VvALH ALUMNI WEEKLY.
299°
CURRENT YALE LITERATURE.
Professor Farnam’s Liquor
Problem Study.
As mentioned in a recent issue of the
WEEKLY, Professor Henry W. Farnam
of the Scientific School Faculty, Yale
°74, writes in the current Ailantic on
“Some Economic Aspects of the Liquor
Problem.” Professor Farnam is one
of the Economic Sub-committee of the
Committee of Fifty, which has just
completed an investigation into some
of the economic aspects of the problem.
This will soon be published by Messrs.
Houghton, Mifflin & Co. Professor
Farnam gives in this article some of
the main findings of the Committee
which is, by the way, looking after facts.
The Committee of Fifty has not yet de-
voted itself, as we understand it, to the
consideration of means of controlling
the liquor problems or correcting the
evils in its use. Professor Farnam’s
article is decidedly sane and fair in its
tone and rather hopeful, too.
The figures secured by the Sub-com-
mittee were evidently gathered in the
most conservative way and are on the
safe side in their statement as to crime
and pauperism that are directly or in-
directly attributable to the use of liquor.
The almshouse study, which was very —
representative, showed 37% of the cases
could be traced to liquor in one way or
another. Of 13,402 criminals, whose
life histories were studied, it appeared
that their crime stood in some direct or
indirect connection with liquor in 50%,
but in only 31% of the cases was liquor
set down as the first cause. ‘‘These
figures indicate that many of the cur-
rent guesses regarding the effect of
liquor upon crime are exaggerated as
far as they apply to offenses which do
not in themselves involve liquor as a
necessary element.” It is shown, by the
way, that in the study the effect of
nationality in this matter is a feature
which is very interestingly worked out.
Of course, these figures, even though
less than many estimates, show a seri-
ous enough condition of things, and so
the reader is looking all the while for
such means as the Committee could
suggest for restricting this evil. The
Committee could not enter into this
part of the investigation in detail, but
it does make report on certain main
features which are interesting. It sup-
ports with figures the generally ac-
cepted statement that the increase of
light drinks has reduced the product of
heavy drinks and the evil effects of the
latter. It cites also the increase of
various forms of outdoor sports as im-
portant competitors of the saloon, in
its function of club-house and general
source of amusement. Still more im-
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portant is the attitude of the employers
of labor on this question, where the
rule is being more and more established
of forbidding the use of liquor on the
part of the employees or of treating very
summarily any evidences of its abuse.
The labor organizations, trade unions,
benefit associations, as well as the con-
stantly increasing army of
holders in regular insurance companies,
are all economic forces which tend
towards moderation. “The facts set
forth in this paper,” says Professor Far-
nam, gives us a partial view of some
economic :orces which, in the evolution
of society, have come to stand for mod-
eration, and suggest that the moral
agencies of reform may yet find in
purely economic elements their most
powerful allies.”
Arthur Colton’s “Elder’s Seat.”
To the Editor of YALE ALUMNI WEEKLY:
Sir:—Your notice of Arthur Colton’s
contribution to the current Alélantic
Monthly was good as far as it went, but
it did not go far enough. In my humble
opinion the piece deserves still more
commendation. It is a bit of real litera-
ture of a very delicate and a very high
order. If the name of Arthur Colton
had the circulation of some other names
before the reading world, all reading
folks would be talking about it now.
Well, a good many of them are, as it
is, and if Colton keeps on doing work
of that kind, it will not long be neces-
sary to call any particular attention to
his productions. I hope, for one, that
he will keep up that standard and will
be ever exacting of himself.
Here’s hoping for a new Yale name
in literature.
neti ALUMNUS.
One can stand most anything in the
way of bad editing in current publica-
tions which are made up and published
on express trains schedules, but there
are some publications which we expect
to come out letter-perfect, no matter
how fast a pace of development they set
or how advanced a leadership they take.
One of these is the Atlantic Monthly, and
when that publication shows that it
dees not know how to spell the name
of the Rev. Joseph H. Twichell of
Hartford, it discourages people.
Attempts to follow the personal for-
tunes of 10,000 Yale men, more or less,
in all parts of the globe, many of whom
are excessively modest, have led us to
appreciate the difficulties of infallibility
in the personal side of journalism. We
do not therefore charge ourselves with
that contumelius indignation which a
certain class of arm-chair critics al-
ways visit upon reportorial or typo-
graphical vagaries. Besides all that, the
Critic is a good paper, a very interest-
ing one, published by responsible peo-
ple and edited by scholarly and also in-
telligent persons. We suppose, also,
that by this time at least a half a thou-
sand people have called their atten-
tion to a certain page in their last
issue. We didn’t at first like to say
anything about it. In turning over the
leaf again, we couldn’t quite restrain
ourselves. If the subject were any less
conspicuous than the career of the late
Professor of Palaeontology at Yale, and
if there had been only a modicum of
self-congratulation over the excessively
fine portrait of this distinguished
scholar which the Critic had been able
to secure, one could have smiled and
waited for the apology which was sure
to follow.
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The Corporation Withdrawals.
[Hartford Courant.]
All the men informally nominated
were excellent selections, and it is a
pity that any of them have stepped out.
This competition should take the form
of a free-for-all. Special regret will be
felt in Connecticut that two such avail-
able and desirable possibilities as Col-
onel Osborn and Eli Whitney should
retire. Many graduates will read the
fact with real disappointment. Mr.
Whitney, one of the leading business
men of New Haven and the State, was
brought out as a candidate late by his
friends, but the suggestion was received
with enthusiasm, while Colonel Osborn
has been considered the likeliest of all
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men named to be chosen. His untir-
ing energy and his boundless enthu-
siasm fitted him especially for the place.
The ALUMNI WEEKLY says that in view
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football team were entirely unfounded.
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