SCISSORS AND PASTE.

White Ribbon, Volume 30, Issue 356, 18 March 1925, Page 10

SCISSORS AND PASTE.

A Little Lower. “Good laws do not always make good people, but good people always ought to make good laws. The man who upholds the liquor shop must be a little lower than the liquor shop, or he could not do it.” —The late Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman. Birkenhead’s lament.—Lord Birken head, recently travelling in the United States, is reported to have stated to .an interviewer at Worcester (Mass.): “It’s awful travelling about the country for weeks at a time, and seeing nothinp but a ghastly glass of water on the table.’’ Does Prohibition prohibit?

“Mother, why are nil the men going out?” “Oh, just to see if Prohibition is over.” —“Life.” "McPherson is a joiner. If he sees two men having a drink he always joins them.” —Jock Mills. How Does This Strike You?—Britain’s National Drink Bill, f 307,500.000; Britain’s National Debt interest <102324), £307 309.000. Only £93.000.000 spent on milk, but £193.000.000 in beer. America must be wondering why we arc sending so many lecturers to the United States. The country is dry enough already.- “Punch.” “With public sentiment nothing can fail; without it. nothing can succeed. Consequently, he who moulds public sentiment goes deeper than ho who enac 4 s statutes or pronounces decisions. He makes statutes and decisions possible to be executed.” —Abraham Lin coin.

“Yesterday is dead forget it. Tosorrow does not exist- don’t worry, ’’’n do\- J s here—use It.” (’ S \. \ma/?ng Record Rut when we stopped the legal sale of beer the

death, poverty and crime ratios declined. We had in four dry years 873,(KM) fewer deaths, 2,000,000 fewer arrests for drunkenness, and a 74 per cent, decrease in poverty due to intemperance. -Cable. 12/5/24.

Cuts Arrests in Two.—ln the city ot San Francisco in wet 1907 there were 17,470 arrests for intoxication. In the same city in 1922, dry, the number of arrests on this charge was 7262. The number of arrests for drunkenness in Los Angeles in wet 1917 was 16,415, and in dry 1922 it was 9910. Scotch I ahourites’ .Majority.—The Scottish Independent Labour Party, at its Annual Conference in Edinburgh on January sth, 1924, passed a resolution in favour of Total Prohibition by 71 votes to 38 votes. Bung makes the anti-Prohibitlon bullets, and the daily press fires them. Their trademark is “Published by Ai rangement.’’ Every day in every way the press is getting wetter and wetter —the result of liquor suggestion.