The White Ribbon. For God and Home and Humanity. WELLINGTON, FRBRUARY 18, 1926 CONSISTENCY IS A JEWEL.

White Ribbon, Volume 31, Issue 368, 18 February 1926, Page 7

The White Ribbon. For God and Home and Humanity. WELLINGTON, FRBRUARY 18, 1926 CONSISTENCY IS A JEWEL.

On<*\ years ago. driving along a country road, we saw a well-defined track just above us on the hillside. It ran beside us for miles, through cuthni .. over embankments, all grans mown and unused. Curiosity promptthe query, “Is that an old road?* "No," was the reply, “the railway was

mcant to go there, but a change of Covet nm nt Induced a change of route.” Upon enquiry we found that the abandon* d road had cost £IO,OOO. We there and then conceived a great admiration for a people who could spend nior.ev so prodigally. 1,-.:* y, reading our paper*, we have come to the conclusion that our Government still hi* “money to burn.’ U sc why spend huge sums to maintain a Health lHpartmeiu to inspect school children and take every taire ot their health, and then, by licensing the greatest enemy to child life, make aI 1 this expenditure practically abortiv*. Why make such *m outcry alHJut tti" prevail nep of goitre and the necessity of losing healthy children with iodine to prevent it. and never make any provision to guard these ehi’dren from t.h« deadly menace of alcoholism? Wh\ V .lust you think out this problem L>‘ yourself.