The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1929-12-01

icies and home ownership have some def
mite relation to this policy of the nation"
Clearly prohibition pays.
PUBLIC SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES
UNDER PROHIBITION
tendent, teacher or member OF Board OF
Edacation)
America believes in education Since 1920
approximately 10000 teachers have been
added. We are now expanding more than
two billion dollars year on our public
schools. There has been a steady climb in
the average daily attendance until the
year 1925-26 it reached close TO the twen-
ty million mark, or more than one person
in every six in the public schools There
has been a marked increase in the rate Of
attendance since 1920, especially in at
tendance in high schools. Under prohibi-
ton children have been freed in moSb
cases, from the necessity of working to
help maintain the family. The desire Of
parents to give and the ambition of youth
to have at least high school education Is
now being more generally realized.
A more rapid increase is shown in the
attendance at our universities and COL
leges. In the siX-year period 1914-1929 the
number OF students increased by 140,20l.
This included the phenomenal Jump in at
tendance Immediately after the close OF
the war, which may be easily explained by
the fact that an increased number Of stu
dents returned to our institutions of learn
ing to complete their education. But the
significant fact Is that in the siX-year pc
riod from 1920 to 1925 the gain jumped TO
466,201 That is to say the gain since 1920
was three times as fast as in the preceding
wet period Of six years. Something hap
pened in America. Prohibition happened
at the same time, and it is difficult to get
away from the conclusion that there is an
immediate connection between these two
great facts.
THE CHURCH FACES FRONT
Superintendent
Rev. Harry Emerson Fosdick, of New
York, says
eff you wish my personal judgment as
to the sort of program that the Christian
Church as a whole will stand behind and
should stand behind in dealing with this
prohibition question, can put it in few
sentences.
First: So long as the present laws are
on the books, we will stand for their OBJ
SerVance and enforcement. We will no
more Supinely surrender to the laWleSSneSS
of bootlegging than we supinely Surren-
dered to the even more extensive and fl
nancially more powerful lawlessneSS of the
saloon regime.
Third. There are some types of solu-
ton to which we never will consent, and
one is putting the government, state or
national, into the liquor business. We have
refused so far to entrust the ownership
and management of railroads to the gov
ernment, although theoretical arguments
make government ownership and manage
ment of railroads altogether reasonable.
We have seen clearly that the government
is not yet fit to handle that immense &C
cession of economic power. Far less safe is
it to make our national and state capitals
the headquarters of the most courrupting
business this country has ever seen.
"FoGrth: AS to any alterations in the
law, we will trust them to those whom we
know to be friendly to the laws major in
tent. There may we'll come time when
the law should be changed. No law is in
fallible. But whoever proposes to construct
and carry through such alterations would
better first of all persuade the people of
the church that he is sympathetic with
the major aim for which the law originally
was framed.
"At the heart of the Christian conscience
of this country there is a conviction-make
up your mind to it-that the liquor traffic
and the Christian Gospel stand for two
diverse and contrary conceptions of per-
sonal and social life" Ohio Christian
NeaoS. Oct. 18, 1929.