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Show and its people are doing for our girls 1 and the social evils of the day. W. C. T. U. MEETING. Wednesday afternoon, at the homo of Mrs. G. A. Muller, 3057 Porter avenue, ave-nue, tho ladles of the W. C. T. U. enjoyed en-joyed an interesting program, the occasion oc-casion being a memorial In honor of the late Frances 13. Wlllard. The life and work of Miss Wlllard was reviewed by Mrs. G. A. Muller, poems dedicated to tho great leader of the organization were read by Mrs. William Craig and Mrs, Flewclllng, song service was conducted by Mrs Martha May and the devotional service serv-ice by Mrs. Craig, the W. C. T. V. president. An especially Interesting feature of the afternoon was the address ad-dress lo the W. C. T. I, by Mrs. Virginia Vir-ginia Lee Brandt Burg, national worker work-er for the Crlttenton home. Mrs. Burg. In speaking of conditions leading lead-ing up to the great labor questions of the day. and of the fall of so many-young many-young Women, suld, that the liquor traffic and the white slave traffic go hand In hand, and that of the three million unemployed men today a large percentage are either confirmed drunkards or moderate drinkers, and because of their uDtrust worthiness three million girls and women are forced Into their places to earn a livelihood. live-lihood. Too many wives, mothers and daughters are thus forced, directly direct-ly or indirectly. Int.. contact with the world acd compelled to live on such meager salaries that they are often led Info wrong paths In life, the glamour gla-mour of tho sparkllog wine and fine raiment after leading l their ultimate downfall, but, she added, "America always al-ways d--.es the right ihicg when It U once understood that a condition prevails pre-vails that Ih harmful, and as soon as the men ef America are educated to the conclusion that the liquor trafflc is harmful to It people and Its purses the evil will bo abolished." Mrs. Burg will deliver an address on the -White Slave Traffic" In the tabernacle this evening at S o clock. Her lecture which has been delivered before largo audiences in nearly ovory ttate In the Union, will deal with girl life In lerre cltlo. mills, factories and department stores, the in' Ion why girls ro wrong, what our Government |