THE EMPIRE'S DEADLIEST FOE.

White Ribbon, Volume 23, Issue 271, 18 January 1918, Page 8

THE EMPIRE'S DEADLIEST FOE.

When hospit.il ships arrive at Fremantle the s.ile of liquor within a radius of 17 miles is prohibited during their stay. This regulation now applies to Adelaide also, embruc ing a radius of 10 miles from the (General Post Office. White Kibboners in Australia passed a resolution, to be forwarded to Mr l.loyd George, vii. : “ I hat the rum ration and the wet canteen be abolished wherever the Australian boys are encamped " Sir Alfred Pearce (*ould, the eminent biologist and i hild' *> socialist, says: “It is a mistake to think that every new-born babe tomes straight from the hands of the Almighty; it comes into this world with a human inheritance. From the time it acts as a poison to protoplasm, interfering .with the particular function of iell multiplica tion, the effect of alcohol upon the growth of a child is always to hinder it. You mourn the many thousands of young men slain in Flanders, but have you ever presented to your own mind the- multitudes of the unborn? Fifty five per cent, of the children of alcoholic mothers are still-born. With the great loss of men on the battlefield and througli war, the child has become immensely more ini|>ortant; every child is wanted to live, to grow up strong and healthy.” A Boston Magistrate, while sen tencing a man to six months for sell ing liquor to a sailor, said: “Any man who sells liquor to soldiers or sailors in our country’s present condition deserves a substantial sentc in e, and should be imprisoned, and not let off with a fine.”