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Convention U. Personalitie
MRS, AUGUST BURGHARD
State Treasurer ol the Ga. W. C. T. U.
Mrs. Burghaid, as Mrs. Armor says,
“is a wonder.” She comes nearer car¬
rying out Miss Willard’s famous “Do
Everything Policy” than any woman in
the Georgia W. C. T. U. She keeps
an elaborate set of books—big ledgers
full of the neatest figures showing how
the very small income of the organiza¬
tion is divided into many “Funds” for
different purposes. She devises means
to raise money; she writes eloquent
and varied appeals in every issue of
The Bulletin, besides many private let¬
ters to good friends of our cause; she
regularly corresponds with every treas¬
urer i% a spirit of unselfish and so in¬
spiring that, if it is at all possible,
will redouble their efforts to supply
“the sinews of war;” she has perfect
ed a system of keeping accounts for
the local treasurers and had it pub¬
lished in book form (her husband
teases her about being the author of
a blank book) ; those who use it are
finding if a great help nevertheless.
Her letters to the various workers
are a strong factor in the success of
our work for in them she puts her
whole heart and seldom fails to find
an aswer in the hearts of the white
ribbon women. Last year she wrote
five thousand letters, including circu¬
lar letters, and every one not circular
was written by her own hand for she
does not use a typewriter or have any
assistant.
Besides all this Mrs. Burgliard sup¬
plies "live and interesting articles to
the press of her own city, The Tele¬
graph and The News, and is special
correspondent of our National organ.
The Union Signal. Both as a repor¬
ter and inspirational writer she is fine
and her copy is easily accepted by the
big dailies, for she knows what consti¬
tutes news and can tell it intelligently.
There is perhaps no woman who keeps
up better than she with the great anti¬
alcohol movement of the world to day.
In her private capacity Mrs. Burg
hard is the wife of Dr. August Buiv
hmd, a well known dentist of Macon,
and the mother of a splendid family of
children--two sons and three daugh¬
ters, who are being well trained and
cared for. She is an enthusiastic
member of Centenary M. E. Church
and as a good missionary as she is a.
white ribbon woman.
WORDS OF WISDOM
FROM FRANCES WILLARD
“ ‘Begin farther back’ is the lesson
of the hour. Beat not your knuckles
against the granite of mature charac¬
ter when you can mold the clay of a
three year old's habit and intention.
“Children can he trained to physical
holiness and the knife and fork may
become the flaming swords that guard
the gates to their health paradise.
God hasten the day of scientific moth¬
erhood that will build into her child
before and after its birth the beati¬
tudes of wholesome appetite! Then
will alcoholic drinks gurgle into their
normal home, the gutter, instead of
bespattering the temple of God, and
tobacco will send the smoke of its tor¬
ment from the bottomless pit where it
belongs, rather than from that holy
place, the organs of human speech, and
the cradle of that heavenly rainbow—
a human smile. But we must begin
with the babe in arms, for grown man
is ‘up in arms’ at the mere mention of
such a revolution.”
CAN YOU PRAY FOR IT?
“How dare you champion a thing
you can’t pray for?” demanded Mary
Harris Armor recently of an audi¬
ence at the First Methodist church of
Erie. Pa. “How dare you say, ‘Thy
will be done on earth.’ and go out and
sign a liquor license application? How
dare you pray, ‘Deliver us from evil.’
and put a stumbling block in the path
of your neighbor’s son? You uo these
things,” continued Mrs. Armor, “every
time you vote for the liquor interests,
every time you put your name on an
application for licensing the sale of
liquor in your community.”
MISS M. THERESA GRIFFIN,
Of Columbus.
