| | Handbook of Texas Online: WOMAN'S CHRISTIAN TEMPERANCE UNION |
 | | By the 1930s the WCTU, like prohibition, had lost its progressive image: temperance women devoted themselves to polling political candidates for their views on alcohol; campaigning for "drys"; and protesting cigarette advertising, gambling, bathing-beauty contests, and suggestive motion pictures. |
 | | The WCTU operated through departments of work, the number of which fluctuated over the years but averaged two dozen. |
 | | Focusing on the drinking man's neglect and abuse of his wife and children and speaking as "organized motherhood," the WCTU promoted an agenda of social-welfare reforms and asked for woman suffrage |
| www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/WW/vaw1.html (1222 words) |