THINGS WORTH NOTING.

White Ribbon, Volume 25, Issue 290, 18 August 1919, Page 2

THINGS WORTH NOTING.

BEER A NECESSITY. Mr Heiries has pronounced beer a necessity, and tfiat while our railways cannot carry passengers without .» permit, cannot carry goods that are necessary for our farmers to work thrii land, cannot c arry sufficient laxx ma teria! to keep essential industries go ing, c .nmol take oui c hildren home foi their trim holidays, yet they mu«t carry beer. * * * ( lIKM IST S \NI) TIIK SALE ()! u(,u ok. \t the first Conference of the N./ Pharmaceutical Society, held in ic>i<). ,i resolution proposed bx the Hawke’s Hay Division was carried, that should Prohibition become established at any Inline time, prescriptions for medical piartitioncrs calling fm intoxicating liquors should not he supplied hx • hetnjsts. t » * Mi Mas-ey has returned to this Do mini m, and ha- announced his intern lion of bringing in a Hill to enable women to sit in Parliament. We vrix mu; li hope this Hill will Income laxx next session, and that xxomen may have the light at next election to elect members of their own sex to represent them. * » • Madame kaji Yajima, President of the W.CVIM’. in Japan, is X 5 years of age. The l nion has fine* headquarters in Tokyo, and publishes txxo off 1 < lal pa|)ers, one devoted to the wo I. "I the I. I 1.. • « • In the 'proposed constitution of die League of Nations i- incorporated a measure for the protection from alcoholii li<|Uois uf the native races of .\j 1 it. 1 and othci parts of the world. * • • » Mrs Margaret Denning, President of the India W.C.T.I'., is doing a line temperance and educ itional work. She has the -upport ot prominent native .in | Government officials. • • • Mis l.ouise McKinney, the honourel Vice-President of the Canadian White Kihboners, was the Inst woman P irlianientarian, not only of Canada, hi't of the E mpire. • # # West Vustralia's nine State-owned piths showed a profit of only /Ad-D la-t year, on an expenditure of

The Stale Arbitration Couit, sitting in Perth, W.A., to fix the wages of l»»r tenders, and presided over by Mi Justice Rooth, xxas told by a barman of ,i Fremantle pub. that he worked every Sunday, Mixing “bona tide travellers. lie leckoned he served about jimm> drinks on the day, and had an assistant, who would do about tin same number. t • • Harry (». Hawker, the celebrated airman, is .1 lifelong teetotaller and non smoker. # * « I nevei cl 1 ink anything hut water. Km vie Zola. • t • (bd of 100 abstainers attacked by pneumonia, IJS. 5 died. Out of 100 moderate drinkers, .>5 died. Out ot i<M> immoderate drinkers, 5.2. S died. Sir \ithur New-holme, M.D. * # * Booze i- dead, hut it doesn't know it. The trouble it is making and the money it is spending on lawyers in its last dit< li tight will only add to its funeral expenses. ‘Chicago Blade. ‘ • • • ‘lf the war did nothing rise than give its a dry country, it xx.i- worth a dozen times xxhat it cost,’' said Major-General Wood, the new commander of the Central Department of the Army, in an address recently dr live red in Chicago Dqio). • « * It xx ill he illegal to give or sell intoxicants to minors in Japan after April Ist next. * * # If this Government has the light to pass a law against opium to <-.ive the Chinr-c, it has the light to pass a laxx against booze to save Australim