Ogden Daily Standard | 1920-03-13 | Page 2 | Brazil Immune from Epidemic of Influenza

I oo i .Brazil Immune from Epidemic of Influenza; HONOLULU. T. II . March 12. His-' .torians of the Hawaiian islands assert that au Hawaiian monarchy was the ; first government in the world to put absolute prohibition into effect. Kamehameha, the Great, first king of United Hawaii, in 1795, after having 'conquer all the other islands, issued an edict imposing prohibition. Its penalties were drastic. An offender was stripped of his property, real and personal, and was driven from his village vil-lage clad only in a loin cloth. J In later years foreign nations forced I liquor on the Hnwaiians and its sale was general In the islands until the great Avar, when, with the opening of the army training camps in the Islands, Is-lands, prohibition went into efrect. oo