Evening star., 1928-12-09
W. C. T. u.


cember meeting at the home Of Miss
Mary Norwood, SOIL Sixteenth street.
After the opening song Mrs. F. ;.
Browne read from the Bible, Chront-
cles. xxix.11. A prayer Of thanksgiving
to God followed for victory and all
blessings Mrs. Albert E. Kay rendered
q piano solo. Mrs oliver Ports, secre-
tary, read minutes of November meet
ings, which were approved.
The president. Mrs, E. E. Norwood,
called for reports of committees. Mrs:
Edson Briggs and Mrs. c: Riordon tolo
of happy results in work being done Tor
yl1e hospital at Fourteenth and Upshur
Areets and urged members to remen1-
fNr their assigned patients with cheer
an help. Mrs. Zelah Farmer, director
of Naite Ribbon Recruits, reported the
live cASdition Of her branch of tenn
perance &ork Slmong young mothers
and their NV ehildren. The grand
daughter of ~ George Seibold, baby
Theodosia Nelson, was consecrated as
O White Ribbon Recruit by the tying
Of a white ribbon around her wrist by
Mrs. Norwood. The ceremony was fol-
lowed by prayer. Mrs. C. w. Shaw gave
encouraging reports of Loyal Temper
ance Legion activities, of which she is
associate director with Mrs. Bugbee.
North Star volunteer members have
been assigned the third Tuesday OF
each month in which to visit District
Police Court sessions OF violations OF
eighteenth amendment cases.
A letter from Mrs. Howard M. Hoge,
president of the Virginia State w. c. T.
u, was read thanking the president
Mrs. Norwood, for her letter of appre-
citation after the recent election and
the annual convention held here, in
which Mrs. Hoge was a speaker.
Mrs. Cabot Stevens gave f1ve-min-
ute talk on the Near East Relief prob
lem of assisting financially in the
education of $4,000 children too young
to be self-supporting.
The speaker for the afternoon, Mrs.
Jesse w. Nicholson, president of the
Democratic Womens Law Enforcement
League, was introduced by Mrs. Eu-
gene E. Thompson. Mrs. Nicholson
pictured her experience in the recent
campaign. At the close of her address
she was given rising vote of thanks,
Mrs. George Ross, District treasurer. was
a guest. Refreshments were served by
Miss Norwood, Miss Julihn, Mrs. Burger
and Mrs. Farmer.
Northwest Union held its November
meeting Thursday at the home of Mrs.
with Mrs. George A. Ross, president,
in the chair A short devotional period
was conducted by Mrs. John r. Thomas
In the form of a thanksgiving service.
A psalm of thanksgiving was read by
Mrs. Thomas, testimonies of thankful
ness were given by members and prayer
was offered for all the sick.
Regular reports were received and
routine business transacted. Mrs. w.
H Moore, director of flower mission,
reported seven calls made on sick and
shut-ins, with flowers to carry cheer.
Mrs. Hercus and Mrs. Smith are in
Garfield Hospital with fractured hips,
and Mrs Briggs is Ill at her home, Mrs.
Moore reported.
Miss Smith, Protestant Juvenile Court
worker, was present and closed her talk
with the poem: Give to the world the
best that you have and the best will
come back to you"
Mrs. Lilliard, White Ribbon Recruit
director, told of the party for the little
recruits held in the New York Avenue
Presbyterian Church on November 8.
One hundred children and about 80
adults were present. Mrs. Hampton,
second vice president, gave a resume of
the life of Mrs. Herbert Hoover, giving
some interesting facts.
Mrs. williams, president of the w. G.
T. u. of the State of Nevada, was a
visitor, and told of the hardships they
have to contend with in that State in
carrying on because of the long dis
tance between towns.
The Chapin Union held q business
and social meeting Wednesday with
Mrs. s. r. Winters.
Mrs. David Lum gave a talk con-
trasting the woman of yesterday with
the woman of today, giving temper
ance its place in this uplift. Mrs. p.
w. Keys told Of visiting the girls room
at Juvenile Court with the idea of
having this room repapered by local
unions. She commented on the excel
lent work DR.. Kress is doing for these
girls. 1t was suggested the unions
hold Thanksgiving meeting OF the
order of the prayer service held at
Calvary Baptist Church before the
elections. 1t was voted to sign the
resolution to urge the United States
Senate to ratify the peace treaty Eow
pending.
The meeting places for the entire
year having been planned, the corre-
spending secretary was asked to mail
copies Of this list to each active MEM
Der. The next meeting will be held
January 2 at the home Of Mrs. T. A.
williams, 1880 Belmont street. Lunch
Con was served.
The Frances Willard Loyal Tenn
perance Legion, which met at the home
of Miss Catherine Fisher Wednesday
afternoon, opened by singing America
and Prohibitions Here to Stay in the
T 9 a
the piano
The meeting was conducted by Mrs.
r. T. Stout. District Loyal Temperance
Legion director, assisted by Miss Fisher.
Mrs. Stout had made a garden, the
fence around which was called the
eighteenth amendment; 1t had two
gates. one the w. G. T. u, the other
the L. T. L. In this garden she planted
the L. T. L. pledge cards, work of its
eight departments of work for Soldiers
and Sailors" Flower Mission,
Health" Mercy" ETC.; and from these
seeds grew up miniature walking dolls
to represent L. T. L. members. Then,
after all had repeated their patriotic
ican flag grew beside each doll. We
found the w. c. T. u gate securely
closed to protect the children, but our
L. 7. L. gate had opened tiny bit and
a small chicken representing bad habits
had entered. The children named sew
eral things the chicken represented, and
1t was Immediately voted to be put out
of the L. T. l.. garden and the gate
was securely closed against bad habits
with an L. T. L. pledge card. The point
left with the children to remember
was that "the eighteenth amendment
Is law and good law, and all good
Americans obey all laws"
Miss Frances Winters of Pittsburgh
Pa, told them a true story of a IA
nous authoress, her point to remem-
Der being "Truthfulness" Mrs. S. H
Wiley told them Of her 26 years work
with the Marines at the barracks and
of the many boys who sign the tenn
perance pledge. A program will be given
in the near future at the barracks by