STATEMENTS HEARD AND NOTED AT THE WORLD CONVENTION IN U.S.A.

White Ribbon, Volume 20, Issue 2, 1 March 1948, Page 6

STATEMENTS HEARD AND NOTED AT THE WORLD CONVENTION IN U.S.A.

By Mrs. Hugh Kasper

Congressman Joseph R. Bry»on nt, his h He decli that om third of t: territor) a He that iti in winch efo on the prohil I liquor wa:> ii the "drys" hi n in 12 "The dry area," the i*id, "contaii ' million he "iml'uj. Public Opinion" indicated that eople r prohibition. Hi> was that the lale >f 1". rohibited b) ( onstitutional laws He finish* lying, "We I • ium rd lam hopeful of the day when the MOM Can be alcoholic bc\ rage traffi

Clinton H. Howard Washing! iperintendent of the Nat; nn Bureau, t. his subj "What's the matter with Prohibition? M He laid, "We talk about the habit, and the traffic; we talk about , Idiction instead of ale n; and are have substituted the word 'sick' for In years,' 1 he continued, "there were more than a scon bition members in IS. Now Senator Arthur tie idvoeate in the Senate, while the Rev. Joseph Rryson conducted a lone fight for war-time prohibition in the 1 .ho "wrote'* Prohibition in While a few have be::, law in most of them the lawi have been well enforced The Noble experiment has beta tried for more than two-third' of a century, and « n proved a great - M There i> little drunkenness ia the State, little crime, little poverty; the percentage of illnc - ill Of the -t ; tin ealth is .far the 1. | of anv State. In CUiiure, in prosperity, and in freedom from political scandal, Kansas far out shines her wet neighbours"

Mr. Howard finished this addressaying : "The matter with Pr is that the Church, Protestant and Catholic, is slipping; the too Generals the Army of the Lord are compromising with evil." He lt*d "The Ten Commandments have bee i nullified through the centuries. They ha\e never been repealed; and the nations that have disregarded them have perished from the face of tl c earth. And there is not one of hose Ten mandments that the liquor traffic t break in every saloon and l*quor outlet in this land"

Mrs D. Leigh Colvin, N'ational President of the I'S A WC.TL

\ men are staying out of b^rs in increasing numbers. The number of women drinkers in public places has declined on an average of one-third throughout the country since the start of the wai " She said that, durum the war, half to more than two-thirds of the midnight patrons in most saloons were women; but man' the men back from, the war front have ;ed that their wives Stay OSJt of

Miss Dorothy Staunton, England, Edit ish "W.R." said: "Current t«> nationalise the liquor industries of (,reat Britain and Canada were branded as illogical, antisocial, and a threat to Temperance." She read a report by H Cecil Heath, London barrister, which contended that making the liejuor business a part of government would sohe no existing problems, while creating new ones. Nothing can justify the purchase by the State of a business which, when run by private individuals, has carried the moral reprobation of the com mttnity.

(More of thesr- statements will be published later.)