The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-10-10
DIR. Saleeby, Famous
British Surgeon, Sees
Hope for Britain

vice. president of the National Tenn
- perance League and member of the
Council of the British Society for the Study
of Inebriety, who represented the British
Government with others at the recent Inter
national Congress Against Alcoholism, held
in Washington, sailed for England on the
Olympic yesterday. He said that repre-
sentatives OF thirty-one countries were going
back home to tell of the already wonderful
results of national prohibition as observed
in America. His expression was:
THE United States is giving great object
lesson to the world in the benefits of prohibit
ton; we are going back to tell what we have
seen and learned"
This was DR.. Saleeby's second visit to
America: he was here last year and toured
twelve States, lecturing on prohibition; since
the end of the congress and for six weeks
before 1t he lectured in Eastern cities under
the auspices of the AntiISaloon League of
America
Meeting Here Deferred by War.
ut has been incorrectly stated said he
that the biennial congress was hurriedly
transferred to this country for its sessions
in order to take advantage of your amend
ment for national prohibition in the promo
ton of it's own aims. Instead. we have been
waiting for seven years to hold the congress
here. At the previous congress- held at
Milan. Italy. that course was decided on
The war interviewed and the present year
was the earliest that the original programme
could be carried out.
THE congress was successful, and its
members from foreign countries will go home
enchanted by the kind and generous treat
ment we have received in America. To say
that your people have no ideals but worship
the dollar and exclude all other gods Is an
absurdly wrong impression to convey re-
garding this great. generous people, than
whom no people more altruistic exist. Hun
dreds of thousands of dollars have been
spent by Americans since June, 1919 in all
parts of the world and for no other purpose
than to make the world better and easier to
live in.
Americans have donated this money to
help peoples whom they barely know exist,
whom they will never see. Money grub
bers, vorshppers of Mammon. do not do
these things. The foreign members of the
congress carry away with them a deep inn
preston of this absolutely altruistic spirit.
1.-TWO things, among others, were decided.
as action, by the congress-to print the re-
suits. as they have developed so far. of
prohibition in the United States, and to
send this propaganda broadcast over the
civilized world; then to invite as many
DorSADit
themselves how real prohibition works.
You offer them a gigantic object lesson.
Britain Eagerly Watching.
Great Britain has it's eyes on America
and is eager to learn the facts In the fight
to make this great country utterly dry
Representatives of the world league adopted
in England will come to CLEAN and collate
and spread them. but Great Britain Is
largely dependent for it's action on labors
attitude toward drink, and labor there at
home is n torso--an acephalous body. II Is
ktte cattle to deal with, and what would
serve as conclusive testimony with other
bodies of men frequently fail with it.
Therefore when | go back / shall advo-
cate sending here representatives OF labor to
see for themselves what benefits have ac-
crued to labor from prohibition. When the
facts are seen by labor for itself then feel
that the verdict Of labor will be three to one
against alcohol.
What has been done for your laboring
class ought to stagger Europe and will do
so as soon as the enormous propaganda we
anticipate has its chance. At the world con-
ference TO be held In Edinburgh next year
and at the sixteenth international congress
to be held at Lausanne Americans will give
the wonderful results of prohibition here
their full publicity"
Dr. saleeby. who was graduated in msdi-