The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-02-10
DOMAIN OF TEMPERANCE
THE ABOLITION or TREATING.

Some significant facts have appear
ed in regard to the effect of the anti.
treating policy established in London.
Mr.. George Warrington, an editor of
The Daily News, has written OF these
in that paper as follows:
In no way has the business man
changed more than in his attitude
toward licensed premises. There are
two reasons for this-(D an absO-
lutte change in habit, and (2) the con-
slant growth of more suitable bust
ness meeting places. The no-treating
regulations will scarcely affect the
routine of business relationships, be-
cause alcohol is very small element
in business transactions today.
THE change began when the intelli-
gent public was taught that alcohol
impairs both mental and physical eff
ciency-that the customary two
glasses of wine at II o'clock ca ia
miliar feature of business life a few
years ago. did not raise but depressed,
vitality. Increasing competition i'm
pressed on most men the need for the
highest degree of efficiency, and that
established, alcohol in business hours
became bad form. The tainted breath
has become sufficiently uncommon
during business hours to be a sign of
weakness.
Change of outlook has had much to
do with the change Of habit. But an
other great factor in the matter is the
alteration for the better in facilities
for meeting in the business round.
The club habit is a growing one. In
stead of paying rent iii the form of
payment for alcohol consumed, most
business men now prefer to pay it i'll
the form of a direct subscription to
club. The club of today has obvious
advantages over the tavern, the main
one being that one has not to consume
something to justify his continued
presence there.
Again, twenty years ago the cafe
| business was in it's infancy. II one
wanted to sit down and chat with a
business friend outside of the office,
there was no other place but the near
est licensed house. Today the cafe is
convenient in every business thor
oughfare, and few coppers spent on
tea or cocoa pay the rent for the
necessary sitting room. Outside the
club, the business meeting grounds
are the cafes and restaurants, and
there are now cafes and restaurants
near the big business thOroughfaresl
and markets, which each live on the
patronage of Il particular business i'll
tereSt. And, Curiously enough, with
the growth of the cafe and restaurant
system, the business meeting hour is
changing. 1t is not now Il general
, rule to ease up at II o'clock for Cos
sip with ones business associates.
To-day the notreating regulations,
which would once have revclutionized
business habits,-will hardly be noticed.
On the road, the effective business
representative does not drink with
his customers. 1t is not good form to
suggest that a buyer will be fayOrably
disposed to purchase if he is partially
alcoholized, and most men today
: would resent such a suggestion. That
one shall not treat save by making a
, AIdi LID Su00I III 4" hiCdl oHudIC9
easily with the business habit Of the
present. Few business men nova
days lunch alone. Indeed, many big
deals are carried through at the lunch
con tables; men are interviewed and
engaged there; new plans are discuss
ed by men in the same businesses.
The tendency Of our day is to make
the luncheon hour the most important
in the round Of business and to regard
it as time to be guarded jealously-an
extra hour during which busy men
can maintain intimate relationship
with other men who are indispen-
sable to them