AMERICAN CABLE NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 14 April 1926, Page 3

AMERICAN CABLE NEWS.

{Australian & N.Z. Cubic Association.]

ARCTIC AIR. ROUTES.

OTTAWA, April 11

That an air service across the Arctic or sub-Arctic regions would be in operation within a few years, is the opinion of Commander George* MacKenzie, who is in charge of the Canadian Government expedition which yearly visits the Government posts in the far north. “it is the general concensus of opinion that the time is not far distant when the Canadian sub-Arctic, will be utilised for a great air trade route. It needs only n look at the map to see how much shorter these routes will bo for aerial transport for lines between London and Hong Kong and London and Tokio,” said .Mr .Mackenzie. An effort will be begun this year to determine the value of materials in the Canadian Arctic regions. MAYO 15 OP MONTREAL. OTTAWA, April 12. A telegram from Montreal states that Mcderick Martin, a member of the Quebec Legislature, lias been elected .Mayor of Montreal for the sixth term with a plurality of more than twenty-two thousand votes. DRY LAW' ENQUIRY. .MOKE DRUNKEN CHILDREN. WASHINGTON. April LI. Mr Stanley Shirk, i 1 research director of the New York Moderation League, told the Senate Committee that drunk-, en drivers and drunken children had increased far above any previously noted with the rising generation. Drinking was more continuous and conditions were lieconiing worse. A national survey revealed drunkenness arrests in 457 representative places in the United States had increased from 250,000 in 1920 to 550,000 in 1921. Father Francis Uasezun, a priest on the Pennsylvania coal fields, said prohibition generally corrupted mining communities. He said those who make liquor in these communities sell it cheap. It was easy to get. Everybody gets it. He declared the children of to-day were the victims of prohibition and cited numerous instances of mothers and children drunk and dissolute, including an infant of _ three years demanding moonshine .whisky. Mrs Viola Anylini, deputy chief probation officer in New York Lundy rourt, testified that cases before the Court had increased since prohibition and family suffering had been augment-

Cll. The Wets will conclude. their testimony to-morrow, after which the Drys will rc-commoiiee. Meanwhile the House Alcoholic Liquor Traffic Committee suddenly announced that it was beginning next week a complete survey of prohibition conditions.