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No Sex, N0 Slants, No Simpleions m Citizenship

 

 

 

OWENSBORO, KY., JULY, 1910.

NO. 6.

 

 

Facts For the Fight.

\Vhy
cluded frOm the privilege of mem—
bership, by the
churches, but also by most of the
the Masons, the
T“ "' l__1._l.l~__",_4__ti,_~ ‘ 'LL‘LClll 1 Urdu.-.of
United Vv'orkmen, the Knights of
the Tribe of Ben Hur,
the American Legion of Honor, the
Fraternal Mystic Circle, the Catholic
Benevolent Legion, the Woodmen of
the World, the Modern Woodmen of
America, the Order of United Amer—
ican Mechanics and the Junior Order
of'the same, the Order of the Scot-
tish Clans and many more? Could

is it that liquor dealers are ex—
not only most of

modern fraternities,

Maccabees,

there be a stronger evidence that the,

drink traffic is anti-social? There are
some good men who do not seem to
know that several of the unfraternal
orders that are named from beasts
and birds of prey were organized to
make a place for liquor dealers who
had been excluded from thechurches
and all first—class fraternities.

So far back as the famous Greek
games, athletes in training were re—
quired to abstain. Strange that men
of those days and long after never-
theless thought the liquors a man
must avoid as an athlete would
strengthen a workman for his task.
'Dr. Amos, of Stamford.

J. Givens.

of:”i’fentucky, reported through

 

School Suffrage For Women.

Since the last issue of the Kentucky
\Vhite Ribbon, Mrs. Desha Breckin—
ridge, chairman of the joint commit—
tee from the State Equal Rights Asso—
ciation of the Kentucky'lN. C. T. U.
and the Federation of VVoman’s Clubs
the
Lexmgton Herald. The entire report
is able and we would beyglad to pub-
lish it, but space forbids. We, how-
ever, give some paragraphs and call
attention to the acknowledgment that

experience demonstrated that the liq—-

uor forces were united against the
"entrance of women into public af—
fairs and believe it an entering
wedge.” “All things work together
for good to those who love the Lord.”
The Equal Rights Association 'had
their lesson, and slowly the clubs are
learning their’s; namely, the liquor
traffic is the uncompromising enemy
of every righteous movement, the
corrupter of political life, and that
no measure that looks to bettering
public conditions but will meet their
stubborn résistance.’ Be patient;
"Stand still and see the Glory of the
Lord.” They will unite their splendid
foices ere long. '

"The stems in their courses fought
against Sissara.”

"It is sure to come

Thirty Minutes to Discuss It

“'31 measure affecting all the wo—
men of Kentucky went to t vote
with less than thirty'minutes 'iscus—

male electorate.

 

from country members is because of
conservatism and an honest doubt that
the women of their communities will
use the suffrage. it is quite true that
the enlarging of the electorate by the
addition of women in the cities has
some dangers which it has not in the
country. in the country districts the
intelligent and public—spirited women
who are ihterestednf; the betterment
of the schools will come out to the
school elections; the ignorant and bad
women, of whom we hear so much
from gentlemen'inpolitics, and the in—
different women will stay at home.
The stake in the country schools is
not sufficient to tempt the politicians
to bring out the elements. ,

“in the cities there are some ignor—
ant Vand bad women and many indif-
ferent women. These women would
undoubtedly be as little dangerous as
similar elements in the country except
for the fact that corrupt politicians of
both parties will attempt to bring
them- out, the assets of the School
game in cities being a sufficient temp—
tation. The danger is not in the wo-
men, but in the politicians.

, Same Danger From the Men.

“"here is, 0t couise, the same dan—
ger from these same elements in the
The very politicians
who are virtuously denying school
suffrage to the best white women of
our State because of their deadly fear
of this venal and ignorant element
among women are not lifting their fin-
gers to protect ur' (gainst the same

 

to your work. All W. C. T. U. work-
ers will remember Mrs. Barbour as
President of the large‘union at Hop-
kinsville while she lived in that city,
and afterwards as State Secretary of
the Y's of Kentucky.

Field Work.

