WCTU

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 80, 30 June 1928, Page 4

WCTU

ADDRESS BY MISS McCORKINDALE (Contributed.) ; St. Andrews’ Hall was taxed to its utmost on Thursday afternoon when the ladeis of the local W.C.T.U. met Miss I. McCorkindale, Education Director' of the W.C.T.U. in Australia. The hall was prettily decorated with autumn leaves, and a dainty afternoon tea was banded round, after which Miss McCorkindale (who is a very fluent speaker) held her audience for an hour. She has a wonderful international outlook, and a fund of humor with which to carry her points home. She said that public opinion is the first ' law o f the people, and womanhood is the cr^ ator * of public opinion. Women world must realise they have a: i©ry real responsibility, and if woman so willed they could change‘ the age old custom of taking alcoholic Uqbofr as a beverage. Laying great stress on the personal touch and speaking of an old lady of 72 who joined-her instruction class in Adelaide, the speaker said if people are so Set in their ideas that they cannot change or admit any new ones, they iue old, if only 25, so not make one young or old. A committee of workers fas formed, and fresh - impetus given to the work. _ __.., L-L-.-i.iA