COUNTRY’S YOUTH THREATENED
GREAT INCREASE IN BLINDNESS AN!) MADNESS IN U.S.A. A cablegram from Melbourne states: “Detective Sainsbury. of t’.e Communweatla InvostigntL.n Branch, who has loti'rnod from the Unit: d States was told by more than cue police officer there that the only way to save the young manhood of the States v.u s by the breaking-down of the present liqi (>;■ restrictions.
He found that the increase in ;-! grog shot s and tho amount of liquor sulci had been enormous. Far from being a solution of the drink evil, prohibition was having a horrible effect on the y 'linger generi t'on An America. The results could he seen in the greatly increased number-of cases of blindness end madness, and even death from the effects of liquor. Another result, was the increase in crime.”
Repeated statements of this kind are constantly being mrile by lesponsihle people. AYliat alternative then, with citizens who have the country’s interest at heart, but to —Vote Continuance. “L
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Hokitika Guardian, 9 November 1922, Page 3
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162COUNTRY’S YOUTH THREATENED Hokitika Guardian, 9 November 1922, Page 3
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