PROHIBITION IN ALBERTA.
[To TEL EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR."]
SIR,—The following extract from a letter recently received from a professional man residing in Lethbridge, Alberta, may be of interest in connexion with the " Down Glasses " movement :-
" I am really surprised that the people at home don't take the
question of suppression of booze, during the war at any rate, into serious consideration. The effect of Prohibition here has worked nothing but good, except in the cases of people who stupidly make up their minds not to be without it, and they get what they want from B.C. or Saskatchewan, and upon occasion get very much too much. But in the general run there is practically no drinking, and people are a great deal better off for it both in pocket, body, and mind. I don't think that there is any measure which would do more for national efficiency than the entire prohibition cf the manufacture, importation, or sale of any alcoholic beverage con- taining more than about 7 per cent. of alcohol. And I am speak- ing from observations made with a prejudice against Prohibition."
Berry Farm, Chilbolton, Hants.
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