WOMEN AND DRINK.

Taranaki Daily News, 17 June 1920, Page 2

WOMEN AND DRINK.

! To tlie Editor. Sir,—The remarks made by Sub-inspector Wohlman are becoming In enlightened times quite regular. Those wno declaim I desire to enlighten to a broader view of the situation. Indeed their own words contain the whole matter, It merely being necessary to' add, "as those women ate, so also are men." Well can I recollect in early times as each district got Its hotel licenses how a mother's dread would rise almost past endurance when thinking of any child loitering after dark or sent late on an urgent errand. Yet further n man Is let off lightly "because he was under the Influence of drink," and a Judge would never allow himself to desecrate "manhood" so far as to give him a name equivalent to that of a prostitute. Regrettable it certainly Is that drink has been allowed freedom so long that women now Join men in debbueherles. However, that Inspector Intends to Investigate about these abominable women "who drink lh hotels" (not because he wants all the Intoxicants for the stranger sex). So I and countless others hope to see this drink atrocity removed bodily, for that alone is where a true investigation will place such investigators—l am, etc, E. A. ARCHER. Stratford, 14th June.