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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 19. 1919..

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PROHIBITION.

THE TRUTH ABOUT AMERICA.

Dr. C. W. Saleeby, the well- known publicist, writes to the. Daily Neics-

Str

It surely must be useful, on my return from a visit of several. weeks to the United States and Canada, to state the impression I have received regarding the present position of the alcohol problem in thoss countries. My object is to set forth what fellow-students and I regard

the truth. B.S

about American prohibition.. We have come home to discover grave and general misconception existing as to both facts and tendencies, and it iscertainly.our duty to record forthwith what we have found for the instruction and warning of our fellow- countrymen. In the following statement I have no authority to speak for anyone but myself. Nevertheless I write, well know- ing that none of the European students who were my fellow- Visitors will question these con- clusions.

It is not the monomanis of a few so-called fanatics: but the general consensus of public opinion in all classes, that bas added the prohibition amendment to the Federal Constitution of the United States. The results of

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The first Japanese to come to America was a 14-year-old boy who had been shipwrecked and picked up by an American sailing vessel.

H. G Wells is repórted to be writing a 350, 000-word history of the world.

Eagles, larks and crows van ly as high as 6,000 fegt, although birds generally do not go higher than 1,000 feet.

the drastic measures of prohibi- tion already taken in wide areas. both urban and rural, have widely convinced many, from Governors of States downwards, who were opposed to such measures until they had been enforced. I was in twelve States, most of them "dry." and nowhere did I find any, appreciable or respectable body of opinion asking for a return to the old conditions. I was enabled to compare the vital, criminal, and industrial statistics in many Stats and cities before and after pro:bition-in cases both cf receat and of more remote enact- ment. Their evidence conforms to more than the most sanguine expectations and it is particular- ly to be observed that the contrast was not between prohi- bition and nothing, but between prohibition end extensive mea- sures of control. I had the advantage of personal conversa.ally, the prohibition of alcohol is tion with several Governors of the arrest of the first downward States, and with more Mayors. step to stronger narcotics, and Chiefs of Police, Medical Officers,hus the drug evil is diminishing.t and so forth. than I can remem- For instance, not to mention the actual closing of scores of places for treating drug victims. I asked the Governor of Georgia whether prohibition had increased drug taking, and he said: Why of course not. It's the other way Whisky leads to cocaine."

ber.

was

Their testimay unanimous and enthusiastic. I take it that an English clergyman of the Episcopal Church, resident in. New York, who assured me that the working-man would not go without his beer, need not be counted as an exception. (I forget his name, but presumably it was Bourbon!)

The greater part of what

appears in our Press on Prohibi- tion in North America is evident

)

The first riddle ever recorded was propounded by Samson in the Bock of Judges, 14th chapter, 14th verse.

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́" DRAGON'S BLOOD,"

SUPERSTITION-GROWING

IN LONDON.

The wearing of the mascot as a- charm against personal danger is no longer fashionable. It has been thrown on the scrap heap of war-time superstitions by a public that has no further use for it. This is the belief of Mr. Edward Lovett the well known lecturer on folklore, who has a valuable collection of soldiers' and sailers' mascots at bis home. He does not believe, bowever, that people generally have be- come less superstitious since the WAT. On the contrary, recent investigations in London, coo- ducted by Mr. Lovett, point to an increase in the popular super stition.

"I have only to point to the penny bazaars as a proof of the decline in the popular craze for wer mascots." be told a Daily News representative yesterday. "There is no sale for them, ex- cept among servant girls and women who simply wear them as a fad without understanding their meaning. Nearly every suldier, sailor, and airman carried a mascot in the war. To these men they were beyond price, but now they are giving them away. "Before the war the belief in mascots was

not widespread except among those people who led dangerous lives or who were extremely ignorant. A child's caul was supposed to be a safe- guard against drowing, and before the war I bought two or three for Is. 64. each. But when the German submarine menace came I saw several cauls offered for sale in the London Docks for 30s. each. and even £3. There is other striking evidence to show that popular superstition increas of in the war.

Mr. Lovett has discovered in London homes many charms which he regards simply as sym- bols of barbarism. The belief that a fragment of an enemy pro- jectile becomes, if worn, a pro- tection against personal danger coincides with the old-fashioned idea that a piece of a thunder bol:" will protect a house from being struck by lightning-

"I have observed in the poorer districts of London that the

stone BS

superstitions will carry in the pocket or wear round the neck

spotted against smallpox and that a dead a guard man's tooth round a baby's neck is believed to lessen the child's suffering when teething. There is's deep-rooted helief among the working classes that like cures like.

men of the Northants Regiment In the same way, for example, will carry a tuft of hair from the regimental mascot wich is a and I came across an Australian goat: as a charm against danger; soldier who always carried a piece of coal in his pocket, which recalls the ancient habit of wearing ebony."

There is also evidence of the growth of superstition among the upper classes. There is a little known,butvery deep-seated, belief in the East End, says Mr. Lovett, that "dragon's blood," which is a kind of gum used in wood stain- ing, if burned at midnight on a Friday will restore the affection of a man or woman who has jilted his sweetheart. Mr. Lovett, who happened to mention this from a lady of title living in belief publicly, received a visit Mayfair who drove up to his house in a luxurious motor-car

There is a general determina- tion amongs: American people everywhere to make the eighteenth Constitutional Amend. ment as effective as the rest of the Federal Constitution in in- ly controlled by the liquor interest.creasing degree from Jan. 16, 1920. It is misleading in the highest What happens about war time degree to those on this side who prohibition is of no importance have not seen the facts for them-except in so far as it may fool the selves. One instance may be simple here as to what will hap cited. A leading journal in June pen over there next year. published a dispatch from New happening will be the demonstra- York as follows: The Allied tion that the drugged Lion cannot Medical Association of America. compete with the sober Eagle in comprising all the schools of any field of human effort medicine. bze adopted a resolution progress. declaring beer of a strength of 234

I hold it no less than inramous per cent. to be absolutely essential that efforts should now be made for the treatment of certain cases.

to abolish those roeasures of The Association also endorses control which have demonstrably the demand for pure light wines."

diminished drunkenness and dis- The reader over here does not ease in our country to a degree know that th's body (as might be hitherto unattained. The move- inferred from its pronouncement) ment against such control is a consist of the osteopaths, movement to suffocate again 1,300 homæ paths. cancer experts," babies a year instead of 557, as et hoc genus omne; whilst the last year (in America overlying American Medical Association, by drunken mothers is unknown), comprising the reputable mem-

it is а movement to raise bers of the profession.. has con-

the figure for delirium tremens

and to obliterate any prospect demned alcoholic beveragesof any

among women in the ratio of

that the working-classes in this strength, in health and disease-6 to 214; to reopen many inebriate

country may reach the level of prosperity, comfort, and leisure, a fact not published in the journal reformatories; to retard the rate- quoted.

which we find of industrial production, already North America wherever pro- The

so general in "druga " myth deserves a special article. Natur-

below that of the United States; hibition is already in force.

DOINGS OF THE DUFFS.

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and implored him to tell her where she could get a few drops of this "dragon's blood."

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