PROMINENT AMERICAN WOMAN’S WARNING

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 509, 12 November 1928, Page 4

PROMINENT AMERICAN WOMAN’S WARNING

The following is a letter from Mrs. Henry B. Thompson, wife ot the famous cotton manufacturer, Pacific Mills Philadelphia. Her husband is also deputy-chairman ot the Federal Reserve Bank, and a life trustee of the Princeton University: Brookwood Farm, Greenville P. 0., Delaware. i June 15. 1928. “I feel that Prohibition is one of the worst evils that has come to the United States. It teaches a lawlessness that scoffs at the law-abiding. It strikes a direct blow at personal liberty. 11 former days, if a saloon keeper sold liquor to a minor, he was liable to arrest and imprisonment Now bootleggers give moonshine whisky to boys to give them a taste for it. I am a trustee in the public school in my district—a rural school 10 miles from a big town. When we have entertainments at the school, we call the State highway police, and have two bicycle police to watch the roads to the school to prevent bootleggers bringing their wares to sell, and get and unstrung. “I sincerely hope the women of New Zealand will fight it off, and keep the moral of the people clean, and only make laws that will be obeyed. “With best wishes. “Yours Sincerely, (Signed), MARY WILSON THOMPSON, (Mrs. Henry B.).” Keep out the dangers that Prohibition bring by voting Continuance.— Advt.