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the truth about prohibition. Well-known New Zealand Authoress Tells the Facts About America. "Feed Me On Facts" By JESSIE MACKAY '"Facts! Feed me on facts," a wise man said. It is a fact that the 1935 License vote will either save or spoil New Zealand for unknown years to come. It is a fact that a spoiling vote will hang mainly on ignorance of the results of a worlddisaster: the Repeal of Prohibition in America on December 31st, 1933. Two years ago the cables rang with the alleged failure of Prohibition in America; not a word is now heard of liquor in America. Therefore the impression exists that Prohibition was a mistake, and Repeal is a success. The fact remains that Repeal has brought America nothing but disaster and disillusion. The same fate waits for us if we throw away our own safeguard of wise anti-liquor on a huge Continuance mandate leading to repeal. Consider the following facts culled from American statistics and newspapers wet and dry:— Repeal was carried by default, not majority vote. The voting population was 60,135,604. The total vote for Repeal was 14,81 I, 529, or 24.6 per cent. heavy drinking Every Repeal promise was broken from the moment liquor was legalised. A burst of New Year drunkenness ushered it in. The disreputable " speakeasy " was licensed, not closed. The never-to-return saloon came back as a " tavern," a " bar," or a " grill." All have the evils of the saloon intensified. The staple sales are not light beers and wines, but whisky, .gin, and rum. The bootlegger did not disappear. The Press and the Federal Liquor Control Officials soon confessed that, though legal sales were large, the cheap, untaxed output, was larger. Papers of the standing of the " Boston Herald," the " New York Tribune," and the Washington " Evening Star " agreed early that most of the liquor even legally sold was " bootleg stuff." The Federal Alcohol Administrator himself declared in May, 1935: " Bootlegging has increased a hundredfold since repeal of Prohibition." Smuggling is more in evidence than ever. Last June America had to widen the old twelve-mile limit by 50 miles. America now has to spend £6,000,000 at an annual rate to fight smuggling. Liquor revenue has not balanced the Budget. Before '• Repfial the deficit was £280,000,000. Over a year after Repeal it was £800,000,000. Since liquor revenue cannot now meet the cost of crime, drunkenness and enforcement, taxpayers find an additional £532,227,800. Seven new Federal prisons are to be built at a cost of four million dollars. " Ffederal Emergency Relief Fund statistics show that one-sixth of the population is on relief." But the country's liquor bill is roughly estimated to be at least five billion dollars, exclusive of bootleggers' gains. MOTOR ACCIDENTS, ETC. Have we a right to our lives? Of the two best sets of b auto accident statistics, those of the National Safety Council of Chicago show alcohol as a factor in 60 per cent, of cases. Those of the Travellers' Insurance Company show an increase of 49.5 per cent., ending with: " America experienced its worst automobile accident record in 1934." From Minneapolis, a hospital superintendent reports an ft increase of 300 per cent, in insanity cases during 1934. New York heads a decrease in milk sales since Repeal, to balance the rise in beer. In many cities, milk sales are below, the lowest estimate for health. Beside the farmers' loss is the fear of coming cancer increase. Recent research in England announces startling results concerning the contrasted effects of milk and beer on cancer returns. ?" \ Drink is a sociable vice. It is recently reported that America is dangerously seeking to widen racing and other i gambling facilities, now that Repeal sets the social pace. are drinking * heavily since Repeal, in places they never visited before. As early as May, 1934, Massachusetts noted that, while general drunkenness since January Ist had increased 25 per cent., that among women stood at 40 per cent. The sherry party and the " cocktail hour " dominate in society. DRINK AND IMMORALITY Children were to be saved. Everywhere, the amount of so-called " non'intoxicating " beer sold in crowded resorts to boys pnd girls, often in vile company, shocks all decency. Boys will be drunkards before they vote. Girls are in worse peril. Often the lighter drinks they order are doped with I distilled liquor so that they fall an easy prey in these dens or in allied premises of vice. the country " road houses," poor, pretty girls of 14 • and 16 are legally hired as " hostesses." They serve men with liquor, playing and dancing to encourage customers. These facts show what Young America owes to Repeal. BACK TO PROHIBITION Gcid-fearing men and women are faithfully working throughout the States to undo Repeal. '/ Already hundreds of important areas are back to all the " dryness " local option can give. America will win out, but 'j: she will suffer long ere she does. How would you vote, knowing all this, were it your last "My on earth? Vote as if it were. •STRIKE OUT THE TWO TOP LINES I vote for National Prohibition Help the N.Z. ALLIANCE to tell the truth about Prohibition. Send contributions to The Secretary, N.Z. Alliance, 323 Queen Street, Auckland, C. 1. illllllliUllllli ONE QUALITY (to COLOUR-TRUE HOUSEPAINT THE BEST 11/ Oil GALLON 9%!£mV m IN GALLON CANS £■,! / 9 ALBERT STREET and KARANGAHAPE RD. AUCKLAND. B— ■■ " filll