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in a wet place there's always one low-grade bum saloon, which is a centre for dirt and an-good people. You always see several idle men hanging round it.spitting. Now, when that goes, the people seem to tidy up everywhere, and the village looks

more self- respecting right through.

You will perhaps have wonder- You'd be surprised at the ed at the enormous majorities by extent to which local option had which the House of Represent-made the country dry before atives and the Senate passed the national prohibition. There were War-time Prohibition Enforce- whole sections of it where you ment Act over the President's couldn't get a drink, and even in veto the otherday. A conversation New York State, the stronghold I have have had with a wideawake of liquor, you could drive 125 young professional man, who miles along the State Road and knows the country districts and not be able to raise a drink the the Middle West as not many whole way.

New Yorkers do, will help to "You see, this didn't come as a explain what many English sudden thing, though it seemed people regard as a kind of miracle, sa to people who regard the rest of The country is dry," he said. the United States as a sort of because the people want it to, hinterland to New York City. It be dry, and if the vast majority offcame gradually as a result of the the people really want a thing steady pressure from the dry their representatives have to get villages on the wet towns, from it for them. It's a wonder to me the dry towns on the wet States. bow they did get it. against the and from the dry States on the political pressure not only of whole country." the big brewing trusts but of the

"Will it last?" I said.""Have

little saloon-keepers all over the the brewers really given up?" country, for, you know, politics "It surely will," he answered.

centred in the saloon. and the "Some of them are making a saloon-keeper was a genuine legal kick which won't come to political boss.

anything. But many have con- "I think it was really local verted their breweries into ico- option that did the trick in a plants, and many have turned to ruall village the better kind of manufacturing soft drinks" or people got together and rosed fermented milk preparations. The that village dry, and they were corner saloons are turning into able to do it because the bosses restaurants or in some cases Sal- didn't have much power there, vation Army clubs. The rich peo- Then that village would do all it ple have already had in pretty good could to spread the dry idea to stocks of whisky and wine, and the villages and towns all around they'll have nearly two months it, not only because it was now, if the treaty goes through, keen on the idea, but because it between the time when the Presi- didn't want its men going of dent declares demobilisation.com- and spending their money else-plete and the coming into force where. You can see how the of the new permanent shopkeepers would have that. January 16, to buy the huge "Why, once I was up in New supplies the dealers have waiting York State in a dry village and I for the declaration of peace. wanted to go fishing in a stream The banks have. carried" the near a neighbouring village that dealers financially to the extent was wet, and, do you know, the of $150,000,000, I hear, and if livery-stable keeper wouldn't hire there isn't some such interval for me a horse and buggy to drive the dealers to unload the banks over till I gave him my word of will be in a hole. But after that. honour I wasn't going to get a no more; and the common people drink."

have accepted it. If they hadn't "Were you ΕΠ abiner the law would never have gone yourself?" I asked. "Not "through as it has

Act on

he said "I always took about "Won't the poorer people who ten or twelve cocktails a week. can't afford to lay in stocks resent and thought I needed them to the rich people having theirs?". buck me up when I was tired. I asked. When the country went dry. I "No." he said cheerfully. "I did what most men in moderate haven't any stock and I'm not circumstances did-laid in a few feeling resentful.

I think you battles; but when those were don't understand. Most of the used up I never bothered any people want this thing. And even more, and it's surprising how if they don't they know it's only little I miss it. And other a matter of time before the rich people say the same. I was cut men's houses will be as dry as all a Prohibitionist, though"

the hotels and clubs are now."

"If you had all power in your own hands," I said, "to decide for the nation, would you now vote wet or dry?"

RUSH OF EMIGRATION FEARED.

He hesitated, then said: "Well, London British authorities dry. For there's no question expect that the problem of repo- which is best for the country if pulation will be aggravated as enough of the people believe in it soon as shipping facilities permit to make the law enforce-emigrants to leave the country

able.

I' could

- I 12sed to think for America and the colonies. tell the difference Meanwhile the birth rate and between a wet and dry village marriage rate have fallen off to just by looking at it. You see, an alarming extent.

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VILLAGE TRADES AT HOME.

THEIR FUTURE DISCUSSED. Country villages that during the war first began to take seriously to the business of food production are still on the high tide of prosperity. There has been no slackening of demand; and no lowering of prices. Trado is thriving, and money is being turn- ed over in a fashion unknown within living memory.

Eggs at 5d. each, even with poultry-foods so dear, are a de- cidedly paying proposition. Old hens past the laying stage are worth is. alb, with the feathers on, and that, too, is not a bad profit Butter at 2s. 6d. & lb.. pork running up to something like 30s, a score, and rabbits up to 1s. 6d. each, all help to make the villager's budget look rosy. He can sell all he produces at top prices; and hungry customers still cry out for more.

The question is: Will it last? What will happen when world stocks again become plentiful and prices descend to a lower level? So far as can be seen nobody seems to be considering the need of organising village trade and placing it on sound foundations. There is no attempt to systematise production or to improve the methods of market- ing. Casual pre-war methods still the rule. During war the number of "higgler's" carts on the country roads greatly increased. During the past year many demobilised soldiers appear to have set up in the trade, and have received a generous share of the patronage of village producers. Otherwise everything is as it was in days of stack business and small profits.

are the

No effort is being made to place the trade upon stable foundations, or to increase the powers of production to meet the needs of the future. But it must not be supposed that the villagers are to blame for this. They are too. heavily handicapped by the con- ditions under which they live. Suppose a cottager has been do- ing well with a matter of two dozen hens, and wishes to expand his run and so make room for fifty or a hundred. In the ma- jority of cases it would be a matter of impossibility for him to get a plot of land on which to place his enlarged flock. Or sup- pose a smallholder wished to keep two cows instead of one.) The chances are а thousand against bis being able to get the necessary ground.

Landowners are for the most part blind to the duty of fostering the economic interests of

Otherwise many villages

their tenants.

might have in

we

& system at least of collect- ing produce for market to say nothing of steady encourage- ment and assistance for those who wished to expand their trade. A man may wait for years before the County Council provides him with a plot of land, and as for the District Councils they all seem to have approached the rural housing problem in a spirit of despair! After all the talk of reconstruction, cottages in the country are still being allowed to turable down, and there is nothing to replace them..

The villages are now onthe crest of the wave, and there never was a better opportunity to establish them on a firm economic basis. Will the opportunity be seized? RAILWAY ACCIDENTS IN MANCHURIA.

NEARLY 200 CASUALTIES. On the morning of December 23, there occurred a serious accident on the South Manchuria Railway. At Tieling station a goods train crashed into a stand- ing passenger train, with the result that seven lives were lost and 85 were wounded, more of less seriously. Of those whose lives were lost, one was Japanese and six were Chinese.

This is the second smash that hes taken place within the month on the South Manchuria Rail- way. The earlier accident was at Kungchuling, south of Chang- chun, causing over 100 causalties. The nature of the disaster was the same in both cases.

During recent months, the trains have been very crowded in all three classes. It is even not uncommon for passengers to be left behind on account of the lack of accommodation. A collision

is, therefore, likely to have lementable results.

A contributing cause of these. accidents is the fact that, though the South Manchuria Railway has been doubling its track, the work is as yet incomplete from Tieling north to Changchun.

The general service of the Railway continues to be first rate. Dining-cars are beginning to appear again. The recent increase in fares is not out of proportion to the cost of living.

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1920,

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