PROHIBITION IN U.S.A.

White Ribbon, Volume 29, Issue 343, 18 January 1924, Page 9

PROHIBITION IN U.S.A.

Mr W. A. Tute, of (Jreytown, who

has just returned from a trip to U.S.A., gave a Grey town audience facts which lie knew about Prohibition in America. He stated that the largest employer of lal>our in the world is a great advocate of Prohibition, that Prohibition means efficiency, and that money is spent in more profitable ways than in liquor. Mr Tate stated that an eminent American considered Prohibition the greatest thing that man had ever thought of. and as sure as the sun rises, whether we want it or not. we will have Prohibition, as the liquor traffic is financially and physically sapping the strength of our people. Kiom one business establishment, where 12. r > men were employed, Mr Tate saw at .> p.m. three men walk away, all the others drove away in their own cars. At another, where some hundreds were employed, every man drove away ,in his own car. On the whole of Mr Tate’s tour in the United States he only saw two men the worse for liquor. One man who had lived In Kansas all his life, and never seen liquor in bars like we have, thought people were mad to think of keeping up the practice of drinking liquor. Mr Tate stated that the W.C.T.V. hail done a great deal towards gaining Prohibition in America, and it will here, and he was very proud to l>e a member,