No Joking Matter

" There is a Tammany Hall in this country in the drink trade which is as highly organized as the Tammany Hall in America. We are back in the condition that prevailed in 1916, when the national energy was seriously impaired by drink ! '

Lord Astor (who is the son of the first Viscount Astor and who succeeded to his father's title in 1919) said all this before the Durham clergy.

" I do not advocate prohibition," he continued, " but if we wish to remain good and intimate friends with America, it is not quite the right thing to make fun of America]', attempts to deal with the drink problem.''