Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-04-13 | Page 14 | 'Dry' Drive is on in Dundee

ir DRIVE IS BI INJUNDEE Plan Children's Parade in Scottish Town to Stop Sale I3y a Stuff Correspondent of the In-tcnintlonal In-tcnintlonal News Service and I London Dnlly Kxpress j DUNDEE, Scotland, April 13. Three thousand children, each one with a flag, led by bands and bannorsj are to march through Dundee streets chanting in unison a ballad which ha the erf resiling refrain: "Vote for 'no license,'- swell out the -chorus: . Close all the drink shops in bonnie Dundo'; This is tho purpose that we've set before us, Sweep out tho drink and our city is free." Tho "cold comfort" party mean to do It, too, if Wi-rk can win them success. suc-cess. Thoro. is, indeed, a strong likelihood like-lihood that Dundee, with its population popula-tion of JSC, 000 will go absolutely dry north, south, cast and west. Dundco so far has not been niggardly nig-gardly in the number of public houses j It has 3S9 licenses and a reputation ' for heavy lio.uor taking that any Inquirer In-quirer can confirm by observation. I There has lately been an increase of : drunkenness among women an ad-I ad-I vanco of 5 Opcr cent over the figures of a year ago. The general class of bar is lower than in any other part of ihe country. It passes understanding how some of the.m can find customers, so completely unattractive are they and the drinks they sell. Yet these places are crowded through the licensed li-censed hours of opening. These fact about Dundee's habits and conditions are being hammered home on the electorate by the Dundee Dun-dee citizens. Committees have been formed In each ward, and. 2000 canvassers can-vassers arc going around from house 'to house taking child welfare, national health, and the civle conscience, and I leaving a snowfall of appropriate lit-! erature behind them. .The electors in' Dundee number CP, 000, of whom' 3S.000 arc women, and the citizens' council claim that they will secure i practically a solid women's vote. I Large employers of labor arc not j bearing any conspicuous part in tho temperance propaganda, but a number num-ber of them are giving financial support. sup-port. They argue that no public houses will mean more marmalade andi more jute tho two proved Dundee money makers. The "no license" crusade Is only one stride, however, for when It has, captured Scotland total prohibition :a I to follow, while England is to be attacked at-tacked in the interval. It is curious how one Is constantly crossing the trail of America while investigating the chances of Scottish dryness. Overseas forces arc not yet In the big push, but thoy are operating operat-ing behind the lines; they will come In eventually. Various persons from the United States, with strong accents and divinity degrees, aro moving around addressing small meetings at Glasgow. oo