Life — November 11, 1926 — page 20: what you’re looking at

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NOVEMBER 11, 1926 VOL. 88. 2297 “While there is Life there’s Hope” Published by LIFE PUBLISHI G COMPANY 698 Madison Avenue, New York Curantes Dana Ginson, President R, E. Suerwoop, Editor F. D. Casey, Art Editor Cram RIN- CIPAL Stearns of Andover, writing in the No- vember Har- per’s about Liquor in the Schools, says that his young friends and charges at Phillips Academy seem not more bibulous since the Kighteenth Amendment than for- merls, but rather less so. He has inquired at other schools and col- “ges and reports from most of them that the consumption of alcohol by pupils has appreciably declined since 1918, which certainly is good news if true. All the same, Phillips-An- dover was a fairly dry school fifty years ago, and the most that Dr. Stearns seems to make out is that schoolboys are not much wetter now than they were before Volstead was born. Let us allow him that thankful if we can. He g declare in a burst of dry de that youth (which he’ k close observation) is of opinion that money paid to bootleggers “is a direct contribution to the efforts of those who are deliberately undermining the foundations of our government and sapping its heart’s blood.” But is youth really of that opinion, or is it Dr. Stearns’s own personal view which he has imputed to youth be- cause youth cannot make effective objection? In evidence that youth thinks as he says, Dr. Stearns cites y that got the prize in a and be rs on to a boy’s ess competition. Who is it that is “deliberately un- dermining the foundations of our government”? Is it the bootleggers and their patrons, or the embattled Maxweis, Vice-President Lancuonse Ginsox, Secretary and Treasurer Drys and the Methodist Board of Morals? Who did more damage to the foundations of our government, the people who got the Eighteenth Amendment into the Constitution and gave us Volstead, or the boot- leggers and their customers? Please encourage your young men to exer- cise their faculties in debate on that subject, Dr. Stearns. The disens- sion will involve much more than the expediency or otherwise of alcoholic drinks. It will include the philoso- phy of government, the principles of the Christian Feligion, the duty of obedience to law and also the duty of resistance to law. [t is not an casy subject; not at all. There is a lot to it and it all got to be thrashed out before it is settled. The Eighteenth Amendment and Volstead have settled nothing. They are the greatest unsettlers of the time, for they have left millions of people uncertain as to whattis right and what is wrong, and groping towards some solution. — Exercise your on this subject, Dr. Stearns. It is worth their while. Merely to pin your opinions on them will do no good. Encourage them discover what the Constituti really meant to do, and wha really the effect of putting the ighteenth Amendment into it. has boys THE suggestion of many eminent bankers and industrial magnates from ny countries that Europe needs free trade was received with instant tremors of apprehension by Mr. Coolidge and the watchful guardians of our still infant indus- tries. They were afraid it would be recommended to the United St ates also. So it may, some day. when the farmers see the light, but not vet Prosperity here must run its cours, first. But as for Europe, what the fiscal sages recommend is just common sense. Any one can see with half an eye that Europe needs what we have got, an unrestricted continental market. For economic there must be something like United States of Europe. Frontiers and custom-houses must fade out of that continent before it can prosper as it should. way PUFposes That seems in a large self-evident, but how long it will take Europe to accept the sug gestion, Heaven knows however, who can arrange tinue in this life for ten come should see the beginuings, at least, of fundamental improvements in this world. People, to con- cars to SPORT \ Football is pre and lively The swimming se is over (unless it breaks out at Palm Beach), and the Queen of Rumania has been able up to this time of writ- ye to survive the fatigues of in- specting the United States and re ceiving its inhabitants. Queen Ma saints protect he is a hardy woman, but she is not trained for football and should not visit to be made too much of « serim- is now happils allow her mage. HEY put the flag at Sing Sing at half-mast the other day for Thomas Mott Osborne, the Prison- er’s Friend, After his young wife died, thirty years ago, Mr. Osborne secmed to consider what to do with the rest of his life and eventually devoted it to prisons and convicts. Hardly any department of our apparatus of civilization is subject to so much neglect and so great abuses as the care of convicts, or needs so constantly to enlist the humanity of disinterested helpers In the field that he chose Mr. Os borne, by his devotion and the pub- licity he could command, accom plished remarkable things and vill be long remembered and honored for what he did and what he was. E. S. Martin. comicbooks.com