The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-02-18
open THE SCHOOLS;
CLOSE THE SALOONS
The Above Slogan Has Been Adopted
BY Chica@o's Dry
Forces.
HIGH SCHOOLS ENLISTED
Mrs. oJscph T. Bowen OF Juvenile
Protective League, and Professor
Graham Taylor Protest.

A mighty protest 10 going UP in
Chicago against the policy trat per-
mits SALOONS and breweries to remain
open while schools must close be-
cause Of lack of fuel. The dry forces
adopted n slogan the other day at n
luncheon given at the Marshall Field
restaurant after hearing Rev. DR.. w
]. johnson, representing the food ad-
ministration and the board of tenn
perance OF the Presbyterian church
declare that the coal shortage in Chi
cago amounted to Just the quantity
used by the brewaries and saloons
The slogan Is this open the schools;
close the saloons" DIR. Johnson said:
81 am willing to give the last crumb
In my harder to help tho government
win the war, but resent being M
PEELED to sacrifice the mental WE'LL
being of my children merely that the
saloons may continue to do business"
The following resolution was in
troduced and adopted at this meeting:
Resolved, That the mayor, the food
administrator and the fuel admins
traitor be requested to Immediately
close the saloons or. II not vested
with the power 10 take this action. to
resuest the president to close the
liquor houses and breweries as a war
measure.
Six hundred representatives of the
Y. NJ. c. A. r. W. c. A. w. c. T. T..
Chicago woman's club, Women's
Church federation, Catholic Temper
ance union. Young Peoples Civic
league. women's Democratic league
or Illinois. Cook County Sunday
School union. Anti-saloon league and
the Dry Chicago federation were
present and adopted the resolution by
unanimous acclaim as a part OF the
program to open the schools and close
| the saloons. High school boys and
girls sixteen years OF age or over
were invited TO enlist as workers.
The Chicago Tribune announces that
It received letter from Holland But
terrworth and his sister Blanche. both
| pupils OF the Park Side school
| plaiutivs request TO know why they
| should be prohibited from studying
while the saloons are unbridled.
Mrs Joseph r. Bowen. of the Juve-
| nile Protective league, said investiRa-
tions have indicated a positive wrong
| done to children by the continued coal
/ holiday In one instance the league
| found a group OF thirty-two boys mas
| queradinG as bandits and attacking
pedestrians. boys out of school because
| there was no coal to heat the school
| buildings. but at the same time plenty
| of coal for saloons and .breweries.
| Dr.. Graham Taylor. OF the Chicago
| Commons, protested that closing the
| schoois AS q fuel saving devise should
/ be the last resort Judge Victor r.
/ Arnold. of the juvenile court. says
| that delinquency among children has
! increased thirty-two per cent since
| the Neginning OF the war. He finds
| the closing of the schools encourages
truancy and makes 1t only a step 20
delinquency. He asks this reasonable
question: why divert the coal sup
ply from essentials to non essentials,
why offer a temptation for habitual
/ truancy and delinquency
1t looks as though the time had
come when the citizens of America
would have to choose between the ga
| looms and the schools: and, tudgins
| from the protests that are going ur
4 from every city where the coal pinch
10 felt, tho people have already made
Etheir dscfeion.
It is up to those VINO have the au.
1 thority to act and act quickly.