Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-07

| work IS various Mrs. william Alvord
| and D | n Il u.
| How these Middle West women 90
work even when they don't have to9.
Every morning at finds her at her
desk, whence issue ways and means
for helping the foreign-born achieve
American citizenship. with it's ideals OF
economic prosperity. education, nealtn'
liberty and happy homes.
A big Job and big following. for
Detroit has a very husky percentage
of foreign citizens who crave to know
| what it's all about''-this democracy
thing which permits poor man to
rise In a couple Of jumps to freedom
| wealth and power.
Europeans Being Taught.
"Where else, then" goes on Mrs.
| Alyord, who as a sort Of avocation
edits q prosperous magazine, the
Clubwoman, and fills in her spare
time" with federation meetings, con-
ventions and other activities, rs
abstemiousness so important as In
country where the alert, Woodworking
man-of-the- people has his chance to
rise to the top?"
But does the European" we asked,
understand law which deprives him
| of his beer and wine?"
| mo, out we are tSdCulllS We
are showins him how much harder
and better he can work without stinu-
| lants, how unnecessary they are Iii
this country, where water is pure and
| energy is in the very air, and how
| much more money he can have for
good home and education for his chill
| dren.
| 81 tell them that If the rich drink
| themselves into failure, the poor can
walk into their places! If the wealthy
wish to drink more than they ever
did before, as many say is the case,
why not let them do it? What
splendid chance for the under'dog to
win a triumphant place for himself!
81 am not really joking at all.
mean this. / absolutely believe that
alcohol imperils our chances of get.
ting the best from life. Modern
science has proved that even the
drinking Of wines and beers blunts
the fine edge Of alertness, skill, good
Judgment, self-control, endurance and
health.
Definite Talking Point.
'This gives us q definite talking
point. If a country so vast as this,
so rich, so powerful and so full of
chances for the humble man, sees fit
to pass a universal dry law, the for.
eign-born citizen is bound to stop
and think why.
And we are making definite prog.
4 ress in showing him why. will not
quote boresome statistics on house and
farm purchases. savings bank &C.
counts in the names of working men
and women the country over, and all
the rest of the proofs that prohibition
helps the toiler.
''I prefer what I hear and see for
myself. I see my own daughter,
20 years olds and a college girl. able
to state truthfully that she has never
seen q drunken person. I was driv.
ing with friend yesterday, who
paused at the top Of q hill near her
home.
"T never reach the top Of this HILL
she told me, without thinking Of the
factory workers who used to ask me
for lift, being too intoxicated to drag
themselves up the hill to their houses.
I always took them in, but with an
ache in my heart for their poor wives.
Now never see one Of them under
the influence Of drink. And their
women tell me the children have shoes
and clothes and food and amusements,
and they thank God for it-God and
prohibition
| OIhlh1uS VAu'E 06ulUH6Us
Mrs. Alvord thinks drinking is old.
fashioned and believes that the
national dry law is only bringing to
peoples attention more quickly the
conviction that the ale tankard, the
old Burgundy bottle, the whisky-and.
soda glass and the nip Of cognac are
relics OF mid.Victorian days when
efficiency was word unknown, and 1t
didn't matter much whether people
got things done or not.
Il try to teach the men, women
and girls who come here" she saws,
that modernism is the keynote of
America. They take to the idea like
lightning. Watch those who once
lived In peasant cottages manipulating
gas ranges. electric lights, telephones,
radios and motor cars! Soon they will
come to see that strict temperance is
part Of the up.to-date program.
i Young people need to know that
civilization is not stationary and that
prohibition is progressive ideal
which will add to happiness, not take
from 1t. Youth hates old-fashioned
notions, and it is up to the older gen.
GRAFTON to educate the boy and girl
and give them vision of a splendid,
healthful, zestful. opportunity-givi
future as free from the enervating
CiLCCbS VI lin DIS ILLS LW6IlLlGIn cen.
fury is free from the diseases and
slaveries of the Victorian era.
mo law can succeed unless it is
written into the hearts and intelli-
gence of the people. So we must train
young folk in knowledge of the work.
ings OF alcohol; teach them how It
touches their personal life problems
and tell them of the long struggle of
their forbears for freedom from liquor
ell