New Britain herald., 1922-08-10
SCOTCH EDUCATOR
 PRAISES DRY LAW Also Comments New Britain on
 It's School System IMPRESSED BY BUILDINGS Feels Money Invested on Construc- ton Of Auditoriums Is We'll Spent Looks for National Prohibition in Scotland Within 20 Years.
BY BUILDINGS

Remarking that he has been in the country three weeks. has mingled with upwards of a million people and has yet to see drunken man in the United States. Charles W. Thomson M. A., B. A., F. E. I. S., noted Scotch educator and prohibition worker. who has been visiting at the home of Mrs. Robert Middemass of Arch street, this morning paid tribute to the success of the 18th amendment, and ferecasted adoption of similar law In Scotland within a score of years.
 Sees Flaw In Law.
 He regretted the presence of what he termed one flaw in Americas pro- hibition law, that being the fact that 1t was put over by legislatures rather ent laws. this condition will never ex- ist in Scotland, he assured.
 Mir Thomson is principal of the Buckle Secondary school at Buckle, Scotland. the institution being sim liar to the senior Hiih schools of this country. He Is the author of Scot land: Its Work and Worth" book that was widely circulated both in that country and here. He is the president of the Scottish Patriotic as- sociation, with headquarters at Glas- gow, and is vice-president of the Ea- tional Citizens Council. an organiza- ton working for prohibition.
 Expects Hard Fight.
 If Scotland is ever to go dry, 1t will be only after the hardest kind of 8 fight, he admitted. The federation of labor is behind the motement, but the forces are loosely organized with the churches sympathetic. but not ac- tive. The first local option vote in 1 92o, showed 50 out Of 500 cities and towns voting against license.
 Under the present system, 1t Is nec- essary to secure 55 per cent of the total vote cast to eliminate license, and this number must represent 35 per cent of the voters enrolled. Since it is very rarely that more than half those enrolled cast a vote, the ma jority in favor Of a dry law must be overwhelming before 1t can go into effect. Even then hotels are privil- eged to dispense alcoholic drinks to those who are registered at their placs of business, and workingmen's s clubs, so-called, are given licenses to sell and drink on the premises. Tn this way the intent of majority of voters is defeated where towns have gone dry.
 Warns Against Modification.
 Questioned relative to his stand on he movement now going on in the United States for a modification of the dry law, Mir. Thomson said such action would open the flood gates of ntemperance. He felt it was too great risk and while he sympath- zed with those who think the law ,oo drastic, in view of its having been made by legislature, yet he felt the md would justify the means in his voting against such modification.
 Mir Thomson also spoke in glowing erms of the American school sys- ems, particularly as applied to New trade education department N lli1ii lC lllSpcCtcu ytSltTudy. leCn- 1ical schools, such as the state trade school of this city are practically un- inown in his home land, but he enses gradual change from the present. classical education to the more American system in Scot and This, he says is especially marked at Glasgow.
 Pleased With Auditoriums.
 One of the most pleasing features n the school construction as typified n this city, is the presence of many nd spacious auditoriums, he felt. He egretted the absence of audtoriums n his school, and assured that money xpended in this direction is money yell spent.
 MT. Thomson will leave New York tomorrow and plans to return some ime later. He will probably con- uct series of lectures on prohi- ition and educational work. With i'm is his daughter. Miss Mary