SYSTEMATIC PRESS PUBLICATIONS.

White Ribbon, Volume 35, Issue 411, 18 October 1929, Page 6

SYSTEMATIC PRESS PUBLICATIONS.

(To the Editor.) Dear Mrs l*erymun,— Will you kindly allow me a little space in your paper to make a suggestion to our Executives in the matter of Press publications. It is that each Executive should make arrangements with its various branches to be responsible in turn for the appearance each week in the local paper of an article or letter bearing on Prohibition or on Temperance principles. Each Branch should then detail a meml>er to be responsible (in turn, if possible) for the appearance of such a publication during the week allotted. Matter for these publications could always. I think, be found in the columns of the "White Kthbon,” while, of course, items appearing in the daily paper frequently afford a "text” for a letter of protest or exhortation. We are frequently urged to make use of the opportunities given us by the

Preen, hut If methodical arrangem* made, mm h more could be dona m «iii»m tlon thaa if the no ware to the haphazard Impulaei <>t our ill' 1111 I trual l am i, ot'ftcioua, bul if 1 .i»n I must plead m\ d OUJ work advam ><•.• mi now ii« d with success. Yours for tor). •ONK OV THK RANK AND l-MLK (To thf Kditoi.) i •• ai Had tin, — Raoontl) I an Auckland ; I an enquir) whether it was fair that the mono) paid foi i lit • not by a nmall, • d hutfl should he tin saintamount ai that paid b) one prominent and much man largel) frequented, it • ed that li< enaee gra k d at cording to annual profits would bfftag in considerably more revenue. \ the mceaae tax attenda to that, if under a different heading', still aa effectually as its off in manage, the suggestion st'fins to me hardly much n itself; hut it aot me wondering

how long it : • paid fllcenae to aall spirituous liquora hna been l asked an need E > rohiblt workar who taM ana that, bow< much l! . !u\ur> oi' 1 en, that paiticular itaan w ' "Would r be rained in f< ra," was the expression he uI tkla I. WBJ Ar»' in' liquor the onl> things that show no .lift war pricea? If thaj do ohou nana, of COUrat it is reasonable that the pta a Uoaaaa to sell them ahould alao ha analtered. Hut it' their i aHarad in common a ith ao man) other thlj ahonld n«>t that of the i. even If only for so short a period on fours faithfully, AMY K BfSRCn