W.C.T.U. JUBILEE CONVENTION.

Timaru Herald, Volume XCVIII, Issue 18084, 20 November 1924, Page 7

W.C.T.U. JUBILEE CONVENTION.

World-Wide Gathering in Chicago.

PRINCIPAL ADDRESS BY NEW ZEALAND DELEGATE.

By Cable —Urcss Association —Copyright.

Australian ana N.Z. Onblo Association.

(Received 8.30 p.m., November 19.) NEAY A'URK, November 19. Mrs Rac-bel Don (National President of the New Zealand Women’s Christian Temperance Union) delivered the principal sermon at the Jubilee Convention of the AI.C.T.U., now being held at Chicago. The proceedings included a unique banquet in honour of the overseas delegates, where every item on tlie menu .consisted of products mauuiaettired at de-licensed breweries.

Mrs Don, who spent six months travelling throughout the United States, s-ys she saw onlv lour drunken men, and all classes of citizens, from governors to the greenest police recruit. were unanimous that America would never renounce prohibition. She was convinced there was no other way to account for the great impetus given to home building. the tremendous number of automobiles, tlie increase in savings bank deposits, universal prosperity, and the decrease in crime, as evidenced by tlie empty gaols, and the decrease in poverty. ns‘ proved by the dee'ine of.many rh.n.ritnble institutions.

That the prohibition convention is world-wide in character, is shown by the presence of many famous missionaries including Miss Flora Stoul. who snent seventeen years m Burma, Ceylon and tlie Rti-tits RoHlen-mvits, Miss Clir’sGne Tinging from China, and Mrs Price from India.