b'The History We Celebrate continuedNotesAn Association with Deep Roots continuedassociation president commented that her office became the center ofinformation regarding leadership vacancies, volunteer opportunities, newmission start-ups, and mission problems. She served the IUGM longer thanLearn to do right; any other person, and many believe her tact and wisdom during the earlyseek justice. years saved the association from major problems and possibly failure.Defend theEXTERNAL ENVIRONMENToppressed. Take Coming in Waves up the cause ofthe fatherless; H istory has had a way of sending waves of people into rescuemissions. Returning World War I veterans started showing up in theplead the case1920s, but the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution of theof the widow. United States eventually slowed the flow of inebriated men through thefront doors. One patriarch recalled that it was the only time in historyIsaiah 1:17 when some missions closed their addiction recovery programs. A few even closed completely.The Twenty-First Amendment, which repealed prohibition in 1933, started another huge wave. But it was not just the availability of alcoholthat caused the influx; it was also the Great Depression that raisedunemployment in the United States to 25 percent. No jobs meant no foodand missed rent or mortgage payments. Families fell apart. Alcoholismescalated. Missions filled. After waiting in long unemployment lines in themorning, men waited in long rescuemission lines in the afternoon, just to get something to eat and a place to stay.World War II slowed the flow as much of the male population was fightingabroad or stationed in barracks at home.But following the fighting, despite theprosperity that North America wasrealizing, rescue1926 convention attendees and President Calvinmissions againCoolidge started to seeanother wave. It didnt appearimmediately,but grewsteadily asveteranseventuallyslippedthrough the system. 1946 IUGM Convention attendees6'