The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-08-25
Editorial Comment
"The Rich Young Man"

civilian Allen White in the Empora Gazettc)
Judge Ebert II. Gary, chairman of the board ot
directors of the United States Steel corporation
and Richard Washburn Child former amoassaao,
TO italy, are sponsoring movement in the East
t" lessen Americas disgrace in unpublished crime.
They have organized tentatively a national crime
commission and they propose TO enlist The services
of rich young all over the country 10 punish
the bandits and robbers OF various kinds whose
highly organized methods are making The punish
ment Of crime in America difficult.
It was Roosevclt's idea nearly forty years ago
that young men of wealth and social position owed
to society intelligent and strenuous effort to
better society and felt that they could hep in law
enforcement
His theory justified forty years ago. Toda,
it is questionable.
The trouble with too many rich young men OF
America today is that they don't feel that they are
socially good until they have stocked under thei.
belts at least two contraband cocktails day.
The rum running and booze fighting of these de-
generate days is largely satisfy the social de-
mands Of the rich young men of the country and
their fool young wives who think that no dinner
is socially decent except it be prefaced with an
illegal cocktail.
They continue to serve wine at their tables de-
spite the moral obligation which they owe to So
riety not to DO
The annual consumption of liquor in this coun-
try has been cut down more than IS per cent, but
the advertised consumption Of liquor in this country
has been increased 200 per cent because lot OF
rich young people insist upon buying contraband
goods.
The poor man who used to have keg parties in
| the park of Sunday, and failed to show up Mon
day at his work, has quit drinking
The price of booze has stopped him.
The middle class. church going, God-fearng. law
abiding majority in this country has stopped drink
ing.
But the country club crowd is the booze fighting
bunch in America.
Three or four quarts of booze at a country clu1
dance affecting less than of pepole and
producing three four conspicuously picked
morons produces more advertisement to encourage
crime than hundred keg parties OF poor devils
seeking to forget their poverty produced twenty
five years ago.
This country club bunch, these ric: young men
who Mr.. Gary and Mr.. Chad would enlist in their
effort to suppress crime, are by their social de"elic
tons, doing more to give impulse to the crime wave
than anything else in America
| The best thing that the rich young men in this
country do is to shut booze out of their homes
| When the booze leaves the homes of the rich
| when it goes out of the country club and the vari
Gus college clubs. the Harvard clubs the Yale club;
and university clubs. the Union League clubs Owe
| the country, then the stickup men, the organized
bandits. the gunner and their political pals vii
begin to realize that the on crime is in earnest
Until the rich young men drop booze they mi ,h
as we'll yell down the rain barrel for all the fca
| they will instill in the hearts OF the bandits.
Wealth has deep Cbligat on to support the laws
After six years it is evident that the country i
| solidly, consistently and unaterably back of tn
Vostead act.
1t will be made sitter rather than weaker.
And the sooner the wealth of this country raile
to the support of those who upholding the Lax
by custom and by social practice, the sooner W
shall have the crime wave checked.
4 Let the rich young men put that in their pipe
and spaokesit aa4.7 >3 lH