The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1930-09-01

From CapetOWn 10 fTeeHld1llle, I1lS
scene outside the ships bar window re-
minded one of feeding time on poultry
farm. with this difference, in the latter
the noise grew less while in the former,
louder. With one particular fellow the
loudness continued after the 10 p. m.
lights out bedtime hour, despite the maud
lin "hushings" of his mellow companions
trying to get him to retire. My roommate
aVerred the fellow uttered more hlthy
language than he had heard during all his
war days in France. Tt was so VIGOROUSLY
vile that after the second night, the ships
captain was forced to put him in the lock
room A moderate drinker who had de-
nounced prohibition eXultingly said: Il
talked with this man before his friends
got him to drinking and I never met
finer man." "An illustration" I remarked,
chat it's not the man but the stuff that's
put in the man, that causes his indecency.
Therefore prohibit the stuf-and that's
PROHIBITION"
At Port Freemantle he got loud on
street corner a short time before the sail
ing time. II D. M He set himself to tell
all his dn) glorious army record. BY
chance, good Samaritan passenger hap
pened that way and saved him from miss
ing the boat by patiently steering him on
board on his own leg locomotion.
At Sydney, walking from Hyde Park to
the war museum, one passes quickly out
of the big business stores into a bar-in-
tested street along an elevated railway
crossing. From one of these bars won-
and drunk was elected, and the burly,
white-aproned ejector stood like a statue
in the doorway to prevent her return.
Blood streamed from her hands and arms
and by turns she swore vengeance on her
foe, and again with tears rolling down
her face, begged piteously to go back in
the bar "A maudlin woman departing re-
turned to combat the first, but men go
betweens interviewed. Pedestrians simply
went around and on, with no policeman
In sight.
On the smaller boat, Sydney to Yelling
ton, conditions grew worse. What with
bottles brought along, and the ease of OBJ
tanning more at the bar, those more or
less under alcoholic stimulant put on
continuous performance" Nightly, some
of the crew joined these jazz and dance
jewellers.
NEW ZEALAND MORE SOBER
In Wellington, NJ T., improvement was
noticeable. This land, though least in size
among the nations of the earth, prides
itself in not being least in progress. BY
their care for children (and mothers) they
claim the lowest infant mortality-39 per
1000 births, compared, e.. g., with Scot
land, SO, the land of Scotch whisky. One
could therefore wish they would go for
ward and rid themselves of alcoholism,
the great remaining health menace to the
body polite. Every three years, they may
vote on the liquor question, but as in
Australia, three questions are submitted,
viz: l. Continuance of present system. 2.
State control, and 8. Prohibition; and the
prohibitionists to succeed must get ma
jority over all This handicap has thus far
prevented the temperance people winning
until they seem to have fallen into the
lethargy of suffering the evil while suf-
ferable rather than trying to abolish the
age-old custom" The vets by limiting
hours and days of sale, think to make the
business appear respectable, but deep
down in the hearts of the mass of the
people is the desire to be entirely free from
the liquor octopus. They know that $685.
315 bushels of their annual barley crop go
to the malt houses; that the output of
these and their breWeries last year totaled
1898. 400 pounds; and that this added to
the 982,817 pounds spurious liquors i'm
ported, made up the enormous sum Of g.
881 309 pounds for one years drink bill
for their 1,470654 people. They would far
rather. eliminate this national waste than
to be compelled by the government to pay
in new taxes over one million pounds to