The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-09-21
HALT W.C.T.U.
CONFLICT ON
MEETING EVE
Retiring President Asserts
She'll Work Now for
Peace in Group.
MEMBERSHIP SLUMPS
Good Men and Good
Women Hit for Failure
to Back Prohibition.

At the very edge of what might
have been a battlefield, Mrs. Bert S.
Gadd, former president of the
Central w. c. T. u, today hoisted
the white flag of self-sacrifice and
withdrew, in a move to end t'-e
turmoil resulting from factional
warfare between her friends and
those Of Mrs. w. w. Reedy.
Mrs. Reedy succeeded Mrs. Gadd
as president last week.
Until this morning it appeared as
if the fight was to be carried to the
floor of the Marion County w. G.
T. U. convention, opening today in
the Brookside United Bretheren
Church.
Mrs. Reedy's faction had named
a slate of delegates to the con-
vention. So had Mrs Gadd's.
Wants to Halt Fight
But Mrs. Gadd today said:
II have too many worthwhile
things to engage my attention other
than continuing this wrangling, so
I will not continue the fight. If
Mrs. Reedy's delegates want to take
the seats, I will not formally protest.
For year we have been able to ac-
complish nothing because of this
quarreling. It is time to put a stop
to it."
So the Reedy delegates took
seats today. Mrs. Reedy sat on the
platform. Mrs. Gadd was not at the
morning session.
The fight started last week, when
Mrs. Reedy was elected president to
succeed Mrs. Gadd In a session in
which theerival factions indicated
several time that they were close to
hair pulling.
1t took so long to elect president
that the election of other officers
wss postponed until a later meeting.
Then controversy arose as to
whether Mrs. Reedy can take her
Office until the other officers are
elected and seated.
Names Own Delegates
Mrs. Gadd says she could not ano
under power of motion passed at
the @ast meeting proceed to name
her own set of delegates to the con-
vention.
Mrs. Reedy says she is president
and, accordingly, called a meeting
at the Fletcher American Bank
Bldg, at which thirty-five delegates
we're named.
Delegates named by Mrs. Gadd:
Miss Carrie Slayer and Mesdames
E. Mae Hahn, Emma Flick, H. Stan
ford, j. F. Poe, G. r. Miles, T. A.
Pearson, r. B. Stober, T. B. Wright,
William Frost, A. @. Clary, Jennie
Barnes, w. @. Reynolds, Charles
Money, Blanche Rafferty,, H. A..
Robb, Blanche Spellman, Charles
Naugle, M. F. LeMar, A. E. Stratton,
G. H. Simons, M. L. Moon, j. S.
Huffer, Metcalf and Burton Shields.
Mrs. Reedy Picks Aids
The Reedy faction delegates are:
Mesdames Charles Carter, I. T. Lee,
Alonzo Powell, George Garter, Will
liam Paulsel, j. j. Herod, w. G. Ly-
tie, w. G. Evans, Don Warren, Ida
Cloud, Charles Matlock, Dara Jones,
F. Reynolds, Mary Jones, M. Black
mire, Mary Belt, A. G. Pebworth,
Iona Conover, John Sink, George
Wall, George Roberts, ]. G. Watkins,
Hester Hart, Ross Winders, H. E.
Gaddis, Cecil Shields, o. G.. Gallo
way and Robert Albertson, and
Misses Frances Pentland, Belle
Pentland, Carrie Styer, e. e. Nc
Daniel, M. Harper, Ida Hayworth,
Adele Storck.
A total membership of 1,728 in the
county, a loss Of 1873 under last year
was reported.
Assail aGood Folks"
1.-THE prohibition cause Is betrayed
not by those who come from the
slums, not by those men we polite
Eally shun, but by the so-called good
men and women who lack the cour-
age to stand before the word and
proclaim what the women Of this or
ganization have proved they have
the courage to do" declared the
Rev. Forrest Reed, pastor of Brook
side U. B. Church.