14 OCTOBER 1922, Page 3

We fancy that the gaiety of nations would be rather

increased than otherwise if our liners were to adopt the old smuggling practice of sinking their surplus stock of drinks attached to buoys outside Sandy Hook and fishing them up again—if they were still there—on the way home. The fact is that people will continue to travel by the cheapest and most convenient route, whether they have to become temporary teetotallers or not. An eminent lawyer has told the Daily Mail correspondent in New York that it will probably take two years to dispose of the threatened appeals to the Supreme Court as to the legality of Mr. Daugherty's ruling. It is no very cynical asperity to suppose that a great deal of water—and other fluids —may have run under the Volstead bridge by that time.