The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1930-03-01

tention to the charges made by wet prop
agandists that prohibition is breeding a
crop of drunkards and is injuring the
young American generation, and one
writer recommends that for real infor-
nation" the opinions of preparatory
school teachers be sought.
The challenge was promptly accepted by
the Christian Science Monitor. That
paper wrote to 25 heads of leading pre-
paratory schools in all parts of the coun-
try. Here are excerpts from some of the
replies received:
FROM PHILIPPE ACADEMY
"From all such evidence as has come to
our attention here, I am disposed to be-
lieVe there is less drinking in this school
and schools of our type today than there
was even three years ago. Liquor cases
as matters of discipline are today almost
unknown to us. If I recall rightly, we
have not had one for two or three years.
I claim that there is far less drinking in
the school today than there was a few
years back DIR. ALFRED L. STEARNS, Head
master, Phillips Academy, AndoVer, Mass.
This school has had no trouble with
liquor for five years. The boys themselves
have put liquor out of this school and the
boys themselves will expel boy who
touches liquor."-DR. MATHER ABBOTT,
1--WE have but very little trouble con-
corning the use of liquor here. The con-
ditions are certainly better than they
were under the old saloon regime. In
general, I would like to go on record as
saying that as far as our institution IS
concerned the hazards are less than they
were previous to the advent of the Eight
zenith Amendment. JOHN WAYNE RICH.
ARDS, Headmaster, Lake Forest Academy,
Lake Forest, Ill.
"While I hesitate to express my opin-
ion, I do know that in intimate converse
ton with my Older boys, they failed to see
any boys from this school who were them
selves under the influence of liquor this
past vacation or saw any boys from other
schools in an intoxicated condition."-DR.
FREDERICK H. SILL, Kent School, Kent(
Conn.
"It seems to me great pity that peo-
pie who have the ear of the public should
talk so loosely about boys in certain
boarding schools don't know any place
in the world where standards and ideals
are greater than in the schools or where
LOYALTY to such standards and ideals
among the boys themselves is more sim
cere."-GEoRGE H. JOHN, HeadmaSter,
Choate School, Wallingford. Conn.
FROM CLEVELAND
TN response to your letter, took this
matter up very carefully with group OF
twenty-three or twenty-four boys, the
most responsible in the school, and they
tell me that at the various school dances,
they have never seen university school
boy who showed the influence of drink"
HARRY A. PETERS, Principal, University
School, Cleveland, Ohio.
Immediately following the passage OF
the prohibition amendment and the en-
actment of the VolStead act, we had some
trouble, more than we ever had before. I
am happy to say however, that the last
four or five years have been marked by
return to the earlier conditions and that
we have been free from drinking. -
SAMUEL. F.. HOLMES, Worcester Academy,
Worcester, Mass.
ITO say that a crop Of drunkards Is be-
ing bred is a gross exaggeration. The
great majority of these boys will not be
Slrl1nkards and when they get to colleges,
they will drink less than boys OF his sort
drank in college fifteen years ago, and
very much less in spite Of all the clamor
to the contrary."-DR. HORACE D. TAFT,
Headmaster, Taft School, Watertown,
Conn.
FROM THE FAR WEST
"The matter Of drinking gives us almost
no concern at all except that we OCCASION