COUNTRY’S YOUTH THREATENED. GREAT INCREASE IN BLINDNESS AND MADNESS IN U.S.A. A cablegram from Melbourne states: “Detective Sainsbury, of the Commonwealth Investigation Branch, who has returned from the United States, was told by more than one police officer there that the (inly way to save the young manhood of . the States was by the breaking-down of the present liquor restrictions. “He found that the increase in slygrog shops and the amount of liquor sold had been enormous Far from being a solution of the drink evil, prohibition was having a horrible effect on the younger generation in America. The results ould be seen in the greatly increased number of cases of blindness and madness, and even death, from the r effects of liquor. Another result was _ the increase in crime.” Repeated statements of this kind are constantly being made by responsible -people. What alternative, then, with ) ’ citizens who have the country’s interest at heart,, but to—Vote Continuance. 54
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Taranaki Daily News, 8 November 1922, Page 2
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158Page 2 Advertisements Column 4 Taranaki Daily News, 8 November 1922, Page 2
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