Show AMERICAN BOm RAPS RUM Lady Astor Praises Dry pry Education in U. U S. S By Floyd MacGriff ru I International News Service Staff Correspondent LONDON March 16 American merican American ed educational educational ed- ed d.- d. methods methods that helped to tomake tomake tomake make the United Stat States s dry w were re praised today by Nancy Astor M. M P. P is waging a sturdy temperance fight in Great Great Britain In America the work for Or temperance temper tempe anco ance was was started fifty years ago Inthe in inthe inthe the schools said she Children were wee taught the evil effects of ot alcohol British children have not had that advantage advantage ad ad- vantage but they must be bc warned It Is is isa a fight tight for the future ge genera genera- era era- I What is It to be I ask the babies or the brewers The drink control bill of ot the government government gov gov- must go further than th the mere mexe regulation of 01 hours of sale It should form torm the foundation of ot future prohibition SCORNED BREWERS ENMITY When I was as campaigning for election election election elec elec- tion to tho the house of commons at Plymouth Plymouth Plymouth Ply Ply- mouth all my advisers advisers said sald Do o not mention the liquor question The brewers will knife you rou I told them themI I certainly would discuss the the liquor question and nd I did so in my speeches In fact at a Unionist dinner when the men held glasses of ot liquor aloft I told them that if It I 1 had my way all the booze in the United Kingdom would be beat be at the bott bottom m of 01 the sea The breweries and distilleries will have just as much power as we let them have ASSAILS RUM BARONS That the American boo n born II has the courage of ot her convictions has been shown by her attacks upon pon p n I the tho liquor Interests since she took her seat in commons Although a militant in politics Astor is thelast thelast the the- thelast last person one one would pick out of ot a group of ot women for tor the bold pr gres- gres sive she Is She has the figure of a girl although she is the mother of six children NOT A REFORMERS FORMER The likes best to be regarded as the old fashioned mother who is doing what she can for other people as well wen as for her own family Her e eyes es flash denial when It is suggested she adopted the car career er of a reformer She declared to her friends that she only d desires to do what others would do If they had her opportunity She is blythe and gay and cheerfully Indulges in slang to drive home her arguments but under this- this camouflage is an au earnest spirit She was wits asked how she managed to stand tand the strain of ot a hour 14 day imposed by a parliamentary career OFFICIAL JOB OB PLEASANT Well she replied if It a thing must be done G God d will give one strength to do it It has been even har harder r since th the the- temperance e campaign has gotten under way but It is a pleasant task It is a fight to 10 make England a better bette brighter sweeter place to live in some persons seem more Interested In pro profits tits than reform I 1 feel sorry for them but I would like to get hold of ot them and shake And I maybe I would not shake them hard |