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Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 257, 30 October 1925, Page 11

Is Prohibition a Failure in America ? Read what President Harding says— The following is the President of the U.S.A.'s summary of J Prohibition:— " In every community men and women have had an opportunity now to know what Prohibition means. They know that debts are more promptly paid; that men take home the wages that once were wasted in the saloons; that families are better clothed and fed, and more money finds its way into the savings banks. The liquor traffic was destructive of much that was precious in American life. In the face of so much evidence on that point, what conscientious man would want to let his own selfish desires influence him to vote to bring it back? In another generation I believe that liquor will have disappeared, not merely from our politics, but from our memories." Prohibition in U.S.A. —Stranger Sees Benefits. New York, January 11, 1925. Dr. Gifford Gordon, of Melbourne, speaking at Atlantic City, New Jersey, said that Prohibition had made the United States happier and more prosperous. It had also decreased crime. Dr. Gordon has been surveying the country and noting the effects of Prohibition. He learned from the Health Department, New York, that the deaths from alcoholic poisoning in the city are less than one-sixth of the 1916 total. He said: "' Yet the newspapers want you to believe that alcoholic poisoning is increasing I since Prohibition came into force."—A. and N.Z. Cable.) Father Mathews, who was the Apostle of Prohibition in Ireland (who got 6,000,000 of his countrymen to sign the pledge), threw out this challenge to Ireland and to the world:— " Show mc a man or a woman who was ever better, body or I soul, for the drink." wKf tine hides all scratches and ugly worn spots HB //\ \ * "*" o!d at your nearest paint store. JQS& V Sydney and London.