Foreign News: Siphon

At a London luncheon of the Anglo-American Correspondents Association of Paris last week Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald rose to make a speech.

“Let this represent the British fleet,” said he, pushing forward a whiskey bottle that was in front of him, “and this,” placing beside it a soda siphon, “the American fleet. I really beg your pardon, gentlemen, I had no intention of referring to Prohibition. I had no thought of the contents of the bottles when I began the demonstration.”