.4 —-.‘./““~

’1 he State President spent two weeks ,
at the W. C. T. U. Settlement SCh001..
On her return went to the Third Dis-
trict to fill some appointments made
by Mrs. Tucker, District President.
First appointment at Shiloh, in. Taylor
County, country church; a fine audi—
ence, five men and one woman gave
names as members, the woman, Mrs.
Lottie Smith (Mrs-J. T.), Loraine,
Ky. She Will take up the work and be—
lieves she. can get a good organization,
which she can; she is capable and in-
terested. She is not to be‘discour~
aged. If she should not get a union
she will colelct thedues of honorary
members and: send them with her
own and become members of the
State W. C. T. U. The 22nd we
spoke at Campbellsville; here an elec—
tric. storm interfered with the audi-
ence; however, seven names were se—
cured, and Mrs. Tucker or Mrs. Hob-
son will visit them soon and complete _
the organization.‘ Gieensburg was
the next place; owing to sulrncss of
a seiious nature of both the Presiv
dent and Secretary of this uniOn lit-,'
tle has been done the past two years,
but they are. oused again.

A

 

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THE KENTUCKY WHITE RIBBON

 

the Kentucky White Ribbon

Published Monthly.

 

 

Entered as second-class matter November I.
1907, at the post office at Owensboro, Ky..
under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879.

 

E. E. OWSLEY, Publisher,
203 W. Second St.,
Owensboro, Kentucky.

MRS. FRANCES E. BEAUCHAMP,
Editor.

NORAH B. TAYLOR,
723 Central Ave, Lexington, Ky.,
Business Manager.

 

 

. - r r WEIR??? 25 Cents per Year

 

 

NOTICE.

Send all articles for publication to
the White Ribbon Editor. Don’t fail
to send by the 15th of each month for
the next month’s paper. If you do
not receive your paper, write the Bus-
iness Manager at once. >

Name and address of eadh member
whose dues are paid is sent, with the
50 cents, to the State Treasurer, Mrs.
Norah B. Taylor, 723 Central avenue,
Lexington, Ky. Write the name and
address very plain that there may be
no delay in receiving your White
Ribbon.

 

 

OFFICERS FOR 1909-1910.

President,

Mrs. Frances E. Beauchamp,
Lexington.
Vice-President,
Mrs. Malta Bailey,
Paintsville.
Corresponding Secretary,
Mrs. Juliet L. Powers,
Grayson.

. Recording Secretary,
Mrs. Lutie Day Pickett,

 

You will remember that a distinguish—
ed educator wrote back after visiting
that school along with scores of other
schools, “the marvel to us all is that
the model school of this country
should be located away out in the
mountains of Eastern Kentucky for—
ty—five miles from a railroad.” That
is the opinion of an expert after
spending some weeks at the school
on a tour of inspection. That is your
school; and yet, I am ashamed to tell
it, only one union responded to my
earnest, personal plea in the May
White Ribbon for that cause. I
doubt not many of our members have
given more than the requested $10.00
to less worthy work since the call was
made. Is that loyalty? No, dear
comrades; no one‘wvoman can do the
State work. She can only rally the
workers, and if you do not rally the
work must fail. Just here a woman
is struggling with a car window; it
will not budge; ten or a dozen look
on interested, but stir not to lend a
hand, when a little girl reaches over
from the seat just back of the 'win—
dow, puts her puny strength back of
the woman’s force; the window
moves; it slips up with ease into
place. That is union. United efforts
can build that bridge this month.
Shall it be done? Individually we are
mites of weakness; combined we be-
come a magazine oft-power. I was in
the West a few years ago; I looked
up from my writing to see a few
scattered snow flakes drifting; the
clouds thickened; the snow flakes
seemed to whisper, “let’s combine;”
so they gathered. In a short time
that long train, with its mighty en-
gine, was blocked. Another engine
came in and the two tried to puSh and
pull that train out, but she was stuck
fast. We waited twelve hours for a
great mountain snow plow to come
to our rescue, all beause the snow
flakes ombined. the wom-n of

 

as the saloon. “Let’s combine;” let
us create a solid wall of public senti—
ment, let us hold meetings and con—
tests, organize the children into Loy-
al Legions, keep the banner of Pro-
hibition flying clay and night until the
State and the government are relieved
of this awful incubus of the liquor
traffic, but we must be all at it, and
always at it. Learn to practice our
State motto, “Standing having done
all stand.” So my message this month
is embraced in one word, UNION.

