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SATURDAY," DECEMBER 5. 1925.

EUROPE'S DRY

NATION.

Norway's War Measure Discussed,

The motivos were to promote economy, discourage luxury, and to preserve food supplies normal ly used in the distillation of spirits.

CLAIRVOYANCY IN GERMANY.

Herr Droost and His

Mediums.

of

BS &

SPECIAL

ON

Whilst Europe is watching tho

A village schoolmastor effects of prohibition in the Unit- Barnburg, in Saxony, denounced ed States; it seome hardly con-by jealous neighbours. scious of the fact that a similar fortune-teller," has succeeded measure is in operation in an agitating all the occultist country in its own midst. That circles of Germany. His claims country is Norway, and its to set a normal person in a state dryness" was a product of the of clairvoyancy have been uphold war, when it was considered ad.by a court of law. This totally visable to pass what was then in-obscure teacher, Droost by namo, tended to be a temporary statute was interested in hypnotism as a against alcohol,

lobby. The many thefts that ourhood, as in every other placej occurred in his

own noigh- in Germany, during the paper SCOTCH WHISKY inflation period, caused him to ask one of the mediums with There already existed a small, connected with the occurrence. whom he experimented a question, though very active, prohibitionist Tho reply was so correct in its party, who seized the opportunity details that Herr Droost was afforded by the war measure, and overrun by neighbours who wore concentrated their efforts on con-eager to know the whereabouts verting it into a permanent law. of. In 1919, mainly as a result of fortunately, the

their lost property,

Un- their propagadda, the question accepted the proffored prosent of hypnotiser was made the subject of a natio.-butter, bacon, or whatnot from al referendum. About 66 p.o. of grateful inquirers, the voting population went to the practice of what

end any poll which produced a consider gonorically

i# known ably majority for prohibition by any means whatsoever is 'fortunotolling" Two years later Parliament gave severely punished in Germany. legislative offect to this ducision The astonishing stories told in To the results, as so far the court of what this man had witnessed, Mr. G. Cathorns accomplished with his mediums, Hardy devotes a very interesting girls and lade from the country- chapter of his volume, "Norway," eide, convinced the court that. in, just published in the admirable future the possibility of suggest- Modern World" series (Bonn, ing the state of clairvoyancy to a 15s.),

normal person, who will in that] That Norway became "dry"state relate things that occurred was as surprising as some of the days, and even weeks, ago, in an results of that "dryness,"

unknown town, must be accepted bu- cause from the earliest times as proven. down to, at most, sixty years ago; the Norwegians had the reputa

tion of being hard drinkers. Mr.

Hardy points out that undor the

union with Demark Norwegians

CHINESE SOAP.

shared with Danes the reputation The Industry in Nanking. to which Shakespeare alludes in "Hamlet":

This houvy-headed revel, oast and west.

Makes us tradyced and taxed

of other nations:

They clope as drunkards, and with swinish phraso

ported soap into the city, tho Before the introduction of im- Nanking public was served ex- clusively by a class of native soup manufacturers who made tree which grows abundantly in soap from the pods of the soap, cartain parts of China. The dried soap tree pods are first steeped Obviously Mr. Hardy is not in in water for about two hours and sympathy with impolling teetothen beaten inte a pulpy mass re- talism by fogislation, for he moving the seeds and fibres. The criticises the value of a referen-pulpy mass is then pressed into dum on the question, and adds cakes and sold as soap. In spite The force of public opinion is a of the primitiveness of this

Soil our addition.

far more powerful sanction for a method, Nanking soap manufac- law than tho fear of punishment, turors can turn out not only the and where a man's neighbours ordinary washing soap but also are inclined to approve disobedi-toilet soap of the sconted variety. ence to such a measure, the law Every picul of soap tree pods tends to fall into contempt. Such yields 80 catties of the pulpy has certainly been the case in mass from which the soup is Norway.

COME STRIKING FACTS.

made.

Nanking soap manufacturers obtain soap tree pods from Hupeh.. Whatever his personal view, Huran and also the neighbouring however, Mr. Hardy produces

districts in Kiangsu province. some striking facts in support of Hupeh and Hunan products are his inferred conclusion that pro-

far better than those in Kiangsu, hibition in Norway is not a sue rather frequently according to

Market quotations cess. Here, for instance, are the the conditions of the yearly fluctuate statics for drunkenness since 1921, when the prohibition law! was made permanent :-

1921

1922

... 1923

35,528 cases 44,685 49,019 71

13

cropu. The price for soap tree pods in Nanking this spring was 83.10-$3,20 a picul. The figuro has dropped to $2.10-$2.20, in! view of the good crops this year. Notwithstanding the competition of the modern soap factories, these primitive manufacturers in

As a suror test of the officety of prohibition Mr. Hardy takes the figures relating to smuggled Nanking can still hold their own liquor. The stock-in-trade of the ground, their smuggler is what he call

chief advantage; villainous alcohol" known

aying in the cheapness of the as article and the comparatively sprit." The quantity of this high profits: confiscated in 1923 amounted to

some 400,000 litres of 100 por sold by the catty. A catty of Nanking native made soap is cont. alcohol. It is assumed, too, common washing soap fetches that only a comparatively small ton cente, small money, and a proportion of smuggled liquor catty of scented toilet soap com- falls into the hands of the manda 20 cents. Each hand em- authorities, and deduction is ployed in a native soap factory drawn that the quantity in-can turn out an average daily, troduced into the country, and output of 40 cattien of common presumably, consumed thoro, washing soap or 20 cattios of cannot have falion far short of scented toilet soap. In making, the equivalent of 4,000,000 bottles ovory 80 cutties of sconted soap, of ordinary 50 per cent. spirit, frem $0.80 to $0.90 worth of and was not improbably much lower essence is required. The daily wages for each operative is! Amongst other indictments about 60.40, and the daily output brought against the moasure are yields a daily net profit of about averages about one picul, which murders and other crimes of

more.

violence caused by the fiery $5-$6.

smuggled poison, the undermining native soap are not confined ex- The Nanking manufacturers of of the health of the community clusively to this trade but are by recourse to. "spirit" and oven

In

more injurious substitutes, whilst engaged also in the selling of "large sections of enlightened Cosmotics and other kinds of public opinion are openly ranged former times, they regarded soap

toilet articles for ladios. on the side of the lay-breakers." manufacturing only as a side Against this evidence, however, line but at present a number of remains the fact that a proposal the manufacturers make soap- to repeal the law, made in 1924, manufacturing their principal led to the fall of the Ministry, business because they can make so that prohibition remains in higher profits now, owing to the force. Altogather the news from cheapness of the raw material, Norway seems as bowildering to the soap, treo pods. There are the observer as the equally con-about 15 manufacturers of native flloting "ovidence" from the soap. other side of the Atlantic.-D. C. Economic Bulletin.

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