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Liquor Advertisements Are to Be Excluded From Our Pages

This resolution was adopted at Houston by the Publishers of this magazine:

 

WHEREAS, THE ROTARIAN, our official publication, goes into thousands of homes where there is an abiding sense of the need of protection against the abuse of the liquor traffic; and

WHEREAS, there is a constantly increasing movement against the use of intoxicating liquors and the uncontrolled and destructive habit of excess; and

WHEREAS, liquor advertisements do not discriminate between the use and abuse of it, and are being refused by leading magazines and newspapers of this country; therefore be it

RESOLVED by the Board of Directors of the International Association of Rotary Clubs that the Editor and Business Manager of THE ROTARIAN be herewith instructed to refuse liquor advertisements of any character, feeling that in so doing we are furthering those aims for social and civic, uplift that Rotarian ever have in view.

 

(In effect commencing with the December 1914 issue.)

Wolfgang Ziegler, History Fellow, 28 September 2003

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