The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-23

banking business, where I can ob- serve the financial effects of prohi- bition, but I am in the manufactur- ing business, where we employ large numbers of men. We used to be con- stantly annoyed and our business in- terfered with after payday by drunk enness and absenteeism. Under pro- hlbltlon We have none of either.
 The men are always on duty and ready for work. They hold their heads up, nearly all of them save money they take pride in their families, and they get larger enjoy ment out of life. The open saloon and the liquor traffic were the great est curse to American morals. Amer lean citizenship, thrift, comfort and happiness, that eXer existed in this land. They are now banished; let us never think of letting them re- turn"
 And so these letters ran. Empha- SIS very naturally, was laid on the benefits that can be observed in the Improved condition of the working class. But this is not the whole story. For myself,I find it difficult to discover where one class ends and another begins. I like to think that all Americans are In a great work ing class and that back of American achievement lies the fact that we are all engaged In useful service and none is ashamed of work.
 Help To The Upper Class.
 It Is my belief also that those who style themselves America's up per class" have been more helped by prohibition than they. and others, realize.
 When intoxicating liquor was driven from the club and outlawed from good society it removed tempta- ton from the way of many business and professional men and other good citizens who drank from considera- ttons of good-fellowship rather than from demands of appetite or fixed habit. Without question we have a greater number of sober, clear-mind- el and consequently more efficient men of big affairs today than we ever had in the old wet days.
 Today a sober citizenship stands out amid the great resources of America as an economic challenge to the world. And others besides ourselves know 1t and are uneasy.
 There can be no doubt about 1t now. The banker, the manufacturer, the merchant-the solid business ele- ment of the country-are to be count ed among the most powerful allies of prohibition. The business man has reached his stand in his own sane, practical way. and back of his loyalty to country is the knowledge that law observance means greater health and prosperity for the nation,
 But how about the workingman himself? It is against him, perhaps more than any other one group or our citizenship, that the personal liberty" and other passion -arouslng propaganda has been directed. How successful has 1t been?
 W. G. Lee, who Is the president Of the Brotherhood of Railroad Train men. has given the answer of one group of workers, simply and dl- rectly.
 T can very emphatically say" he declares. that so long as this act is on the statute books of the country the Brotherhood of Railroad Train men is in favor of Its enforcement, as of all the laws of the country, Labor Leaders, Opinions.
 Warren s. Stone. grand chief of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engl- neers, said:
 "The international convention or the Brotherhood of Locomotive En- gineers, assembled in Cleveland in 1918, declared by unanimous vote in favor of worldwide prohibition. The vote was cast by BPS delegates. rep resenting 90,000 locomotive engineers in the United States and Canada. Section 52 of the bylaws of the brotherhood declares that The use of intoxicating liquor as beV-