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-THERE WILL BE REPERCUSSIONS
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Perpendicular Drinking
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-by-
GEORGE BLAKE
Novelist ("The Shipbuilders") and radio commentator
(he described the Queen Mary's launching).
TH
HEY are holding in Glasgow next May one of the biggest and most splendiferous Empire Exhibi-. tions ever conceived; but it has just taken an Act of Parliament to guarantee that you and I may have a drink at a bar between thirty spasms of sightseeing.
That is how we have to go aboul it in Scotland.
The site of the exhibition, you see, is in a "dry" ward of the city of Glasgow, and before a fellow may have the right to drink a small inger with his foot on the brass rail we have to invoke all the powers of Westminster.
'No, thanks, I've been drinking brandy."
The half-anticipated resigna- tion of Mr. Anthony Eden may not have shocked Geneva, but it will assuredly cause a large amount of misgiving and even fear among those who believed in the policies so frequently ad- | It's silly, of course. Fancy try- vanced and so ably argued by mans and Americans to a point so nation.
A quick swallow and out to the. The vote was to be taken next is the ideal of our magistrates. the Foreign Secretary. Mr. far north as Glasgow when it was district by district, and in the larger Ono fancles that
that is why the Eden believed in the sanctity of not even quite certain that a deserve centres ward by ward.
Scottish workman has evolved the treaties and the League of except with a meal!
ing lad might have a refreshment
ing to attract Frenchmen and Ger-
But that's how it is.
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THE "VERY IDEA"
The results of the first big poll lethal "glass-and-chaser” system of CASH AS
CASH CAN, THAT'S OUR MOTTO.
So
thousands Nations; and
of
were fantastic. A few small burghs drinking--whisky gulped neat and went "dry." So did a few wards washed down with beer. [people, not only in Great Britain
In the larger cities and towns, In- and the member states of the
We encourage, in short, that per- You have here, in short,
cluding that in which this year's pendicular system of drinking which the measure of Scotland's Empire Exhibition is to be held. is the surest and quickest way of British Empire, looked upon dreadful experience in the matter him as the champion of the of drinking.
Very, very few took the middle way bringing the most innocent celebrant of "limitation.".
to á horizontal position. peace-loving majority and the We were once a very hard-drink-
It was very soon obvious that One of the prime jokes is that on-League-principles-And-It is drinking on one slue has always been hibition
that. But the hard those city wards which voted pro- Glasgow, which in these matters sets
were mainly residential, the pace for a huge area round By-Eddie Kelly, Chance of-a-Lifetime. not likely they judged him matched by an extremely hard think peopled by solid householders who about, has an English chief constable. many people are bom- wrongly. He is a high-minded|ing Pussyfoot element on the other. could afford to keep a bottle in the Poor Captain Sillitoe has done bh barding Linstead and
The present chaos of Scotland's conscientious statesman, censing regulations is the direct house-values affected by the pro- magistrates to a rational attitude in the Race course for sweep sideboard but didn't want their level best to persuade the Bench of Davis and the counters at and no greater praise can be outcome of the clash between the ximity of pubs! given any national servant.
enough to give evidence in favour of tickets that we've decided Moreover, he has that quality of Probably no ordinary Englishman,
FROM the temperance point bars at the Empire Exhibition. to become a sweep ticket
of view the pleblecile was a
broker. courage so much to be envied in what a "dry" ward is or why it neculiarly humiliating flop. Though public men-he has sacrificed should need an Act of Parliament to they have an annual opportunity, piping in a wilderness of conflicting his position, and possibly his make a bit of one "wet" for the the Pussyfoots have never dared to prejudicca. career, to defend his convictions.
and
two.
certainly no Frenchman, knows even
duration of the exhibition.
return to the tray. They merely left Scotland with some interesting additions to a sufficiently remark-
these matters. Ho was courageous
But his is a mere Sassenach volće.
His name will lose none of its roots were once strong enough to able collection of ilcensing anomalice old bona fide system, which makes it
lustre by his decision. The man whom many marked as Britain's coming Prime Minister still possesses the sympathy and admiration of the multitude.
We'ro broke now, so we might Just as well be a little broker.
Do you want half a million Irish Sweep be any use to you? bucks? Would first prize in the
Or would you like to invest ten cent's in the office sweep on next week's football scores?
