NUTS FOR WETS TO CRACK.

White Ribbon, Volume 28, Issue 328, 18 October 1922, Page 6

NUTS FOR WETS TO CRACK.

HOW MISS STODDARD WON A NEW HAT. Before Prohibition, there were more than 300 establishments for Use cure of drink victims. Pussyfoot Johnson could not find u single one left after three years of Prohibition. He offered Miss Stoddard, of the Scientific- Temperance Federation, a new hat if she succeeded in finding a single one. After two months' search .she located the only surviving Keeley Institute. She claimed the hat. and got it. Evidently drink victims are few in the U.S.A. LIQUOR VERSUS BOYS. Billy Sunday asks the wet voter some pertinent questions. “What is your raw material, saloons? American boys. Say, 1 would not give one boy for all the distilleries and saloons this side hell. And they have to have 2,000,000 boys every generation. And then you tell me you are a man when you vote for an institution like that. What do you want to do—pay taxes in money or in boys?" PROHIBITION AGENTS. The “New York World" publishes a lengthy wail about the übiquity of the Federal Prohibition agents. They are everywhere, disguised as bathers, on the beach, or as patrons of cabarets in immaculate evening dress. And then doses with a burst of virtuous indignation. "Are American citizens to be led to view their fellow men ‘with suspicion? Is a man to feel that the passenger next to him in the subway, the bather near him on the beach, or the guest at the next table in the restaurant, is a dry agent watching to catch him in a violation of the law? It is hardly a .state of mind conducive to the highest respect for Republican institutions, but it is one part of the price of Probation." Evidently Prohibition is prohibiting far too well to suit this wettest of newspapers. Also they might hape mentioned that the presence of these agents does not annoy the ordinary citizen: it us only the lawbreaker who fears and dreads the detective. SOBER BY ACT OF PARLIAMENT. It is commonly said, "You can’t make people sober by Act of Parliament, But facts to-day are challenging this

old adage. The official figures admitted by all show that drunkenness decreased during the war period, when the bars were closed the greater part of the day by Act of Parliament. In Canada, drunkenness had decreased from 60,000 to 21 000 cases. In 50 of the largest cities of 1'.53.A., drunkenness had been reduced by 69 per cent, by Act of 'Parliament. In other words, men were much soberer since the 18th Amendment was added to the Constitution. THE CURSE OF CHILDHOOD. Dr. Henry Snyder, Superintendent of Schools in Jersev City, says: "In my experience with /children, 1 have found that 90 per cent, of the defective children have drunken parents.” TRIBUTE TO PROHIBITION. Dr. Bannatync, Head of Edinburgh Maternity Hospital, told the British Medical Association that "If Prohibition arrived in Great Britain to-morrow, no baby would be any the worse." Can those who vote Continuance say the same of the Trade they vote for? ALCOHOL A RACIAL I'OISON. Dr. Stansfleld, Superintendent London County Mental Hospital, speaking of heredity ;is o factor in producing insanity, added: “Alcohol is another of the great factors, and is commonly associated with heredity. It is a protoplasmic poison, and as such it attacks the germ-plasm in the prospective parents, beginning its evil action even before union has taken place.” Dr. Saleeby, Chairman of National Birth-ratf Commission, declares: “The consumption of alcohol is everywhere a leading cause of ill-health and disease of the body and mind, of the individual and the race. Certain forms of insanity and neuritis, degeneration of heart and blood vessels, of liver and kidney, and brain cells, delirium tremens, stillbirths, suffocation of infants, suicide, and attempted suicide, diminished resistance to infections of all kinds, increased incidence of cancer, are amongst the extremely widespread injuries to national health produced by the consumption of alcohol.” IT WORKS. Dr. L. Lincoln Wirt, recently visited Adelaide on behalf of the distressed Armenians. He was interviewed by the Editor of the “Patriot." and was asked. “Does Prohibition work well?” “Yes,

it works!" the Dr. replied; "that’s exactly what it does; it works! And if any man says it doesn't work, lie is simply a brewer’s propagandist!" HAVE PATIENCE. Lord Leverhuline, speaking at Toronto, said: "It seems to me that both friends and opponents of Prohibition are too impatient for results. The alcohol habit is not a natural one, but is acquired, and the children of this generation will not acquire it. When the bootlegger meets the new generation who know not alcohol, he will find himself without customers or encouragement." POISONED BY ALCOHOL. Sir William (lull, Physician to Queen Victoria, says: "A very large number of people are dying day by day, poisoned by alcohol, but not supposed to be poisoned by it. 1 hardly know any more potent cause of disease than alcohol.” WOOD ALCOHOL. Prohibition is not responsible for the drinking of wood alcohol, as the wets would have us believe. In 1915, in New York, more people died from the use of wood alcohol than in Ihe two years after Prohibition came into force. But in 1915 alcohol was poisoning Its thousands, and the comparatively few killed by wmod alcohol were negligible, but now that alcohol is prohibited, and extremely difficult to get. notice is being taken of the few cases of wood alcohol poisoning.