On Liquor

[?] Makes War On Liquor

iere is no place for liquor

e South Pacific Islands, says st H. J. Steed.

THERMORE, he believes in ushing the message home, which reason why in the last few s he has made anti-liquor Drming tours through the South Torn New Guinea to Samoa, e promises more to come. ;st Steed is an Australian, a of the Seventh-day Adventist i and the church’s Director of Relations for Australasia i covers an area from Perth to n). is also secretary of the Aus- National Committee for the tion of Alcohol; secretary of ustralian Temperance Society; ditor of Alert, the society’s ly magazine. or Steed is no wowser. He lappy family man, noted for :onstant cheerfulness and iasm, and he is such a success public relations job with the that frequently his newspaper urge him lightheartedly to ut on your own and really i packet!” recent seven-weeks anti-liquor of New Guinea and the ms, Pastor Steed held 56 meet t which he addressed 26,000 More than 4,000 natives up at one open-air meeting >aul, and when 1,000 natives 3 a Rabaul picture theatre were still another 2,000 left vas amazed at some of the

crowds myself,” says Pastor Steed.

“The natives want to hear about liquor and what it does. They see Europeans drinking but they don’t know anything about it. Nobody tells them. What New Guinea needs is an adult education scheme to point out the dangers and problems that come from liquor. The Government could sponsor that, as is done in Queensland.

“I had some interesting talks with the Administration and I am sub mitting a plan for an educational programme.”

Pastor Steed conducts his meetings with the help of films and big illustrated posters with simple mess ages that can be got across to mixed audiences. in Tonga, Pastor Steed interviewed Prime Minister and Crown Prince Tungi, who wrote this for Alert magazine: “I wish to say I support total abstention from both liquor and tobacco, not only because there is ample ground for believing that they are harmful to one’s own personal health, but that they do not promote any worthy social objective”.

In Western Samoa, Prime Minister Mataafa wrote for publication: “It is pleasing to see how firm our people are against the free use of alcoholic drinks in our country. Being a conscientious people and devotees of Christianity I am sure our people will never vote for the free and un restricted use of liquor in Western Samoa. For, so long as I am Prime Minister of this Territory, I shall always advise against the free and unrestricted use of liquor in Western Samoa, because we have seen it and are satisfied that it is injurious to health, and an evil, undoubtedly, to society and mankind”.

Although he is off to a very good start, Pastor Steed says his anti liquor campaign in the South Seas has yet hardly begun.

lustrated, coloured posters like this one displayed to New Guinea Highlands' help to spread the anti-liquor message in the South Seas.

Western Samoa's Prime Minister Mataafa inspects a copy of the temperance magazine "Alert", handed him by its editor, popular Pastor Ernest Steed, of Sydney.