PROHIBITION IN AMERICA

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19333, 20 November 1924, Page 7

PROHIBITION IN AMERICA

“A PERMANENT REFORM.” VIEWS OF MRS RACHAEL DON. Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright. NEW YORK, November 18. (Received Nov. 19, at 9.20 p.m.) Mrs Rachael Don (National President of tho New' Zealand Women’s Christian Temperance Union) delivered the_ principal sermon at the jubilee convention of the W.C.T.U., which is now being held at Chicago. The proceedings included a unique banquet in honour of the overseas delegates, at which every item on tho menu consisted of products manufactured at dclicensed breweries. Mrs Don, who has spent six months travelling throughout the United States, says that she saw only four drunken men and all classes of citizens, from Governors to tho greenest police recruit were unanimous that America, would never renounce Prohibition. She is convinced that there is no other way to account for the great impetus which Ixaa been given to homo bmlding, the tremendous number of automobiles, the increase in savings banks deposits, the universal prosperity, the decrease of crime as evidenced by the empty gaols and the decrease of poverty as proved by tho decline of many charitable institutions. That the Prohibition Convention is world-wide in character is shown by the presence of many famous missionaries, including Flora Stout, who spent 17 years in Burma, Ceylon, and the Straits Settlements, Christine Tingling from China, and Mrs Price from India.—A. and N.Z. Cable.