The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1922-04-21
DR.. GRENFELL ENDORSES
WORLD PROHIBITION PLAN '
Great Medical Missionary Visits
Westerville and Speaks to
Dry Workers
KEEPS LABRADOR ARID
Is Pleased to Learn About World
League Against Alco-
holism 7

When DR.. Wilfred T. Grenfell, Md,
c. NJ G., great medical missionary and
explorer in Labrador took up his
work among fishermen, he knew the
moral effect of the liquor traffic but
he had not thought of the traffic in its
relation to the physical and economic
features OF life.
So he told an audience at Wcster-
vile, composed of officials and en-
ployees of the American Issue Pub
fishing Company. the Anti Saloon
League OF America and the World
League Against Alcoholism. DR.. Gren-
fell came out to Westerville for
short time between lectures in Column
bus.
Telling OF his work among these
toilers OF the sea and OF how he helped
to bring about Prohibition of>the sale
of liquor to fishermen on the high seas,
DR.. Grenfcll said:
"The delcterious effect of the liquor
traffic on many seamen was never
much marked among these men, but
as there was no provision for them at
the headquarters where they carried
their cargocs of fish, and congregated
to seek supplies i'll the spring, large
seamcn's institute, fitted with just the
necessary things to make fishermen
welcome, to enable them to get clean
living and bathing at reasonable
rate, free from the influence of the sa-
loon, was created
Referring to the activities OF the
Grenfell Association. OF which he is
the head, and which operates seamen's
institutes and hospitals in both New
foundland and Labrador, Dr. Grenfell
has been telling his audiences thet;
"The Association is TO assist the de-
serving TO secure reasonable help in
sickness and accident, to protect the
widow and the orphan and the unfor
tunate when they are helpless. This is
only the privilege of all who believe in
human life as affording mankind a
] Joyous venture and not merely-a sell
fish tragedy"
DR.. Grenfell as chief magistrate OF
Labrador, under the British govern
ment, refused to issue licenses to sell
liquor, and has kept the province dry.
He also is rejoiced that Newfoundland
is dry, but the drouth OF the two, he
! ,e ,,,a,acaI kaco,ca ri he
ternational bootleggers who ply their
nefarious trade along the coast.
America has done most splendid
thing in adopting Prohibition" DR..
Grenfel said in an interview. World
Prohibition must come, too. | find
there is a great call for it everywhere.
Liquor in any land is curse to the
morals, the health and the material
prosperity
GAS a seaman CDR. Grenfell is mas
ter marner) have seen many good
vessel lost because OF liquor, 1t was
hard to tell widow that her husband,
while drunk, jumped overheard, or
that another tipsy man upset burning
lamp on him and burned him to DEATH
DIR. Grenfell asserted as a medical
man that liquor is great hindrancc to
recovery in case of accident, and a
contributory cause to deaths from dis
ease. He also said the person af-
| hicted with venereal disease, unless it
had been communicated by another,
was almost invariably user of liquor
or drugs, or both.
He expressed hope that the enforce
ment program of the Anti-Saoon
League and the worldwide program
of the World League Against Alco-
holism might be carried out without
delay.
To DR.. H. Fl. Russell, founder OF the
Anti-Saloon League. Dir. Grenfell ex-
PRESSED great pleasure on learning a
fact which ne had previously not
known, that Abraham Lincoln was an
abstainer.
He asked that the aid OF the World
League be given to all the peoples
with whom he deals and for whose
interests he is working so hard, to
protect them from international boot
Logging.
He also expressed hope that the
United States Senate would pass and
the president sign the bill recently
passed by the House, making it pos
siblc to deport aliens who make them
selves undesirable by violating the
liquor and narcotic laws of the United
States.