WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN TEMPERANCE UNION.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 26, 24 September 1912, Page 3

WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN TEMPERANCE UNION.

(Contributed.)

At Dr. Elizabeth Dunn's addr-ess to men and women in the Town Hall on Sunday evening, under the auspices of the W.C.T.U., despite the inclemency of the weather there was a sympathetic audience of men and women, and several important questions wore dealt with. It was gratefully acknowledged by the speaker that the freedom that women now enjoyed from fear of insult in the streets if they kept to the pub-

lic thoroughfare, was duo to the presence and number of good men—men who valued their virtue as their honour and their life. She thanked them for their presence there, for their sympathy, and their support: women had too long tried to fight alone. It was felt that nothing can be really accomplished unless the men and women fight side by side. Apart from men, women cannot realise their highest possibilities, their real happiness being bound up the one with the other. The members of the Women's Christian Temperance Union were determined to demand the same standard of virtue for the man as the woman. It was the child's birth-right to'have an acknowledged father, a glad and rejoicing mother ,and a home in which it could be nurtured, educated, and protected.!