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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1938,
THERE WILL BE REPERCUSSIONS
You are invited to visit the land where
Perpendicular Drinking
may lead to a horizontal position
-by-
GEORGE BLAKE
Novelist ("The Shipbuilders") and radio commentator
(he described the Queen Mary's launching),
are holding in Glasgow next May one of the
Tbiggest 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 about it in Scotland.
The site of the exhibition, you
two.
'No, thanks, I've
been drinking brandy.'
A quick swallow and out to the next is the ideal of our magistrates. that is why the One fancies that Scottish workman has evolved the
THE "VERY IDEA"
The results of the first big poll lethal "glasa-and-chaser" system of CASH AS
were fantastic. A few small burghs drinking-whisky gulped. neat and
went "dry." So did a few wards washed down with beer. CASH CAN,
of view the pirbiscite was n
enough to give evidence in favour of
THAT'S OUR MOTTO.
A
broker.
But his. is a mero: Sassenach voice
Probably no ordinary Englishman, certainly no Frenchman, knows even what a "dry" ward is or why it neculiarly humiliating flop. Though
annual opportunity, piping in a wilderness of confleuing We're broke now, so we might thould need an Act of Parliament to they have an
Just as well be a little broker. make a bit of one "wet" for the the Pussyfoots have never dared to prejudices.
return to the fray. They merely left Scotland with some interesting
duration of the exhibition.
THE last irony is that Scat- land has retained the Jolly It happened this way. The Pussy additions to a sufficiently remark old bona fide system, which makes it fools were once strong enough to able collection of licensing anomalies, possible for the thirsty traveller to push through the Temperance (Scot- land) Act, 1013, which offered to
One must sadly admit that most drink at any hour between the mid-
Do you want half a million bucka? Would first prize in the
- Irish Sweep be any use to you? Or would you like to lavest ten cents in the office sweep on next week's football scores?im
The half-anticipated resigna- tion of Mr. Anthony Eden may see, is in a "dry" ward of the city not have shocked Geneva, but it of Glasgow, and before a fellow may have the right to drink a small lager will assuredly cause a large with his foot on the brass rail we amount of misgiving and even have to invoke all the powers of
Westminster, fear among those who belleved
It's silly, of course. Fancy :try- in the policies so frequently ad-
ing to attract Frenchmen and Cer- vanced and so ably argued by mans and Americans to a point so nation. The vote was to be taken Foreign Secretary. Mr. far north as Glasgow when it was district by district, and in the larger Eden belleved in the sanctity of not even quite certain that a descrvy centres ward by ward:
Ing lad might have a refreshment treaties and the League of except with a meali Nations; and thousands of But that's how it is. people, not only in Great Britain
In the larger cities and towns, in- We encourage, in short, that per- You have here, in she's cluding that in which this year's pandicular system of drinking which and the member-states of the
the measure of Scotland's British Empire, looked, upon dreadful experience in the matter Empire Exhibition is to be held. is the surest and quickest way of Very, very few took the middle way bringing the most innocent celebrant him as the champion of the of drinking.
to a horizontal position. peace-loving majority and the We were once a very hard-drink- of "limitation."
One of the prime, Jokes-is-that hard those city wards which voted pro- Glasgow, which in these matters sets by Eddie Kelly, Chanos of a Lifetime S. MOUTRIE & CO., LTD. defender of the faith founded ing people, and there is no getling It was very soon obvious that
away from that. But the
huge area round on League-principles. And it is drinking on one-side has always been hibition were mainly residential, the pace for a
So many people are bom- not likely they judged him matched by an extremely hard think- peopled by solid householders who about, has an English chief constable.
Poor Captain Sillise has done his barding Linstead and wrongly. He is a high-minded ing Pussyfoot element on the other could afford to keep a bottle in the
The present chaos of Scotland's sideboard but didn't want their level best to persuade the Bench of Davis and the counters at and conscientious statesman, licensing regulations is the direct house-values affected by the pro- magistrates to a rational attitude in the Race course for sweep these matters. He was courageous tickets that we've decided and no greater praise can be outcome of the clash between the ximity of pubst given any national servant.
