You are today among a citizenship on this coast that is very fair, broad-minded and ready to assist your cause whenever convinced that it will be an advantage and a betterment to our present government.
It is supposed by many that because our so-called leisure women have been able to do so much apparently good community betterment work without the ballot we do not need it.
Philadelphia to reform municipal conditions through Civic Betterment Clubs, not by the ballot in the hands of women but through the men voters.
To this end, then, she devoted her intelligence diligently, with the result that she soon had concrete plans of betterment for the many, and these of a sort to redound directly to her husband's advantage in a business way.
They arranged philanthropic schemes for the bettermentof conditions for the little brothers and sisters who gained a sustenance by toil at their behest.
My office in Piccadilly has received within its sympathetic walls a procession of born cranks, of souls charged with high missions for the betterment of the world.
Or the address is entirely secular; a downright unbeliever has been invited to give the audience the benefit of his knowledge or experience, in connection with some great movement for the betterment of the world.
A peculiar feature attending this work for the betterment of the river was, that in its incipient stages it met with little or no encouragement from any of the men personally engaged in navigating steamboats on the river.
The interests of the poor, the cause of temperance, the betterment of the social life of the people were as irrelevant to the case as the flowers that bloom in the spring.
There has been a clear failure in the smaller local governing bodies in putting in force even such legislation as exists for the betterment of the district.
For the rest he devoted himself during the better part of a quarter of a century to the housing and the social betterment of the workers in town and country, with results which are reflected in their present vastly improved condition.
Finally, Colonel Nugent Everard represented one of the oldest Anglo-Irish families of the Pale and the author of several projects tending to the betterment of the people.
And to the credit of their authors and, be it said also, of the country for whose upliftment and betterment they were intended, they have endured greatly, and greatly fulfilled their purpose.
The host was a man of business, famed for his success and his interest in public affairs, and especially generous in giving of his money and time to further movements that attempt the betterment of rural life.
It is by no means true that this removal always means financial bettermentor that such is its motive.
There were others who had wealth, and gave possibly as much to the betterment of mankind as did Dodge, but we cannot now recall any man of great wealth who would deny himself as much personally, beside giving, as he did.
In company with his wife he made an European tour, and on his return resolved to do something with his money for thebetterment of society.
What enterprise can you mention looking to the betterment of material interests in which he did not have part?
We are busy with the betterment of economic conditions and questions about morality and religion puzzle us.
They developed an interest, of which they knew nothing before, in the spiritual and material betterment of the men, women and children of their village.
It is the contact, the friendly rivalry thus created, which brings about a betterment and improvement of conditions.
The islands are heavily subsidized by France to the great bettermentof living standards.
From such a view it must follow that the economic betterment of an individual or a society can consist neither in the accumulation of material wealth alone nor in a more diversified technical knowledge and skill.
It was Nature's old, old game of stamen, pistil and pollen, that fertilizes the world of business, betterment and beauty.
And all of their pious plans for human betterment have their root in a selfish desire for personal aggrandizement.
The dream of human betterment was still in his heart.
The Dickens idea of betterment was the priestly plan of dole.
By his will Girard left many benefactions for the betterment of humanity.
When he died he had four million dollars left, which was distributed, by his will, largely for the betterment of society.
Thus at Multam, for the betterment of their sanded putting "browns" they keep them oiled all over, so that the ball runs evenly along them, and at a reasonable pace.
If these points are considered it will appear that there are deep truths in them, while at the same time they convey morals and point the way to a betterment of one's game.
He is deeply and helpfully interested in all measures which seek the betterment of the community, and endeavors to shape the public welfare according to the highest ideals.
Mr. Hopper was a member of the Board of Trade and was a public-spirited citizen, interested in all that pertained to civic betterment and improvement.
He stood stanchly in support of many of those factors which work for the betterment of the individual and for the community and at the same time he conducted a successful business indicative of his ability and his enterprise.
He has been prominently identified with almost every movement looking to the betterment of Jewish conditions in this country, and his labors have been effective forces in promoting the welfare of those of his faith.
He stands for all that works for civic betterment and improvement and is a close student of the vital problems affecting the welfare of city, province and nation.
He has active connection and voice in the management of many organizations looking to the betterment of trade and commercial relations.
She has been connected with many societies and movements in Montreal that have to do with the betterment of the people, the city or its conditions.
My mind, as you have seen, was surcharged with crude but fervent desires for the material betterment of my kind.
It'll be your turn to struggle and muss things up, for the betterment of posterity, soon enough," said Aunt Sarah Crim.
As to the betterment of the individual morals of the contemporary Japanese, however, the influence of Christianity cannot be said to have been wholesome in all ways.
From it, he or she may go forth to renumerative industry, to economic, social and industrial betterment which is for the benefit of all humanity.
In fact it is a human psychological hospital, an economic betterment provider, within the gates and welcome arch of every city.
However, as an investigator I determined to test the heads of the great foundations, and the mighty masters of finance, to feel their attitude toward unemployment and governmental ownership and agencies for the betterment of social conditions.
Robert Wilson, is an able and public-spirited physician of the highest standing; an earnest student of conditions, and eager for the sanitary betterment of his State.
But with one exception they afford the only example of unofficial effort toward the betterment of sanitary conditions, that I witnessed in Charleston.
