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Taranaki Daily News, 16 November 1922, Page 6

Plain. Fuji Silks, 29in. wide, from 4/11 yd; Tussore ,Silks, 33in. wide, 3/6 to • 7/11 yard. Crepe-de-chincs and Georgettes in all shades, 7/11 yd; 40in. wide.

A REVOLUTION. GENERAL CONTEMPT FOR LAW. U.5.1,’3 TROUBLES. The above quotation is contained in a special article on U.S.A, in “The Times,” London, of the 4th July, 1922, from which are taken the following ex“The one inevitable conclusion which «is forced on one by studying the conditions in the United States, after three years of attempts to enforce the Act, is that if we wish to make Great Britain sober, the way to do it is not by passing a general prohibition law. It is true that we are a vastly more law-abiding people than the Americans, but the difficulty of enforcement would differ only in degree, not in kind. Nor do I believe that the American people, if they had to do it over again, would take the same course. In the City of New York, there were, in the month of May last, 719 arrests for drunkenness. A magistrate who has b’en for many years on the bench, said recently that he had never seen so many cases of, or growing out of, drunkenness. There is being drunk in the United States now an immense amount of socalled “whisky” of the vilest quality, from which, the general belief is, there are more deaths than there ever were f rom alcoholism in the ante-Prohibition days. it is again, too generally asserted not to contain some truth, that young people,. in the cities, especially girls, take to drink out of mere bravado, because it has to be done secretly. It is obviously far less dangerous for a girl to have, a cocktail, a glass of wine or a liqueur at a luncheon table than to be taken to a private room or out in a motor car to drink clandestinely. . Above all there is the general contempt for the law as law, which is being bred into the people. As has often been ' remarked when the best people in the country, including leading business men, judges,” senators and members of the Cabinet take pleasure in breaking a law, or treat it as a joke, then something is wrong with the law. Whether or not, as some assert, the United States is more drunken than it used to be, there must be some better way of making a people sober. It was a revolution almost as violent as Bolshevism, and it is difficult to see what the end will be.” Do you want this said about our country Vote Continuance. 72