20 JUNE 1931, Page 12

GETTING DOWN TO IT. .

Mr. Woodcock, the Director of Prohibition in the U.S.A.; has organised an Advisory Research Council with a view to solving the " vexed question of what is really happening in the United States to-day as the result of Prohibition." We have no wish to undermine anybody's faith in the efficacy of the Eighteenth Amendment, but we cannot resist the tempta- tion to quote from Twelfth Night : " Now is the woodcock near the gin."