Evening star., 1923-10-15
WOULD MAKE LAND
DRY BY EDUCATION
Committee Suggests Meth
DDS of "seIIing" Prohibi-
ton to People.

A program for a nationwide educa-
tional program to aid in bringing
about temperance and law enforce
ment was submitted to the citizenship
conference at the Raleigh Hotel today
by the committee on educational
policy.
The committee submitted the fol-
lowing suggestions for an educational
campaign:
In every state and in every COM
munity citizens should know how far
scientific temperance instruction is
being given in the public schools.
Churches and Sunday schools
should increase and renew effort in
pledge signing and especially in care
fui instruction in the evils Of alcoholic
drink.
THE international Sunday school
lesson committee, church temperance
agencies and publication boards
should be urged to make adequate
provision for a ten-year program of
training in habits of sobriety and
clean living.
Need of Research.
Increased provision should be made
through research agencies for: /.
Gathering accurate and authentic
data on the personal. financial, econ
omic and civic results of prohibition.
=. For cooperation among education
al agencies in preparing this material
Tor most effective popular presenta-
lion: 3. For systematic distribution.
.. For general information and for
leaders of public thought in our own
and in all other lands.
IL Is vitality important that there
be comprehensive and persistent
campaign TO change the ideas snd
customs
the use of alcoholic liquors.
Churches must lift and maintain
the standard in this respect and
should counsel their members TO pre-
serve a consistent attitude and dis
courage the use of alcoholic lIuuors
All right-minded citizens who are
members of clubs and social groups
should steadily discourage such use
since visual education is especial
ly promoted through the eye, we sug-
gest an increased and widespread use
or charts. pictures, stereopticons and
moving pictures.
Since we learn by doing II Is essen
tlal that there be deyeloped further
methods and processes by which cit
lzens generally and young people es-
pecially shall be trained in the oblt-
cations and practice of citizenship, be
guided and enlisted in the work of
law enforcement and SO be prepared
for effective citizenship in the re-
pubilC. SlFIi statutes may provide
for this training in the public schools
and churches and Sunday schools, and
other educational agencies should
supplement this where necessary.
Must Learn Causes.
"The educational and civic agencies
OF our land must be enlisted in the
work of creating or rebuilding a re-
spect for law. This requires work
along many lines and by all recog-
nized methods. We can only suggest
several of the things that may be
done
I'VE must seek to know the causes
OF lawlesSneSS and then remove those
causes. We must teach all self-re-
specting people to set their faces like
flint against all forms of 1awlessness.
We must refuse to honor law break
ers whether in high life or in low.
There must be a fair and impartial
administration of all law. There must
be some radical changes in court pro-
cedure and method
Beyond this there must be some
thorough going changes in! family life
and discipline. Too often family dis
cipline has sadly relaxed. There is
universal duty to seek to create
respect for law in young and in old
by example and precept, by direct in
struction and by social atmosphere"
The members of the committee are
Samuel Zane Batten, chairman; Mrs
Ida 3. Wise e-Smith. Arthur E. Holt,
Milo l. Smith. Miss Cora Frances
Stoddard. Richard II. Edmonds. Homer
Folks, Mrs. Henry w. Peabody.
Charles Scanlon and Gilbert y. Brink.