WOMAN’S CHRISTIAN TEMPER

ANCE UNION, THE NATIONAL, an organization founded in Cleveland, Ghio, in 1874, for the purpose of combating the spread of intemperance. In over forty states its influence has been responsible for the pa ing of laws with this tendency, including laws forbidding the sale of tobacco to minors and laws compelling the study of the effects of intemperance on the human body in the public schools. It was also responsible for the appointment of police matrons in many cities, and for the establishment in almost all cities of refuges for erring women. Several years ago it had 10,000 local unions and about half a million members, but in 1921 it instituted a succe ful drive to bring its membership up to the million mark. The work of the organization is carried on through six leading departments; organization, preventive, educational, evangelistic, social and legal. In 1920 a Department of Women in Industry was formed. Campaigns are also carried on against the use of drugs, through the Anti-Narcotics Department. The World Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, founded largely by Frances E. Willard, in 1883, has 83 branches in half as many countries. National headquarters are maintained in Evanston, Ill. The officers in 1922 were Mi Anna A. Gordon, president; Mrs. Francis P. Parks, corresponding secretary, and Mrs. Margaret C. Munns, treasurer. The official organ is the Union Signal.