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TUESDAY, Fcoruary 22, 1938.

THERE WILL BE REPERCUSSIONS

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- vanced and so ably argued by the Foreign Secretary. Mr. Eden believed in the sanctity of treaties and the League of Nations; and thousands of people, not only in Great Britain and the member-states of the

British Empire, looked upon him as the champion of the peace-loving majority and the

TH

THEY 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 about 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 loger with his foot on the brass rail we have to Invoke all the powers of

Westminster.

'No, thanks, I've been drinking brandy.'

It's slily, of course, Fancy try- ing to attract Frenchmen and Ger- mans and Americans to a point so nation. The vote was to be taken

A quick swallow and out to the, next is the ideal of our magistrates.)

that is why the Scottish worlanan has evolved the

far north as Glasgow when it was district by district, and in the larger One fancies that not even quite certain that a deserv- centres ward by ward. except with a meal! ing lad might have a refreshment

But that's how it is.

THE "VERY IDEA"

The results of the first big poll lethal "glass-and-chaser" system of CASH AS

were fantastle. A few small burghs drinking-whisky gulped neat and went "dry." So did a few words washed down with beer, In the larger cities and towns, In-

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encourage, in short, that per- the measure of Scotland's cluding that in which this year's pendicular system of drinking which

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matched by an extremely hard think peopled by solid householders who about, has an English chief constable. So many people are bom-

two.

Probably no ordinary Englishman, certainly no Frenchman, knows even

of view the plebiscite was 6

of drinking.

Very, very few took the middle way bringing the most Innocent celebrant of "limitation."

to n borizontal position. We were once a very hard-drink-

It was very soon obvious that One of the prime jokes is that away from that. But the hard those eity wards which voted pro- Glasgow, which in these matters sets on League principles. And it is drinking on one side has always been hibition were mainly residential, the pace-for-a-huge-aren-round By Eddie Kelly, Chance of a Lifelime not likely they judged him wrongly. He is a high-minded ing Pussyfoot element on the other could afford to keco a boltte 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 Poor Captain Silltoe has done his barding Linstead and 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 and no greater praise can be outcome of the clash between the given any national servant. 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 coming Prime Minister still

that unhappy realm the glorious of these anomalies are the outcome nights of Saturday and Sunday. This opportunity of voting for prohibition of the hard streak in the national makes for a lot of week-end fun. If, so, we are your man. Invest posscssca the sympathy and 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 Kelly Sweeps. All admiration of the multitude.

wisdom of

Do compromise. The legislators of the period, how- either violently for free drinking or

traveller is left to the inn-keeper to sary cash (together with ullage. As for tho disagreement ever, were cunning. They did not violently against it.

decide. No distance limit is speci- corkage and pillago (to sin a make it a plebiscite of the whole which caused his resignation

fied in the Act.

prize. We vill invest the money oven now it does not seem

And as to what a fellow may call in any sweep you nominate. Saves (less ullage, corkage and pillage) for, that is simply covered by the time and worry.

ximity of pubs! -

these matters. He was courageous enough to give evidence in favour of tickets that we've decided FROM the temperance point bars at the Empire Exhibition.

to become a sweep ticket what a "dry" ward is or why it neculiarly humiliating flop. Though But his in u mére Sassensch voice

broker. should need an Act of Porilament to they have an annual opportunity, piping in a wilderness of conflicting make a bit of one wet" for the the Pussyfools have never dored to Prejudices.

left Scotland with some interesting THE It happened this way. The Pussy- additions to

to

duration of the exhibition.

return to the fray. They merely

a sumclently remark

WE Inst irony is that Scot- land has retained the jelly

roots were once strong enough to able collection of Ilcensing anomalies, old bona fide system, which makes it push through the Temperance (Scot- land) Act, 1913, which offered to

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possible for the thirsty traveller to One must sadly admit that most drink at any hour between the mid-

are

As it happens, industrial Clyde- side is the cockpit of the war, and most comic Illustrations of

leading to a general election. It the

have been .explained. He ob- was' felt that this was the most licensing folly are to be found in charming phrase "reasonable re-

lunch. Comfkktall? Ceriainly. but it can't be done.

