‘Shouting’ shouted down
An organisation called M.I.S.E.R. wants to gag the “shout” in British public houses: it has joined a campaign to revive a 60-year-old section of the Defence of the Realm Act which made it illegal to buy a round of drinks. Support has come from the Temperance Council of the Christian Churchds and from the National Council of Women. The act was brought in during the First World War to help the war effort, and it succeeded: drunkenness fell, and productivity rose. Under the 1915 law, a public house could be closed down for serving a customer with more than one drink, and round-buyers risked heavy fines. The president of the Militant Society for the Elimination of the Round, Mr Terry Pattinson, a journalist, said: “I reckon I save £5 a week by not buying rounds. It makes sense.” — London.
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