Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-06
specis, Dispatch to The star.

| UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA, Au-
| gust 6.-Something sensational almost
| didn't happen" here yesterday.
| An audience composed largely of Vir-
| einians at the open forum meeting OF
! the Institute of Public Affairs heard
| Fredericksburg blame prohibition for
| everything from immortality of college
| students to the woes of the farmers and
urge that the Democratic party not al
! low Republican leaders such as Dwight
! Morrow to jockey it into championship
of the dry cause.
When he finished he was enthusiasts
tically applauded Mai. Leroy Hodges,
| director of the Virginia Chamber of
some reply from the audience. Nobody
| responded. With a look of establishment
| on his face Maj Hodges turned to
Goolrick and said:
Senator, you've cleaned 'em up"
Timid Little Lady Arises.
1t seemed almost unbelievable that a
representative assembly in Virginia,
stronghold of the dry law, could have
become unanimously wet. Mai. Hodges
was about to dismiss the meeting, after
quoting some recent statistics on the
crime situation in Virginia under the
dry law, when timid little lady arose
from the audience, hesitatingly chal-
lenged about everything the Senator
had said, and wanted to know If the
dry cause had fallen so low in Vir-
ginia that there was no man to defend
1t. That aroused the chivalry of DR..
Dice r. Anderson, president of Ran
doiph Macon Women's College, who
launched into an eloquent defense of
the eighteenth amendment.
If it hadn't been for the mysterious
little lady-she told the open forum she
wanted to remain an 'unknown"-it
was generally agreed that the silence
of the audience would have been ac-
cepted as indicating a remarkable
change in public sentiment.
Maj. Hodges told the audience that
commitments to the State penitentiary
have increased from 500 in 1918 to
1900 in 1929, and commitments to jail
from 2,200 to 4,400. The cost Of crime
to the State, he said, has more than
doubled in IL years and he declared
the most alarming feature is the in
creasing youth of criminals, one-third
of them now being 81 or younger.
Declares Students Drink Less.
Referring to the recent drinking
furore involving University of Virginia
fraternities, Dr. Anderson said the stu
when he was a student here Is years
ago and that the vets are making too
much capital out of the alleged de-
terioration of youth,
Representative government Is on the
defensive, Frank o. Lowden, former
Gov. of Illinois, told the institute last
night. It is necessary, he said, to apply
the laboratory methods of science to
the problems of government rather
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trade generalities of the politician.
Is It too much to hope" he asked,
that when men shall have perfected
their human relationships SO as to bring
them up to the accomplishments of
the material sciences, poverty can be
abolished from the world?"
One of the most notable results OF
science in the industrial field" he con-
tinued, lis mass production. 1t doubt
less has cheapened the cost of manu-
facture. But, paradoXical as 1t may
seem, while mass production has cheap
ened the cost of many commodities it
has increased the cost of living. 1t has
had the effect of bringing many articles
down from the region of luxury to that
of necessity in any practical scheme of
living. This has changed the whole
structure of society. It will not do to
say that one can get along as well with
OuI OH hOW 90 80 JCuAo oSOs
Society has been so transformed by the
use of the automobile that anybody who
does not possess one is marooned in the
community In which he lives.
Majority Not in Industry.
"This is perhaps to the advantage of
those engaged directly in the great in
dustries, but the great majority Of our
people are not to be found in industry.
They are living on the farm or engaged
in professions, or belong to the salaried
class. For all these the machine age
has increased the cost of living by con-
verting luxuries into necessities without
providing a similar increase in income.
Mass production has made 1t neces-
sary to invent mass selling to dispose OF
the multiplying of industry. Mass SELL
ing has created new psychology among
the people. The per capita income OF
our people has increased in recent
years, but that increase has not kept
pace with the new wants created by
mass selling.
Governments are more and more in