“Blessed is he who endureth until
the end, for when he is tried he shall
receive his crown.”

We need a thousand dollars in the
bridge fund; will you individually
,raise and send $10.00?

5 With loving, endturing
Yours,
FRANCES E. BEAUCHAMP.

Grayson, Ky, June 13, 1910.
Dear White Ribboners:
Accepting the kind invitation

of
Mrs. Sophia Stone, I attended the
District Convention of the Woman’s
Christian Temperance Union at Mon—
ticello, Wayne County, May 27 and
28, and was greatly helped thereby.
The convention was a success. Som-
erset Union sent fourteen delegates—
7 voting and 7 visiting—all of them
bright, enthusiastic temperance work—
ers. All of the reports were good,
far over the average—better than
some we had at the State Convention.
Mrs. Stone’s report of the district
work was one of the ablest articles
I ever heard in convention, full of
helpful suggestions as to the work,
showing she had our cause upon her
heart. I rendered all the help 1
could during the day sessions, speak-
ing upon each department, and deliv-
ered an address Friday and Saturday
nights.
Sunda

ii A

morning in company with
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probably the roof on. So the work
progresses. Shall we have the bridge?
>t< * *

Jefferson County Convention will be
held in September.

* * *

\rVest End, Louisville, Union has
induced the Epworth League in the
church of which Mrs. Davis is a mem—
ber to adopt Mrs. Irvin’s plan for
Sunday school work, organizing the
Sunday school into a temperance ar~
my. Every fifth Tuesday they give
to the regular programme, and the
offering is given to the W. C. T. U.
work.

* * *

Mrs. Sue Davis writes she is “al-

ways stressing children’s work.” She

-al-so_reports, purityadisaism ' :

quarterly meeting after which it was
decided to put two or more leaflets
on purity in envelope and present it
to each girl in all the department
stores. Good; but why not the young
men, too? They also distribute leaf-
lets at Mothers’ meetings.
* * *

Willard union united with East End
in holding services at the home of the
aged and infirm. Mrs. Davis has
classes in the boys’ industrial school
where great interest is shown.

* * It

The Woman’s Board of Baptist or—
phans’ home in Louisville sent, Mrs.
Davis a beautiful note expressing ap-
preciation of the work done in the
home through the L. T. L. of the
home.

>1< * >1<

West End reports a Mothers’ meet-
ing held in May. The White Ribbon
commends the L. T. L. and Mothers’
meetings to each union. Both are
needed and both bring results.

* 4r *

Mrs. Davis reports three subscrib-
ers to a Prohibition party paper, a
club to American Motherhiod, the

 

 Traveling Companions?

In the early dawn of a perfect June
morning a traveler with wearied body
and tired brain enters the train, ar-
ranges bag and baggage and settles
for a day’s work with pen The re—
freshing air is inspiring and they pro—
gress with satisfactioii in spite of
rocking train, smoke and dust. We
pull into a way—station; a talkative
party are bidding adieu to a young
woman, rather handsome, well dress—
ed, accompanied by two gentlemen;
they come in, turn two seats togeth-
er and begin; the train moves off, the
young Woman puts the strength of
her well- developed lungs against the
cla . of brakes, the creak of engine,
. 1 ll - s, 1 I starts off at
a moving pace; men are reading the
morning paper, but one by one papers
are dropped; women are reading
books or periodicals, these are soon
laid aside while an expression of
spartan-like endurance settles 011 all
countenances. You know. you are in
for it, so you gird yourself mentally
and grimly hold to appointed task,
but jaded nerves rebel, the mind re—
fuses to be lashed into obedience to
the will; comfortable seats 011 shady
side are abandoned for a single seat
on the sunny side at the rear end of
the coach that the manuscript may be
completed in time, but, alas! no brass
bellows could have more endurance
than those lungs; you put away your
pen and join the common if unwilling
audience and listen to the ceaseless
flow of stale anecdotes and the recital

of common— —place personal experiences.

punctuated at frequent intervals with
a rollicking, self— applauding laugh
What was the trouble? That young
woman’s education in childhood had
been neglected; she had not been
taught by precept and example that
the voice of a woman should be soft

