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Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 17471, 3 June 1922, Page 7

10 THE EDITOR 07 "iHI PRESS." Sir.—l do not think that any good purpose would bo served by my prolonging the discussion on Prohibition propaganda and the schools. When the Jansenists and Jesuits hn<J argued for many years in the old Port* Royalist days with temper and passion—which gave rise to interminable controversies on abstract theological doctrines; in 1607 Pope Paul V. suddenly closed the discussion by allowing the two groups of disputants to hold each its o.wn opinion, but directing them both to hold their tongues. I will endeavo-ir to follow this wiso Pope's advice.—Yours, etc., WALTER HARPER. Hawkesbury avenue, St. Albans. TO THE EDITOR 01" "THE TRESS.'' Sir, —In your paper this morning, the Rev. W. J. Williams refers to tlx? text, "'lt is good neither to eat flesh nor to drink wine, nor anything whereby thy brother stumbleth." And he says: "Dean Harper, of course, knows that Paul's use of the word 'flesh' has no dietetic reference whatever." I have the greatest respect for the Rev. W. J. Williams's utterances, but he can't have it both ways. If "meat"' doesn't mean ''meat," then •'wine'' doesn't mean "wine."—Yours, etc.. VEGETARIAN. TO THE EDITOR OF "THE I'RESS." Sir, —Your correspondent, J. Johnson. strikes the nail on tho head in his reference to No. 13 Pamphlet when ho point* out that if tho statements contained in the pamphlet are scientifically true, and alcohol is liighly injurious to the human body, it is our duty to let the children know it; in fact, it is criminal to keep them in ignorance of their possible danger through the mistaken sentiment that they will cease to respect the parent who indulges in alcohol in face of the evidence that it is injurious- If I havo a bad drain in my back yard endangering the health, and even the lives, of riiy children, are they not to be told that bad drains are dangerous simply because the knowledge might causa them to fail in respect for my judgment in sanitary matters? If respect for parents is a good thing, and wo are all agreed that it is, let us abolish alcohol so that many a present-day drunkard may be gradually reinstated in the eyes of his children.—Yours, etc., G. E. ROTDS.