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PEACE YEAR'S RECORD TO PEERAGES.

The past year has seen a record number of new peerages created. That Peace Year should be mark- ed by the conferment of an ex- ceptionally long list of honours of this description is not surpris- ing, and the majority of the men recently ennobled won their titles for war work of one kind and an- other.

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The Prohibitionists realise that they cannot stand still. They, therefore, support the World League against Alcohol. On this! aspect of the case I have con-

In all, twenty-eight peerages sulted Captain R. P. Hobson, the

have been added to the roll during distinguished naval officer whol

the rear. Some of them were sank the Merrimac at Santiago

merely promotions, but twenty- Harbour, and afterwards entered!

four entirely new names have Congress, where he was the re- NOVEL LESSONS ON THE

found places on the list. Fore- presentative who initiated the WAY TO BREATHE.

most come the actual leaders of now famous 18th Amendment. A crowd of little girls and boys the Navy and the Army, those, Captain Hobson's views. of clamoured for admittance to 60, sailors and soldiers who gained, obvious and immediate import-Greek Street, Scho, recently, to victory for the country. In no year: ance to Great Britain, are as attend their weekly sneezing

in the past have seven such fam-: follows:

class.

ous men been admitted to the "In deciding against the

· TEL. 2877 Dr. Octavia Lewin, the nasal peerage as Beatty and Haig, 'Wets' our Supreme Court specialist, is determined to make Allenby, Plumer, and Byng, and SCIB upen two fundamental these lessons as popular as danc-Rawlinson and Horne. Their principles. First that no in-ling. She is rapidly succeeding, dividual may exploit for profit for the children like their speez- the person of another individual ing lessons.

some

nurses,

are

names-each retained in their new dignity and their records will for ever be remembered as those of the "captains (to bor- row the phrase bestowed on Mar- shal Foch in the Parliamentary resolution of thanks), who showed the fighting men of the British Empire the road to triumph.

NAVAL AND CIVIL CREATIONS.

Then there must be included with this splendid seven, Lord Wester Wemyss, who is better known as Sir Rosalyn Wemyss,

bis and and who served

fellow- countrymen equally well at sea and in Whitehall. Such ad- ministrators as Lord Ernie (Mr.) Prothero), Lord Inverforth (Mr. Andrew Weir), and Lord Sinha (Sir S. P. Sinha) deserve to come next for their unremitting labours their during the campaign in differing spheres, while Lord Meston) (Sir James Meston) and the most recently-created peer, Mr. H. W. Forster, should not be comitted from this enumeration. The Lord Chancellor owes his elevation to the war, while the promotion from Baronies to Vis- counties of Lord Burnham, Lord

by means of a burtful commodity: In a large room they sat, while and, secondly, that every Dr. Lewin's assistants gently organised community has an in- smeared the upper lips with a herent right to protect itself white powder composed chiefly against corperate injury.

of soap. Tissue-paper handker- Every American boy and girl chiefs were handed round. Then swears allegiance daily in our began the great game of seeing schools to the American Con- who could sneeze first and best. stitution, and, therefore, as Some of the children are sent matters now stand, to Prohibition, by doctors; others are brought by as included in the 18th Amend ther parents. It is a very de- ment. This amendment is no in-mocratic class, for vasion of any man's liberty to accompanied by drink whatever liquor is in his others, in shabby clothes. come possession. It deals with the with their mothers. trade in drink.

Dr. Lewin told J Daily Prohibition has not brought Chronicle representative that she ruin even to the trade. The ex- was delighted with the results of Port of Californian grapes and the class. their products has been a record. "Most of the children come to Hotels here in New York, which be cured of various forms of nasal anticipated loss, have their rooms trouble," she said. "They don't booked up for weeks ahead. know how to breathe, and until "Real estate has been raised in their noses are cleared we cannot value by the closing of saloons, give them breathing exercises. and the saloons themselves are in Once they have discovered the many cases earning a higher way to sueeze, they are on the rental than they did under the road to recovery. old conditions.

