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Show SEES NOT IN THE YEU 1320 Editor Standard. Decemher 7 was a great day for the National Womana Christian Temperance 1'niop 1n Washington, D C. The meeting;- were arranged In accordance with tbe cam palgrj plan for National Constitutional Constitution-al prohlhluon adopted at the National Nation-al W C T. convention t 8 o'clock In the afternoon the Columbia Theatre and the First Congregational Con-gregational hurch were both filled to overflowing. There were quite as many men as women In the audience. audi-ence. On the- platform were w c T U representatives from every section sec-tion of the T'nlted States. Preceded by the United States Marine Band several hundred men representing Sunday schools, christian Endeavor societies and kindred Interests, led by the superintendent of the largest Sunday school of the city, marched to the meetings, the band playing "Onward Christian Soldiers." .Mrs Lillian M. N. Stevens. Nation al prcs'dent. presided at the nie, tine: at the theater and Mrs. Prances P. PariiS, national corresponding secretary secre-tary at the meeting at tho Congregational Congre-gational church. At the theater the Invocation was given by Dr. Henry Conden, chaplain of the House of Representatives, The singing of patriotic and temperance songs WBJ8 inspiring A large company of Loyal Temperance Legion children filled five minutes with a lively salute. At this nine- Miss Anna Gordon introduced introduc-ed Master Leo Lyons, the famous 1 bov soloist of Portland. Maine and I with wonderful effect he sang the new national prohibition campaign song written by Miss Gordon, the re- ! train of which is. In Nineteen Twenty comes the day. Comes the children's happy day. In Nineteen Hundred Twenty There'll be prohibition plenty Wl"n Columbia drives the drink away. He was most enthusiastically en- i cored and happily responded. Many I official white ribboner? were present, and among those who made brief ad-dresses ad-dresses were a dozen or more state and national officers. Mr3. Mary Harris Armor, president of the Georgia W. C T. U . made the principal speech in the theater Her , presentation of the great subject I "National Constitutional Prohibition by 1920 and Why" was a masterly , effort and must have convinced everyone ev-eryone open to conviction that the liquor traffic is the most terrible foe In all the world, and that It must go, that It Is going and that it will be Cone by 1920. Mrs Stevens in her Introductory' remarks, spoke of the proclamation for National Constitutional Prohibl- 1 t!on, which she made two years ago In the name of the World's and Na-I Na-I t!onal W. C. T. U The proclamation was effectively read by Miss Gladys ! Emig and Congressman Hobson's Joint resolution for National Constltu- ! tiona' Prohibition was read by Mr. R. Stanton Henry, and amid great enthusiasm and uuanlmlty the resolution resolu-tion was endorsed by the great audi once, coupled with a promise to do everything possible to hasten the coming of the day when National Constitutional Prohibition will be the law of the land. Cvery allusion to Congressman Hobs on was heartily cheered He Is without doubt the prohibition hero of the day clear-cut. strong, fearless, capable, one who always stands "four1 square" for tbe great cause of total abstinence and prohibition In Its highest development. At the mooting at the Congrega- J tloual church, Mrs Frances P Park-presided. Park-presided. Mrs. Mary Harris. Hrs. j Lulu Shepard, president of Utah W. C. T. U , and Mrs. Florence D Rich- , ard? of Ohio, spoko and Congressman Congress-man Hobson's resolution was unani- mously endorsed. In the evening another large meeting meet-ing was held at the Calvary Baptist church, a groat meeting at which Mrs. I Frances Beauchamp of Kentucky and! several other noted orators spoke The Washington papers on Sutur-day Sutur-day announced that eighty per cent of the sermons at the Sunday morn- I lug services would be In support of the demand for a prohibition amend- i ment to the Federal constitution On Wednesday, December 10. at I ten o clock a m. the white rlbbonors a thousand strong, led by Mrs Lillian !. N. Stevens and the Anti-Saloon 1 League, led by Dr. Purley A. Baker. I marched to the Capitol where ten I minute speeches wore made by two j sp. akers from each organization and one from the Federated Churches. On Thursday, Dece-mber 11. In the afternoon occurred the presentation I by Senator Shepard in tho Senate, aud Congressman Hobson in tbe I hout of the resolution for the prohibition pro-hibition amendment, which was followed fol-lowed by a discussion which created rounds of applause from the galleries galler-ies nnd was the cause of much ex-i ex-i Itcment throughout the nation on neeount of Representa'U e I !.!- , . ' . Irr.nkness of speech (Signed), LKOTA S. KENNEDY. |
