PROHIBITION IN AMERICA.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVIII, Issue 18574, 29 November 1920, Page 7

PROHIBITION IN AMERICA.

TO TUB EDITOR. Sir,- —As the liquor question is constantly before the publio mind and -all fair-minded people, no doubt, desire to know the truth about the working _or prohibition in Amerioa, the following; cannot fail to be of interest to ho£b yourself and your readers: —Interviewed on the above question. Commander Eva Booth, of the Salvation Army, said: “ItVthe most wonderful thing on the face of the earth. Consider what it means. We have a population of 115,000.000—and millions of these for years had never done without a quart or so of beer a day, but they are doing without it now. Thousands women are gqinrr home with money in their hands who never had money from their husbands before. Prisons where women were detained, and where our officers visit, wliHi had populations of 700 or 800 at a time have now only half a dozen. And only recently, while I was on a .visit to Atlantic City, the Chief of Police there handed in his resignation He could not, he said, conscientiously continue to take money when thereC'vas nothing for him to do. And this has been brought about so suddenly, so swiftly. In a huge mixed population. like ours we expect untold difficulties in the carrying out of a new law to whfch there is. of course, violent opposition in some quarters- Cellars and stocks were supposed to be fully replenished to the last minute. So we expected delay, and even feared occasional failures, but in this great movement America has shown the way, and America, unitedlv, is justly proud of her achievement.” —T am etc.

(It certainly is news to Lear that America is " unitediv ” proud of prohibition,—Ed. “ L.T. J> )