Show IS SCOTLAND GOING DRY CASE LIKE KENTUCKY I Home n of f f Smoke Whisky I May Soon oon Go Way of Local Option 1 By Milton Bronner European Manager N. N E. E A A- A AJ GLASGOW April Apr l 8 Hoot mon Scotland's SCOtland's Scot Scot- I lands land's going dry Or BO so the drs dr's say And their confidence does not riol ap apcar I groundless I To the average Briton Briton this this s seems ems as asi i Improbable as several years ago seemed the pred prediction lIon that l Kentucky Ce tucky r fo o I practically dry under a a. local option law lawI be before the i did aid I o I I But l the conditions llo ln In S Scotland closely those In Kentucky my native state i I Kentucky made the whisky for the nation nation nation na na- na- na tion Just as Scotland makes the whisky for Great Britain WE SHALL SHAU SEE I ITh The Tho Scotch like ans ar are are- supposed supposed sup sup- posed to be so wedded to their wee vee weeo that a they e will no o gla gie It P for os it onny mon o Ah wed weel ei we s shall shah see Under local option out of ot counties In Kentucky had gone dry before national prohibition Under local option I the Scotch drys expect to do something I of the same sortI sort sortS Seven years Vears go go after battie battle battle bat bat- I tle tie the British parliament passed a bill known as the the Scotch temperance act I to come into o effect June 1920 i LOCAL OPTION Scotland Is made up of some some 1300 voting voting vot vot- voting vot- vot ing areas country areas country parishes towns of le less legs 3 i than and wards In n larger cities j After August 15 tenth one-tenth of the voters voters vot vot- vot- vot ers in any such area can demand an I election u upon on three Uee points no no change chang a 80 law limiting the number of ot saloon licenses to be Issued or no license at all aU all I If 55 IS per cent of the votes votes' recorded In Inan inan inan an area are In favor of no no license aM j these number not less than 35 per per cent cert centI i of the voters it Hi the area then no license I becomes the law and no more sa saloons saloons sa- sa loons can operate In that area i If a majority of the votes votes' are in favor of a limiting resolution and these votes otes number not less than 35 33 per cent of the voters in the area then the measure is law and after that the saloons in that district must bi bo reduced by 25 per c cent nt WORK BIT BY BIT If a majority vote In favor of no change or if the other resolutions are defeated then there Is no change in the area It will be noted that the law Is a copy of the ones so successful In Kentucky and elsewhere It enables the drys to pinch off bits of territory When I visited the dry headquarters here I T found everyone confident They have divided Scotland Into three sections and have no license committees committe s backed d by the Scottish Temperance e league the Permissive Bill association association asso asso- the the- British Women's Temperance and similar organizations AMERICANS IN DRIVE They are sending out speakers and organizers all an over Scotland and many of them are Americans Also they are flooding Hooding the malls mails with literature and cartoons and many of these are copies from American propaganda The liquor men have taken alarm They have ha formed a a Scottish licensed trade veto defense fund have opened big headquarters headquarters head head- quarters here and are also preparing to I send out literature and speakers Harry Earnshaw in general charge OJ of I I the wet campaign told me frankly that 1920 would be a fateful year for the liquor trade In Scotland There Ther Is one thin thing thin In which the Scot Scotch h local option law differs from ours If It Itan all an Scotland were to vote Itself dry this would merely close the saloons It would not riot close the whisky distilleries These could still sUi operate and ship their product product product prod prod- to other countries |