WHY AMERICA HAS PROHIBITION.

White Ribbon, Volume 33, Issue 402, 18 January 1929, Page 7

WHY AMERICA HAS PROHIBITION.

(Frank Crane.) The guilty parties who brought prohibition to pass are: (1 ) The scientists who dug up the nasty facts in the case, showing that the benefit from alcohol was at best problematical and occasional and the injury from it universal, certain and ppulling. (2) The life insurance companies You could not fool them. They had too much money invested in the law of averages of human life. They spoke only in statistics, but the) were eloquent. Cl) The men of business. .After all. America is primarily a business institution. Booze spoiled business. It honeycombed efficiency. (1) The women. Average, decent, honest and serious-minded American women never liked the stuff. (5) The war. When it came to concentrating 4.000.000 young men in camps and getting them into shape to fight the best trained enemy troops in the world, the b( ze Issue became acute. Things were too critical to take any chances on not winning. And it was only because the reformers had this tremendous platform to stand on that they succeeded. The IT.S.A. is not going ahead into Puritanism. Neither is it going back into alcoholism. The people give ’em time,- have sense!