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284:), fliers, periodicals, songs, stories, dramas and yearbooks. These publications appealed to intellect and emotion. For example, here are two different fliers, one appealed to intellect and another appealed to emotion. A pamphlet written by Cherrington for the WLAA says that youth should have the right to know all the facts about alcoholic beverages, since it could greatly affect "physical fitness, social hygiene and the general public weal".
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and other countries near Japan would follow in Japan's footsteps. Cherrington believed that
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was elected to be one of the presidents of the WLAA. She spoke at a conference in 1922, in
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