The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1921-03-11

ton. and where the crowds are so
thick between eight and ten o'clock
every night that one must use force
in order to get through. They were
fighting industriously. They plunged
off the curb. and their impetus car
ried them 10 the street-car tracks.
The wheels OF a double-deck tram
passed fraction of an inch from the
head OF one OF them, and after it had
passed a stranger rolled him back
from the eartracks into the gutter.
81 saw a man and woman, fighting
drunk. start smuggling each other with
their fists in the middle OF Main street
in the Bridgeton section of Glasgow
The woman seemed to be getting the
best OF it, when another man came
running up and hit her under the left
ear, so that her attack, in manner
OF speaking, broke down. saw
them with their babies wrapped in
their shawls in the peculiarly Scotch
manner. and number of drunken
girls about seventeen or eighteen
years old. And out OF all the nights
that | walked the streets of Glas-
gov | saw not one arrest for drunk
enness. Therefore say that the
number OF persons convicted for
drunkenness has no bearing on the
number OF persons who are drunk"
The Wet Organization
1t is impossible TO realize the
strength of the opponents of Prohibit
ton in Scotland even by those famil
lar with the American liquor organ-
zation unless one knows how the liq-
uor advocates carried on their CAM
paign. 1t is encouraging to drys
everywhere to know that i'll Scotland
such large number voted against
liquor in spite of the fight by the vets
told by Mr.. Roberts as follows:
THE Ant-Prohibition Campaign
Council in its seven months of active
fighting prior to and during the cleo
ton issued more than 25.000,000
pamphlets dealing with the subject of
Prohibition from all points of view
except, OF course those points favor
able to Prohibition. The council pub
1ished a two-sheet newspaper once
every month, and distributed 100000
copies of each issue 1t printed and
distributed 100000 bottle labels,
and saw to it that no bottle contain
ing an alcoholic beverage should
reach a consumer without one of the
labels pasted on it.
Grocers Helped Vets
1.-THE Anti-Prohibition Campaign
Council purchased 100000 paper bags
in two sizes and issued them to gro
GERS all over Scotland. Grocers sell
bottled goods, and the Temperance
(Scotland) Act affects them, so that
they are glad to use all the bags that
are given them. On one side of each
bag was printed:
"'To Housewives: Dry America
has raised the price of sugar to its
present high figures because of her
enormous increase in the use of So
called temperance drinks and candies.
If there is Prohibition in this country
the price will rise still higher, and
with many other household necessi-
ties will become luxury only for the
rich Vote No Change
This bag, which was carried into
every home in Scotland before the
campaign was over, was excellent
propaganda; and the propaganda was
damaged very little by the fact that
sugar during the last part OF the
campaign was considerably lower in
price in America than it was in Eng
land.
Great Poster Campaign
"The council distributed 100000
posters limited to printing, 10000 col
ored picture posters and 10000 enor
nous sixteen-sheet colored posters of
the same designs as the 10000 smaller
colored ones. Every hotel, public
house and licensed grocery covered
its windows with the councils posters,
and in many cases the entire front of
a public house would be covered so
that no house could be seen. A car
toon in an Edinburgh paper showed
two Scotchmen standing in front of
a mass of posters. 'Whaur's the pub,
Tam one of them is asking. Every
billboard and boarding in Scotland
was covered with thees posters for six
months before the election. There
were wet posters in every railway
station in the country. The council
contracted with street-car companies
so that the cars carried strip posters
twenty feet in length along their
sides.