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the strictures passed on moderate drinkers at this week's United Kingdom Alliance meetings, but I find myself in full agreement with the woman delegate who referred to girl drivers who develop the cocktail habit because they think it sociable, adding quite justly that their sociability may well mean someone's death on the road. That, it may be observed, is not true of girl drivers only. 'My own view is that whether it is better to be temperate or teetotal (I fall in the former category myself), to make a cult of liquor, in the form of cocktails or whisky or anything else, is thoroughly bad. There is no danger of too few cocktails being drunk in the world, and to treat the consumption of that particular blend of liquors as a test of good fellowship is quite pernicious. Half the people who drink too much began it because they were made to feel it was the right thing to do. Why in the wide world should it be ?
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