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Show I Concede Good Part Will Go "Dry" as Result of Costly, I Intensive Campaign M1m GLASGOW, May 10. Scotland's wnfil local option act, enacted in 1913 after u$ thirty ycara of agitation, becomes cf- rnX'tm 1 fectlvo Juno 1. Prohibitionists . are rtsjiJB fl planning to launch an electoral cam- ijifljr! palgn which In Intensity, cost and use fiJM J of all varieties of publicity, will bo wB 1 comparablo only to tho latter stages aEjjffl ' of the anti-alcoholic crusado In tho 1 United States. rMm: . Poll In Each Town. ' Thero will bo a poll on tho local xjfjH government franchiao In every town jjjgK and district of Scotland, and out of fww. that vote will come tho cholco of ono MhEjl of thrco alternatives total prohlbl- !!M$i tion, reduction of drinking facilities by frfjp) i ono-fourth or continuance of present ftSyfij - regulations. Even spokesmen for tho (SgStf! liquor intorests concedo that a gooa $8$$! part of Scotland will go "dry." l&tUM Local Option. Local option la to bo exercised In jStj J fairly small areas. In the burghs with jijjl 'j a population of less than 25,000, tho jjM j cloctlon will be for tho whole burgn, 'fit'l'i while in burghs with over 25,000 scp- W, mi ai-ate elections for municipal wards m If will bo held. Glasgow has thirty-seven M rj wards. Public houses on ono sldo of 3 ijl tho streot may be closed, those on the JjlfjJ otlier sldo, being m a different ward, fjwl may remain open. j j9E Tho poll la to bo taken in November HI or December. i |