TEMPERANCE IN SCHOOLS.

White Ribbon, Volume 25, Issue 297, 18 March 1920, Page 6

TEMPERANCE IN SCHOOLS.

Campaign depends upon telling the people the facts, and the* proper umc to begin education is in childhood, and the proper pi; ce the public school. It began in the schools of the State ot Washington before temperance ‘.eat; ment was strong, and the liquor interests laughed at them for attempting anything in the schools. At the first session of the Legislature f>l lowing the admission of Washington to Statehood, this was adopted: “It shall be the duty of all teachers t • endeavour to impress upon the minds of their pupils the principles < f mot ality, truth, justice, temperance, and patriotism.” It also provides that schools shall give instruction in “physiology and hvgiene, with special reference to the effects on the human system of alcoholic stimulants and narcotics.” Between the day of the adoption of these laws and the present day the State <>f Washington has successively adopted the Local Option and th»* State-wide Prohibition law, and has overwhelmingly defeated the* attempt of the liquor interests to weaken the Prohibition law after it** enactment. State-wide Prohibition was adopted at the general election of i<H4 h\ a popular vote <>f 180,840 to 171,208. At the general election of u)tb, after sevrrd months’ trial of the State wide law, a measure to | ermit the establishment of breweries • nd the sale* of of certain alco holic content, was defeated b\ a vote of 245, ;c)c) to p During the* present yeat (iqh)) the State' Legislature unanimously voted its ratification of the Prohibition ••mendment to rV Federal Constitution.