Arizona republican., 1921-12-27

primary schools attend special tenn perance demonstrations or 'fiestas' against the use of alcohol. These fiestas' have been photographed by the movie men at the expense of the government and have been shown in many parts of South America"
 Peru is also actively engaged in temperance work. The president of Peru. who is a physician. publishes a monthly temperance bulletin, for the benefit of the masses of people. and he is making a special effort to arouse an interest in the condition of the Indians, who are said to be rap idly dying off from constant imbib ing.
 Hard To Dry Up Brazil
 Although the whole of South America is gradually drifing toward prohibition. the w. C. T. IT. workers do not look forward to an easy or an overwhelming victory. Indeed, they are inclined to fear that large areas in South America will remain wet for years to come. The size of the continent itself is a tremendous handicap to their work. It required long years of patient endeavor and | powerful organization to make the United States dry, and yet the en- tire United States could be dropped in the lap of Brazil and there would still be room left for two states the size of Texas. Even if prohibition is | victorious in a few countries like ! Chile and Peru. it will be extremely | difficult to enforce. with wet serri- | tory all around them.
 That the most virtuous of nations are inevitably contaminated by their neighbors is shown not only in the case of the United States. where 1 bootleggers are constantly whisking liquor across the Mexican and Cana dian borders, but in the case of Nor way which is in an even more des- | perate situation. Norway is not bone l dry as we are. although the prohibi- ] tionist element in its government is striving 10 make it so. Norwegians are still permitted to drink as mucf light wine and beer as they wish. bui even this indulgence. which would bs welcomed in America, does not sat isfy them. They are constantly snug gling whiskey and brandy into thu country, or dashing over to Denmari for a supply of them
 Norway has a coastline which il
 particularly favorable to smugglers | If you will look at the map. you vii
 see that it is perpetually broken ant
 indented with small islands, rangini
 from several miles in area to tn merest slab of rocky land. Accord
 ing to one Norwegian, there ar
 240,00O of them It is a simple tasl
 for smuggler to sneak in among thes
 islands. even in broad daylight. am
 land their illicit cargoes. Sometime when the smuggler feels that he i
 being too strictly watched. he mere ! ly anchors his craft a fraction be yond the three mile limit and re
 ceives his customers at his own pri , | vate bar.
 Besides its constant and futil
 struggle with smugglers and boot leggers. the Norwegian governmen
 also is having difficulty with tn Spanish and Portuguese government
 on account of it's embargo on bever
 ages containing more than If pc
 cent alcohol. The Spanish and Por tuguese nations, you see. have bee ? accustomed to furnish the Norweg
 ians with most of their wine. in re
 turn for which they bought the Nor $ | wegian's fish Each nation thus re , | lieved the other of a surplus produc p Spain and Portugal will have lars l 1 quantities of grapes left on the . 1 hands if Norway stops buying win Y and Norway will have heaps of ifs !, | which it cannot market. For" sa { Spain and Portugal, ''prohibiuo y 1 works both ways. and we will d
 without fish even though our cor ,, science is not set against them