JOY-KILLERS (?)

Taranaki Daily News, 28 August 1920, Page 2

JOY-KILLERS (?)

(To the Editor.) Sir,—A correspondent, A. Archer," has a rather down-hearted preamble In your yesterday's issue about what lie terms a "joykiller." In the course of his rather illogical si Moment, he talks about" "lawful drinking of intoxicants in unlimited quantities." Has he ever heard of the existence of a law against drunkenness? If so a quiet hour's perusal of the Police Court news In your cicellent paper would perhaps bring him eome much Wanted enlightenment. He then goes on to liken us to savages and noxious weeds I Isn't this rather a come-down for a supposed-to-be civilised and enlightened community? Again, your correspondent seems to bo laboring under the delusion that no one who may happen to enjoy the benefits of a glass of ale or wine is likely to do any good for himself or set an example to future generations This idea, of course, will not hold witter against the facts of history. Your correspondent's knowledge of that subject .must be somowhat hazy, otherwise he would know Borne of tho wine-bibbing habits of such men as Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, Sir Bobert Walpple, and hundreds of others one could name if space would permit. In conclusion, I should like to quote to him the remark of a rather witty divine: "There is only one thing," he said, "worse than being married to an absolute drunkard, and that is bring married to a fanatical temperance advocate."—l aim, etc., BYSTANDER. New Plymouth, 25th August.