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THE KENTUCKY WHITE RIBBON

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put you out of the window, to the
curly headed baby of two and a half,
the child looks up with a startled ex-
pression only to read the falsity of
the threat in his mother’s face, and
to have his suspicion of some month’s
standing, that his mother is a liar
confirmed. So the stream flows 011:
"Stop that, 1 tell you, or I will skin
you alive.” “1 will beat the breath
outof you if you don't keep still.”
"Here comes the conductor, he will
fix you." “I will tell the conductor
to put you off the train and leave you
in the WOOdS where the bears will get
you.” And much more of the same
kind. What chance have those chil-
dren to make reliable citizens? They
have been bred and brought up on
lies. The standaid of truth and sin-
cerity has failed them at the dawn of
existence. Their moral life has been
dwarfed, if not murdered. Once more
we are confirmed in the conviction
that self— cont1ol is a paramount virtue
in a woman that every man in select—
ing a mother for his children-to—be,
should find one of force of will, fixed
purpose, who commands with force
of character rather than with volume
of sound.

Selfishness.

He is usually, though not always,
the much—traveled individual. When
the train pulls into the station he is
ready, and while the arriving passen-
gers are leaving the coach he mounts
the rear platform of the car just
ahead; from this commanding posi—
tion he waits until the aisle is cleared,
then, while the last ones leaving the
car are on the steps he enters the
coach, selects the best two seats on
the shady side, gets out his book or
paper, and buries his face; there he re-
mains while tired mothers with little
children‘take the seats on th/e sunny
side or crowded in with twosor three
little ones in one seat, Or tottering

I." l‘CIDl' .Idi'u I1

 

man, and most men have learned to
respect the gentle woman who has
ability to take care of herself. But
where is fabled and far-famed chiv-
alry that would make all . men the
champions and protectors of all wo—
men? The more defenseless and

helpless the more sure they would be
of finding strong, tender hands to lift
the burdens and
rough places.

We are thankful that we can testify
that we have met many such speci—
mens and delight to honor such.

make smooth the

.Fine New Water Fountain

Has Been Received, and Is Now In-
stalled at the Ashland Y. M. C. A.
.Was a Present From the W. C. T.
Us—Y. M. C. A. Members and Man-
agement Are Delighted, and Return
Thanks to Local White Ribbon
Ladies.

Through the thoughtfulness and
generosity of the ladies of the Ash-
land W. C. T. U., the Young Men’s
Christian Association has just re-
ceived a fine new drinking fountain,
and has it set up and ready to supply
its members and friends with ice cold
Murphy’s spring water, just as fast as
it can be drawn from the spigots.

The fountain is an extra large one,
of the popular type, which has the wa-
ter bottle in sight, and cools the wa-
ter without it coming in contact with
the ice. It is a “thing of beauty,” and
no more useful or more appreciated
gift could have been made to the Y.
M. C. A.

The members, management and pa-
trons of the Y. M. C. A. ask the Inde—
pendent to publicly extend to the
good women of the Ashland W. C. T.
U. their hearty thanks for the present,
and to cordially invite the citizens of
Ashland' to step u “nave one of
them.”

 

design for honorary member’s

badge State whether button or

pin is desiled.

Each . ........................ $ .25
-Per dozen .................... 2.75
Photographs of Miss Willard, for

schools. Size 20x24 inches, un-

framed. Carriage charges not

prepaid, must go by express.

Price . ....................... $3.50
Song Leaflet—The Prohibition

Map and the song, “Make the

Map All White," words only.

Per 100 ...................... $ .35

Per 300

Words and music, per copy . . .. .

Per three

Pei 10

Per 100 ....................... 1.00
Song, \Lictory, octavo form.

Piice, per copy ... . .i'. . .“Z'i'f: .1

Two copies ................... .25
The License System—By Seaborn

Wright, Price, per 12 or less”

Per 100
Posters.

