AMERICAN ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 20 November 1924, Page 2

AMERICAN ITEMS

[Reuters Telegrams.]

F.S.A. OBSEBYATKINS. NEW YOKE. November IS. Airs Bn- Intel Don. National President of the New Zealand Women’s Christian Temperance Fnion. delivered tho principal sermon at the Jubilee Convention of the W.C.T.F.. now being held at Chicago. The proceedings included a unique banquet in honour of overseas delegates, where every item on the menu consisted of products manufactured a dolioensed lire"erics. Mrs Don has spent six months in travelling throughout the United States, ."'he says she saw only four drunken men. and that all classes of citizens, front Governors to the gio'ttesl police recruit, wore unanimous that America would never renounce prohibition. She was convinced that there was no other way to account lor a great impetus given to home building, for the tremendous mi in. ter of automobiles, for an increase in savings hank deposits, for universal crime, as evidenced by ■'empty gaols, and a decrease in poverty, as proved by a decline of many charitable institutions. She declares the fact that the prohibition convention is worldwide in eharacier is shown by the presence of many famous missionaries, including Flora Stout, who spent seventeen years in Burma. Ceylon, and the Straits Settlements; Christine I inging. from China; and Airs Pi ice from India.