WAKE UP!

White Ribbon, Volume 35, Issue 418, 18 May 1930, Page 1

WAKE UP!

\'< ople bl< ep at b(range times and in Bti ange plac<.- < >t U n i d pli <»! dangei. Bometinn h a ben, bj ■ little effort, tin dang<» might be i ted. Nations Bleep the ale* p of Igno ol Indiffei ence, ol apathy, i in ii i tie) Bhould be up and doing to avert oat lonal peril. The di ciples Blept In < ret baenian<. all within sight and aound of their Ma • .\iid. to da). torj is i ep< .11 iii- Itself, and Chriat'i diaciplei are calmlj aleeping arhlle the bouli fof whom He agonised are i • In ruined i>> i trade licensed by the Christian citisena ol this i><> minion. \ v ke up! Waki up! and take ■ aurrej 61 the erili Bowing from thia t raffle. On erery band ere boar of the menaei to our young life of tin cocktail habit. When are clergymen and social work, rs condemn the youths who drink these cocktails, are feel inclined to ask. "What have you done, sir, to place tails beyond the reach of the young people ol our Dominion?" The menace Is i real one, and w. ought to be Ml) aaraka to It Within this last month three oases ' com* to oui own know In on*-, after i dance, a young woman was taken to a lonely spot b) several young men. Bo freely had she oar-

taken o! the Clare! Cup provided, that she was belpless, almost sense | • ue that followed in that lonely apol ams unspeakable, unprintable, itut it happened, it happened In our own midst, it i being repeated over and over again. And it would not happen unless drink had brutalised the young man and rendered helpless the young girl. Politicians, as arell as preachers, are arakini up to the increase in the number of children horn out ol a lock, babies, whose moth, ra are bardl) out of childhood themeelrea Vet t boy willully blind their • the oause of this evil. Too often wiien asked who la use Bather ol ber child, the girl owns that sh. went for a rid. in a motoi car. was drunk. remembera nothing, and dona not know who is her child's father. Those things are not "aim to writ. about, but aan we hoop sUeooa in face ol this dire, moral peril to our Wh.-n lamps of life are lit at such unholy flames, can w wonder that we bare sexual portertS, and criminals; auh aoiinal and defective children? We have no right t<> blame our youth. This trade was licensed by a Christian < rOI ei nnont to ptoy upon our youth. The rory existence of the Trad, depends upon the rising generation learning to drink. The law forbids the sale of liquor to young people under 21. [a the law

obeyed? & rtainly not. it the trade obeyed that law they would he cut tie 'ii own throat, cutting oil nil peets ot future lOVOUUO. I- it not tim.' to wake up talking ahout the drinking among uig people, ami bagli arorking in .alio st to put drink wh.re yomg people cmnot gi t it. If >ou coin.' out as the W.C.T.U. does, fOur-squara against tl . and work and vote for a dr> Do minion. you will he called a wow an old frump, a kill-joy. And this. h\ people who talk ahout the evils ot drink, hut don't show an> hetter wa> than prohibition to got rid of them. People who talk ahout sty-grog ling in 1.5. A.. hut ••, i \er> discreet Silence ahout Bly-gTOg ling" to the youth of our Dominion. 'To .-» 11 liquor in I'.S.A. used to trade, now it is a crime."" So ■aid Dr. Mary Armour. stay the soople of this Dominion wake up. and make the liquor seller a criminal in our own land!