FROM the temperance point bars at the Empire Exhibition. to become a sweep ticket Moreover, he has that quality of courage so much to be envied in public men-he has sacrificed his position, and possibly his career, to defend his convictions. His name will lose none of its lustre by his decision. The man whom many marked as Britain's
that unhappy realm the glorious of these anomalies are the outcome nights of Saturday and Sunday. This coming Frime Minister still opportunity of voting for prohibition of the hard streak in the national makes for a lot of week-end fun.
the sympathy and complete.
temperament. We know not the possesses
Who is and who is not a bond fide of compromise. De
traveller is left to the Inn-keeper to admiration of the multitude. The legislators of the period, how either violently for free drinking or decide. No distance limit is speci-
As for the disagreement ever, were cunung. They did not violently against it.
fled in the Act. which caused his resignation
As it happens, Industrial Clyde- even now it does not seem
side is the cockpit of the war, and to
leading to a general election. It¡ine most comic Mustrations havo been explained. He ob-
If your ticket wins a prize, wo freshment." jected, apparently, to immedi.was felt that this was the most licensing folly are to be found in charming phrase "reasonable re
will depart the very next day for that city which hopes this year to be serious aspect of the situation. an Imperial Mecca.
It is thus possible for an up-and- Europe; if it doesn't you will be ate conversations with Italy. He
But at that time it had not been wanted Rome to recall the
Imagine yourself in Glasgow on coming collector with a car to do given the ticket, suitably framed disclosed that Mr. Eden's decía Saturday and anxious to do a busi- himself pretty well on any Scottish and inscribed, as a souvenir. Italian volunteers from Spansion would be taken in Washingness acquaintance proud with a slap- Sabbath. It hasn't made the roads. We have always been lucky. The before London met Il Duco's
up lunch. Cook tall? Certainly about Edinburgh and Glasgow just as Editor once gave us a gold watch, a definite but it can't be done.
safe as they might be on summer representatives with a view to
evenings. weakening of the unofficially The permitted hours of the Glas-
a bit soro, wo had to return the The favourite motor removing obstacles to a closer
designated "democratic bloc," How Saturday forenoon-the same
watch and the five dollars, but wo Italo-British understanding. In
known as the Three Lochs, a distance the disappearance of the fountain a word, he did not wish the comprising Britain, France and applies over a wide area of Glyde- Glasgow, for instance, is by the route managed to blame someone else for
alde-are between ten and noen, of about fifty miles.
pen. A British Government to retreat the United States. This bloc, when all good little boys are safely
My calculation is that an earnest Wo have also been lucky In other It was popularly supposed, at work. After that there is no performer can on any Sunday make respects. We once got a silver
fifteen stops for refreshment if he pisted spiticon from the Hongkong ho have taken in the past, that might lend the world back to hope ull 4 p.m.
sanity in international relations, The alleged reason behind the chooses and has the head.
Hotol, an ash tray from the Glou Italian interference in the
Once I congratulated a country ceater, and havo several Umen Spanish civil war could never be and assist in the preservation lunacy of oppression is that it en-
sures the working man getting home Innkeeper on the comfort and elog managed to evade the boy with the of some sort of international
ance of his loungo, e
chit in the Peninaula, condoned. It is significant that
with his pay envelope intact.
he admitted reflectively, Inw and order. Washington, it
"Yes," ho Rome's proas halis his realgusscoms, fears that Britain le arusans are nowadays paid on Fri bona fide traveller did for me,
The plain fact that Clydeside's·
that's what the motor car and the tion almost as A personal about to compromiso
no with days makes difference. The
CO, in Scotland, the country ticket, and if it wins a prize and on the pablican, and they are not triumph for the Italian Primo treaty-braku, suspects that Pussyfoots, have this one good weir
Jankeeper is on velvet, tie you can get anything out of us, London will recognise the con going to let go.
city publican on a bed of thistles, you'll know what, luck in, venena * These romults: spesis for them" quest of Ethiopia, which would YOU might again, visiting and between the two the Innocent eclves. In yesterday's Desby dŁAW, of Mr. Edon's decision could be destroy the ethical front erosted public house in urban Scot traveller is apt to have a puzzling that obtained around t known, Indeed before the deci- against such Incursions. Here land with a friend, fancy a quiet time of ye
gome of drauglils, dominoes, darte, sion itself had been taken, we felt lies the gravest danger or something equally innocuous. And There will be bars at the Empire that the immediate result of the integration of the union which again it can't be done, Exhibition (Scotland); 1930 - Send your money now. No qui
was to have stopped war and Cabinet friction might be a rup- expansion by conquest, And Men must not, you see, be encour. But in roencet of what are politely Lions anked.
aged to Unger in places of refresh, called "faeliitles," it can't be quite turo in internal British politics, international Inwieseneas.
the same a Paris. 1937,
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