Recording secretary of the Georgia
and Superintendent of publications,
each year getting out a state report
most creditable in technique; editing
flic Georgia IV. C. T. U. Bulletin,
which ranks with the best state offi¬
cial organs; having charge of the pub¬
lication of that splendid contribution
to temperance literature, “The Georgia
W. C. T. U. History,” by Mrs. J. J.
Ansley. Miss Griffin is an experienced
newspaper woman, editing for a long
term of years the “Social Page,” under
the nondeplume “Kouak.” and “With
the Leagues and Clubs” columns of
the Columbus Enquirer-Sun.
Three years ago she resigned her
secular newspaper position in order
to devote her entire time and talents
to W. C. T. U. activities. Referring
to her work on the Enquirer-Sun, Mr.
Woodall, editor of The Georgia-Ala
bama Industrial Index, has the follow¬
ing to say:
“The department grew to be one of
the greatest factors in the develop¬
ment of Columbus along municipal, ed¬
ucational and esthetic lines. Miss
Griffin’s comments were characterized
by strong common-sense and were
forceful by virtue of their obvious
merit.”
Miss Grffin is the vice-president of
the Columbus Federation of Woman’s
Clubs, composed of the literary, edu¬
cational. musical and philanthropic
clubs of her city. Here her influence
is potent and benign. She holds ii
high office in the missionary organiza¬
tion of her church. Miss Griffin is
practical, logical. unostentatious,
“seeketli not her own,” is conservative,
of gracious dignity, honored even by
those who differ with her in opinion,
and loved wherever she is known.
HISTORY OF THE
GEORGIA W. U. T. U.
When the State Prohibition law T was
passed in 1907 the women of the W.
C. T. V. were so jubilant over it and
so keenly grateful to the men who had
fought for their cause and won it,
that they determined to accomplish in
some way a lasting memorial of the
event. They wanted something that
would describe the women’s part in
the struggle that had been crowned
by a prohibitory law—a struggle that
had been going on since the colony
of Georgia was established by General
Oglethorpe and the importation and
sale of rum was “forever” forbidden
They wanted, too, to place in perman¬
ent form the names of the men who
had voted for the Prohibition Law of
Georgia.
Mrs. Armor’s idea was a bronze
fountain on the capital square in At¬
lanta and that very summer of 1907
the organization began collecting a
fund for this purpose. Later a his¬
tory was proposed as the better plan
and found favor with all. Mrs. J. J
Ansley, of Marshallville, a consecrated
and rarely talented woman, was
chosen to write it and the funds col¬
lected were used in the purchase of the
manuscript and the publication of the
work.
It is a most attractive volume in ap¬
pearance and of fascinating subject
matter—more like a stirring romance
than like the mental impression which
the word “History” would usually
bring up in the imagination. It will
he seen on the literature table at the
convention soon to convene in our city
and will doubtless be a subject of in¬
terest to the general public. The book
is fully illustrated with good portraits
uf men and women prominent in the
tenqierance cause and contains the
names of every voter for the Prohibi¬
tion Law.
Mrs. Lillian H. M. Stevens, for six¬
teen years president of the National
YV. C. T. F. beautifully said: Through
the quickening power of God the con
science of the people has awakeued;
the victory over the liquor traffic is
not yet complete but—
“Upon the hilltops glistens,
The morning glow for which we wait
and long.” j
THE COVINGTON NEWS, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1915.
MRS. LILLIAN M. MITCHNER.
State President of Kansas W. C. T. U, who will speak
on “National Constitutional Prohibition Night,” Oet., 29th.
Georgia is indeed fortunate in having both Mrs. Boole
and Mrs. Mitchner to be with us during the convention. We
are somewhat indebted to the Panama Exposition for this.
Both will attend the National W. C. T. U. Convention at
Seattle, Wash., and come to us by the Southern route from
California.
Mrs. Boole speaks at the Alabama Convention at Bir¬
mingham, Wednesday night and comes to us for Thursday
night. Mrs. Mitchner speaks at Birmingham Thursday, and
comes to us Friday.
Georgia is especially favored in securing Mrs. Mitchner’s
services as lecturer and organizer during the month of Nov¬
ember,and a route over the state, including as many places as
possible, is now being arranged.
