Foreign News: Discouraging Cocktails

Interviewed by U. S. citizens last week Prime Minister Benito Mussolini said: ¶"To me birth control is a crime." (Il Duce has two daughters, three sons.) ¶"Prohibition itself can accomplish nothing. I myself closed 25,000 superfluous wine shops throughout Italy in one year. Moderation is the thing! More good can be done by providing people with good beer and wine and by discouraging cocktails and whiskey than by prohibition."

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