The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1922-05-24
LADY AST0R TAKES
LITTLE RAP At HEARST
Refers to Attacks Made on Her by
knights of COlumbus-Sums Up
Opinion on Dry Question

New York, May 23.-Lady Aston
started back home to her six chill
drcn and her wcr'k in the House of
Commons today, smiling and viva
cious, just as she was six weeks age
when she lardcd Ahere for visit
to her native land.
The first thing she is going to
do on arriving in England is tc
visit her chill "en-one of them in
this school, another in that, two
more in a third, she said, and then
go home and see the baby of the
six.
The eldest son, she thought, would
meet her and Lord Astor when the
Aquitania docks at Southampton.
Among the great number OF
boxes which she is taking home arc
toys worth $50 for the children
She bought them on shopping
tour yesterday.
Preceding Lady Astor up the
Aquitania's gang plank by only q
moment, was William Randolph
Hearst, whose name has been con
nccted with gubernatorial aspira.
tions but who today came out fol
Mayor Hylan.
when | am running for Office
don't run away" Lady Astor re.
marked, greeting a group of re.
porters on The deck
When someone asked her if hcl
remark was apropos of one of hcl
fellow passengers, she winked anr
said, II mjust saying that's tho
English method"
Lady Astor, remarked that tht
one discordant note in her visit
had been the clamor of some who
advocated dcporting her as an un.
desirable alien.
"The only ones who wanted ne
deportcd as an undesirable alien,
she said, "Arc those who preach
hate in the name Of God.
".And then there is this, the only
thing the Northciifc press has
printed about my American triI
were the attacks upon me by the
Knights of Columbus"
Miss Alice Perkins, another niece
and Dame Alfred Lyttleton, com
panion Of the lady Nj. P. on he,
American visit, accompanied Lore
and Lady Astor on the voyage.
Declaring that prohibition in tho
! United States and several Canadian
provinces had been "big contri
button to the spiritual rcgcncra
ton of the world" Lady Astor is
sued farewell statement summing
up her opinions on the dry question
| on both sides Of the ocean.
81 am not going to advocate pro
hibition Legislation in England ;
she continued, "but will suppor
local option by direct vote laws.
Lady Astor said she had heart
IL said that the rich in Amcrics
could get drinks while the pool
could not, but declared she had no
seen such = condition herself. Sht
said special workers had told hel
that the Salvation Army, social so
cieties and churches now had {
greatly reduced task as result O.
the dry laws.
when I balance the result, Off
set the upbuilding of the poor ant
struggling and the salvation which
prohibition has brought to man,
wives and children, against the al
legged degradation Of some of tn,
rich, well, I have no doubt the ne
result for the country has beer
good" she continued. "The genera
sentiment seems to be that it il
the rich and not the poor wht
really get the worts Of it,"
Lady Astor declared that tn,
only. anti-American propaganda
she has seen in England was en-
gcndered by liquor interests, VIII,
have gone into poitics over tn,
liquor question. She said prohibition
has shown itself not only a prob
lem of social welfare but of clear