The 51st Convention of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union assembled in Detroit with great enthusiasm. Miss Anna Gordon,* who for ten years has presided over its destinies, but wishes now to retire to her work as W. C. T. U. World President, opened the meeting:
"Let us ever gratefully bear in mind the encouraging truth that our work for world sobriety is a major contribution to the program for international and interracial friendliness and a warless world.
"The Occident today must better exemplify to the Orient the Christianity it professes. It must deal justly, love...