The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1922-07-21
PROHIBITION VIEWED As MENACE
TO YOUTH
OF "GLORIOI'S
BENEFITS" BLASTED. SAYS SEC
RETARY OF ANTI-ASSOCIATION
DRUNKENNESS on INCREASE.

Philadelphia, July i.-iredictlons
of the Anti-SalooR League that the
next generation will reap glorious
benefit" from prohibition are effectual-
" and finally blasted, according to
Charles S. Wood, executive secretary
of the Association Against the Prohi-
bition Amendment, by the fact that po-
lice records of many cities show the
majority of persons arrested f1r
drunkenness are between II and %
years Of age.
IF prohibition is aii0wed to con
tinue," he said, the next generation
will he a generation of high-v1ltaec
liquor drinkers. There is every indi-
cation that it will be the most inebri-
ate generation ever born on the face
of the earth. 1t will be generation
bred on moOnshinc and nurtUred on
the poisonous product of the bootleg
ger.
1T will be -pocket-flas gcner-
alton. totally unable to cope with any
OF the problems of government. 1t will
be Il generation Of oyerilOwmS insane
asylums, overloaded jails and longest
ed almshouses and liquor cures. The
percentage of idiocy will rise all over
the land, and we will have a reign of
crime which will make the crime wave
of TODAY look like Sunday-school
picnic in comparison.
THE next generation. if prohibition
is allowed to continue, will go down
in history as 'Amerca's horror gCner-
alton The prohibition fanatics of the
United States have sown a wide acer-
age in dragons teeth, and the horrI-
BILE crop will reach full growth in the
next generation.
Il have before me the report of
Probation officer David l.. Evans, OF
Pittsfield. Mass. He makes the signiti-
cant statement that the big problem
today is to curb drinking among young
men ranging in age from l. to 80. In
May. he says. there were - arrests
for drunkenness in Pittsfield.
Twelve of the 80 arrested were re-
leased. The average age of those II
was - wears. One was l. years old,
one 20 and one each %. 80. II. And
here is what the prohibition officer
has II say about the situation in his
town:
Prohibition has produced a new
crop of hieh-voltage liquor consumers
and most of them are Young men. The
prohibition hackers declared that pro-
hibiti0n would save our young men
from the blight VI the saloon. Perhaps
it has saved them from the saloon
blight hut it has given them NJ inn
munitv from the blight of the boot
Inupar Tho Droblpm today * h1w tn
save young drinkers
stroll into Central Police Station.
Philadelphia. any dav and YOU will
find annie notification of the words
~ Prohibition officer Evans An
alarming proportion of the men who
have landed in the tolls because of in
tovicatinn are Young men. many of
whom are of excellent families. You
will see many college students ana
hi~h school boys.
"Pr0hibition has given spice of
adventure and romance to drinking
from the viewpoint nf the vnnnc
American. In tho first place il is Tor
hidden fruit. and whom Won tell n nor
NAL vnrnC man that certain thing
is forbidden that is the thing he is go
inc after
"RcfOrC prohibition If was no par
ticu11r adventure for tho Young mar
10 stroll into y Sa1HCn. mt his wick u
IN :hc har and all fNr = GLASS Of horr
u was snch - COMMONPLACE thir'~ -
10 that no had M narticuIrr itch to
longer Of his rctfin% roieonod or