.$10

Prohibition Map of the United
States. Size 18x24 inches. Price
per copy ..................... $ .15
Two copies to one address ..... .25
Five copies to one address ..... .50
Prohibition’s Onward March.
Price, per 12 or less ........... $ .10
Per 100 ....................... .50
Is Prohibition in Maine at Suc-
cess? By. Lillian M. N. Ste-
vens. Price per 12 or less ..... $ 05
Per 100 ....................... .25
Maine Prohibition. By Congress—
man Littlefield. Price per 12 or
less -. ......................... $ .05
. Per 100 ....................... .15
Beneficial Results of Prohibition
in Kansas. . By Elizabeth P.‘
'Hutchinson. Price per 12 or

 

 THE KENTUCKY WHITE RIBBON

 

Cleansing the Land of a
Curse.

For some time a. clergyman of the
Protestant Episcopal church, holding
a parish in the diocese of Long Is—
land, has been serving as a hireling
He has gone
up and down and back and forth over

of the liquor interests.

the country giving the sanction of his

sacred office and of his church to the
diabolical debauchers of the people.

Of course the liquor interests were

glad to get him, and to pay him well
101' his unholy services. The enemies
of Jesus were glad to pay Judas the
thirty pieces of silver agleed upon as
I};
Loid and Master

Now this Piotestant Episcopalian
rector, having brought his church in—
to disrepute by his championship of
the cause of the saloon, has resigned,
"in order to devote his time to oppos—
ing prohibition.” It would be inter-
esting to know whether the resigna—
tion was voluntary, or whether the
authorities of the church had become
tired of enduring the just criticism
he had brought upon them and had
made it convenient for him to with—
draw. However, he is now where he
belongs, in the company of those who
have fellowship with darkness, dis—
tress, despair, and death. As in the
case of Judas, he has gone “to his
own place.”

Just after this unworthy minister
had resigned the bishop of his diocese
delivered an address at the annual
diocesan conVention, in which he
said: ‘ '

‘TIf. the church condemns the saloon
it is not because the church hates the
workingman, or his wife, or. his fam-
ily, but because the saloon is the

P-éfl‘gAI-‘Ul... foul— betrayal Ufa—hm”

 

greatest enemy of the home, because
if n P, 1.: r I \ «,

an

pledge eternal enemity to the foe of

man and God.”

Those who were present at the
General Conference when this para—
graph was read can never forget the
scene that followed the throwing
down of that challenge. Immediately
the vast assemblage arose as one
man, and in a shout that was the ut-
terance of a deep conviction and pur-
pose the pledge was given. Now sup—
pose that pledge were made by the
men and women of all the churches
of this land, and suppose the pledge
were made effective every time a
chance to cripple the saloon. How
long would the liquor traffic be able
to maintain its supremacy in this
land?
bits in a twelvemonth! May the day
America will arise in their righteous
wrath and rid the land of this foul
blot and cursel—The Epworth Her—
ald.

Prohibition in Maine.

So many persons permit them—
selves, without examination of the
facts, to be persuaded that prohibi—
tion in Maine is a failure, that the fol-
lowing statistics will have a steady—
ing influence:

1. There are more schools in pro-
portion to the population in Maine
and more teachers in proportion to
the pupils than in any other state of
the Union.

2. Compare Boston, Mass, under
license, with Portland, Me, under
prohibition:

(a) Boston has 426 arrests; Port-
land eighty— four for drunkenness for
every ten thousand of the population

(1)) Boston pays -.$3 00, Portland
$105 per capita to police the city.

(c) Boston pays venty- nine cents,
Portland tw- r jails.

3. N a '

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beginner and novice. Doing away
with the legalized attractive saloon
with their conveniences and social
features has prevented many young
men and women in this State from
the making of dangerous acquaint-
ances-and. has prevented the forma—
tion of manytvicious habits of living.”

Lo isville, Ky., June 14, 1910.

 

Leamon had charge, and the Paducah
union took the flowers. A good meet—
ing was reported there also.

Notice to Y. P. B.’s. i

All the Y. P. Branches should be
using the new book, “Alcohol and
Health” for systematic study." Pro-
cure them of Dorothy Hogan-,5. {:33

 

,~

 onn, in a recent number of the Med—
ical Record, declares that insanity in
New York State has increased 97 per
cent. during the past twenty years,
while the population has increased but
53 per cent. Dr. Givens quotes Dr.
Fletcher, of Indiana, as saying that
fifty or one hundred years ago it was
rare to hear of a case of lunacy, now
it is of almost daily occurrence. Six-
ty or seventy per cent. of the cases of
insanity are attributed to heredity,
but alcoholism is given the second
place, but he found the statement so
far uncontroverted that 50 per cent.
of all inmates of all the insane hos-
pitals of the United States are de—
scendants from alcoholic parents.

