PROHIBITION PARS.

White Ribbon, Volume 25, Issue 294, 18 December 1919, Page 8

PROHIBITION PARS.

Alcoholism, agent in all physical and moral degeneracies, i- moving on to the destruction of our land. I can not too much insist on the literal trut.i of the sorrowful prediction, and 1 at firm that one can inscribe this formula over all the drink shops of France: “Finis (iall'ue. -Dr. Dupre, eminent I t n< h physician. The campaign in Egypt was a tee total campaign. We drank the Nile,* and noth'ng added. In no other pait of the world have I seen a force of men so fit anil well, General Grenfell, i BqC. It is strange that we always find whisky and crooked politics hand in hand. It is now a question of whether the liquor interests are to dominate vour parties, dominate your public life, and dominate vour Government.— I’h cod ore Roosevelt. Major (ieneral I.conatd says: “So far as the Army is concerned, the na tion h.is been dry. We could not have accomplished 30 per cent, of the work we did if it had not been our men in the camps "ere always fit and ready to work, due solely to the fact ihat the camps "ere dry.” “The water wagon is a sort of Car of Jug-or not.” “The Sahara Desert at one time was the laigest die area on earth.” “We shall beat our swords into ploughshares, and out coikscrews into buttonhooks.

Testifying as an export witness lately, an American doctor tor mental diseases said that no one can drink alcoholic liquors without the cells of his body becoming affected. It is immaterial, he asserted, whether the use ot alcohol is excessive or ordinary. Alcohol is what is known as a cellular poison, affecting the cells of the* body generally. The doctor explained that if alcohol is taken in or dinary quantities the body can throw off the poison without that effect, but if taken in more than ordinary quantities for a continuous period, the temporary changes in the cells become permanent, and the whole body soon is in a state of cellular degeneration. In some cases the breakdown is rapid, ill others slow. But the doctor declared the individual does not live whose cells are not affected by the continued use of alcohol.

„1 he Supreme Court of Maine has handed out a decision that Jamaica ginger is an intoxicant, and its sale or |M>ssessinn is held unlawful. Three different grades were in one lot seized containing respectively 25, 28, and 55 per cent, of alcohol. Finland is the first dry country in Europe. The Prohibition A< t passed 12 years ako came into force on June Ist. l ike I S A., she owes her victor! to scientific temperance instruction in her schools and colleges. She has the smallest per capita ronsunip tion of alcohol in the world.