| Show the recent official report on great britaina Brit Brita ains lWe liquor bill may however show how that there to Is considerable ex pense spart apart from the misery and sorrow which are the effect of intemperance attached to the use ue of a little WWI beer in that nation this report states tate that during last jost year the total amount spent pont on intoxicating drinks lu in the doted united kingdom was nearly one hundred and forty two million pounds sterling or almost this huge sum means an expenditure of AS 3 ift or 1820 per bead for every man woman and child in the kingdom about three times as ae much as an would supply them in broad bread of what are classed in the report as spirits scotland and ireland use more than england the average for each family of five persons being AN 16 be in scotland and 10 ile ad in ireland but by its prodigious oon consumption of beer england forges ahead with an aver aej age for each home of five persons of 20 as ad or za 4 Is od 1976 1975 per head the cost of nearly twenty eight million barrels ot of beer consumed during the year in england alone falls just under eighty million pounds sterling commenting on this fact the london times says saye it must be confessed that this amount for beer to is a bard figure to be proud of it means that down the national throat there flo flows we enough to provide the country with two navies and two armies with the civil service thrown in or very nearly so it means that the beer drunk in one year would pay the national debt for three or er that if funded for nine years it would pay the whole debt deb and leave us with no more interest or annuities to pay in the face of these figures jt it would b difficult to contend that great britain or any nation similarly situated to is not harmed by its consumption of intoci cants canto the safe way for parents to preserve their children from su oa elling the tide of intemperance to is to keep them from the temptation to use strong drinks for instruction on this matter to be practical and must be by example as an well as precept the child has baa no confidence in the do as I 1 say and oot dot as I 1 do preacher parental watch care should also reach leach to companionship with and the actions of others an illustration of the need of this was given at a social gathering recently there were a number ot of children present to whom the hostess began passing wine those first approached declined as their parents bad taught them that the beverage was yn unsuitable suitable for them but the hostess insisted and induced some of the smaller children to drink very much against their will doubtless the lady never had a thought of doing wrong but the position she assumed by her action was one which no latte rd saint can consistently occupy to keep children obil dreB out of harms way ap to is a most excellent method of protecting them from injury the lords lord lo prayer teaches a pointed lesson lead the children not dot into temptation 11 but deliver them from evil bring to the little ones a comprehension of the way of life by having them walk therein for the children of the letter day saints there should be no closer companions than their parents parente and if that companionship is in walk ing uprightly before the lord the children will rarely depart from it but if parents carelessly oare leasly or wilfully allow their children to go into path sin 10 lo and sorrow borrow will be the inevitable result |
