NBWTA Report 1903-034
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62 63 year by year, and had we no worker to send at the right moment, the Let us all remember this sort of work results would be much worse. does not make much show on paper, but it is of immense importance to the well-being of our Association. Miss Lucy Taylor, our organizer, has done a very careful, conscientious, plodding work throughout the year, and many weak Branches can testify to the help and uplift her visits-have given. I have, as you know, for the past few years been trying to build I shall be able to tell up a permanent subscription list for this work. this year how far I have been successful. I think every Temperance worker must realize that it is the very backbone of our work, and that they will not lightly refuse the financial aid which it is almost impossible to obtain from outsiders. I cannot conclude the report without a special word of thanks and acknowledgment for the admirable organization of our last annual meetings at Birmingham. Financially, they were an extraordinary success. The annual meeting yielded a nett profit of £88. It was a delight to watch every department at the work, the wheels moving so smoothly ; everybody knew exactly the piece of work they had to do, and everybody did it with unflagging cheerfulness, patience, and skill. We look forward to the same happy arrangements in our future councils in the Provinces. Mary C GoruHAM, Hon. National Since writing the above, our auditor has sent me I think the working of the Literature Department. that, without troubling you with all the intricacies Treasurer: in her report of it is only right of the figures, I tell you of the very strong words of commendation she has given con- cerning the excellent management and accurate book-keeping of this department by our Secretary, Miss Hunt, and her helpers in the office. Full particulars of the financial results will be seen in the balance sheet of the Literature Department. dei HE Eee Eee Y Branches of Great Britain now include over 10,000. There are in England alone a membership 140 Branches, of and in Scotland over 40 Branches. Our membership has been increased during the year by about 500. This increase has been largely due to the Frances Willard Memorial Membership Scheme, inaugurated by Miss Swankie Cameron, for the 17th of February, the day appointed by the World’s W.C.T.U. as a Memorial Day to our departed leader, Miss Frances E, Willard. On that day, one Branch alone, the Aston Y Branch (Birmingham), secured ninety-one new members ; and they received from Lady Henry Somerset, at the annual Y meeting the prize of a portrait of Miss Willard for securing the largest number of new members on Membership Day. The principal work of the Y’s during the past year has been in connection with the White Ribbon Bands among factory girls, under the able superintendency of Miss Lowenstein. This work ‘has found an. wie into over one hundred factories, with between three or four ee members, and will, we believe, be the means of saving from ere . es of drink thousands of our sorely-tempted young sisters, ie re to be the future mothers and home-keepers of our country. early all the girls to whom we have been able to appeal have seemed eager to become members of these White Ribbon Bands and there i hardly any field of labour where the Y ‘Temperance ‘work could a ae so wide and encouraging a success. The field is limitless ne workers are ready, and it only needs funds to enable us to spread these Bands into every factory in England. ‘ a tee the eda to understand the needs of these poor sisters of bs es oe into a factory myself for a few days, disguised asa factory oo Aor ee their work, and as far as possible their life. It was a abate etorgotten experience, and it taught me, as nothing else 4 A €ir sore temptations and their vital needs. I found te girls oe ares, and kind and generous towards one another in a way ee ee ee better educated girls, but uncouth and ignorarit coe aa ible degree. Their homes were poor beyond con- Thee bs A all their surroundings were depressing and degradin g. sane ee eet and eee and the little they had was e, rally their only stimulant, and their onl mas Bea eias see yet they welcomed eagerly my Tothdcfaute — oie ede ae them they fairly clamoured : hear ur Boba to take up and help feat this White Minoura, : Oh Fics frepavine Y work has been in connection with the Nest pe pian ae CEA Hoella er the efficient care of our Nest Superintendent, Miss ph a great deal has been done for the children who have ere, and we warmly commend this work to our Y’s au oe Branches have been organized during the past patie oo ue “7 I special attention to the splendid organizi ng work Sidiieiie itchell, of Bradford, who has personal ly organized ten pe TRA Te a under the superintendency of Miss Nunnely, ea nt work in teaching purity and right living to our awak the en slumber in g ter ey fe eee nluable in ing conster classes to a sense of their duties heir aan te ponsibil duti abi ities tidcthnMn in this ieetbatt gre ine - as car a and in bringing them forward and training eee - VUur success in this respect has been very great, and I am more |