HERE A LITTLE AND THERE A LITTLE.

White Ribbon, Volume 32, Issue 380, 18 March 1927, Page 6

HERE A LITTLE AND THERE A LITTLE.

Prohibition in U.S.A. a Failure. “It is a failure for the brewers who mourn the lost profit from their yearly sales of 1,885,000,00( gallons cf beer, containing 83.000.000 gallons of pure alcohol. It is a failure for the 177,790 saloon keepers and bartenders who have to work for a living, instead of preying on the vices of their fellows. It is a failure for the loan shark, who bled those pauperised by the saloon. It is a failure for the brothel-keeper, who closed her door when prohibition cleared the muddled brains of her patrons. It is a failure for the turnkeys in the jails closed since prohibition, for the gunmen who murdered and robbed with impunity before prohibition, but have been lodged in cells for their violation of the prohibition law. Prohibition is a failure for the brewery-owned

politician, for the ward-heeler and the corruptionist. It is a failure for all those who once fattened on the weaknesses and vices of their fellows. Prohibition—A Success. The success of prohibition can be seen by those who watch our rising tide of prosperity. Countless thousands of wives and mothers know that prohibition is a success. The laundries which have succeeded to the wash-tub abandoned by the former drunkard’s wife, know prohibition works. The manufacturer whose output has increased 15 to 30 per cent, while his production costs are lowered and his markets enlarged, knows it has succeeded. Wayne Wheeler. Prohibition Injures Business. It has long been known that the undertaker’s business suffers a severe falling off under prohibition. Now. a man who advertises as “Healer of Black Eyes,” complains that since prohibition came in, his business has entirely gone out. Secretary of Commerce of U.S.A., Herbert Hoover, says referring to America’s economic rehabilitation: “In no other nation, and in no case in the history of the world, has there been such a measure of recovery as curs from so great a disaster. Today, and for the whole of the last 3 years, all of our working people have been employed at a higher real wage than ever before witnessed. We ha', e less poverty, and we have grown to higher standards of living and comfort than ever before the war. We have grown in national wealth by greater sums than ever in our histor>, and to greater wealth and comfort than ever before in the history of the world.” There may be two opinions as to whether prohibiiion is the cause of America’s prosperity, there can only be one opinion as to whether prohibition has ruined America. League of Nations. A document distributed among the numbers of the League refers to the smuggling of alcoholic liquor into the U.S.A. in defiance of the prohibition law. This is a disgrace to civilisation, it is declared. Cocktails and Gin. Prof. Louise Mcllroy, of the Royal Free Hospital, London, askinl this

question of the members of the British Medical .Association at Nottingham. “In the neighbourhood of King's Cross, I see pubs filled with women. Quite a large number of these women are drinking gin. Igo further west, and think of women I know of at about 6 p.m., having parties at which they are drinking cocktails, made of six or seven incredients in the cocktail shaker. What, I ask, is the difference between them?” Our White Ribboners in U.S.A. are planning an educational campaign to show that America’s leadership of the world is greatly enhanced by the benefits of prohibition, even under imperfect enforcement. Mr* Mabel Walker Willehrundt. The daughter of a pioneer Western farmer, she was educated in South California, where she won the degrees of L.L.B. and L.L.M. For a short time a teacher, then having passed her Law exams, she practised for 10 years in Los. Angeles. Her record shows the defense of over 2,000 women. In August 1921, President Harding chose her from among the women lawyers of the entire country, as Assistant U.S.A. Attorney-General. Admitted to practice at the Supreme Court, she put in a very busy 5 years. Several times in the absence of the Attorney-General, she was called upon to head the department. She waged a ceaseless fight for better jail conditions, and for the Federal Reformatory for women. For 2 years she personally supervised the work on bootlegger’s gang in Savannah.