HITHER AND THITHER.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 87, Issue 4, 6 January 1943, Page 2

HITHER AND THITHER.

Intoxicating Liquors. It is interesting to read the recent aritiouncement from Ottawa by the Prime Minister of Canada, the Kt. Hon. W. L. Mackenzie King, that the Government has decided to curtail sharply the consumption of alcholic beverages for the duration of the war. For some considerable time past papers irom Canada have contamea articles and numerous letters on the question, and public opinion has demanded that some action be taken in the matter. One writer, noting that his Government rations sugar but permits the consumption of unlimited quantities of rum and other alcoholic leverages, thought there should be some curtailment. In both the United States and Canada demand has been heard that not merely the manufacture but the consumption of intoxicating liquors be reduced while the nations are fighting for their very existence. AH are willing to curtail the use of anything necessary to the war effort, and it is wondered why money and manpower efficiency, so vital to that effort, continue to oe wasted at bars. It has been urged that the number of hours and aays tor selling liquor be reduced and tne suggestion has been made to halt all liquor sales from Friday night until Monday morning and on all Holidays, when use so often becomes abuse. Transforming Glamour Girls. Even glamour girls can be transformed into arms factory workers, says Miss Caroline Haslett, who has been given a job of adviser to Britain’s Ministry of Labour on the training ot half a million women tor the arms industry. As president ot the Women's Engineering Society and director of the Electrical Society tor Women, Miss Haslett is a good judge of what women can do and the right type ot womep for the job. “They must be healthy," Miss Haslett says. "That is the first essential. Our arms factories have little use for the woman who is always leaving her bench with a headache. They must oe adaptable, and it is amazing how adaptable beauty specialists, mannequins, and photographers’ models can ce once they have got over the horror ot having their hands dirty. Ana they must have courage; my experience Is that their course is beyond question.”