EDUCATION.

Waikato Independent, Volume XXII, Issue 2575, 22 July 1922, Page 6

EDUCATION.

THE MOST COSTLY SCHOOL IN THE WORLD. There is a school where the fees arc not paid in coin alone; a school where payment is made in human lives. It is the school tor drunkards. Every bar-room is such a school. It is in the bar-rooms of X.Z. where the young men learn to become drunkards. The mothers and fathers, the wives and sweethearts pay the fees in tears and anguish. In the year 1921, according to the Police Reports, the number of persons not previously convicted of drunkenness but convicted during that year was 5,594. What has that meant in the homes concerned? Can you express it in coin? Prohibition, removes the means of temptation. As Admiral Sims has said of the U.S.A.: "We have shut up the schools for draakards. AVe have saved the rising generation from the drinks." Prohibition is just common-sense — just exactly that —removing the clangor,, abolishing- the cans*'. New Zcalanders can shut up the schools for drunkards at the next poll by votingProhibition.— KJZ. Alliance Publicity ((30).