PROHIBITION PARS.

White Ribbon, Volume 26, Issue 303, 18 September 1920, Page 8

PROHIBITION PARS.

Twenty years from now an illegal sale of liquor will be looked upon not only as a violation of law, but the people of this country will consider it as great a disgrace as stealing.—Judge Page Morris, U.S.A. Diplomatic representatives of foreign nations in Washington have decided not to exercise their privilege of importing wines and liquors, out of courtesy to the laws of the IJ.S.A. WHKRK l*> THEY OO? In response to the oft asked question where men go when saloons are closed, a Y.M.C.A. Secretary in Seattle says that the majority of men went to the saloon because they wanted to go. After four years’ experic i<’ • of prohibition in Seattle, he answers the question thus: “Some of them stay at home, some go to the movies, social card rooms and soft drink places; some go to dance halls and dancing clubs, to n ght schools, union halls, to church. If there are no saloons they go to better places, which either existed before or have been established as commercial concerns in response to legitimate do. mands. IN POTTERS’ FIELDS. Wo all read with pathetic interest the beautiful lines called “In Flanders' Fields,’’ and while it seems almost a sacrilege to parody such lines, yet I dare to say tin following lines are even more pathetic than tho original, and will give no offence, but, maybe, suggest that we might reasonably be as anxious to end the liquor business as we were to end the war: In Rotters’ Fields, where ragweeds grow, In graves neglected, row on row, We drunkards lie. For us no monument or tears; Rut broken hopes and blasted years, The death alike to hopes and fears. In Potters' Fields. We envy you in Flanders’ Fields, You died, brave warriors, on your shields. Your glorious deeds can never die. The lag-weeds shut us from the sky, In Potters' Fields.

WHAT ABOUT DRAPES? The vine growers of California are finding it impossible to supply the tiemands for fresh fruits, which are reeded for the many soft drinks now put upon the market. LIFE INSURANCE AND DRINKERS. Statistics compiled from data given out by 13 of the largest life insurance companies operating throughout 1 lie country show that among those who were one time excessive drinkers, but who became abstainers when taking insurance. the death-rate was one-third higher than the average. Alcoholism increases the death-rate from diseases such as dialietcs, pneumonia, and t ul>ermiosis, twofold. Five drinkers die from cirrhosis of the liv?r for every total abstainer who dies from that disease. The death-rate among the moderate beer drinkers was from 2 to 15 per cent, above that of the total abstainer. Regular beer drinkers had a death-rate of 32 per cent, higher than non-drinkers. Whisky and gin drinkers had a death-rate 52 per cent, higher than total abstainers.