The White Ribbon. “For God and Home and Humanity.” WELLINGTON, MAY 18, 1926. NOTES FROM THE EDITOR'S DESK.

White Ribbon, Volume 32, Issue 371, 18 May 1926, Page 6

The White Ribbon. “For God and Home and Humanity.” WELLINGTON, MAY 18, 1926. NOTES FROM THE EDITOR'S DESK.

OLD IM< TERES WANTED. Last yuu - om niulors rcM|»oiidcd very liberally t<» an appeal for pictures to make scrap hooks at a Maori school. Mrs Miller, as the result of White KibIloners’ contributions, made 6<> scrap tx>oks, with over 300 pictures, and the young Mooii pupils greatly enjoyisl these and they were educational also. Mrs Miller would he pleas'd to receive a further supply of any o<ld picttues, olil postcards, magazine picture*, even advertisement* if coloured. Please M-nd all pictures to Mrs Miller, Him* Duaina, Wait aka ro-Tokomaru Bya. WAS HE INTOXICATED? This quest ion has lately Den causing touch debate in ot»r Courts. In at recent case in Wellington, two doctors who saw the man an hour after the police had arrested him said he wns not dn ink The constable said his

breath smelt of liquor, and it was not denied that he had “had a dr.nk or two.” If a man's breath smells of alcohol, he is not lit to drive a highpowered motor car in the congested tratTic of oni- cities. Drunk we usually associate with incapable, and in that sen.se the man perhaps was not drunk. Intoxicated means poisoned. And :r scientist says: “If a man takes « tablespoonful of brandy he is intoxieated to that extent until his system throws off the poison.” NOT MANY. How many accidents, motor, tram, or liny form of traffic, laippen when alcohol is not in evidence Rend t h«* cnquiries or inquests and note how often one or other has had one or two drinks. But of course nol>ody D drunk. B.P.C.A, IKm'.s this Society not look upon a fish as ;m animal? Perhaps they may have noticed a picture of a live knhawai with a hiN>k in its hack used as a twit for a swordfish. Surely one can )>♦ n sportsman without being cruel and torturing a helpless fish. Instead of being photocl for a paper, a practice like this should he pilloried. Ol’R BAIMJE. A White Kiltikoner went to Wellingion to attend the Alliance annual meeting. Busy ais all White ltihl»oncr.q are, she rushed off and left her Ridge on the dressing table. vrivod ot Thnrndon, site pared up and down, but nobody claimed her as guest. She took a taxi, paid 7s fid, and arrived to find that her hostess had met Iter, passed her bemuse she did not have a bow on. Moral: Wear your ledge anti save your shillings. MATERNITY HOMES. Dr. Valentine, speaking at New Plymouth. said: “He was old-fashioned enough to believe that, where possible, women should he attended to in their own homes, but under present conditions that was impossible, for a large number of women.” We believe it was Dr. Valentine's Department which made thus desirable thing an impo;;slbllity by eliminating the old-fashioned monthly nurse. DRVNKBN DRIVERS A woman Municipal Judge says: “I believe that practically every Judge, and the greater part of the public at

large, will agree with me that the drunken driver is the greatest menace to street and highway safety to-day. Leniency in such cases cannot Is* justified. it is the duty of the Court to the law-abiding public to s» *• that adequate penalties are enforced. No jarole should Is- granted.”