FACTS GIVEN BY MR HODDER. M.A., TO ASHBURTON Y's.

White Ribbon, Volume 33, Issue 395, 18 June 1928, Page 13

FACTS GIVEN BY MR HODDER. M.A., TO ASHBURTON Y's.

We hear a lot about hip flasks among students in America. I have studied in Boston, which contains POO students, and never saw a hipflask, although 1 moved round among indents of each University. When in America. 1 studied prohibition from a young person's standpoint. 1 visited prison and police oflicers and compared figures, and in • very case found that the drunkenness among young people had diminished to almost nothing. I have lived in America six years and crossed it four times, each time In a different route, and I've stayed at most of the large cities, and I've seen more drunken men in Wellington in an hour, than during my whole stay n America. You can’t belie.e the newspaper reports about Prohibition in l .S.A. There are papers published in \nierica that enlarge on Police raids, etc., to aid the “Wets. There are also men paid to make prohibition look a failure by publishing false reports all over the world.