Election Day . . . The Ballot ... A Protection

White Ribbon, Volume 29, Issue 4, 1 September 1957, Page 1

Election Day . . . The Ballot ... A Protection

To Home and Family?

know it is a touchy point \ declared the late Clinton N. Howard, °f. Progress , when asked to provide a Fathers Day Message for the National \ oice readers, “hut the time where vast multitudes fall down is the day when every father should use the BALLOT to protect his boys and girls, their mother and the home. “ I here is one day when he neglects all these, : f he puts his love of selfish indulgence and pleasure first, and that day is election day. Father is worthy of his day and its gift or greeting, for he supports the home by his labours. He shoulders arms in defence of it and his country, and guards it against lire, violence or harm, to protect his family. No matter where or what father is, remember him on Father’s Day. WHERE HE FALLS DOWN Perhaps it yrnyht not be inappropriate, even while appreciating his worth, to tell h m that there is one important place where he falls down if he votes for the liquor traffic. For he knows fuP well that the greatest enemy of h;s home is Liquor and the Liquor Trade that lies in wait on almost every corner and town to ruin the health of his family, to corrupt their morals, to wreck their prospects, to derange their minds, and to help to lay them in a premature grave, as it has done to countless thousands in every country. “And yet, 1 say, knowing all this, how many fathers will enter the ba o' box in the forthcoming election and support candidates who will continue to legalise liquor death-traps throughout the land, as well as to cast their licensing vote in favour of this nefarious trade? LIQUOR TRAFFIC WOULD DIE The great tragedy of our time,’ continues Clinton Howard “is that so many fathers and mothers forget all about Father’s Dav, Mother’s Dav and Judgment Day! Let me suggest a slogan for that day: ‘l’H. vote as you want me to vote, dear Lord, This curse from our country to free; 1 11 pray as you want me to prav, O Lord And cast * dry ballot for Thee.’ die” hen U Chr:st,ans W,I! do in onc diction, the Liquor Traffic will