The permitted hours of the Gins-

Fame

freshment."

We're broke now, so wa might Just as well be a little broker.

Do you want half a million bucks? Would first prize in the Irish Sweep be any use to you? Or would you like to invest ten cents in the office sweep on next week's football scores?

|jected, apparently, to immedi-

If your ticket wins a prize, we that city which hopes this year to be ate conversations with Italy. Ho

serious aspect of the situation,

will depart the very next day for an Imperial Mecca. But at that time it had not been

It is thus possible for an up-and-Europe; if it doesn't you will be wanted Rome to recall the

Imagine yourself in Glasgow on coming collector with a car to do given the tickot, suitably framed Italian volunteers from Spain

disclosed that Mr. Eden's deci- a Saturday and anxious to do a busi- himself pretty well on any Scottish and inscribed, as a souvenir. before London met Il Duce's

sion would be taken in Washingness acquaintance proud with a alap Sabbath. It hasn't made the roads We have always been lucky. Tho ton as indicating

about Edinburgh and Glasgow just as Editor, once gave us a gold, watch, definite up representatives with a view to

safe as they might be on summer a fountain pan, and five dollars, weakening of the unofficially removing obstacles to a closer

evenings..

Naturally, when he started to get Italo-British understanding. In designated "democratic bloc," now Saturday forenoon-the The favourite motor

a bit more, we had to return the run out of 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 watch and the Ave dollars, but wo

the United States. This bloc, when all good Httle boys are safely

side are between ten and noen, of about nity miles.

known as the Three Lochs, a distance managed to blame someone else for British Government to retreat

the disappearance of this fountain it was

pen. one inch from the stand it and

popularly supposed, at work. After that there

My calculation is that on earnest is no

We have niso been lucky in other performer can on any Sunday make respects. We once got a liver- might lead tho world back to hope till 4 p.m.

Afteen stops for refreshment If he plated spittoon from the Hongkong sanity in international relations, The alleged reason behind this chooses and has the head.

Hotol, an ash tray from the Glou and assist in the preservation lunacy of oppression is that it en

Once I congratulated a country ceater, and have several Umes of some sort of international with his pay cavelope intact.

sures the working man gotling home innkeeper on the comfort and eleg-managed to evade the boy with the

ance of his lounge,

chit-In the Peninsula, law and order. Washington, it

"Yes," he admitted reflectively,

We have had years of practice ecoms, fears that Britain la artisans are nowadays paid on The bona fide traveller did for me.

The plain fact that Clydeside's

with barrels. Why not share in "that's what the motor-car and the

our luck. about to compromise with days makes. no difference. triumph for the Italian Primo treaty-breakers, suspects that use this one good grip Minister.

on the publican, and they are not

O, in Scotland, the country ticket, 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 on a bed of thirties, you'll know what luck t of Mr. Eden's decision could be destroy the ethical front erected quest of Ethiopia, which would

You might again, vialling a and between the two the Innocent publie house in urban Scots traveller is opt to have a puzzling known, indeed before the decagainst auch incursions. Heru land with a friend, fancy a quiet time of it alon itself had boon taken, wo folt lies the gravest danger-dis or something equally innocuous, And There will be bars at the Empire

game of draughts, dominoes, darts, Chad) that the immediate result of the integration of the union which again, it can't be done. Exhibition (Scotland), 1938,

was to have stopped "war," and Cabinet friction might be a rup expansion by conquest, and aged to linger in places of refresh- called "facilities," it can't be quite

Men must not, you see, be encour-But in tespect of what are pollfolytona tura in Internal British politica, ' International lawlcanncas.

the same s Paris, 1937,

he have taken in the past, that Italian Interference in the Spanish civil war could never be condoned. It in significant that Romo's press haila his reaigną- tion almost

n. personal

ment.

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