AMERICA AND CANADA

Waikato Times, Volume 88, Issue 13643, 24 November 1917, Page 4

AMERICA AND CANADA

REV. R. B. S. HAMMOND'S*"" IMPRESSIONS. Rev. It. B. S. Hammond, of Sydney, is on his way home from a four months' holiday, the first iii 15 years. He spent the whole time in Canada and the States investigating prohibition, and also the new methods inaugurated by Tlios. M. Osljorne for making good citizens out of criminals. There are .•) !'.(.«.'0 people out oi 8,000,000 under •Prohibition, with the happiest results, iii Quel.ec Province 86 pt-r cent are Human Catholics and b0 per cent are "French, and 1096 municipalities are ■'day," and only 91 are "wet," and this !>y'a jote of men .only, Washington, 13.C.,- the_.cap.ital city, w«it dry last m«nth,.r its population • being about :8(i,0(J0. Seattle, the capital city of the State, of-Washington, has been "dry" •for 15 : months, and iii the last six mouths this city has grown by 17,806, anfl is now the sixteenth largest city in the States, and is the best lighted and cleanest city he visited, unless it be Topeka, which has been under Prohibition for 35 years. r , "The prohibition of the manufacture of spirits in the interest of the war has,'' said Mr Hammond, "had remarkable results, and 1000 bars closed in New York city immediately. The bricklayer ■gets 28s a day in Kansas, so he finds Prohibition a good thing, f "This war is being taken very Beriously in botji Canada and the States, and a great food conservation campaign "is" cn in both countries. Canada has by law a meatless day twice a week, and an equal amount of brown bread to be used) with white bread. The Liberty Bond campaign, when some 5,000,000*000 dollars were subscribed in a few weeks, was a wonderful thing. It simply dominated the whole continent. ;&s Far as alcohol is concerned, it is dead 1 and waits only to be buried; and as far as the war is concerned it is won—it needs only to just fight it out to the winning post."