NBWTA Report 1904-045
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86 87 at £1,018 instead of £973. The work in this Department increases year by year, and although the figures are less, a larger amount of work is represented by them.” As showing the growth of the work, it may interest the Council to know that whereas in 1898 the sales amounted to £527 17s., the latest balance sheet to March 31st, 1904, (see page 151) gives the sales as PRESS 4973 98. 9d. RIBBON” graphs as possible being inserted in the papers, and thus arouse general We are glad to report a steady increase in the sale of our official organ. ‘The sales during the year ending 31st March, 1904, amount to 4787 11s. 1d. Last year they were £748 8s. 6d. We circulate 20,250 copies per month. Our profits on the year are £157 6s. 6d., £48 ros. less this year than last owing to the fact that we are receiving less for our advertisements. During the two years and three months the White Ribbon Committee (the President, Miss Gorham, and myself) have managed the paper we have made a profit, after paying editorial and all other expenses, of £394 4s. 6d. We urge every delegate to introduce our paper to her hostess, and it is of the utmost importance that it should be taken in and read by every member of our Association, for wherever it is read increased interest in our work must be aroused. We have published more accounts of meetings during the last year than ever before. In order not to disappoint our Branches, which are circulating the paper so well, we are printing the reports in small type so as to publish more of them in our limited space. Our local Superintendents have been most vigilant in sending reports to our official organ. _ In reply to a question as to the expenses in connection with the distribution of the paper, Miss Hunt stated that the distribution and financial work had always been done by the staff at Headquarters, the parcels only, being sent out by the city agent under instructions from the office. The increase of sales is shown by the following figures :— Year ending Sales. hn March March March 31, 1808 31, 1899 31, 1900 Advertisements. Sard: ab SHE eo -R5 SS eR OnnO +. 588 Il 4 cee OO A @ March 31, 1901 March 31, 1902 469 doo O28. Ys) March March ssl) és 7430980 6 62787" 1 Heat 31, 1903 31, 1904 © th. oA 6) Loss. ada © en ey cate get Royalties. 14710) 20 TS FORO Advertisements. 146 Io oO 100 O eS scan eth Profit. Amc: £ s. a aehs pias Soro AO TS 34 a a8 es 2 coo 33°10 eae 87 Belz Oni aes «as) aa E edad AGNES 203%a//0N5 1571.0) (6 E. SLAck. ea DEPARTMENT. so “WHITE DEPARTMENT, The work of our Branches against the Compensation proposals of Also the the Government has been well kept to the front in the Press. meetings of our National Executive Committee have been widely noticed, and whenever the committee has met in the provinces, special arrange- ments have been made for reports of the proceedings to be published by a number of provincial papers. It is of the utmost importance that every one of our Branches should appoint a Local Press Superintendent who would secure as many para- interest in the local temperance effort. The general Press has been regularly supplied with items of news relative to our organization. American, Colonial, and foreign papers also have been kept in touch with our doings. Articles from our President on the present crisis have been widely published. Our Branches have in many instances secured excellent Press notices of their meetings, and in this way much needed teaching on temperance principles has been accomplished during the past critical year. It is important in the absence of reporters that some- one should write reports of meetings and forward them to the local Press. Paragraphs on our agitation on the Barmaid question have, I believe, appeared in almost very newspaper in England. AGNES FOOD REFORM E. SLACK. DEPARTMENT. The importance of Food Reform in preventing and curing inebriety was taught by Sir Benjamin Richardson, Dr. F. R. Lees, and Dr. Norman Kerr, and medical men of the present day proclaim the same truth. Dr. Robert Jones recently told the Society for the Study of Inebriety that “Women who lack knowledge of cooking and the selection of good and proper food are largely responsible for men drinking to excess,” for ‘‘if men were properly fed there would be far less recourse to alcohol.” The celebrated Dr. Haig wrote to Mrs. Windley that ‘‘if Tem- perance is to advance in this country it will only do so by going to the root of the matter and looking into the food of the people, for as food is the source of life, it influences all problems connected with life. The Temperance Associations will never regret going to the root of the matter and fighting with causes instead of results.” Dr. R. Hutchinson says that people ought to “ feed up” as well as “wake up,” as “the craving for alcohol would be much reduced if people were better fed.” The interesting experiment successfully carried out by the Salvation Army at their Home for Inebriate Women at Hillsboro House, Stam- ford Hill, confirms the opinions of these medical men that a properly selected diet of the “kindly fruits of the earth” will diminish the craving for alcoholic stimulants. |