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Show Defend Our Defenders! Demon, rum is a fifth columnist who can rot the heart of a nation's moral and physical rearmament, leaving it weakened when the need for strength is greatest! These words aren't Just idle speech-making, but are the considered consid-ered verdict of I I LA! many scientific, I pSL religious, and so-I so-I 15,S-A cia service lead-ers lead-ers wno by a life-y&fcpM life-y&fcpM time of study vJ- know the human ASSjSI? lt" an(J economic ffirn'Mtf costs resulting from widespread use of a narcotic During the World War sale of all alcoholic beverages was forbidden for-bidden on military property, certain vice conditions were forbidden in camp areas, and sale of alcoholic beverages to those in military uniforms uni-forms was forbidden. As the present defense effort gained momentum Demon Rum was back in the army in the guise of 3.2 beer. He also was permitted in many naval stations in the same disguise, although all alcoholic beverages bev-erages are prohibited aboard ship. Recalling the i i i historic connec- l I tios between liq- ( i.(JC' uor and social p Jl J vice, national wel- fe 'iartuE"fy2 J fare groups, led J'W,, it, by the W.C.T.U., JpjSTff have opened a jri movement de- MlUlMJ) signed to dry up W'm'ffvS and clean up cfcKl S; military camps and camp areas, '-'ja Because of the Sweep rt ut immediate demand for helping the conscript army and the military effort, ef-fort, their program not only seeks elimination of beer from camps but cleansing of the surrounding communities from liquor and commercial com-mercial vice, not particularly as a social reform now but as a plain common sense effort for national defense. de-fense. Faced by a powerful, vocal liquor traffic and by a public inertia In moral matters which brought repeal, re-peal, these social welfare leaders face a tremendous job but they are going ahead with it! |
