Junior Battalion

On the theory that a sincere national movement should enlist young blood to carry it through the years, and that it would excite U. S. schoolboys to be associated, even remotely, with characters like Gene Tunney (retired), Barry Wood (Harvard) and Mai Stevens (Yale), Com-mander Fred G. Clark of the Crusaders last week paid a visit to Lawrenceville School. Headmaster Mather Almon Abbott, bluff and hearty, was glad to call his boys together to hear Crusader Clark's story ^that the Crusaders were going to start a Junior Division and had picked Lawrenceville to be, among 15,000 U. S. schools, the First Battalion. Whether or not the young gentlemen of Lawrenceville, where the Tennessee Shad once used beer for Welsh rabbits, were unanimously excited by Crusader Clark's earnest explanation of the need for repealing the 18th Amendment and for "strict control of the liquor traffic," the evening's results were 100%. Dr. Abbott formed the First Battalion by a method which should prove useful in other schools. He said that those boys who did not wish to join might leave the auditorium. All remained, signed cards, agreed to pay 50-c- and receive a button. Then the seniors retired to Dr. Abbott's study and elected the First Battalion's commander, John Irwin of Keokuk, Iowa. In line for Second Battalion, since its Headmaster Howard Bement is on the Junior Division's advisory board, was vigorous Asheville School at Asheville. X. C, to which Headmaster Abbott paid a visit after the Lawrenceville meeting.

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