LETTER FROM WORLD’S W.C.T.U. PRESIDENT.

White Ribbon, Volume 33, Issue 406, 18 May 1929, Page 6

LETTER FROM WORLD’S W.C.T.U. PRESIDENT.

"Since tlie meeting at Lausanne, our three Vice-Presidents, Mrs Ella Boole, Miss Eniilie J. Solomon, and Miss Maria Sandstrom, have been exceedingly busy on behalf of our blessed programme. For two months Miss Agnes Slack has been in Egypt, and lias organised a fine National W.C.TF. in this historic land. Mrs W\ T. Cr. Brown, of Canada, quickly has endeared herself to her eoofficers. Mrs Brow n will endeavour, through correspondence with missionaries. social and philanthropic workers in some of the British Islands off the Southern Coast of F.S.A., to establish our White Ribbon w'ork where it is woefully needed. Our Treasurer. Mrs Munns, is the embodiment of energy in the pursuit of funds to keep our income up to budget requirements. "You probably know' of a treaty, duly filed with tin* League of Nations, a treaty under which eight wineproducing countries undertake a wine propaganda throughout the world, aimed to forestall any further prohibition laws that would include a ban on wine. The most serious feature of this combine of grapegrow’ing countries is their plan to establish an international office in Paris, from which to broadcast literature on ‘the beneficent effects of wine, its hygienic value, and its helpfulness as an agent in the fight against alcoholism.’ "We must strongly press our department of non-alcoholic fruit pr»>duets, and in every land through our educational programme give special attention to wine as an alcoholic drink. Alcohol, whether found in brandy or whiskey, beer or w'ine, is an enemy w'e must help vanquish." Yours for a world-wide victory, ANNA A. GORDON.