A rare treat is in store for those who will hear Mrs.
Mitchner speak. Her style is charming and graceful, and at
the same time forceful and convincing. It is a splendid story
she tells of prohibition and law-enforcement in her own state.
Gov. Capper, of Kansas, closing a beautiful tribute to her
says: “She has rendered invaluable service to the cause of
temperance and to the state generally.”
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MRS. T. E. PATTERSON, Of Griffin.
Mrs. T. E. Patterson, of Griffin,
Georgia’s charming state president, is
well known for her capacity to think,
sj>eak and act wisely has made itself
felt from year to year. The wife of
a prominent Georgian, himself a pro¬
hibition leader, she enjoys his sympa¬
thy, co-operation and the advantage
of his legal knowledge; she also pos¬
sesses the gift of originality, tact, in¬
defatigable perseverance, a soul aflame
with celestial Are, the love and loy
ality of the rank and file of her co
workers, undaunted
‘Courage—an independent spark from
Heaven’s bright throne.
By which the soul stands raised, tri
umphant. high, alone.”
As a speaker Mrs. Patterson has
“words, wit and worth—power to stir
men’s souls.” Hers is a well rounded
craracter; to the gifts and graces of
leadership are added the virtues of do
mesticity. A model housekeeper, she
stands high in that class which “civil¬
ized man cannot live without.” She
can make bread, cake and salad—
“tilings which in hungry mortals’
eyes find favor.” while a needle in her
nimble fingers grows proud of its at¬
tainments.
Mrs. Patterson is an admirable pre¬
siding officer and will do much to make
every session move off with pleasing
snap and vigor.
Covington may look forward with
delightful anticipations to the Conven¬
tion with Mrs. Patterson in the chair.
MRS ELLA. BOOLE,
of Brooklyn, N. Y.
Vice-President at large of the Nat
tional W. C. T. IT., and President of
the W. C. T. U. of New York state, who
will speak on “Young People, College
and Jubilee,” night of the Convention,
which is Thursday; October 28th.
At one time Mrs. Boole was in
< barge of the young People’s work
in her own state, being for four years
General Secretary of the Young Wo¬
man’s Branch (now the Y. P. B.,t but
she is now serving her twelfth year
as state president and this year her
state made the splendid gain of 40u
new members.
As State President of New Y 7 ork,
Mrs. Boole was hostess to the World’s
Convention of the W. C. T. U. in Brook¬
lyn in 1913. More than fifty coun¬
tries were represented in its member¬
ship and not a few of the Old World’s
distinguished daughters.
Mrs. Boole demonstrated her ability
by making successful plans to enter
tain so large and cosmopolitan a body.
“Mrs. Boole is affilliated with many
clubs of her own and other states and
is, in short, a tine example of modern
wide-awake womanhood; hut it is as
a worker in religious fields that she
is preferably known. Her alma mater,
Wooster College, Ohio, conferred upon
her the degree of Ph. D.”
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MRS. BELLA A. DILLARD.
Mrs. Jennie Hart Sibley, of Union
Point, a flower of southern woman¬
hood, with rare beauty of person and
personality, her “soul within her eyes,
as her clime and sunny as her skies.”
looked out from the shelter of her
beautiful colonial home, Hawthorne
Heights, with its handsome mahogany,
paintings, silver, cut glass and curios
collected in her travels in many lands
—looked out beyond Its flower beds,
velvet lawns, shaded avenues and or
chards, to its cotton fields and saw
in those trying pioneer temperance
days, “King Alcohol” dethroning “King
Cotton,” which made great her home¬
land.
She saw a need and in the face of
indifference, prejudice and stubborn
opposition bravely she arose to dip
that need. Working hand in hm
with the faithful few, she has seen
“King Alcohol,” uncrowned, totter and
fall to everlasting defeat in her loved
state of Georgia, while “King Cotton"
flourishes in his benign work of cloth¬
ing the nations. Mrs. Sibley has seen
the W. C. T. U. grow in Georgia from
the time when her own parlors were
too spacious a gathering place for the
delegates and visitors to a state con
vention until now, when they ever flow
our largest church auditoriums.
