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SALT WATER AND RUM We have been patiently waiting for the promul ¬ gation from certain quarters of a line of argument predicated upon the glorious achievements of our navy in convoying our troops to France Weve been looking for one of the big battleships of the Prohibition party to come out officially and declare that the American navy lias been so eJiicieut because it was dry None has done so and we are disap ¬ pointed pointedYet Yet every few days some proponent of prohibition writing to the newspapers takes a little side shot at this target To these the statement of yearly supplies issued at one of the great victualing yards of the British fleet would make shocking read hiK One item and its the only one reckoned in liquid measure is IJam l0ji000 gallons Con ¬ densed milk is ospreNsed in pounds 6500000 The ruai allowance in the navy British of course is oneeighth of a pint daily to each man over twenty years of age but if a man elects to take grog monty instead of his drink he has that privilege But the British navy consumes much more than a million gallons of mm annually for this is only i pirt of the booze bill We should conclude from this that King Georges sailormeu are less efficient than ours but we cant The facts wont justify it itThe The British navy thus fortified with rum man ¬ aged to keep sufficiently wideawake to act as the bulwark for the civilized world against the insursions of the Hun for years before we got into the fight It must be that they with the assistance of their officers were able to practice a little self restraint and cultivate temperate habits habitsWP WP read recently of an agreement mado by several lifelong total abstainers in Wilkcsbarre that they would each take one drink when the Yankee troops marched down the Under den Linden We move that the same privilege be granted our jackies Phila ¬ delphia Itccord
