Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1934-09-13
Sees No Sense In
Drinking Alcohol
, Editor of Montgomery Sentinel:


We read with interest your editorial
on the indecent movies of some weeks
ago. Then again your message con.
corning thte open air Sunday evening
services. 1t is cheering to nave our
county paper take an interest in these
important matters.
1t gave me courage to prepare the
article which am sending to you for
publication.
There is another influence as deadly
to our young peoples morals and as
dangerous to the public as the bad
movie. l mean the alcohol habit.
shall be greatly comforted if you
see fit to use this article.
Recently we read of thirteen thou
sand ministers and rabbis who de-
clared they would not bless or partic-
ipate in another war, in answer to a
QUESTIONABLE sent out by Mr.. Kirby
Page, Editor of The World Tomor-
row.
Every now and then we read of
groups of college boys and girls who
are declaring against taking any part
in war.
The young men and women Of col
lege age as well as ministers and
rabbis are realizing there is NO sense
in War
We are frequently hearing and
reading another statement that is
alarming which is: The number of
boys and girls who are learning to
drink alcoholic beverages is daily in
creasing.
Testimony to this fact was given by
Mr.. McDill, president of Los Angeles
Board of Education who in a public
conference declared that daily reports
indicated an increase in the liquor
ihabit among high school and element,
airy pupils. He said also that it was
evidently the liquor dealers considered
school localities a particularly good
field for business. Liquor stores ir
school districts were especially fitteC
up to attract students. There was 9
Ideplorable lack of law enforcement
because the Liquor Board is more in
terested in income than in regulation
Sale of Liquor to minors is strik-
ling feature of post-repeal liquor bust
ness in Los Angeles. Similar reports
come from other sections-Chicago
Boston, Etc.
A representative of the Hartford
(Conn) Times after making a specia
survey printed his report June A il
(which he stated he found some order
| ly taverns, and some disorderly re-
sorts where the drunken couples were
trying to dance, others were necking
Many taverns permitted unescortec
women and young girls loiter about
far into the night. Young women wert
employed for the purpose of sitting
and drinking with men in order tt
increase beer sales.
Mr.. James H. Moriarty Of the
Police, Liquor and Vice Squad Of
Hartford declared that conditions un
der existing laws constitute socia
cancer growing wider and deeper.
Promoters of the Liquor Business
urges lower prices. They say sales are
not what they expected and some
thing must be done about It. The un
restricted use of beer is their aim.
They say "The American home il
the woman's domain and the brewer:
objective should be to obtain the un
restricted use of beer in the home"
To build this beverage into the life
of the American people is the aim o.
the U. S. Brewers Association whose
secretary at the annual convention
recommended an advertising commit
ltee with expert advisers and at least
one million dollars year be spent BY
the association to advance the sale Of
beer.
DR.. w. ]. Mayo a founder Of the
Mayo Foundation for Medical Educa
ton and research Rochester, MINI.
says: "The question of addiction to
alcohol offers an opportunity for care
full medical investigation. AS doctors
we must begin to think of promoting
temperance. How often do we heal
when speaking of certain man "A
very bright man, but he drinks"
"Of my class mates in College so fan
as 1 know, none of those who drank
steadily are now living and of those
who were addicts to even q very milo
Idegree, from the time the addiction
became manifest, none progressed OF
maintained his position"
"One of the greatest surgeons OF
the world, said to me that he had
never known a surgeon of the first
rank who was in the habit of using
alcoholic drinks"
If boys and girls can not grow to be
their best by using alcoholic bever'