A SOBER PEOPLE.
ENGLISHMEN DEFENDED. THE USE OF ALCOHOL. ,y GABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT LONDON, June 21. “It is really an outrage to call England non-sober. V e are, broadly speaking, a sober people. There is far more drunkehness in America,” declared Lord Dawson of Penn, when attacking the Bishop of Liverpool’s Prohibition Bill in the House of Lords.
Lord Dawson added that it was unlikely that civilised peop.e would ever banish fermented liquois. It was impossible to draw out something woven into the fabric of the people’s lives for centuries. “What really matters is what the people under 35 years of age do. Hospital test of 1500 unskilled labourers showed that 51. per cent, were under 35 and were abstainers or temperate drinkers. “The fact is,” said Lord Dawson, “women’s athleticism and more suitable clothing has encouraged the men’s desire lor physical fitness.” Lord Dawson added. “Improve education, housing and p.aying facilities, and 1 am sure that within ten yeais, especially' it sane lecturers, not fanatics, teach when it is good to take alcohol, you will achieve greater success in temperance than through a Bill of this kind.”
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 23 June 1927, Page 5
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187A SOBER PEOPLE. Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 23 June 1927, Page 5
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