NO-LICENSE IN SCOTLAND.

Evening Star, Issue 18137, 29 November 1922, Page 12

NO-LICENSE IN SCOTLAND.

10 THE KDIXOB. sir —I have read tetters by * Contimitamo*' on the liquor question appearing in vour paper from time to time. Has chief argument seems to be that Xb-Uoonee and Prohibition mean increased drmdteimess. The following letter in the Shetland Times * of September 30 shows that such is not the case i The letter states that “ there were nine persons brought before the court in August, and of these four were under the influence of drink when apprehended. In a normal pre-war year, 1907, when the barring fishing was on about the same scale, the number of such cases m August was thirty-two, of whom thirty were under the influence of drink when apprehended—eight of them being helplessly drunk, and three of them the fall from thirty to four is very remantablo, and cam be duo to nothing but No-licenso. It is to be noticed, too, that the number

of such cosos during June, July, and August, of 1907, was eighty; the number during the some months this year has been eleven. This fall, too, from eighty to eleven tells us what No-license has done. In the town of Lerwick above referred to No-Ecense come into force m 1921, and has been a great success. Of course there are a few “Weta” there, who, like * Continuance,” are so infatuated with drink that they do not like either Nolicense ot Prohibition, but thev are a very email minority, not worth troubling about. —I am, etc., T WAGIOS. November 28.