PRESIDENTS MESSAGE
My dear White Ribboners, - The bells rang, and we rejoiced with every nation that hostilities had ceased in Europe. We were grieved lieyoitd measure that the authorities did not close hotel bars for the great occasion. Why was this bungle allowed in our fair land? Churches and Temperance organisations everywhere asked for closed bars. Instead, tea-rooms were closed, but drink shops lid a roaring trade, one result being much broken glass swept up from streets in Auckland and Christchurch. But what of the misery in homes, to young girls and men? Broken glass can Ixr swept up, hut broken lives—who can measure the destruction there? Will every Cnion make it a matter of urgency to see that such a desecration does not take place when the day ol vittorv over Japan is proclaimed? Write to your NI.IVs. Leave nothing to chance. Stir up vour friends everywhere until the whole country is alive to the urgency of closing bars on »ucli a great occasion. Yours for real peace, JESSIE HIETT.
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White Ribbon, Volume 17, Issue 5, 18 June 1945, Page 3
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