A recent decision of the Court of
Civil Appeals in Dallas, Texas, up—
holds the new law requiring express
companies to pay an occupation tax
of.$5,000.00 for handling C. O. D.
whisky shipments in “dry” territory.

'Governor Malcolm R. Patterson, of
Tennessee, has been doing his best
ever since January 1 to cripple, break
down and nullify Prohibition in that

State, ‘an-urr no N" c a'p {their airing}???

shameless subserviency to the out—
lawed liquor interests by the unqual-
ified pardoning of Col. Duncan B..
Cooper, who was convicted of mur—
dering United States Senator Car-
mack, and whose appeal for a new
trial was just denied after a thor-
ough presentation of the case before
the Supreme Court. Looking over
Governor Patterson’s record, the as—
tonishing fact develops that during
the three years he has been in office
he has issued 956 pardons, 152 of
which were to convicted murderers,
103 to illicit‘ liquor sellers, 175 to pis—
tol toters, 124 to convicted thieves and
402 for miscellaneous crimes, includ-
ing arson, rape, Violation of the age
of consent law, forgery, etc—The
Amethyst.

snon and \ s defeated 57 to 0. A
change of 5 of those who voted
against the measure would lave car—
ried it and the women of Kentucky
would now have had school suffrage.
These 5 votes might have been sup-
plied by the City of Louisville and the
County of Jefferson.

“Of the eleven representatives from
there, one, Senator Newcomb, voted
for us; six voted against us; four did
not vote. They might have been sup-
plied by the representatives from
Newport, Covington and Fort Thom—
as. Of the six others, but one voted
for us,—Senator Nagle, of Newport.
I might go further and state that, in
my opinion, if the one Representative
in the House from the City of Lex—
ington had been for us, instead of
against us, the measure would have
passed.

Measure Beaten By Cities.

“The measure was defeated by cities
of the first and second class. To Pa-
ducah’s credit be it said that both of
her representatives, Mr. Eugene
Graves and Senator Eaton, voted for
us, Mr. Graves presenting the bill in
the House, Senator Eaton espousing
TF'SI;"‘FH§‘Ho3r of the Senate.

“Broadly speaking, the liquor inter—
ests were against us and the County
Unit men were our friends. The ma-
jority of those who voted for us in
both Houses were County Unit men.
The leaders of the opposition belong-
ed to the liquor party. The measure
was defeated by selfish interests. The
liquor party opposes the entrance of
women into public affairs and believes
this to be an entering wedge. Small
groups of people in the cities who
control nominations and elections to
the school board, and who desire to
retain the patronage and giving of

school boards as a political asset, op-
pose us. ~
Some Who Had Honest Doubt.

 

“Such little opposition as there is

contracts and buying of supplies by,

 

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"The remedy, of course, is not in
depriving the besix white women of
our cities and our State of a part in
school affairs, but in laws that make,
for instance, the buying of registra—
tion certificates illegal, that try to se»
cure honest, rather than controllable,
elections, in such school laws as the
County School Board law, the law re-
cently passed for first—class cities and
the similar one to be passed at the
next session, I believe, for second—

class cities.”

Barbour-McMillan.

Miss Louise Barbour, the gracious
and accomplished daughter of Mrs.
Carrie'Barbour, was married to Mr.
Henry McMillon, of Knoxville, Tenn,
at Nicholasville, Thursday evening,
June 16th. Mrs. Barbour had made
for herself a host of friends. By
every law of environment and hered—
ity she was brought up to the ideal
standard of young womanhood. We
congratulate Mr. McMillon on his
wise selection of a companion for life,
and wish for the young couple long
life, health, all temporal-l prosperity,
as a beautiful prelude to the eternal
life upon which they have both en-
tered. Out of such unions of Chris—
tian men and women must come the
homes on which the perpetuity of our
national life depends. Mrs. Barbour,
the mother of Mrs. McMillon, is the
life-long personal friend of your ed—
itor. From childhood she has rung
true to every relationship in life, as
daughter, sister, wife, mother, house-
keeper, home-maker, friend—she has
failed in not one jot. The State Con—
vention, with its speakers for 1909
at Lexington, will remember Mrs.
Barbour as the gracious hostess in
your State President’s home, where
she came as a friend and took charge
of everything and so left your Presi-
dent free to\ devote herself entirely

