Page 11 Advertisements Column 1

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 501, 2 November 1928, Page 11

«W. Prohibition the Enemy of Temperance CHARLES BUTLER it a distinguished Architect, and a Fellow of the American lhititate of Architectt. He terved in the war in France, wae attached to the French Ministry of War. from 19IS to 1918. and warn awarded the Cheealier de la Legion d Honneur. He it a member of the Unitarian Church. CHARLES BUTLER ARCHITECT, F. A. I. A. 56 WEST FORTY-FIFTH STREET, NEW TOOK] TELEPHONE VANDERBILT ease 20th June, 1928. A PERSONAL LETTER TO NEW ZEALAND. I believe that prohibition in the United States has set back the cause of temperance for many years. Theoretically, prohibition has eliminated the saloon, but as a matter of fact, it has substituted the "speak-easy" which has all the vices of the saloon, but none of its virtues. I think there is no question but what young people are drinking more and more hard liquor than was ever drunk before prohibition, and I believe that we have a long fight before us to secure the real temperance in which we all believe. Whatever aotion the voters of New Zealand may take in the coming election, I trust that they will not attempt to secure temperance by means of prohibition. Yours very truly, For True Temperance Vote Continuance “Strike out the Two "Bottom Lines 99 I vote tor National Continuance I vota (or State PunoiiASE and Cwthw.