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Carlisle Experiment How England was Trying to Solve the Drink Problem and wasApparently Greatly Pleased. OS SIS O us of America, where prohibition is| ee now a law, if not an absolute fact,tJ Great Britain’s method of controlling‘4 the drinking of alcoholic beverages inRe) war times as shown by experiment atiS: Carlisle remains an interesting study.OTP- Wa wi It impressed me as a very wise method;certainly ihe results proved it so. From the feudal times of wassail to the present, GreatBritain has been a drinking nation. It drank as a matterof course, just as it ate roast beef. English literature ispermeated with drinking. The old English tales tell ofthe brews, the drinking parties, the merry times.Dickens’ stories, you will remember, were enlivened withthe atmosphere of strong drink or of light drink likebeer, and when Micawber made punch one could smellit and see the steam rising from the bowl. Dickens wroteof the times that he knew and he knew them well. Otherwriters have shown us how much a part of life thewhiskey and soda was to the higher class Englishman,while the workingman regaled himself with ale and beer.@I1 have cited all this merely to show the contrastbetween Merrie England and England at war.
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