Driven to Drink

The Women's Christian Temperance Union figured last week that the U.S. is letting the war drive it to drink 17.7% more liquor than last year. Small, sharp beagle-eyed President Ida B. