NEWS OF DR. MARY HARRIS ARMOR.

White Ribbon, Volume 28, Issue 336, 18 June 1923, Page 8

NEWS OF DR. MARY HARRIS ARMOR.

White Kibboners will be interested to read the following extract from “The Macon News.” a leading paper in the doctor’s native State of Georgia. U.B.A.: — MRS ARMOR’S GREAT DISCOURSE. 4 Rarely in the history of Macon as there ever been a larger and more appreciative audience to greet a speaker than that which assembled on Sunday night to listen to Mrs Mary Harris Armor, internationally celebrated W.C. T.U. worker, who has but recently returned from New Zealand, where she participated in a great campaign to bring about Prohibition in that part of the British Empire. Mrs Armor has always been known as a woman w r ho possessed a Pentecostal gift of eloquence and persuasive charm, but to many of her hearers on Sunday night it seemed as if she surpassed herself in her description of New Zea.and and her graphic account of the great fight that w*as made to wipe out the liquor interests. The advocates of Prohibitior were not quite able, in this one campaign, to overcome the entrenched power and influence of the liquor interests, and it is by no means gratifying to the Fourth Estate as a whole to know that the press of that country was among the strongest factors in defeating the cause of Prohibition. It is still more humilisting to learn that propaganda and cartoons from American newspapers were liberally reproduced in combating the Prohibition advocates. But it is felt that the cause made great headway, and that in a comparatively short time the people will follow the example of the United States when the real truth becomes known Old residents here were able fully to appreciate the point when Mrs Armor said that one had to go to a wet country like New Zealand fully to appreciate the blessings of Prohibition. All the sophistical arguments in the world can never blind the people or this city, for example, to the contrast that exists between the situation today and what it was when w’e had saloons. The money that went for booze goes for food and clothing, and the economic success of Prohibition is so clear that it is no longer necessary to demonstrate it. These older inhabitants could fully re-

nlise what the speaker meant, therefore, when she said that to appreciate Prohibition, it was necessary to go to some country that was still wet. Mrs Armor has been a tireless anil faithful worker in the cause of Prohibition. The State of Georgia owes to tier a great debt for the work she did in making Georgia dry. Hut she still carries on her good work, and it was gratifying to see from the vast outpourng of the people on Sunday night how cordial is tlie appreciation of our people of the work she has done. She will carry a rich benediction wherever she goes.