The White Ribbon. For God and Home and Humanity. WELLINGTON, MARCH 18, 1924. ONE HAVING AUTHORITY.

White Ribbon, Volume 29, Issue 345, 18 March 1924, Page 7

The White Ribbon. For God and Home and Humanity. WELLINGTON, MARCH 18, 1924. ONE HAVING AUTHORITY.

Main and varied Arc tIM mporta WO hear of lb.- working of Prohibition in c.s.a. A iQoWcint of LA* Aagelie, n.tw in this Dominion, nays bo enw more drunkenness in Wellington in l! ,ia>s than ho had ooon la Loo Aagek ■ in t be last l<» years Hut the following itatenient, from the fradoral ProhiblUoo Cxuinulaaloner on tin- fourth anniversary of then lag dry, natal instructive and <-<m viming:— "Tin- Soar fraal onxotandtng accessphadunents of prohibition in th. four roan it baa booa la oporatloa an lhe

ng of the distiller* i osing oi i h.< breweries, (he wiping put oi tin saloons, and putting an end to the open making and selling of liquet as ■ ." declared Federal i Prohibition Uommissionei Ro) a Haynes, In com menting upon the fourth anniversary • \ .• onal i'inhibitton. "In acoompliahing th< he said. "Prohibition ha drunkenness to such an extent that In most plaooo n baa almost ceased to •; it has aed po\ el t > and brought prosperity; n has given children and Kills and mothers a bettei chance, has reformed countless drunk ards, and brought happiness Into thou Hands of \ mei lean homes It ban cleaned up 'Main Street'; one \ in spend time in hotel lobbies, m parks, at b ball < m theatres, on the si i I Eld in public i • and not see :i drunken man. There is practically no open and abovi board drinking an) where; that la to say, drinking In bo called saloons is oo ruardad and done so surreptitiously, thai undercover or disguised agents are required to secure • nee t hat will con> i< t l m ever) street, in ever) city, there are l< rnat<- business places where on© there were saloons and dlvea generally. There is not a first class hotel any whole in tlo country with a bar-room. and no flrst-clasa hotela permit drinking in then public dining looms average first-class hotel rnannj iKtt desire drinking in private :< »<>ll>> ass restauranta do not permit drlnklni and are opposed to hip p' i violations. Trul) open drinking and 'treating 1 have gone. Imagine being asked to have another drtal of hair tonic, or canned heat, "i gin, o I made out of tlo same sort of alcohol used to keep automobile radiators from fiee/.inir, or another drink of moonshine made in n swamp or dirty cellar, in old ash cans, galvanised iron pipes, and load coils; fermented •with lye and coloured with lodine. T>i»icni of the decreased drunkenness evident in the larger cities. Mayor Dover, of Chicago, announced that then were twelve ar rests for drunkenness in Chicago OU NVw Year's Day. while in New- York. ending to report of the divisional chief in charge, there were only six arreata made by his mon. "Tt Vs itnj»ossinlo. oven for the American who is least inclined to put his own

fit behind th. Eighteenth Amend oh nt. iin«a loath t<> forego personal Indulj • !le la< I that Ibe prosperit) of t h haa not been due to an) m« isign urainst which th< ex< hange rate . that ■• iming mon of oni ow n product* H< < nnnot dodge oi fan to take account ol the that the in. ii who make Amei automobl drh Ing them; that oui silks and tine textiles are tindin. ' among our own people; thai sob. i workmen ar. consuming a largei por tion of our manufactured products than n our histo "1 !•• knou a If b< 11 ada hla dail) newspaper, thai we are the onl) nation in the world without an unemployment blera. Tin sums we ono lnv< in the destructive distilling and brewbusiness now operate I and i.ai loads ...I hi - .- ha. t>.-. n lengthened The family purse today suffices for the family support, now that the bar roomOn CloeOd. without the children adding then pifan. - Rl \i\ Od ambition in th. home has oonl to high schools. ■ hoOls, and Colleges thousand- who m oui wet . l.i.k.d the imans or the OBCOUI • ment t.. stud ith, "In tlo- fa(tor>. the eountinu room. the store: in the mines, OB the farms. in t' • "p< n spaces, in the home he schoolroom, In the church, t hen is a |TOat. OJUtet, resistless force in motion that of unchallenged leadership of the world. "Enforcement <d th. prohibition law not bt en without its dlmcuhlea but i hav< alwaya been those who fail od to automatlcall) roi a time such otatuti re regarded to be In conflict with their 'personal liberty However, it is m> opinion that in tin yean to come, the period through which we hav. been passing will inexplicable as tin- VIgOTOUa < hal lenges which have been utt< throughout the histoi\ of legislation wherever personal llbert) hai been limited by constitution or statutt "Those are my convictions, and they cannot fail to be the conviction °f •. aerlous-minded American who will stud) the facta and Bf n the) • in from ev. i \ State, city and vilof th. land "