PRIVATE FLASKS
FOR GIRLS AND BOYS.
WISDOM OF PROHIBITION
QUESTIONED. (bt cable—peess association copyright.) (australian and n.z. cable association.) (Received March 3rd, 10.15 p.m.) NEW YORK, March 2. Police-Commissioner Enright, speaking before a church audience, said that it was considered "smart" by boys and girls to carry flasks of liquor, generally of bad quality, when they attended parties. And the general reaction from such a course of conduct was most injurious to the morale and health of our young people. Distinguished men in professional life—judges, statesmen, captains of industries, gentlemen of the Cloth, and men who always havo represented the highest standards of honour and integrity carry their private- flasks and maintain a private supply of intoxicating liquors at office, home, and club. One is inclined to pause when men of this type openly flout the laws, and consider whether such laws aro altogether desirable in government which, rightfully or wrongfully, is based on certain diversified ideas of personal liberty.
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Press, Volume LX, Issue 18013, 4 March 1924, Page 7
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