine tenths Of the liquor traffic."
Miss Booth declared. :
The resolutions adopted by the
convention embrace clauses on law
enforcement, near cas- relief, opium
control, peace. social morality. and
world prohibition.