PROHIBITION AND FEMININE
To the Editor, Sir,—l Journeyed yesterday from Dunedin via Belciutha to Invercargill. • As a stranger, I naturally was curious to see the effects of prohibition in these towns. To my surprise I saw in the railway stations of each advertisements of alcoholic drinks. To my greater surprise I found in local papers severe remarks on a woman prohibitionist who objects to these advertisements. In the Otago Witness her criticism is sarcastically described as a specimen of “feminine” logic. Would you be so good as to ptit her proposition to, the test of the syllogism. To my feminine mind it seems that the logical conclusion of the two premises that “advertisements of a commodity increase the sale of that commodity,” and that “Balclutha and Invercargill prohibit the sale of alcohol,” would be that "Balclutha and Invercargill prohibit the advertisement of alcohol." —I am, etc., HARRIET C. NEWCOMB, In' >nal Women’s Franchise Club, ' London.
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Southland Times, Issue 17306, 31 March 1913, Page 2
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