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NEW BKITAIX DAILY HERALD. MONDAY, MMXli as, 1925.
Not Interested in Poll, They Say
-Have Busy Week-End
, New Torlc, March 23 Prohi
billon was defended as a groat ad
vance In thu moral history of the
United States and attacked as "un
workable" and In need of modifica
tion In an unusunlly busy week-end
ef speecba and statement on thy
question. 1
Official notice of agitation re
garding modification has already
been taken at Washington, a nub
committee) of the sennto jullclary
committee voting to hold public
hearings. The matter will bo de
cided definitely by tho full commit
tee early this week.
.The board of temperance and
public morals of the Methodist Epis
copal church, In a statement at the
capital, discounted results of news
paper "straw-voted" and asserted
that the drys were Ignoring them.
Tho best rcferenduniB on prohibition,
said the board, ore recent congres
sional elections, which "drys have
won with monotonous regularity by
Overwhelming majorities."
In Now York, the Itov. Dr. James
Emprlngham, national secretary of
the Church Temperance society de
livered another attack on tho en
forcement law of St. Luke's Episco
pal church.
Ho told of disguising himself nnd
visiting "speak-easies" and other
places whore liquor could bo ob
tained In all parts of tho country. It
was this Investigation, he said,
which convinced him that prohibi
tion was "nn utter failure."
Prohibition As Failure
"Prohibition has failed," lie snld.
"because, the people of this country
tiever really believed In it. In
Rochester there aro ino more
'speak-easles' today than there were
ealoons before prohibition. In on
other city In an area where there
used to be three barrooms, 17
'blind-tigers were found in an
tour's search."
Dr. Emprlngham said that his
total abstinence both from liquor
and tobacco had hampered him
Kreatly in his search for violators of
the law. At various times ho posed
as a commercial traveller, an an
alytical chemist nnd a vagrant.
Dr. Leo W. Beattle, for twenty
three years a welfare worker In the
slums, however told his congrega
tion of tho immense improvement In
conditions among tho poor since
prohibition calls for charity in his
district have virtually disappeared,
ho said since the law went into ef- i
feet. I
Federal Attorney Emory R. Buck- !
ui'i oi p,ew lorn, at Fordham Manor
church, again advocated modifica
tion of tho Volstead act to permit
each state to decide for itself the
alcoholic content of legal light wines
and beer. A similar solution of the
enforcement problem was proposed
In a statement by William II. Hirst,
formerly counsel for tho Brewers'
association.
At Opelika, Ala., the Rev. Dr. F.
Ernest Johnson, exnutlve secretary
Of the department of research and
education of the federal council of
Churches of Christ in America, as
sorted that statistics showed u do
crease In crtnio, In deaths from al
coholism, prtaon population and ar
rests for drunkenness since prohibi
tion, "While many of tho gains at
trlbutublo to prohibition have per
sisted and uro doubtless permanent,
a sharp reversal of tho favorable
trend occurred in 11)20," ho said.
"Wo ahull never ninko progress In
citizenship by Inducing puoplo to
obey laws because they are laws.
Every law must win lis way with tho
public on its own. merit."
In Portland, Maine, at Memorial
services for General Ncal Dow,
"father" of tho Maine prohibitory
law passed In 18S5, Dr. Ernest II.
Cherrlngton of Wcstervllle, Ohio,
genenil secretary of the world
lenguo against alcoholism, said that
considering tho difficulties nocessar
lly Involved greater progress has
been mado in tho first six years of
constitut'onal national prohibition
than lias ever been known in con
nection with uny slmlla: effort at en
forecment of any other important
foderal constitutional provision.
Conditions Improved
Dr. Clarence True Wilson, Secre
tary of the Methodist board of
temperance and publio morals in un
address at Berwick, Pu., credited
prohibition with saving America
from tho evils of post-war depres
sion suffered by European countries.
The light In tho New York legis
lature to reennct a stnto enforcement
law also advanced a step over the
week-end with tho Wales bill pro
viding for Bueh action scheduled to
come before tho upper house early
this week.
At Phoenix, N. Y Arthur J.
Davis, sfato superintendent of tho
antl-saloon leaguo, urged New York
republicans to "get In lino with the
national party" by enacting a statu
law, and warned that Empire State
republicans were. ' in. danger from
"competing with Tammany bidding
for beer votes."
