NOTES AND COMMENTS.

White Ribbon, Volume 10, Issue 115, 15 February 1905, Page 7

NOTES AND COMMENTS.

A Black List. —\\ hile a large number of our subscribers pay their subscriptions promptly and regularly, there is a considerable proportion whom we have had to place on our “ Black List.” Accounts are sent with a special intimation that “ an early settlement will oblige,” but without effect. Such persons apparentl) imagine that newspapers are “ other-worldly,” that in connection with the production of such no bills are incurred. At the risk of a shock to the nerves we must disenchant, and baldly state that every half-a-crown owing is needed— and quickly.

Words of Cheer. —We notice that a Wairarapa paper says it has lost “ that tired feeling ” since it received a basket of trout and a bucket of potatoes from two of its admirers. The editor of The White Ribbon does not eat trout, and is not particularly in need of potatoes ; but she does find that the kindly words of appreciation of effort sent by friends from time to time go a long way towards removing “that tired feeling.”

“To the Help of the Lord.”— The No-License campaign for this year promises well. In addition to our own faithful colonial workers,reinforcements are expected in the persons of Mrs Harrison Lee, Rev. Father Hays, and Rev. L. M. Isitt.

Effect of Prohibition. —The Ashburton Guardian has recently published a return giving the business at the Ashburton Magistrate’s Court during the years 1902 and 1904. The figures show a distinct diminution of crime since the closing of the bars.

Civil Service Examination. —Miss Ina Dugelby, of Napier, beaded the list for the whole colony of those who passed the Junior Civil Service Examination.

A Juvenile Court. —The Stipendiary Magistrate at Christchurch has practically established a children’s court by determining to hear cases in which children are concerned apart from other Court business, and m the presence only of those immediately concerned, the police, and the press representatives.

The Teaching Profession.— ln his address before the University Senate, the Chancellor (Sir Robert Stout) said, “ If we have able teachers from our primary schools right up to our University Colleges, men and women who can teach and who can lead their students, the country will become great, but without such our nation will be doomed to mediocrity. No profession has so high a function as the teaching profession. . . A teacher must be reverenced because of 1 is importance and of his mission in c >ir social life.” Urging that education sfnu'd be made a University subject in all the colleges, the Chancellor remarked, “ It ought to be recognised ~that the training of teachers is as important as the training of men for any other profession.”

Anti-Narcotics.— The W.C.T.U. of the United States has set apart the first two weeks in this month for a special crusade against the drug habit. Every local union in the States is asked to hold at least one public meeting in the interests of the crusade.

Liability of Drink Sellers.—A Kansas woman has obtained a verdict for 5,000 dollars against a brewing company. The plaintiff alleged that the sale of beer by the brewery caused her husband to commit murder, for which he is now serving a life term in a penitentiary.

Drugs and Local Option Laws.— According to a decision of the Supreme Court of Georgia, U.S.A., druggists must not violate the local option laws of the State by selling medicine that will produce intoxication. When selling such medicine in violation of the local option statute the druggist is liable to prosecution.

Education Tells. - It is announced, says the Union Signal , that the Cincinnati Brewing Co. will discontinue its agencies at Marietta, Ohio, because the business in that town has ceased to be profitable. The fact that Marietta has the largest W.C.T.U. in the state (the second largest we believe in the country), and that it makes a specialty of scientific temperance instruction and non alcoholic medication, may have a direct bearing upon the decision noted. Education tells upon the habits of a community.

White Ribboners at the White House. —About 100 U. S. A. White Ribboners, returning from the National Convention at Philadelphia, were received by President Roosevelt at the White HOl e.

Women in the Churches - A noteworthy feature in the remarkable religious revival now proceeding in Wales, is the pait taken by women. Not only are they sharing largely and effectively in the speaking and singing, but quite young women still in their teens are found “controlling with a steady hand great and excited meetings.” One writer says, “ I found in the minds of some of the oldest and most level headed of Welsh ministers, the conviction that woman is destined to play a much larger share in the .uture science of the Church.”