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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, AUGUST -

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Beard against prohibition was delivered nă the annual convention of the Allied Medical Associations of America, on June 17th In his inaugural addrees, the preai- dens of the associations, Dr. W. Wallaos Frits (Philadelphia) declared the Vol- tead Enforcement Act had proved curse to public and country.

It is he added] teaching the public to drink meratis, it is causing gambling and immorality in the homes, it is bringing blindness to scores, it is causing those who used to take a nightcap at bedtime to take dope, it has caused a large inorenso in sale of narcotic drugs and daily

the increases in the army of dope fiende,

is making imbeciles of many, and before long the asylums for the insane will be overfilled it is causing disesses of the stomach, liver, kidneys, eyes, and heart- containing fusel oil, wood alcohol, copper, and other deleterious substances..

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Are we physicians "going to maka a stand for public health and for our coun try, or are we going to sit quietly back and suck our thumbs] We must decide whether prohibition and home brew, or the free use of light wines and beer pro- perly made under Government standards, is the greater evil.

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While Dr. Fritz was thus denouncing prohibition the House of Representativea at Washington was engaged in a debate which showed that the majority in favour of the strictest enforcement of the dry laws was greater than ever before. With only $3 dissentient votes the House pse ed a law absolutely prohibiting the pre- scription of beer as medicine, which the former Attorney Gazeral, Mr. Palmer, had ruled was permissible under the Volstead Act.

Ong, of the dissentients declared that many of those voting for prohibition in Congress drank more in one day than he did ja one year. To this Mr. Yatee (Illinois) replied, boasting that he was elected by a majority of more than 70,000 after voting for the Volstead law.. He was interrupted by Mr. Burke (Pennsyl vania), who shouted: I voted against the law and was elected by a majority of over a million."

The new Bill passed that day also ex tends the operation of the law to re- dents in Hawali and the Virgin Islands fer-Danish West Indies]. It is assured of a majority in the Senate-Tince:

"DIVORCE BY MUTUAL CONCENT.",

A NEW ZEALAND RULING.

The New Zealand Parliament last year amended the Diyorce Act, establishing as grounds for divorce within the discretion of the Supreme Court the separation of the parties for three years by decree, order," agreement, or mutun! consent. Fears have been expressed that this meant divores by mutual consent.

The first ruling on the conditions under which the Court should exercise its dis cretionary power has been given by Mr. Justice "Salmond, formerly Solicitor- General, The judgment states that the Legislature recognized that the continu- ance of a marriage was not merely useless, but mischievous, when its essential par poses were frustrated by separation, but that divorce. granted of right on such grounds would be inconsistent with the public interest and aggravate the evils it was designed to curs. The Court must weigh the private benefit to the parties against the possibility of public mischief through lessening the sense of respons- ibility with which marriage was entered. Where separation was based on sufficient ground there was no reason for refusing a decree, but when separation WAS the outcome of mera levity, wanton disregard. of obligations, or a device to secure dis solution by mutual consent divorce was properly refused or deferred pending separation for a longer term.--Times:

THE OLDEST MOTOR-CAR.

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Ancêtre, claimed to be the oldest motor car in the world, paid a visit to. Paris on June 14th. Its progress,' slow and asthmatical as it was as it passed the Arc de Triomphe and "down the Champs Elysées, was quite in the dature of a triumphal entry.

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L'Ancétro first saw the ligh, 201 years) ngo, having left the bands of its manu- facturers in Docember, 1801, It belongs to the Abbé Gavois, a white-haired priest. of Renneville, in the department of the Homme, and despite its incongruous ap pearance as compared with the stately cars which it passed on its way through. the streets of Passed old owner. The it is still as well preserved as its Abbé has employed the car for many years past in visiting his parishioners and in doing the arduous work of his Bomma parich. He has received many offers from would-be purchasers, but has always refuard on the ground that the car was still doing its bit" in a modest way locally. Now, however, he has de- cided to sell the relie and to devote the proceds, to charitable purposes in the stricken

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crowds, 1878 a Press correspon- dent gathered to welcoms L'Ancêtre at the Port Maillot and the Etoile, and showed amusement at the oiling, up and starting of the car, the sight of which

oro brought strikingly to mind the

rade in motor-vehicles during the last three decades. For L'Acétre stil mofes about or wooden wheels without tyres at an average speed of six miles an hour, and its owner has all along dist dained modern improvementa,

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