TRIP TO U.S.A., CANADA, AND ENGLAND.

White Ribbon, Volume 36, Issue 431, 18 June 1931, Page 3

TRIP TO U.S.A., CANADA, AND ENGLAND.

Mr Coad gave Hamilton Union an account of his trip abroad. In Canada there were l»eer halls where you could get what was called 4-point-4. There were Government spirit depots where you could get a l»ottle of alcohol by signing your name in a book to show that you were over 21 years of age. Any |M?rson under 21 years found on drink premises was arrested. No drink could be consumed on the premises. Mr Coad travelled 5000 miles across America, and did not see a sign of a drunken man on the whole trip. At restaurants where they stopped It was a common sight to see men with large glasses of hot milk to drink with their meals. Mr Coad spent three months in England. He saw drink shops everyw’hete. There were as many women as men >t the ixars. which did not close till 10.30. There would be at least a dozen children outside each pub., some in Plains, and others on the pavement, waiting for their parents, through all kinds of weather; they were often treated to lx>th drink and blows to keep them quiet