JUDGE CHEEVER PLEASED CHILDREN

JUDGE CHEEVER PLEASED CHILDREN

There was a great gathering of school children in Newberry hall Tuesdayafternoon, perhaps the largest it has ever seen, and for half an hour or more, there was an incessant clicking of many heels upon the hard floors. They gathered with their teachers to hear Judge Cheever speak about one of the great men of American history - Wendell Phillips. "He stands beside Washington and Lincoln as a patriot who devoted his life to the welfare of his country." Mr. Cheever told of his service to William Lloyd Garrison, who was to be hung - "For what?" asked the judge. "Because he was a great abolitionist; because he addressed a crowd of women on the question of African slavery, a thing for which we now canonize his as one of the greatest men this country has produced." And a hundred Tam-o'-Shantered heads and a hundred more uncovered ones tried to look intelligent, and no one could dent they were interested. The lecture was one which children of a larger growth could well appreciate and listen to with much profit. The life and history and great deeds of a great man were told with all the enthusiasm of one who was his personal friend, and in whose nature was sympathy with his defender of the right.

After the lecture, Mrs. McNitt superintendent of the Loyal Temperance Legion, explained to the children what the organization was, and took over sixty names of those who wished to become members. A meeting was appointed to be held at Newberry hall on Monday, at 3:30, when officers for the society will be elected.

The motto adopted by the society yesterday was "Ann Arbor needs no saloons." And their rally cry rang through the hall:

Rah, rah, rah!

Hear our yell,

We are the Ann Arbor

L. T. L.

After the society is fully organized, a union service will be held once a month.