All of the metropolitan papers
devoted columns to prohibition dis
cussion, and the New York Times
published a special article asserting
that the Pacific coast has a run row
scarcely less wldo spread than tho
one that hovered off tho Atlantic
seaboard a year ago. -
All
Foods are Better
All foods improve when served
in templing ways. For to tempt
the. appetite is to start digestion
properly.
Willi all fish and meats and
many vepptablcE, a lemon garnish
fhould b used. That adds tang
and zest., Idgeative glands are at
once excited and their Juices flow.
Tho lemon juice supplies vlta
mlnes; and organic salts and
ai-lds which aro direct digestive
aids.
An excess of fish and meat
forms acid in tho Wood. Lernr.n
.mire, 'though known as "acid"
fruit, lias an alkaline reaction to
offset "acidity" from othor foods.
Get a dozen California lemons
now for garnishing. Practically
woodless, clean, bright, waxy
Fklns, easiest to slice, juicy, tart.
Fresh tho year 'round at all stores.
California Lemons
Pastor Tells Each What His At
titude Should Be
More loyalty amf a better under
standing between fathers nnd sons
was tho plea made'hy Itov. Theodoro
8. Oreeue, pastor of the, First Con
gregational church yestcrdny morn
ing, In a sermon to members of Na
than Hale chapter. Order of Do Mo
lay, nnd their fathers.
Mr. Greene said In part:
"Ileal religion Is eternal. That is
what Isaiah Is saying here. And that
is something which v.o ull believe at
heart. It was iho mimo conviction
which gavu rise to tho scimowhat hu
morous remark that 'Man Is incur
ably religious.' Tho gen envious
coma and go, but tho quest for Clod
goes on forever nnd ever. Manners
nnd customs change. Doctrines,
creeds and symbols arise, servo their
purpose and depart Into Limbo. But
tho eternal verities go on and on
and on. Because all of us believe
tills deep down Inside, we aro galh
ered hero In this old church today.
I'.ecause I believe It will wltji all my
heart, I stand up to dj'cdiirc to yon
again Tho living Clod is a living
fact. And not only Is IIo a living
fact, but lie is revealing Himself
now to the oncoming generation. Ho
is present in every binh and every
d ath. New every morning and
frsh every evening. He is forever!
"rnfortunntely, however, there
are those in the world who doubt it.
ply observation is that nearly all of
I theso skeptics belong to the older
! generation. They ducry the appar
ent indifference of the youth of our
jdny to the forms and ceremonies of
religion. Nor is this all. They be
moan tho less of old restraints, the
crumbling of aid barriers, the dis
appearance of old 'loyalties. Tho
world is full of such "Calamity
Janes' Just now. You have heard
them, I have heard them. In fact,
it has been my lot as your minister
to make the acquaintance of a few
such persons already In tills city.
Mrs. Grundy slalks abroad today and
sho never seems to worry about her
self. Her chief anxiety is for tho
i younger generation. The difficulty
is that she has so llltle to say for
these youngsters, and so much U
say against them.
"If we stop to analyze her trouble,
i we see that Mrs. Grundy's case ex
aggerated though it be after all, is
symptomic of a perpetual misunder
standing that exists between the
generations. A certain amount of
this misunderstanding can never lie
done away with. 1 refer to those
differences to he found in the waxing
and waning interests of life. But a
groat deal of this misunderstanding
can be avoided or In somo sense
overcome.
"Our city life is becoming so com
plicated today that fathers and sons,
mothers and daughters, see all too
ilitfle of each other. They have far
itoo little knowledge of eacli other's
! hopes and fears, responsibilities and
inspirations. Wo ought to welcome,
therefore, every opportunity to
! bring the generations closer in the
bonds of understanding. And we do
welcome (lie opportunity which
comes to us 11,1 morning to com
mend tho i hurts of thu De.Molny, to
speak to tin ir sous mid certain of
their fathers.
"Tho old udaga has It that 'lie
Is a wlso futhir who known his
own son.' But, us a matter of fact,
this is only half the story. Wo arc
i mo oiten inclined to glvo mon
than their duo shiiro of wisdom to
iho sons. And being myself in the
( position of bolh son and father
j It has been revealed to me that
j iho reverse Is truo ulso. 'Ho is u
I wlfo son, who Knows his own
fallier.'
