TOPICAL COMMENTS.

Timaru Herald, Volume CVIII, Issue 16801, 4 April 1919, Page 2

TOPICAL COMMENTS.

it 1 ; is computed tliat there were six ladies for every ones mere, mail at the great Canadian oration last night. ,'fho man. in the street sis months ago would have bet even, money on Prohibition as a result of the win-tlie-war cry v Now it is hard 'to . get takers at twenty to one against. All the mathematical trains of New Zealand are not in. the Efficiency League. Quite recently Mrs Houlder, the. lady president at that time of the W.0.T.U., was sued ior £2OO, whiclx 'She_ borrowed allegedly to help the native widows of India. A co-worker against, drink was her victim, and when the good lady was, sued for the £2OO ;she confessed judgment. l Talk, of sports standing together. v (Speaking. of figures reminds us .that perhaps the miscalculations of the Efficiency League when .they said it would be necessary, to cut out liquor win ' the war—-when it was not— Tir , r 'k e - , happily explained • • if Mr 'McCartney, of imaginative fame, had charge of the actuarial department/ . ...... Ttießev. Mr Stinson is annoyed at the suggestion that his organisation, if / suocessfui. on the 10th, will be turned, into an Anti-Tobacco League. AT* n atatiide has. not Mr Stinson - eys in mind;, Uon t raise awkward questions until' after tho 10th."

• la ? t n «mber of the "Bulletin," m »« above connection, .says: ~ - • American female • ."reformer" threatens *to worry Uncle ; Sam' worse than, Kaiser ever Having Kulealiquorslie is no-wout aftnr tobacco. -The American tobalcco industry is, than. th«. same. industry in i anybody' else's back' yard. ' But" the woman says it's sure got toi go—both use and manufacture." The Women's! Christian Temperance Union, which dicl more, than any» other body to; brine about,prohibition, has declared for-years that tobacco .would . follow drink into the.discard. ■ The'fight is now-opening. ,So .-Australia knows, .what, -.to" ejepeeb from the American Anti-saloon Leaguers" here on, good salaries and:, liberal- ex-pense-accounts. Tile. Leaguers- will never let themselves- be run out of :a job.' ' After liquor and-"tobacco-there Will" still remain racirig, boxing, 1 surfing, , the movies, dancing; draughts h,nd jeatiqg. ' _ > \ jMc, Samuel Gompers, president; ' of ;the Federation,-Jof .Labour, 1 ,was one of the most powerful support?" ers ' 0f... American* intervention:. in the. wax. 1 Here is a-resolution passed by the Federation expressing the Aiherk cah workers' opinion of Prohibition "Whereas ■ these fanatics!- propose' legislation-, which will .take ■ away the weekly earnings of Afena "of of wag 9 earners; -thereby breaking up their homes and disrupting their family ties, and,* whereas Prohibition': hag proven that it does not prohi'oit, but loads to secret use of the-vilest sorts ofalcoholic drinks, to hypoorisy and corruption; .therefore be it regolv&l that tlie Fcde-' rat'on of Labour in convention asEfmbled declares in no uncertain terms to all officials elected by the votes of wage earners that a stringent-.; stand should be taken against any and all measures that lead to Prohibition | (Advt.) i