W.C.T.U.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18235, 20 November 1924, Page 2

W.C.T.U.

JUBILEE CONVENTION. GREAT GATHERING IN CHICAGO(BX CABLE—PBESS ASSOCIATION— COPYRIGHT) (AUSTRALIAN -AND K.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION.) (Eeceived November 19th, 8.40 p.m.) NEW YORK,-November 18. Mrs Rachel Don, national president of the New-Zealand Women's Christian Temperance Union, delivered the principal sermon at the Jubilee Convention of. the now being held in Chicago. The proceedings included a unique banquet in honour Of overseas delegates, ''where every item on the menu consisted of- products manufactured at de-licenscd breweries.

Mrs Don has spent six months travelling throughout the United States, and says she saw only four d*unkeii men. All . classes of citizens, from Governors to the greenest police recruit, were unanimous ' that America would'. -never renounce Prohibition. She is convinced that there is no other way to account for the great impetus given to home 'building, the _ tremendous number of automobiles, the increase in savings bank - deposits, the universal prosperity,, the. decrease of crime (as evidenced by empty gaojs), and the decrease of poverty (as proved by the decline of many charitable institutions). .

-That the Prohibition Convention is world-wide in character i 3 shown by the presence of many famous missionaries, including Miss Flora Stout, who spent 17 years in Burma, Ceylon, and the Straits Settlements, Miss Christine Tinging, from China, and Mrs Price from India. .