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(Continued From Page 1) ture which Dr. McClellan is back ing. The state hospital head be lieves that it is an injustice which approaches inhumanity to arrest, lock up in jail and then take before the probate court a mentally afflict ed person to be formally adjudged insane before he can be sent to the hospital. More humane laws, he believes, would not oblige the pat ient to go through that formality. Dr. McClellan explained the plans of the Ohio Association for Welfare of the Mentally Sick. This organi zation, which requires no money from members, plans to obtain 250, 000 memberships to be used in advocating enactment of more hu mane laws for the mentally afflict ed by the next legislature. He dis tributed among the audience en velopes containing ten membership cards asking that each woman ob tain the ten memberships and mail the cards to the headquarters of the association in Columbus. Mrs. Carrie L. Flatter was elected president of the county W. C. T. U. for her twenty-first year by the convention, to which she read her annual address in the morning. Other officers elected by the or ganization are: vice president, Miss Mary Ervin; recording secretary, Mrs. Hichenry Dunkle; correspond ing secretary, Miss Jennie Thomas; treasurer, Mrs. Mattie Smith, Spring Valley. Reports of departmental heads were given at the morning session Outstanding among these reports were those of Mrs. Emma Simons, who has charge of clipping and compiling press reports of the ac tivities of the county organization. She appeared before the convention and gave her report with newspa pers clippings pinned over her dress and umbrella. Mrs. Lester Oglesbee illustrated her report of the Christian Citizen ship work with banners and attrac tive posters. She stressed necess ity of “voting for the man instead of the party.” She mentioned the work of the Greene County W. C. T. U. which was the first in the state to inaugurate voting schools for women after suffrage was en acted. These schools were strictly non-partisan. Dr. B. L. Lackey, who has charge of the evangelistic work at the county jail which was formerly con ducted by the W. C. T. U. reported that the average age of 250 prison ers during the year was twenty six, with the majority boys in their twenties. A child of ten and a man of sixty were the youngest and old est in jail during the year. Miss Anna McCracken made a report on the Bible in the public school work. The organization has placed a copy of the ten command ments in each school in the county. Mrs. Spencer Shank explained the plan to extend the junior Red Cross work throughout the county schools, instilling into the minds of the young, international good feel ing and fellowship through corres pondence with the children of oth er nations. Miss Jean B. Elwell, president of the Greene County Library Board, addressed the gathering upon the library work and introduced Mrs. P. H. Flynn, who explained the pro posal to extend the library by es tablishment of a county library dis trict, which will go before the vot ers at the November election. Work among young people was the subject of the talk by Miss Mary Ervin, heys of the national and World L. ’I. L. Miss Ervin explain ed the efforts being made to en roll all young people in the Nation al Prohibition Guards. She has en rolled the 600 children at the O. S. and 8S. O. Home in this plan, she said. The convention adopted the fol lowing resolutions: “By precept and example that we encourage the observance of all laws and co-operate with those in authority in the enforcement there of and urge enlarged emphasis be placed, on instruction along these lines in the home, school, church, and all civic organizations. “That we as an organization £ 0 on record as endorsing the work of the Ohio Association for Relief of the Mentally Sick and that a copy of these resolutions be sent to that society. “That we also go on record as fa voring physical training under com petent instructors in our public schools and that we are opposed to compulsory military training in our educational institutions, believing that compulsory military education hinders the growth of international good.” Musical part of the convention program included vocal solos by Mrs. D. L. Croy and Mrs. Raymond Wolf and an organ solo by Miss Margaret Trone.
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Xenia Evening Gazette
Xenia, Ohio, US
Sat, Sep 18, 1926
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