SOME TEMPERANCE FACTS

White Ribbon, Volume 18, Issue 4, 1 May 1946, Page 6

SOME TEMPERANCE FACTS

The following was included in an address given by Mr LopJeil at the Lower Hutt Union’s March meeting: “5,000 houses could have been built with what it had cost in sugar for beer in tl.e last year. Wherever Prohibition had been in force very considerable decreases in crime had been noted; and when liquor had been introduced, critne increased fourfold.” REM \RKABLE, BUT TRUE

Given at Palmerston North, April 2nd: If the pendulum of a clock were moved in the slow direction one thousandth part of a second, in a week’s time it would cause a man to be ten minutes late for his train. One thou-

andtli part of a second seems a small amount; yet as the days go by it makes a difference. The effect of a small amount of alcohol may be so slight as to be unnoticed for one day, but when taken habitually it gradually slows down a person’s working capacity. Moral: Beware of the small amount. Given at Auckland’s April Meeting: Taken from the “Herald.” April 9th. That sixteen Scotch distilleries which normally produced 60,000 gallons weeklv will be closed down this month owing to grain shortage, and will not reopen till the Minister of Food, Sir Ben Smith, increases the quota for whisky distilling.