EMPTY GAOLS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 20 November 1924, Page 7

EMPTY GAOLS.

PROHIBITION RESULTS. POSITION IN AMERICA. NEW ZEALANDER’S VIEWS. BY PABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT NEW YORK, Nov. 18. Mrs. Rachel Don, national president of the New Zealand Women's Christian Temperance Union, ’delivered the principal sermon at 'the jubilee convention of the W.O.T.U. now" being held in Chicago. Tlhe proceedings included a unique banquet in honour of the overseas delegates, where every item on the menu conaißted of products manufactured at de-licensed breweries.

Mrs. Don has spent six months travelling throughout' the United States, and says she saw only four drunken men. All classes of citizen's, from governors xo the greenest police recruit, were unanimous that Amorim would never renounce prohibition. She was convinced that there was no other way to account for the great impetus given to home building, the tremendous number 'of automobiles, the increase in savings bank deposits, the universal prosperity and the decrease in crime, as evidenced, by the empty gaols, the decrease of poverty, and: the decline of many charitable institutions. That the prohibition convention is world-wide in character is shewn by the presence of many famous missionaries, including Miss Flora Stout, who spent seventeen years in Burma, Ceylon, and the Straits Settlements; Miss Christine Tingen from China; and Mrs Price, from India.