"Keeping In mind, therefore, tho
differing but in no sense irrecon-
ellahle viewpoints of youthful sons
j and mature fathers, let us see
I what we can suggest as a means to
bitter understanding between tho
; generations. Wo are taking it for
I granted hero that as Christians
and churchmen wo aro both as
fulling and ss sons equally sincere
In, nur search for tho deeper things
of life, the realities of the spirit,
tli values that mako for better
living now, here, and hereafter. To
bring the matter briefly before us.
let me suggest to theso fathers
present Hint If they would un
d.Tstand their boys nrlght they
must exercise great patience, real
trust nnd wise affection.
"To tho sons, sitting here in
theso front seats, let mo suggest
if they would rend their fathers
aright, there Is necessity for tho
exercise of a greater tolerance, an
increased sense of responsibility
and a demonstration of loyalty.
"Wo have said that tho first
necessity for a bettor understand
ing between tho generations was
gnat patience. And what is tho
reason for initial prescription?
Simply this: Fathers must learn to
bo patient with sons because this
big job of being a father cannot
be accomplished in a hurry.
"If a man would know his son,
ho must make him the suhject of
penyetual study. I use the word
perpetual' advisedly. There is no
discharge in tho war of being a
father nnd no vacation either!
There will bo moments when you
would like to resign from tho en
terprise but that too is impos
sible. And the boy Is continually
changing. Just about the time you
think you have him nil figured out,
something happens to change the
focus.
"Many fathers falls as fathers be-
i cause they do not take their sons
into their own confidence and there
fore fall to gain the confidence of
those same sons. Boys are very
quick to take in the essential merits
and demerits of parents to size up
also tho relative importance of fath
er's place and social standing in the
community. They receive and pass
on tho reflected judgments of other
boys and other fathers.
"It behooves us as fathers then
to take our children into our con
fidence and help them to realize
what is expected of them In time.
In this matter of trust, also, 1 be
liovo fathers make a grevious mis
take in freeing their sons at home
from all sense of obligation and re
sponsibility. Give your boy some
thing to do at homo if it is nothing
but sweeping the walk or sifting tho
ashes. Teach him to take dally re
sponsibility for a definite job and
I hereby you help him not only to
lighten your burden, but to respect
himself and to carry his own burden.
"A holler understanding by fath-
M is of ller sons we wild U thu dem
lou t ration of wln aU'toilon. Hy Hint,
uu know wry .1 i not menu
any (.qiiuahy sentimentality, Kur
troni li. I do mean, however, the
genuine and conscious epression of
affeciion, The li.-mt of u boy God
;mado it and mado ll jkn Himself
when wo locate, it. we shall tind, 1
ihinl;, thai It Is thu liirgcut part of
our boy. Some one will say hero
, with a snibe that the easiest way to
jtho heart of a boy Is through his
stomach. Bui, my friends, the heart
j on that route Is uf another sort. We
are talking about the heart of n boy
.out of which nr the Issues of lire!
I And the heart I nm talking about is
'bigger ami harder o control thnn
j any gasirlo capacity, difficult as I hat
may he.
i "What Is needed here Is not affec
jtlonale condescension but a recipro
cal relationship of love, a relation
jslilp that implies a certain amount
or rquniity.
"But now we come to tho other
side of the shield. 1 address myself
now to you, who aro tho sons here
today. Anil I have three words Of
w isdom for you also. They come out
of my own experience as the son of
on" of the best nnd most sympa
thetic and understanding fathers
that, ever lived.
First of all, If you would Improve
the slate of understanding existing
between your fathers and yourselves
try to exercise a greater tolerance
for tho opinions nnd viewpoints of
your elders.
"In tho difficult years since the
war, a greater rift has grown up be
tween the generations than ever be
fore, nnd it Is not strange, when one
considers the new liberties, tho new
Ideals, which have come to tho youth
of our world. But try to remember
this Intolerance is a characteristic
of your age. There aro no more in
tolerant folks, perhaps, than young
folks, and only think what harm in
tolerance of other ideas, customs and
rights has dono our world In the
rant. Your father's home may not
he exactly your Ideal! It would per
haps be strange, if that were actually
the case. But, whatever you do
don't try to reform father and
mother. It just can't be done!