Varied have been the offices in the
W. C. T. U. which she has held, being
for a long term of years state presi¬
dent. She is now honorary president,
nlso president of her county and local
union, and state superintendent of
Legislation. The measure of her help
In this noble work will only he known
in the day of great revelations.
Mrs. J. I, Kennedy, of Barnesville,
State Secretary of the Loyal Tem¬
perance Legion, and President of her
union, is one who, “Loves God and lit¬
tle children.” She is doing much to¬
ward the conservation of Georgia’s
chief asset, is child-life, from its arch
enemy, the liquor habit.
By word and pen ever advising the
education of children for purity and
total abstinence.
“For we teach the man when we
teach the child.”
“The strong man comes from the
well taught child.”
“We make the man who is undefiled,
when we teach as we ought the little
child.”
“We have saved the man when we
save the child.”
The hospitality of Mrs. Keunedy’s
spacious home is the joy of the white
ribboners.
She is “actively kind” to dumb an¬
imals, great hearted, liberal.
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MRS. .II LIAN MAGATI
Of Oxford, Correspondin'?
Georgia W. C. T. F,
The presence of Mrs. Magatl,
Official Board is added proof t
State organization is singular!
ed in its officers. Here i
s a
personality, a beautiful Christi!
acter, quiet unobtrusive, with !
an eye to the practical, posses;
too rare virtue of promptness,:
ing desire to help to "Hightr (
both the old and new unions,
these with other qualities wide
up efficiency.
MISS MILDRED RI THERFO
of Athens.
Perhaps no one is better verse!
the history of the convention s
Georgia, from 1733, when its fo
tions were nobly laid by the
hearted prohibitionist, General J
Oglethorpe, who said. “In dec 1
there slAril be no slaves, no per;
tion for religious opinion, no man
tore or sale of intoxicating drink;
through the years of defeats aid
tories In its struggles with liquo
terests. until this good hour,
progress, prosperity and peace fo
prohibition—perhaps no one is
familiar with its civic, military,j
ucational. industrial, aesthetic anc,
cial history than Miss Mildred Bi
erford, an enthusiastic white rit
er of Athens.
A gently-bred doughter of the So
the historian general of the I'nj
Daughters of the Confederacy.
Millie” is known and loved thro
out that land about which Lucian
mar Knight wrote:
“Far. far to the south lies a beau
land,
By the tides of the tireless sea
O, land of my heart, on they surf
en sand,
Mv spirit is dreaming of thee.
God’s Keeps For the Drunk*
“May I not give to the drum
of God’s keeps to help him i
some said
under the temptation."
Rutherford. falling.
He will keep thee from
He will keep thee from the hou,
temptation. Rev. 3:10.
He will keep thy foot trom
‘aken. Prov. 3:26.
He will keep thee in a tt
Vst thou dash thy foot against a J,
Luke 4:11.
He will keep that thou lva ' j
ted to Him. 2 Tim 11’ J
will keep thee m ■
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whither thou guest. <*"•
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He will keep thee hi ••
the place which he
bring thee into 23 20
prepared for thee Ex, : .
OFFICERS AND f 1 T „
COMMITTEES 01
W. C. » I
President—Mrs. W. 0
Recording Secretary-M* j
Rogers. Coresponding Secretary Mrs • f,j
Barnes.
Treasurer—Mrs. 1- ' 1 ^
Tress Reporter Mrs. A
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Committee on Homes
Lester. Chairman. Deration
Committee on
Berto Lee, Chairman
Committee on Reception”
O. Lee, Chairman. A ,
Committee <>n Badge'- -
Paue Wooten, Chairmam
Committee on Auto Hi
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