THEY WERE NOT THERE.
Tho Salvation Army in the U.S.A, used to have a “boozers’ day.” Commander Evangeline Booth, writing about this, says: “The entire army world seems to have heard of our boozers’ day—how year by year we have celebrated Thanksgiving holiday from six in the morning collecting drunks from the park benches, .feeding them and. sobering them’ up, and saving them with huge and lasting results. But last year they were not there, and so w r e gave, the day to the poorest children in the great city.” That is one result of prohibition. The vast army of public “drunks” vanishes, and charitable organisations can look more closely after the kiddies. The old “soaks” arc going, and the young people are not learning to drink. Prohibition really prohibits, and is worth a trial in New Zealand.—-N.Z. Alliance Publicity. (42)
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Grey River Argus, 26 May 1922, Page 2
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