GLEANINGS IN MANY FIELDS

White Ribbon, Volume 41, Issue 482, 18 November 1935, Page 9

GLEANINGS IN MANY FIELDS

That Sir Edgar Sanders has “lifted" his ideas from America is strikingly shown in the following extracts which we leave to speak for themselves:--‘‘We want the beer drinking habit •> instilled into thousands, almost millions of young men uho do not at present know the taste of beer.” —Sir Edgar Sanders at Birmingham Brewers' Meeting, June 15th, 19SS. “Not one-tenth of 1 per cent, of the youth in college know what really good American beer tastes like. To them it is little more than a name. They will have to be educated. . . . —From an ad-

verttaement in tho “Brewing Industry," published in New York, Novenilx»r 9th, 1932.

Our readers will notice that. in spite of lawle.seness and violation, Prohibition

was not .such a failure after all, according to the.se testimonies. It gave the I’nited States A Sutler Youth.

For the victories of the past the W.C.T.r. is grateful. “I've been saying 1 everywhere that the Lord put the Eighteenth Amendment into the Constitution, and it would not l>e repealed,' said a coloured evangelist. “Now it looks as though it is lost, but I still have a message. lam still saying that the Lord put it there, for it was l>om of prayer and consecrated effort, and that even though the powers of evil do take it out for a time, they cannot repeal the results of prohibit ion. For years I've travelled up and down, and I’ve seen the people of both white and coloured races under ls>th conditions, and I know it* value. Prohibition \vill come hack."