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Show IW.CI.II. flLLOTS FI-M Pill Sixty Thousand Dollars to Be Used in Fight for Dry World. ST. L.0U1S, Mo.. Nov. 18. Sixty thousand thou-sand dollars a year for tho next five years was allotted today by the National Women's Christian Temperance union in convention here to be used for the purpose pur-pose of world-wide prohibition. Of this amount, $33,500 was allotted to the work in South America: $11,000 was allotted to work in India, (3300 for China,. $1000 for Mexico, $1000 for Ceylon, $S75 for Japan. The remaining $3323 remains to be apportioned. Xone of the 51,000,000 which was apportioned ap-portioned today was assigned to promotion promo-tion of legislation looking toward the prohibition of tobacco. Dr. Emma F. A. Grace of Idaho urged women voters to send to the legislatures women who would "humanize and womanize wom-anize our laws." According to Miss Hardyn K. Norville. delegate ot the World Christian Temperance Temper-ance union, with headquarters at Buenos Aires, scientific instruction in schools on the effect of alcohol is the method by which the Women's Christian Temperance Temper-ance union hopes to make South America dry. "On tho r.lcohol map of the world, South America :s the blackest," said Miss Norville. "There are fewer restrictions against the liquor traffic there than in any other civilized part of the globe, and now it is becoming the dumping ground for the liquor interests , which have been driven out of the United States. "We are now working among the children, chil-dren, hoping that they will want to put liquor out of their countries. U ia a health campaign, and we have the support sup-port of the governments The liquor interests in-terests have not take us seriously as yet, hut we have not the organized opposition opposi-tion that we had in this country. Our worst enemies are English rum, American Ameri-can whisky and German beer." |