"A SOBER COUNTRY"
DRINKING IN ENGLAND PROHIBITION INTOLERABLE (Eloe. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (N.Z., and A.P.A.. and Sun.) LONDON, June i'l. " It is really an outrage to call England non-sober. We are, broadlyspeaking, a sober people. There is Car more drunkenness in America," declared Huron Dawson, of Penn, when attacking the Bishop of Liverpool's Prohibition Bill in the House of Lords. He added that it was unlikely civilised people would ever banish fermented liquors. It was impossible to draw out something woven into the fabric of people's lives for centuries.
"What really matters," he said. " is what people under .'!."> years of age do. The fact is that women's athleticism and more suitable clothing had encouraged the men's desire for physical fitness."
Baron Dawson added: "Improve education, housing and playing facilities, and I am within 10 years, especially if sane lecturers,, not fanatics, teach when it is good to tako alcohol, you will achieve greater success in temperance than through a Bill of this kind."
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16374, 23 June 1927, Page 12
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