The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-03-05
TO ADDRESS
STATE W.C.T.U.
National Jubilee Celebration
To be Held in Fargo

Governor I. A. Ncstos and Mrs
Margaret c. Munns of Evanston, Hi
nois, will be the guests of honor and
principal speakers at the national
jubilee. celebration of the National
Woman's Christian Temperance I'm
ion. which will be held in Fargo in
connection with the annual midwin-
ter meeting Of the organization on
Thursday and Friday, March 10, ID,
Mrs. Elizabeth Preston Anderson,
state president, will be present and
preside at these meetings. =
Mrs. Mbnns, who is better known
as the financial wizard" of the w. c.
T. U. handles all the funds of the ma
tional organization, more than half
q million dollars, passing through
her hands every year and being ad-
ministered by her. The budget sys-
TEN, by which the million dollar jub-
lice fund is being apportoned, was
sponsored by her and she is i a
great measure responsible for the ac-
emulation of this fund, carrying out
the plans of Miss Anna A. Gordon,
world and national president of the
White Ribbon organization.
From early childhood days in Kan
sas. Mrs. Munns has been intere sted
in temperance work and took part in
many campaigns in the county where
her father was prohibition chairman.
In later years she became correspond
ing secretary for the state of Wash
ington w. c. r. u. and state parli-
mentarian for that organization as
well as the state Federation Of Wo-
mems Clubs.
When asked why the w. c.. T. U.
needed a million dollars jubilee fund
for temperance work inasmuch as the
Eighteenth Amendment has been
passed, Mrs. Munns said, probably
n great many people do not realize
the contributions that the National
w. c. T. U. is making and has made
during the past fifty years, to COM
munity and national welfare. The
National w. c. T. U. has always
contributed most literally to every
call for relief when other nations
we're suffering because 'of some dis
aster. In the United States, we are
now devoting more than one hundred
pieces of property to community de-
velopment uses. We support twenty
six departments Of work and included
among these are Americanization,
child welfare, women in industry, So
cial morality, health, Christian citi-
zenship, soldiers and sailors, and
scientific temperance instruction.
"Our field of work include every
thing which can affect the welfare of
women and children in any way.
Though some people seem to think
that the need for our organization is
dimi-/shir/ the.contrary is the case
because, in addition to our work of
helping to establish the Eighteenth
Amendment as our country's nation
al policy, our interests are the in
terests of all women, and the possibi-
lities for US to do increasingly more
are daily becoming more evident, In
two weeks membership drive last
summer, more than twenty-five thou
sand new members Joined the organ
ization. Women everywhere, whether
belonging to the W. c. T. U. or not,
are becoming interested in our pro-.
gram and aiding in law enforcement"
Mrs. Munns will tell what jubilee
dollars are doing to. help Americana
cation, child welfare and other big
NATIONAL problems at this statewide
meeting, which will be one Of fifty
to be held in the United States dur
ing the year as a tribute to the fiji
tieth birthday of the w. C. T. U.