Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 February 1920 — W. C. T. U. CONFERENCE IN INDIANAPOLIS [ARTICLE]

W. C. T. U. CONFERENCE IN INDIANAPOLIS

What next? This question, so far as the W. C. T. U. is concerned, is answered in the regional conference which is to be held in Indianapolis, Feb. 25 and 26, when the program for the next five years will be discussed with those who are in charge of the several departments of work on hand to outline plans and tell of achievements. Mr?. Elizabeth P. Anderson, National Recording. Secretary of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, will preside over the conference. She will be assisted by Mrs. Culla J. Vayhinged, president of the Indiana W. C. T. U., who will also serve as hostess president of the conference. Mrs. Mary Harris Armor of Crawfordsville, Georgia, known everywhere as a forceful pseaker, will speak at the aftenoon meeting on Wednesday, February 25, as well as at the evening meeting on Thursday, when she will give an address on' World Prohibition. The first evening there will be a mass meeting, at Which Mt. Charles J. Orbison, < Federal Prohibition Director for the Indiana District, will discuss tie Eighteenth Amendment, and relation ,of state machinery with federal machinery for enforcement Preceding Mrs. Armor’s address Thursday evening, there will be. a grand temperance rtftr and the presentation of a Life play, depicting the Americanization work undertaken by that department of the W. C. T. U. = The national directors of the Child Welfare, Americanization, Social Morality and Scientific Temperance Instruction departments W. C. T. U. wprk Will present their subjects at the several day sessions. They have very ambitious pians for the extension of the welfare work of this organization now that the passage of the prohibition amendment has removed the necewity for such close application to that part of the program. . Women from Indiana, _ Dnnois, North Michigan, Minnesota, lowa, Nebraska, Wisconsin, and North and South Dakota are represented in this conference.