 

teen new members were added to the.’
roll. The officers are: President,
Mrs. B. W. Penick; Recording Sec—
retary, Mrs. Bettie Wilson; Corre-
sponding Secretary and Treasurer,
Mrs. Mattie Hobson. From Greens—
burg we went to Smith’s Grove; here
an afternoon and evening meeting
were held; seven members were gain»
ed. and we all had a delightful time.
At Horse Cave we were joined by
Mrs. Tucker, the able District Pres-
ident, and she conducted an all—day
meeting. Several names were added
and a promise secured that two con-
tests, a Matrons’ and a Young Peo-
ple's, would be held at an early date.
Sunday we spent at Cave City in the
devoted home of Mrs. Tucker; from
there we went to be with the union at
Bowling Green for the closing days
of the local option campaign. Cave
City union is in the midst of a mem-
bership contest. They are also plan—
ning for a great picnic at an early
date, when our work will be dis-
cussed.
“Sow by all waters.”

Y. P. B. Program—fog: 113,11 .

Arrange for a picnic in park; invite
all the young people in your city;
each young lady to furnish lunch for
one young man; ask one of your min—
isters to give you a good talk on our
work; enlist members; do not let the
summer months pass and not be
awake. Have recitations and songs;
make the afternoon one of pleasure
and help to your union.

Yours as ever,
FLORENCE LOOMIS,
Y. P. B. Secretary.

Two Chicago women have filed
suits for $5,000 and $10,000 damages in
the superior court, against saloon
keepers whom they accuse of selling
liquor to their husbands, who are ha-
bitual drunkards.

 

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Treasurer,
Mrs. Norah B. Taylor,
348 Aylesford Place, Lexington.
Y. Secretary,

Mrs. Florence Loomis,
142 E. Broadway, Louisville.
L. T. L. Secretary,

Mrs. Lutie Day Pickett,
Wilmore.

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PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE.
0N CARS.

Comrades:

Some days I wish that you could be
with me through each hour and see
how the day is spent. One woman
wrote me, “You can speak, but I can
work.” I smiled; that very day I had
gotten up at ”four-thirty in order to
get through a heavy day’s work and
my head did not find its pillow until
eleven that night, and then not to
sink into refreshing sleep, but to con-
sider plans and ways and means. I
could but wonder what she would call
work?

I would not refer to this now but
of the stress under which my days
are spent. I may not do all that
should be done; I may not have the
judgment to select the most impor~
tant things, but, beloved, all my
hours are given to this work; I even
compel myself to stop thinking that
I may sleep a little each night that I
may be able to work more the next
day. To get more done you must
find a woman more capable. I have
reached the limit of my capacity——
both to work and to plan. Plans——
reminds me how many of you are
earnestly striving to execute plans?
There is our school; we are almost
compelled to have that‘bridge I wrote
you of. That school is doing the
grandest work in Kentucky. There
is no question about that in my mind.

 

xen ucky knew that sson taught by
the snow flakes the liquor traffic
would be as dead as, that snow—bound
engine in a short time. I am on my
way as I write to a town where I
have organized twice before and I
hope to organize a third time, but
can you wonder that I go with a
heavy heart? Almost every town in
Kentucky has been organized since I
have been State President, but the
great lesson of union is yet unlearn—
ed. And that must be mastered be—
fore we accomplish great results in
Kentucky. True, the former work has
not been entirely in vain; each of
those unions worked up public senti-

ment. The first circulated a petition,
called an election, drove out the sa-
loons, sat down, quit work, let senti-
ment run down until the liquor men
called another election. Then they
sent for me; I went, reorganized; we
fought it out and won a second time.
I faithfully tried to make them see

that all the expense, the desperate.

struggle, the anxiety could have been
avoided if only they had kept up their
organization and their work at the

same time they would have been help-
ing the State in her struggle; they
promised; they held out for a few
years, but alas! alasll they forgot,
and while “they slept an enemy came
and sowed tares” in the from of blind

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