TEMPERANCE FACTS

White Ribbon, Volume 21, Issue 2, 1 March 1949, Page 10

TEMPERANCE FACTS

Given at Brooklyn. " Ths oniy glory in life is to leave the world better for having been in it; and intoxicants will not help us to do that. Alcohol does not spare anyone—a Robert Burns or a Coleridge—any more than a poor woman. A thousand times have I thanked God that 1 have kept clear of the drink handicap.” Sir Wilfred Grenfell of Labrador. I Given at Dargaville. “The liquor traffic stands alone, the monumental robber of every other industry on earth.’ Professor Hopkins. “Alcohol is a *well poison. It swells the head and swells the death rate.” “ Drinking and Driving. Alcohol and petrol don’t mix—when one goes mto the driver’s mouth, and the other into the carburettor. Alcohol is a drug which, no matter how we may try to talk ourselves out of it, affects the brain. This is just cold, scientific fact.” From August “Consumer News.” Given at Auckland Executive Meeting. “The word ‘Toxic’ always implies poison. So a man who is intoxicated is poisoned. Scientists tell us that alcohol, which is a product of fermentation, is a deadly poison. Our Saviour came to give health and life and liberty, so we know He did not the drink of death at Cana of *lilee” Given at Remuera. "The present day prevalence of the drink evil must be largely charged to the indifference of Good peopje.” Given at Brooklyn. V Legalising tilemanufacture, sale and use of intoxicating beverages is wrong, as all history and every development of the traffic proves it to be—a moral, social, and political wrong.” Abraham Lincoln. “ A ban on spirits being supplied at sea to deck and engineer officers under 25 years of age has been introduced on the “ Union Castle ” liners and cargo ships travelling between Southampton and South Africa. More than 250 young officers, about half the officer strength of the Line, on 16 ships, are affected by the new rule. Officers are not allowed to buy spirits ashore to take on board/’ “Daily Herald,” 8/3/48. Given at Northland District Convention. “ One is justified in believing that alcohol is at the present time the chief and most deadly of plagues that infect humanity. It is a subject which in the past few years has occupied the thoughts of, and disturbed and frightened all Europe, and France in particular.” Bishop Latty, French Prelate.