That's all! And a certain peace nnd
stability, essential to all happy fam
ily life is shaken, when you try it.
"Every one of you worth his salt
has some ideal for a homo of his
own. Keep it! Cherish it! Mako
your dreams one. day a sweet reality!
But don't expert to bring any very
great, changes to pass in the home
that father and mother by working
together have built up for you! Our
grandfathers were told in their
youth that children should be seen
and not heard. But tho situation is
quite different today. I find in most
modern American homes that chil
dren are both seen nnd heard. And
that is a good thing. It Is a great
thing! It Is a step forward but only
in so far as sons and daughters re
member that equal rights to self-expression
in the family require that
father and mother, to whom you
owo your very existence, still have
rights to their Ideas also. And re
member tills doctrine of equal rights
prevails even when father nnd
mother have some very antiquated
preferences to assort, some very old
fashioned Ideals to teach. Not every
thing labeled old fashioned is wrong,
you know, nor even stupid and fool
ish. "If you would cement the bonds of
friendship between your fathers and
yourselves, try to exercise, also a
surer feeling of responsibility, 1
iiuvi- ,..id Unit many lathers tail be
t'ltuso they do not trust their sons,
' liHcause iney do not lay upon them
responsibility thut tench tndrpulul-
once. Lot it never be said of you,
thai you lulled lo curry the loud
limber tried to lay upon youl
"If ou. tho sons, would make
, your fathers glad and would drop
tho keystone into that arch of per
;foct friendship, whit is tho surctt
j proof of understanding, do not fall
j occasionally lo demonstrate your loy
alty and affection for your fathers.
One exiunplu which we Christians
may take from tho Jews Is Just this
lot family loyalty and the uftt-ctinn
due to parents. The fifth command
ment: 'Honor thy father and thy
mother, that thy days may be long
In tho land, which tho Lord. Thy
God, linth given thee.' did not stray
Into the decalogue by any accldetii.
It represents the accumulated wis
dom of generations of shrewd minds.
It is a means to self preservation.
Hut It. goes infinitely deeper than
that. It cuts Btrnlght to the heart,
for it teaches us the Indisputable
truth that loyalty, llko charity, be
gins at home! Wo ienrn the larger
loyalties in time by being loyal lo
some individual, to some one to
whom wo may look up. Some
one to whom we mny bo true.
Why not let that, some one
jbo your father? And why not let
I him know that you are trying hard
to be loyal to him?"
SPEED RECORDS
IMPORTANT MEETING
British Cabinet Tomorrow Will Re
ceive Complete Report on On; Do
ings at Geneva.
London. March 22 PI The cabi
net had before It today discussion
of arrangements for the expected
debato In the house of commons
tomorrow of tho recent breakdown
of the leaguo of nations meeting
which was to have elected Ger
many to membership in the league.
Sir Austen Chamberlain, the for
eign secretary, was to unfold to
Premier Baldwin and the ministers
his views on the Geneva situation,
where he was the chief representa
tive of Great Britain.
David Lloyd George Is expected
to move in comfnons tomorrow for
a reduction in the foreign office ap
propriation as a means of calling
attention to the foreign secretary's
alleged delinquencies at Geneva.
This procedure is the usual alter
native to a direct motion of cen
sure and Sir Austen doubtless will
face indignant opponents when ho
appears before the commons.
There Is nothing, however, at the
present moment to suggest a tri
umph by tho opposition, according
to political observers.
Sir Austen already has discussed
tho situation with Premier Bald
win and some of his other col
leagues, but ho has not met all the
members of tho cabinet.
Five Marks Shattered in Culver
City 250 Mile Contest
Culver City, Calif., March 22 U1
Five recently established speed rec
ords worn' broken hero yesterday in
the 2o0 mile automobile race, a
cheek of figures today revealed. Ben
nett Hill won the raco In a non-stop
drive.
He covered the 250 miles dis
tance in one hour, 54 minutes and
H 8-10 seconds, an average of
13 1 .259 miles an hour, eclipsing tho
record of 12 0.531. mado by Peter
do Paolo nt Miami, Fla... February
It was a fitting farewell to the 122
cubic Inch displacement cars as
today there begins a new era In
broad track racing, tho inauguration
of the 9! 1-1 cubic inch machines,
and the reords that were set vps
terday probably will remain unmo
lested for a time.
