PROHIBITION IN BRITAIN

Taranaki Daily News, 23 June 1927, Page 9

PROHIBITION IN BRITAIN

BISHOP’S BILL CRITICISED LORD DAWSON ON DRINKING WOVEN INTO ENGLISH LIFE By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright. Received June 22, 9 p.m. London, June 21. “It is really an outrage to call England non-sober. We are, broadly speaking, a sober people. There is far more drunkenness 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 people would ever banish fermented liquors. 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 tests 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 for physical fitness.” Lord Dawson added: "Improve education, housing and playing facilities and I am sure within ten years, especially if 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.”