National Affairs: Abstainers

In London, Sir John Lavery, famed portraitist, reported a successful visit to the U.S. where with businesslike speed and punctuality he had done 15 millionaires. He also reported that prohibition was practically unknown among the rich. Only four abstainers had he met. One was Vance C. Mc-Cormick, onetime (1916) Chairman of the Democratic National Committee.

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