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Show I FEAR UNITED STATES HAS GONE TOO DRY BY A. F. THAYER. ("Written for the Universal News Service.) Ser-vice.) LONDON, March 22. The war, demobilization, de-mobilization, strikes and murder cases were almost forgotten recently in the discussion following the cable announcement announce-ment from New York that the state department de-partment at Washington had issued a formal proclamation that the national prohibition amendment had been ratified J by-three-quarters of the states and becomes be-comes valid and a part of the federal constitution. Which means that the nation na-tion will go dry in January, 1920. I The general opinion of Englishmen in j this country is that we have overdone I the matter in America, and will live to regret taking such drastic action. While j the average Britisher is not a heavy j drinker, but a very sober-minded and . conservative person, the majority believe j firmly in an occasional drink, from a social so-cial standpoint, and they cannot imagine carry mg on without the conventional whisky or brandy and soda before evening eve-ning dinner. Ale is one of the great intoxicants in-toxicants consumed in England, as well as stout, and to deprive an Englishman of these would bring" disaster upon the head of any legislative or political body which interfered with them. Prominent Americans living in England En-gland look upon the prohibition matter as an experiment, and hope it will be for the best. Christian workers and Y. M. C. A. officials over here are for the most part highly pleased at the success of prohibition, pro-hibition, but many doubt its being carried car-ried out as radically as the legislation warrants on the surface. Many of the American soldiers and sailors on leave or stationed in England are drawing long faces at the prospect of finding things i ' dry back home when they return. |