The San Francisco call., 1910-02-27
TEMPERANCE WORK
IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS
Reply to Criticism Made by
Colonel Charles E. Woodruff
Regarding the W. c. t. U.
Twelve COunseIOrs Are Men,
Not Women, as Army Of
ficer Seemed to Think

Editor CALI have just read an
article in today's Call concerning a
book written by Colonel Charles f..
Woodruff, entitled Expansion of
Race If Colonel Woodruff is correct
~ quoted. he has made two statements,
neither of which is true. He states
first that the "Woman's Christian tenn
perance union has succeeded in intro
ducing into the schools those wonder
ful text books. which, under the name
of science, teach ridiculous falsehoods
as to alcohol" Second, that lit tre-
i'ferring to the ". c. T. ID is a female
or emotional trust. II should have
male brains to assist and complete the
idea emana ting from female minds.
In reply to the first statement, let
me say that the physiologies most
highly recommended by the Woman's
Christian temperance union are the
Gulick series, written by DR.. Luther
II. Gulick, director of physical training
in the public schools of New York, a
lecturer of such high standing in his
chosen line of work that the Califor-
MIA teachers association, which was
convened lately in this city, thought it
worth while to bring the doctor from
the east and make him one of the star
speakers of it's meetings.
The W. C. r. L. bureau of scientific
temperance. instruction investigation
and department of scientific temper
ance instruction in public schools and
colleges has board of II counselors;
these are men, not women, thus dis
proving the truth OF the second state
ment More tlian that and of Infinitely
greater Importance, they are men of
eminent standing in the scientific and
| educational world. Dr. David Starr
Jordan, president of Leland Stanford
Z 11niVprSifV- iS Of
G. Sims Woodhead, professor of path
ology, Cambridge university; DR.. J. E.
Raycroft, PHI. D., University of Chica go,
I and J. E McGarvey, d. D., Kentucky
university, are others of this board.
The teaching of this subject is now
ma ndatory in every grade of every
public primary and grammar school in
this country. In 1903 a committee of
% men, representing 23 different trade
! organizations, was sent to this country
from England to investigate and report
on the causes of the threatened SUI
premacy of the American workman
over the English. The reports stated
almost unanimously that one of the
main causes of this threatened su-
premacy was the greater sobriety of
the American workman.
In the discussion which followed in
the English papers this greater So
| briefly was attributed to the teaching
of scientific temperance in our schools
So greatly was this taken to heart by
the British medical profession that a
petition asking for this teaching in
the schools was signed by $4,000
physicians, practically the entire med
4 ical profession of England, ireland,
Scotland and Wales. As a result of
this and other investi cations this in
struction has been inaugurated in the
schools of the British Isles; and there
is hardly a country in Europe where
/ this teaching has not been introduced
into the public school system.
Thanking you for the opportunity of
making this brief reply, l am, very
sincerely yours,
ANNA Z. CHASE
Corresponding Secretary California w.
G. T. L.
San Francisco, Feb. IS. 1910.