The managers of the more reputable and law-abiding night-clubs of London are delighted at the results of the Goddard case and the prospect of still stricter measures introduced to crush out of existence the bogus clubs. The inefficient methods of the police to-date have "resulted ina. large mumber of such haunts carrying on A precarious but very profitable existence and providing severe competition for the clubs and hotels that keep the law and stop any drinking after hours. As things stand at present, anyone can buy a licence for is. and set up a dance club wherein drinks can be served, bat the hotel manager or restaurant. the utmost difficulty vubtaining a licence 10 serve dri He has to prove that he is a po son of irreproachable character and Jarge number ally seems to lie ju the absurd regulations that now:
England to I sumption of alcoholic certain presen gelations never can be properly enforced and only serve, as" does Prohibition in America, to bring the authorities into disrespect. By the numerous comments in the Press there days, the public seem to be waking up to this fact, but it is always much more difficult to unmake laws than to make them.
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