El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-11-09

NEWS Of the local option prohibition election in Scotland
IN remarkable not because most Of the towns ana areas
rejected prohibition but because considerable number O
them voted dry. As expected the important cities al
against prohibition. The places that went dry aIt
rural communities mining centers. In one town prohlo
ton was defeated BY only 1our votes In many places n'
vote vas rather close Aberdeen, city Of 10000 de-
fsatsd prohibition by vote Of only two to one
Glasgow with 100000 population near It, tour
wards voted dry and nine for limited license while voted
for change As result Of the vote, "a licenses VIII be
Cancelled Of total Of 1000 liquor licenses in the city
This looks ike large number Of public houses but It Is
only about one saloon 800 Of the population,
ratio exceeded in most American communities before pro
hibtion took effect
The prohibition movement In Scotland il Of recent
growth As IN America 1t has made least Roadway the
ndustal oeutars and the large cities But IN rural
units and in residence sections Of the better sort IN
ces, the sentiment aroused against drink shops or al
any rate against excessive number Of them has run
stIcng
Ire fight nay be expected to contiAue. It has Just
begun Scotland it has already taken something OF
the ssuecs Of church fight the noncouforists OF evan
gsct churches being generally aligned with the prohbl
fi- while fe 80 blisHed eueh has generally taken
the side Of licensed liquor trade. The fight VIII 60 for
TINE along these lines but it is only question OF tine
when It VIII become more Of economic issue than q
moraP religious issue and then there VIII be better
chance Of making Roadway.
The drinking resorts IN the British isles, al the
countries Of the kingdom have nothing Of the worthy End
toerabe features Of continental cafes and restaurants
Americans have read all their lives in English stories Of
grog shops" but American could have correct idea
81 what greg shop is without seeing The prevail
IN the United States before the crash The great majority
Of drink shops England Scotland, and ireland Just
places 90 and get drunk be said that they are the
only places Of resort that the masses Of the people have
then much the for countries that provide nothing
better than these foul little joints.
One feature about drinking and drink shops in the
British isles that fortunately almost entirely absent
from the liquor establishments the United States is the
participation Of ard girls. Before wartime regula
tons and restrictions partially corrected the evil It
unusual thing to ana girls drunk in the streets
and IN places Of public resort Even now and girls
frequent the places N large numbers.
me conditions are very dferert from those
tered IN continental countries The British Ike the Amer
lcans take their liberties and indugences very hard
Americans could not control their appetes and neither
The English Scotch and Irish, Of the social groups which
supply most Of the patronage Tor the drink shops There
IS hs or the sIsurey family rerestional feature Of cor
uneuta restaurants about t drink shops Of Britain
Ireland is fearfully oversuppied with drink shops No
one can tutuy that there is any need for many
as one sees N every village and city The conditions are
exceedingly bad In English cities there is rather more re-
strlcron and intelligent regulation Wartime necessities
brought about such limitations to make tremendous
difference for the better the statistics Of crime poverty
and illness attributable TO excessive drinking Especially
notable was the lesssned indulgence among women as re-
neced IN police records. The partial relaxation Of rules
sce the has resulted partial return TO old con-
dtons, ont things nothing ike as bad as they used to
While prohibition in America has vet to prove itself
there are sound economic reasons back Of it. Leaving ont
al moral and ethical considerations it is probable that
comparatively few years would have seer prohibition fact
or al least approxmated result Of the economic srzu
mems which are unaHswerab and whose force American