REVIEW.
“Thinking It Out. Present Day aspects of Prohibition." Price 3}d. posted. This is the title of a succint little pamphlet, written by Guy Hayler, the Hon. President of the World Prohibition Federation. The main title, “Thinking It Out," is apparently suggested by a quotation from John G. Woolley, who says: "The one thing the liquor traffic cannot endure is to he thought about. When good men think about it they kill it."
The aim in this booklet is to induce the reader to "think out” this great problem, and to furnish reasons why we should “vote out" the liquor traffic. The twenty pages of this small, yet excellent work are full of questions and suggestions concerning Prohibition, which will well repay careful perusal. Here are a few
quotations v/hich will indicate th« character of the book.
“The Prohibitionists send out this challenge: Democracy must dare to do without Drink or die.”
“No prohibitive act, based on the principle of human betterment, has ever meant less liberty for the individual or less freedom for the state. What is for the common good is only counted slavery by the selfish. Prevent waste, provide legitimately for energy, and a highway lias been constructed along which in safety the feet of unborn generations will march in triumph."
“Where the oar has been closed, the bakehouse has been opened without much delay.”
“The task is big, hut men and women are big enough for the task if they will allow themselves to be swayed by what will be best for the community rather than by what will gratify their personal desires.”
“Prohibition is on the doorstep of the world. It is being let into the statute books of the nations. It is working out a new r social revolution. New days for all are breaking on a dry horizon.”
“Every known system of regulation has been tried somewhere, and always—let this ever he remembered-
wfth the same result. It is what men drink, not how nor whew they drink, that causes the trouble ar.d brings the
ruin.”
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White Ribbon, Volume 33, Issue 383, 18 June 1927, Page 7
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343REVIEW. White Ribbon, Volume 33, Issue 383, 18 June 1927, Page 7
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