HOME PROTECTION ARMY.

White Ribbon, Volume 48, Issue 6, 18 July 1942, Page 5

HOME PROTECTION ARMY.

MAKE THE WHOLE WORLD HOMELIKE. The Government can be assured that any organised protest against liquor restrictions will be the bleatings of satellites of the great brewery combines that apparently have little interest in the national welfare. “Daily Mirror,” 3/3/42. The liquor traffic stands alone the monumental robber of every other industry on earth.—Prof. Hopkins. Dr. Arthur Hunter, noted Scotch actuary, states that tables show that abstainers have a life expectancy 20 per cent, above those who drink, on an average one glass of beer a day. We cannot continue to pour nearly two billion gallons of alcoholic drink every year into the veins of our democracy and expect it to retain the vigor and efficiency so vitally needed in these critical times. —Senator Morris Sheppard.

British Government has announced the following reductions, after consultation with the brewers Fruit juices, syrups, and squashes, etc., 40 per cent, of normal supplies; infants’ food, medicine, etc., 50 per cent, of normal supplies; beer, 70 per cent, of normal supplies.