A QUESTION OF LIBERTY

White Ribbon, Volume 24, Issue 6, 1 September 1952, Page 1

A QUESTION OF LIBERTY

An estate agent, wishing to sell a home, stresses as his selling point, proximity to schools, churches, trains, parks, and so forth, but never speaks of liquor bars. These are generally recognised as a curse in any neighbourhood, and a potential danger to young people. Drink enslaves countless numbers of miserable men and women, just as effectively as if in chains of iron. Brutal and horrible crime* of all descriptions are associated with liquor. The perpetrators of these crimes are deprived of their liberty, locked up in prison cells or asylums, but the instigator, the liquor traffic, goes “scot free What right has the traffic to induce people by advertisements —often grossly misleading— to imbibe a poisonous beverage, which makes them a menace to their own and other people's liberty? Again, what right has an individual to imbibe alcohol knowing full well that under its influence, while driving a car, he is a potential murderer. The rights of man are summed up in the golden rule: “Well, then, whatever you would like men to do to you. do you the same to them.” —John Gibson.

NOMINATIONS FOR DOMINION OFFICERS Nominations for Dominion Officers for 1953-54 will close with the undersigned on November Bth, 1952. Consent to nomination must be obtained. Remits for Convention should be sent to Miss V. A Jamieson. 57 Layard St., Invercargill, by 30th November, 1952. Copies of these will be sent to Unions for consideration at their February, 1953, meetings. A. D. GRIGG, Dominion Recording Secretary.