Hill was not alone, however, in tho
writing of a new page of entries In
tho ledger of speed records, for
Dava Lewis, a veteran of the road
race days of Santa Monica, blazed
the way to tho 250 milo mark, while
ho was In front The records that
they set:
Harry Hart's world's record of
135.23 miles per hour sustained for
a distance of 50 miles during a
spring program hero last April was
smashed when Lewis wheeled his
trim speedsters at the rate of
135.7S miles an hour.
The 100 mile mark of 131.54 mado
by Earl Cooper hero last November
was eclipsed by Lewis' average of
133.71.
Earl Devore's Miami. Fla., record
of 131. 0(18 for 150 miles set February
22, was eutclassed by Hill's speed of
131.54. Hill's speed of 131.64 at the
200 miles mark supplanted the rec
ord of 131.408 made by Devoro on
the Miami bowl.
Hill won nearly half the ?35,nno
purse, receiving $10,000 as the win
ner's prize and $6,000 additional In
lap prizes.
Is nothing to (Hide the Inexpert)
ienoed In his choice of food. rf
I "Tho elective system had Its orlst
lis Ills tremendous growth of know!.
I edge in the lout century. The fun
of facts In an Increasing number o
fields finally became, to great tha
educators, compk'loly overwhelmed
'hint to turn the task of selectloi
ever to green freshmen who wer
I rot qua II lied to make wise choices,
This burden of knowledge which 4
threatening to crush education un,
:dcr Its weight is analagous to thj
! structural overloading of our civil,
jlzatlon. In colleges the tendenr
,to specialization and departments,
'lalng of subjects is killing tho octl
i Interest of students in them. On'
j remedy must be found in broaden.
Ing and dramatizing education. On
I reason why football attracts so murfc
more of the undergraduates' atten
jtlon Is that a football game is t
I vital, dramatic whole.'
REVISION OF METHODS
OF TEACHING ASKED
READ HERALD CLASSIFIED ADS
EURALGIA
orheadacht rub the forehead
melt and Inhale the vapors
V VapoRub
Ovr IT Million Jm Ud Ytarly
President Of Wisconsin t'niwrsitj
Snys Present Day Xceds
Different Customs.
Cambridge, Mass., Marcli 22 iP)
President Glenn Frank of the Unl
vetsity of Wisconsin, in an inter
view published today in the Harvard
Crimson, compared the present elec
tive systems of American colleges to
an intellectual cafeteria and urged
a dramatization of learning com
parable to football.
! "Methods of Instruction are at
'present worse In our colleges than
anywhero else in our whole educa
tional system," he declared. "Tho
elective system has changed our
colleges into something that reminds
me strongly of an intellectual cafe
teria. For as in a cafeteria there
Prince of Wales Likely
To Attend the Funeral
Copenhagen, Denmark, March 2
VPi " King Haakon of Norway,
King Gustav of Sweden and prob.'
ably tho Frlnce of Wales will bi
present at the funeral next Sunda)
of Dowager Queen Louise of Den.
mark, who died Suturday. Klni
Christian is deeply affected by tin
death of his mother. Crossing from
his palace to that the the dovvaget
queen yesterday he met a group ol
press photographers, stopping and
shaking hands with each of then
he said: "This is tho home of m
childhood, which now disappears."
READ HERALD CLASSIFIED ADfl
FOR YOtn MASTS
Quaker Oats
"stands by"
you through
the morning
That's why millions start
their days in this way
TO feel right through the morning,
you must have well-baUneed.
complete food at breakfast At moit
other meals that is, at luncheon
and at dinner you usually get that
kind of food.
But at breakfast the great dietary
mistake is most often made a hur
ried meal, often badly chosen.
Thus Quaker Oats, containing 16
protein, food's great tisue builder;
S8$ carbohydrate, its great energy
element, plus all-important vita
mines and the "bulk" that makes
laxatives seldom needed, is the die
tetic urge of the world today.
It is food that "stands by" you
through the morning. Food that
should start every breakfast in your
home.
Quick Quaker cooks fn 3 to 5
minutes. That's faster than plain
toast. Don't deny yourself the nat-
ural stimulation this rich food offer.;
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