COME TO STAY

Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 3893, 10 January 1929, Page 3

COME TO STAY

PROHIBITION IN AMERICA. VIEWS OF KANSAS POLICE CHIEF. Wellington, January 7. That prohibition in the United States has come to stay is the firm conviction of the Hon. George T. Cubbon, who for many years was chief of police in Wicketa, Kansas. Mr. Cubbon, who is on a visit to the Dominion, informed a reporter that the recent elections in the States had shown this very clearly. “Smith,” he said, “ran on a ‘wet’ platform and did not carry his own precinct or State, and the South, to the surprise of everyone, turned its back on liquor. The States, in my opinion, will never go hack to whiskv.”

He pointed out that most of the accounts about the States “going to the bow-wows” under prohibition were propaganda on the part of those interested in keeping the liquor traffic going. As a matter of fact, the amount of liquor consumed was not one two-hundredth part of the amount of what was used before prohibition came into force. It Was true that one could get liquor of a sort if one liked to pay for it, hut the vast .majority of the people .were doing without it, and, in the case of the working man especially, the effect was very noticeable in the home life.

Mr. iCubbon is greatly impressed with the climate of New Zealand, which permits stock to be grazed out of dooi’s all the year round. After touring the Dominion he intends visiting Egypt, Palestine, and Europe.