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Sir,—l am much struck by the concluding sentenco in "P.F.'s" short letter in your issue of to-<lay. "There are many men ig,this country who, if they cjannot get their drjnk at night will have it in the day> whiqh will tend to decrease pfficieLcy," I. entirely agree both as to fact and effect. But this is no argument for retaining long hours. It is a straight out admission that drinking decreases efficiency, "and if it means anything it moans that tho drink traffic would be bettor 6wopt flway altogether. 'Ittn the "many men" could not uet the stuff which decreases efficiency either night or dav. Drinking is .uot a necessity—it is a habit,--and a very bad one; and it is hight time in any Christianised or even civilised community that something drastjiTshould'bo done to stop, or &fc least to check, it. The extent to which tMs vice, and its first cousins, have been permitted to go on is indefensible on any ground— moral, physical, industrial, or economic— Inm ' 6tC -- BBTTTICUS. July 20. 1917.
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3142, 21 July 1917, Page 8
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176SIX O'CLOCK- CLOSING Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3142, 21 July 1917, Page 8
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