THE WAY OF THE SEA

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18721, 27 November 1922, Page 8

THE WAY OF THE SEA

WOMEN AND CHILDREN FIRST. All the world admires tho gallantry and true chivalry of Britons on the sen, who in, times of peril stand lime to the highest ideals of manhood and dauntlessly risk their lives while (he women and children go first. Men rise to tho best that is in them by answering this call for protection, this summons to sacrifice. And hero in New Zealand to-day there is opportunity for men to vindicate their manhood by thinking and acting in tho interests of (ho women and children. Everybody knows that it is (he women and children who suffer most from tho misery caused by the liquor traffic. Every moderate drinker should reflect that he can only get his social glass by keeping in existence a vast machinery of temptation that means excess and ruin for thousands who cannot stop at a glass. This vast organised liquor traffic is daily causing men to break good resolves, to break promises made to wives and children, to spend in harmful indulgence that which would provide necessaries for tho women and children. Well, then, is not tho great tradition of the sea equally good on laud? Is,there not flic same generous manly instinct amongst landsmen? To bo sure there is. Tho moderate man, tho true sport, will surely be willing to forgo the glass that brings a certain amount of personal pleasure for (lie sake of (ho women and children. lie cannot got that glass without keeping alive a soulless traffic that robs tho women and children of (heir due. So rather than have for companion tho thought that his drink is supplied at the cost of blood and tears, ho will do without it, and vote to abolish a traffic that is above all else a, destroyer of homos and a tyrant treading the women and children underfoot. Ho will find that after all, he does not miss his drink, is indeed hotter without it, and his heart will be the lighter for knowing that he at any rate is not responsible for the ruin of a fellow man nor the misery that is tho lot of a drunkard’s dependents. There is, too, always the fear that while a father may be moderate the son may not keep within bounds of moderation. Put tho women and children first. STRIKE OUT THE TWO TOP LINES.—N.Z. Alliance Publicity.— Advt.