Concern in Canada
A letter from our Legal and Parliamentary Superintendent, Miss C. Henderson, 8.A., J.P., ♦•ses with these fateful words: “The Licensing Commission's report should give the Unions plenty of food for thought, for if the recommendations were adopted, it would mean that we would lose all that vve had gained.” F rom the Official Organ ot the Women's Missionary Society of the United Church of Canada, which society has a strong Temperance sec-
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tioti, is taken the article printed helow. We urge all our Unions to study the methods being employed to combat the growing menace ot increased facilities for the consumption and sale of liquor in Prince Edward Island and Ontario, which are undermining the work ot many years. WE MUST FIGHT TO THE LAST DITCH.' “A very real concern is expressed at the ever-increasing consumption of alcoholic beverages in Canada, amoint-
ing now to a value of'just under one million dollars per day. There have been setbacks in Prince Edward Island, where doctors are now allowed to give a ‘prescription’ for alcoholic beverages good for six months; and in Ontario, where an infamous bill was rushed through the Legislature in its final week, extending the sale of beer and wine to restaurants, and instituting a new form of outlet for selling beer, wine and spirits called a Tavern, which, offering neither food nor room service, is nothing hut a cocktail lounge, or what in England we called a ‘gin palace.’ Hotels may also have cocktail lounges. Women's beverage rooms remain as ‘public houses’ but may be voted out by a local option vote. This concession was won hr the persistent efforts ot all the women’s organizations m Ontario, including the Auxiliaries of the W.M.S. "A vast amount of educational work for Temperance Jias been done, including readings and discussions at meetings; co-operation with the YV.C.T.U. and the K.E.C.C., m teaching the Temperance lessons put out by these bodies, in Sunday and Day Schools, Mission Bands, Circles and Young People’s Societies; the use of pageants, panels, posters slides and talking films; public meetings and public speaking contests in teen-age groups, which are a very successful way of training the young people, and at the same time, of reaching adults who would never go to a . Temperance meeting, hut who will go to hear their youngsters speak. Many of these projects were undertaken in co-operation with the YV.C.T.U. and the Provincial Temperance Federations, both of which can help withy ideas and literature.”
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White Ribbon, Volume 18, Issue 10, 1 November 1946, Page 1
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418Concern in Canada White Ribbon, Volume 18, Issue 10, 1 November 1946, Page 1
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