A DRINK EVERY FOUR YEARS

New Zealand Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 11225, 2 June 1922, Page 3

A DRINK EVERY FOUR YEARS

Mr P. W. Wilson, an eminent English journalist, after investigating prohibition conditions in the U.S.A., eays of allegations about smuggling and leakages:—"To give every American citizen one customary drink of rum or whisky in a year—that is in 365 days—would consume 2,000,000 gallons of spirits. If, then, one reads that 500,000 gallons have 'leaked' somewhere, it may be deplorable from the 'dry' standpoint, but it only means a drink all round once evory four, years. . . To sum up, then, I have reported to Britain that prohibition has come to stay, that it is a policy particularly approved by ■women, that it has virtually stopped th*» consumption of beer and has enormously reduced the consumption of wines and l spirits, without stimulating /so far as can be ascertained, the taste for drugs." Sir John Solmond, after visiting the TT.S.A., said: "It quite feasible that the younger generation might grow up without cultivating the taste for nloohdl." proon.jl l New Zealand is worth a trial. —N.Z. Alliance Publicity. (44).