The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1924-05-02
STAND BEHIND DRY LAWS
AND THEIR enforcement
Presidents Report Their Students
Almost Wholly in Favor
of Prohibition
COLLEGE PRESS DRY IN ATTITUDE
Governing Groups Have Adopted
Rules Which Look to the
Maintenance of Sobriety
By ]. H. Larimore

There is lot Of stuff going the
rounds, both in the United States and
abroad, to the effect that conditions in
colleges and high schools are worse
since prohibition than they were be-
fore and that the young people OF
America are drinking bootleg liquor
and going to the dogs and the devil.
What is the exact truth in the situa-
ton?
A recent survey OF conditions nails
this statement as liquor lie. Testi-
mony given by college presidents, col
1ege students and the college publica-
tons is to the effect that this is all wet
propaganda.
The Anti-Sa1oon League Of Iowa
made canvass of the colleges in that
state, They found the colleges 100
per cent back of law enforcement and
prohibition and practically in every in
stance college presidents reported their
schools to be free from drinking and
wholly in favor of prohibition. The
following college presidents made such
statements:
Rev. ]. L. Brasher, DID,, John
Fletcher College, University Park.
H. M. Gage, Coo College, Cedar
Rapids.
John w. Millions, Des Moines Uni
versity. Des Moines
F. Meyer, Ellsworth College, Iowa
Falls.
G. N. Briggs, Graceland College,
Lamont
U. S. Smith, Iowa Wesleyan College,
Mt. Pleasant. s
Frank E. Mossman, Morningside
College, Sioux City.
H. E. McGrew, Penn College, Oska-
loosa.
Charles A. Mock, Western Union
College, Lcmars. -..4..., ,.=5
]. P. Van Horn, Upper Iowa Uni
versity, Fayette.
Karl Frederick Wettstonc, Univer-
sity of Dubuque, Dubuque.
John L. Hillman, Simpson College,
Indianola.
Arthur M. Boyd, Buena Vista Col
Iege, Storm Lake.
Some Find No Drinking
a few of these declare that there is
no drinking at all by their students;
others say that there is very little
drinking: and all of them declare that
the conditions are much better than in
the old saloon days.
The recent students enforcement
conference at Washington reveals the
action taken by many universities and
colleges in regard to the Eighteenth
Amendment. Actions sustaining pro-
hibition and refraining from liquor
have been adopted by many student
government bodies, among them be-
ing the following:
University of Illinois, Penn State
College, Wesleyan, Dartmouth, Ober-
lin, University of Pennsylvania, Ohio
State University, Illinois College, Wis
consin University, Cornell, University
of Arizona, Syracuse, Princeton,
Brown, the Colorado state conference
representing students from colleges of
the state, Connecticut College for Wo-
men, Havcrford College, Houghton
College, Lafayette, Pacific College,
University of Tennessee, Otterben
College, and the State College of
Washington.
Many notable educators are on rec
ord as declaring that the universities
and colleges with which they are con-
neeted will not brook any law viola
ton. Strong statements have been
made by James Rowland Angel, of
Yale; David Starr Jordan, Chancellor
Emeritus of Stanford; Jesus Pales
Diaz, head of the field force of educa-
ton of Porto Rico; DIR. ]. A. Sharp,
President of Young Harris College;
Arthur ]. Cutler, Dean of Hiram Col
iege, and DR.. Ernest E. Burton, Pres
ident of the University of Chicago
In addition to all these are state
ments in many college publications
along the same line.
Another falsehood exposed.