EMPTY GAOLS.

Taranaki Daily News, 20 November 1924, Page 7

EMPTY GAOLS.

EFFECTS OF PROHIBITION. POSITION IN AMERICA. HEW ZEALANDER’S VIEWS. By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received Nov. 19, 8.20 p.m. New York, Nov. 18. Mrs. Rachel Don, national president of the New Zealand Women’s Christian Temperance Union, delivered the principal sermon at the jubilee convention of the W.C.T.U. now being held in Chicago. The proceedings included a unique banquet in honour of the overseas delegates, where every item on the menu consisted of products manufactured at de-licensed breweries. Mrs. Don lias spent six months travelling throughout the United States, and says she saw only four drunken men. All classes of citizens, from governors the greenest police recruit, were that America would never renounce prohibition. She was convinced that there was no other way to account for the great impetus given to home building, the tremendous number of automobiles, the increase in savings bank deposits, the universal prosperity and the decrease in crime, as evidenced by the empty gaols, the decrease of poverty, and the decline of many charitable institutions. That the prohibition convention is world-wide in character is shown by the presence of many famous missionaries, including Miss Flora Stout, who spent seventeen years in Burma. Ceylon, and the Straits Settlements; Miss Christine T ingen from China; and Mrs. Price, from India.