"I believe that if children were Vast quantities of spirits have taught how to breathe properly been sold to England, and the consumption would be wiped out right to use certain labels has of our land in a generation. We been purchased by shrewd have had most gratifying results merchants. In my opinion, some here; children who have come to of these distillery products are of us with badly blocked noses have poor quality in respect of fusel responded quickly to treatment, oil and wood alcohol.

and after a few lessons they con- tinue the cure in their own homes The World League Against and breathe properly without Alcohol has appropriated

one effort." million dollars this year for

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Rothermere, and Lord Finlay was they abandoned their alied de- tions. Strangely enough, not entirely due to their service to the signations the Marquessates of single minor has come of age and

Cambridge, Carisbrooke, and taken his seat during 1919. Another similar promotion to Milford Haven, and the Earldom the rank of Earl was that accord- of Athlone, In 1916 the oreations This extension of the House of ed to Lord Iveagh, and the other totalled seventeen, as compared. Lords is an argument in itself for new peers were Lord Askwith, with only five in the preceding a reform of that Chamber, which, it is understood," will Lord Clwyd (Sir J. Herbert year and twelve in 1914...

be Very few titles have become not long delayed, The Roberts), Lord Cockrane (Mr. Thomas Cockrane), Lord Cham- obsolete during the past twelve question of accommodation gers (Sir Robert Chambers). Lord months as a result of the lack of would have to be faced in the t Dewar (Sir Thomas Dowar). Lord work abroad. We consider that has impaired the bigher faculties Rusell of Liverpool (Sir Edward removed from the roll being the templation to change the con- heirs. those which bave been near future were it not in con- Great Britain, with her vast of mankind, and thus produced Rusell), Lord Swinfen (Lord Earldom of Brassey and the stitution, for although only a in London and in the Provincial Towns and dependencies and immense those conditions which are most Justice Swinfen-Eady), Lord Baronies of Feckover, Beresford, small proportion of the members

native populatione, is in danger favourable to wars and other in- Ruthven (a Scottish peer). Lord and Nathmore. of becoming the liquor saloon of ternational evils.-The late war Wavertree (Colonel Hall Walker), the membership of the House of cise

Consequently entitled to sit in the House exer- their privilege, the in- the worldrand we intend to agitate has shown that the United States and Lord Wytold (Sir Robert Lords bas grown appreciably crease of the total would be in- with detailed particulars of the Goods shipped until the entire diplomatic and is deeply concerned in every Hermon-Hodge),

consular forces of the United aspect

since last year. At the time evitably followed by a larger daily of the States are employed to protect situation."

of the dissolution, the attendance, for which the scarlet

bad the weaker peoples against alcoh-

just benches are quite inadequate. Although since the war began Upper This statement fairly represents One Inch BUSINESS CARDS of Firm dodringolic exploition, which would mean the general view of Captain Hob- there has been ad unusually achieved the dignity of being When the Upper Chamber be- son. At the moment, Havana, in large number of creations, the the larger branch of the Legisla comes a Second Chamber in the "We recognise the prejudice Cuba, is the repository of un-total of twenty-eight is above the ture, but the modera Reform Act sense that, the Senates of France de hardlog radar when againat prohibition which still exampled shocks of surplus average even for so exceptional s again restored this superiority to or the United States are Becond continues in Latin countries, bolb American liquor. Sugar and the period. In 1918 twenty new the House of Commons. With Chambers, there will doubtless be American and European, where products of sugar are rising rapid, peerages wereconferred, including the many addition as to the Peers sufficient accommodation for the the purity of water for dinkingly in price. Many alternative promotions, while in the preced their Chamber is rapidly over-whole of the members elected or purposes is suspected, but we beverages to liquor are put on the ing year the total was twenty. hanling that of the Commons, nominated, and the mere increase consider that we are fully entitled market, and the public accepts five, which included steps in the and to-day close upon seven in the number of holders of Peer- to point out to these countries Prohibition with ever, increasing Peerage as well as the titles given hundred men are entitled to at- ages will not have the same the extent to which liquor approvalu

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