INSTRUCTIVE EVENING.

Waikato Independent, Volume XXVI, Issue 2651, 22 July 1926, Page 4

INSTRUCTIVE EVENING.

CINEMATOGRAPH AS EDUCATOR A NATIONAL MESSAGE. On Tuesday evening the Trinity Presbyterian Memorial Hall was filled to overflowing when, under Uhe au's- T pices of the’ local Band of Hope, Mr > A. J. St airworthy, honorary organiser, Auckland Band of Hope Union, gave an excellent moving picture programme of unique and thrilling interest. Last year Mr Stallworthy visited. Canada and the United States, and the pictures were grouped into a really fascinating travelogue, showing to . a delighted audience some of the high spots of the glory and romance ,of Canada, destined in this century to bo “the playground of the world.” From river and coastal fishing scenes of great beauty and educational value, journey was taken through the wonderful Rocky Mountains and in Jasper Park, covering 4400 square miles, ascent was made to the highest point of the Rockies (13,068 feet). '< Here some of the glories of the Alpine world were revealed in panoramas of an ocean of tossing snow-capped peaks, stretching for hundreds of miles 'in billowy whiteness. The pictorial story of the ways, of tourists was most interesting. and *the visions of the mountain peaks and lakes of hanging glaciers above the clouds enthralling. Then a beautiful film of the Niagara Falls and a wild life picture of New Brunswick were beyond praise. Every picture was a star film, and altogether a rare feast of beauty, and an educational treat. Temperance and Good Citizenship. Portion of the evening was given to the delivery of an inspiring message on Temperance and good citizenship. Sneaking to every boy and girl as a “builder of a house” in which the child would, have to live all its days)-. 1 Mr Stallworthy made a fine appeal, r“What kind of a house did the boy. or girl want it to be?” He got the child- * Yen': to look at the body part off.the house, the mental part, and the soul wart. As a building motto he .-gave., them the ■simple but.potent words “Be clean.” in thought, word and deed., Let UO bpy do anvthing to any part of his body, nor reAd anv bonk, nor look upon anv .picture, he wquld not like father or mother to see. The girls likewise. “We become like what we look upon;”

said Mr Stallworthv, and this he made the basis of appeal for love of the i beautiful.- “We lire -on memories?' more than upon food, and the filling' of the voung mind with clean and Jofty sentiment was to protect, develop and enrich ,it against the davs to come. Specially, he warned them all of the terrible dangers of taking alcoholic drink. Strong drink, was the most dangerous thing people were likely to. drink. Alcohol was a cell poison, not . a food. It was a dangerous, habit forming narcotic drug, adversely affec-. , ting the human organism in the inverse order of development, and strik- , ing fatally at the highest part of the 1 brain first. “When alcohol is taken 1 the last to come is the first to go. Al- J cohol always injuries the best part of the brain first. , This was the trag- ; cdy of alcohol: The powers of judgment, self-control, self-criticism, modesty in women, chivalry. in men, were, the first to go when alcohol was taken, even in small quantities. It was this thaijt made even moderate drinking injurious to . the individual and a social ; sin. By practical demonstration, with test tubes and with the help of a pithy story, a most effective lesson was conveyed. The children were urged t 6 1 . sign the total abstinance pledge. His Worship the Mayor, Mr T. F. Richards, presided in kindly fashion, and the wide civic and national eha- £ racter of the message, lifting it above Y faction and creed, won universal ap- J proval. The occasion will long be re- ' membered as a memorable one in the annals of our local Band of Hope. The meeting closed with the National Anthem and the Benediction.