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Show MS' HOPE TO 111 SCOTLAND EDIN'Bl'RG, Nov. 12. (Correspondence (Corres-pondence of the Associated Press.) Scotland has at least fifty dry spots: Kilsyth, Sanquhar. Kirkintilloch. Auehterarder and Kutherglen. as the result of the "local veto" liquor poll taken this month under the temperance temper-ance act. TWO '.owns. Newport and Langholm, voted for a limitation In the saloon traffic and the 37 other Scottish localities lo-calities voted for "no change." Everywhere the polling caused great excitement, and there was a lively pos- ter campaign. Robert Burns' dictum: dic-tum: "Freedom and Whisky gang the gether," was the slogan of the anti-prohibltlonlst anti-prohibltlonlst forces. In Abi rdeen "dry"" plaen rds appeared appear-ed hearing the words: "Hell Is the well of whisky." To (his "wet" supporters retorted with a placard Inscribed " death, where Is thy sting?" In Glasgow. 24 wnrds voted "no change"; nine for limitation and four for abolition, of saloon licenses. As n result. Glasgow's 1604 saloons will be reduced by 99 and there was much drinking of health to William E. ( Pussyfoot) Pus-syfoot) Johnson, the American cam-palgher, cam-palgher, with empty glasses turned down. "We are not disheartened," said Colonel Kyle, who led the prohibition- ist attack. li Is good work to have j abolished 99 saloon licenses in Glasgow, Glas-gow, and when we attack again. It will be different.'-' The people most perturbed are the church leaders. In the light of the results they are asking If the churches have the Influence In national life I which they usually claim ' It will be three years before another an-other poll can he taken. Although . Glasgow, where the battle raced most fiercely, remains wet. prohibitionists, derive encouragement from the large number of individual votes In that ' city on their side. 142.343 as against 1X2. 5C0 for "no change." and the London Evening News Judges that next time these figures may change places. "Pussyfoot" Johnson Is quoted by the London Daily Graphic as saying thit the no-license people of Scotland, particularly of Glasgow, did far better in this first prohibition noil than wa.s ever accomplished in any American no-llcense election. "The returns from Glasgow show." t said, "that nearly as many voted for no-license or reduction of licenses as for 'no change ' This Is better than any American city similar to Glasgow did after 20 years' balloting ballot-ing " |