The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-13

be in defiance of the law and the Constitution, there is reason, lhueeG' for grave concern.
 Bringing Law Into Disrepute'
 By their example to their .em- ployes, to their fellows, to their own children, they are bringing alt law into disrepute. Consider, for m stance, the example set their sons and daughters and the natural result; As one brilliant writer has phrased it, we hear on every hand that WhlIe this generation will miss it's WHISKY the next generation won't kho" what whisky it; but:
 "One wonders about that The col lege authorities are wondering, too.
 The writer then relates the eNperl- ences of a distinguished man, Spedh- ing at many commencements, who had found d widespread state or alarm over the prevalence of boot logging in colleges. This man had been informed that 'scores upon scores' of young men were WorkindS ,,ad their way through college by pea ding illicit whisky to their fellows: He had been told also that the evil was not confined to the boys ana young men alone; that in a ceIe- brated womens college eleven slIis had been dropped from the rolls either for drinking or bootlegglnS.
  this presentations; indeed, think IL is overstated. However can there be any doubt as to where those young men and women who are drinking today find their insplra- tion? To my mind, there IS hone' They find it in the homes Of the bootleggers customers, the Well-to- do men of high position who talk or my bootlegger" and boast of lhelr cleverness in evading the law
 FIasI<S At Dances.
 Flasks at certain dances are re ported to be common in some or oul eastern cities. High school boys ana girls, almost all in their teens are reported to be the chief offenders or this class. l also think these reports are greatly overdrawn.
 Fortunately, whatever of this situation does exist is localized In a few of our great cities. The youth | of the nation overwhelmingly IS | clean and law observing. But those | comparatively few boys and girls or | 20 or under, where did they get thelr | ideas of law defiance
 Where else could they have ob- tained them but from the example set by their parents or the parents or | their associates?
 There can be no doubt as to the otherwise high standing of some or
 these Violators. Says one publication:
 At a leading summer resort the | President of one of our great and | most conservative insurance compa-
 nies became so dead drunk that he
 had to be carried bodily out of the
 room, so we have been informed by
 Baltimore business man of the
 highest standing.
 At a quiet and somewhat semi l religious resort in the mountains Of l Pennsylvania, where the hotel has a | number of cottages, three supposedly prominent business men of neigh | boring city with their wives and young boy about 12 or 13, rented | cottage for three days. Their auto mobiles were loaded with liquors, and 1 for three nights until l or o'clock | in the morning they carried on wild carousal of loud talking, yelling, | shrieking and drinking Tenants of a nearby cottage found it difficult and | in some cases impossible to sleep l until after this drunken orgy ended
 at ? o'clock, even on Sunday morn-
 ing"
 One reads, also. of the Judge of | a high court in an eastern state re- l lieved of his office because fhis leanings toward defiance of the pro- l hibition laws.
 Gro Be Continued Tomorrow)