[VIE-Jast irony is that Scot- THIE
land has retained the jolly It happened this way, The Pussy push through the Temperance (Scot-
possible for the thirsty traveller to land) Act, 1013, which offered to One must sadly admit that most drink at any hour between the mid- that unhappy realm, the glorious of these anomalies are the outcome nights of Saturday 'and Bunday. This! opportunity of voting for prohibition of the hard streak in the national makes for a lot of week-end fun.- If, no, we are your man. Invest complete.
temperament. We know not the
Who is and who is not a bona fide you have to do is send us the neces your money in Kolly Swoops. All wisdom of compromise. De Dro The legislators of the period, how either violently for free drinking or decide. No distance limit is speci- corkage and piitago (to win a traveller is left to the inn-keeper to aary cash (together with ullage, As for the disagreement ever, were cunang. They did not violently against it. which caused his resignation make it a plebiscite of the whole
fed in the Act
prize. We will invost the money (loss ullage, corkage and pillage) the time and worry.
even now it does not seem
to
jected, apparently, to immedi- Late conversations with Italy. He wanted Rome to recall the Italian volunteers from Spain. before London met Il Duce's representatives with a view to removing obstacles to a closer weakening of the unofficially Italo-British understanding. Indesignated "democratic bloc," word, he did not wish the comprising Britain, France and British Govorament to retreat the United States. This bloc,
As it happens, Industrial Clyde-
ton as indicating a definite but it can't be done.
Up lunch. Cocktall? Certainly about Edinburgh and Glasgow just an Editor orico gave us a gold watch,
The permitted hours of the Glas-
alde is the cockpit of the war, and And as to what a fellow may call in any sweep you nominato. Saves have been explained. He ob-leading to a general election. It the most comic Illustrations for, that is simply covered by t
of was felt that this was the most licensing folly are to be found in charming phrase "reasonable re-
If your ticket wins a prize, wo serious aspect of the altuation. an Imperial Mocen
that city which hopes this year to be freshment."
will depart the vory next day for But at that time it had not been
It is thus possible for an up-and- Europe; if it doesn't you will be Imagine yourself in Glasgow on coming collector with a car to do given the ticket, suitably framed disclosed that Mr. Eden's decl-a Saturday and anxious to do a busi- himself pretty well on any Scottish and inscribed, as a souvenir, ka sion would be taken in Washing-ness acquaintance proud with a siap Sabbath. It hasn't made the rouds We have always been lucky. The
safe as they might be, on simmer `n fountain pen, and five dollara. evenings.
Naturally, when he started to get row Saturday forenoon-the same The favourite motor run out of
a bit soro, we had to return the applies over a wide area of Glyde Glasgow, for instance, is by the route watch and the five dollars, but wo known as the Three Lochs, a distanco managed to blame someone else for dare between ten and noep, of about afty miles
the disappearance of the fountain when all good tile boys are safely
pene M My calculation is that an earnest We have also been lucky In other Afteen stops for refreshment if he plated spittoon from. Uta Hongkong Hotel, an ash tray from the Glou- coster, and have covoral times managed to evade the boy with tho chit in the Poninaula,
We have had years of practice with turrels. Why "not share in our inck.
one inch from the stand it and it was popularly supposed, at work. After that there is no performer can on any Sunday make respects. Wo once got a silver
he have taken in the past, that might lead the world back to hope till 4 pm, Italian Interference in the sanity in international relations, The alleged reason behind this chinoses and has the head. Spanish civil war could never be and assist in the preservation Junacy of oppression is that it en- Once I congratulated a country sures the working man getting home Innkeeper on the comfort and eleg- condoned. It is significant that of some sort of international with his pay envelope intact. ance of his lounge. Romo's pross hails his resigna law and order. Washington, ity eve
The plain fact that Clydeside's
"Yes," be admitted reflectively; tion almost
Booms, fears that Britain in artisans are nowadays paid on Fri- "that's what the motor-ear and the personal
compromiso with days naked hơ. difference. The bona fide traveller did for me."
- Lèl - un buy your next lottery triumph for the Italian Prime about to
treaty-breakers, suspects that on the publican, and they are not Pussyfoots have this one good grip Minister.
fri Scotland, the country
and if it wins a prize and London will recognise the con-going to let go.
Innkeeper is on velvet, the you can get anything out of us, Yesterday, before the effect
city publican en a bed of thistles There results peak for them-
you'll
know what fuck in. of Mr. Eden's decision could be quest of Ethiopia, which would
might again, visiting a and between the two the innocent destroy the ethical front orectade public house in urban Scot- traveller is opt to have a puzzling
solver. In yesterday's Derby draw. known, indeed before the deci-ngainst such incursions, Hore land with a friend, fancy, quiet time of it
#ticket obtained through pH/Was/ only 12.231-off Drst prize. In the sion itself had been taken, we felt lies the graveat danger lame of draughts dominoes, darts
or something equally innocuous. And there will be bars at the Empire med: Win £2,000,000
stasi: two Irish Bweeds we have just that the immediate result of the integration of the union which again it can't be done, Pro Exhibition (Scotland), 1938.
Bend your money now. - No ques tiong naked,
Cabinet friction might be à rup- expansion by conquest and|
was to have stopped war, and
ture In Internal British politics, international lawlessness..
co,
Men murt not, you see, be encour. But in respect of what are politely aged to linger in places, of refresh- called "facilities," it can't be quite) ment.
"Ille ome an Paris, 1987,
Fickot