The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1931-06-01

EINSIbANO-NeaTly z0U delegates 10 Tile
annual conference of the Licensed Victual-
lerS' Defence League in FolkeStone crossed
the channel to Boulogne recently, where
they studied the continental cafe system.
Many were favorably impressed, and eX-
pressed the opinion that if it were possible
to provide refreshments under similar
conditions in England, it would be of great
benefit to the trade.
Harper's Wine and Spirit Gazette, May
%, gives this interesting bit of ancient
history:
THE demolition and rebuilding of the
old Horse Shoe Tavern in Tottenham
Court road, London, recalls the sensational
happenings over century ago, when eight
people were drowned in a flood of beer
from the adjacent brewery. The original
Horse Shoe Tavern and brewery were built
in the reign of George III on the site on
which the present structure is to be re-
built A feature of the brewery was a huge
vat, twenty-five feet deep, and with a ca
pacity of 3,555 barrels One night in 1874
the vat burst, discharging flood of beer
down oxford street and Tottenham Court
road. Many people in the hotel were
washed from their beds and eight were
drowned. Meanwhile the denizens of the
district drank heartily from the rivers Of
beer flowing through the area"
INDIA-Harper's Wine and Spirit Ga
sette for May %, a London, England, trade
journal, refers to the report of the Bonn
bay excise department in which reference
is made to Gandhis campaign against liq
uor in India. The Wine and Spirit Gazette
evidently takes comfort in the comment of
the excise department report that COM
pulsory abstinence is only temporary that
it inevitably leads to increased drinking.
The report is quoted as saying that it
drives people to drink fiery denatured
spirit available everywhere at annaS
(ninepence) per quart bottle of 65 degrees
over proof" The report also mentions that
the larger number of marriages celebrated
before the child marriage act was enforced
on April l, 1880, greatly increased the de-
nland for festive beverages; that there is
a growing taste in India for cheap foreign
spirits and beer where available; that
Bombay mill-handS are deserving their
toddy and other nativet spirits in favor of
beer.
SWEDEN-It Is announced that the re-
port drawn up by a committee of the tenn
perance societies on the revision of the
Swedish liquor legislation will be issued
shortly.
The Swedish government published re-
Gently pamphlet Of thirty-tW pages on
alcohol and traffic safety" which is dis
tributed (amongst others) to all motor
drivers. The authors of the pamphlet, two
medical professors, Drs. LiljeStrand and
Steenhoff, points out the increasing num-
Der of traffic accidents, explain how even
very moderate doses of alcohol may exert
an unfavorable action on the motorists
capacity of control and the rapidity OF his
reactions, and urge all drivers to abstain
from alcohol before driving and while they
are at the wheel
EGYPT-The Egyptian temperance as
ISOLATION presided over by DR.. Ahmed Gal
wash and placed under the patronage OF
II. H. Prince Omar Trousson, held recent
ly at Alexandria an important meeting.
The president, in his report, referred to
the question of the capitulations, stating
how greatly they hindered the develop
nlent of the temperance movement in
Egypt, and he informed his auditors that,
in 1928, the Permanent Committee Of the
International Congresses Against Alco-
holism had expressed the opinion that the
regime of the capitulations should in no
case prevent government from taking
measures in the interest of public health
and morality, against alcoholism
The present Egyptian government has
drawn up bill which is far from fulfill
ing the desires of the Moslem population
but which, at least, would check the alarm
ing progress of alcoholism, a scourge that
Egypt owes to the influence of the west.
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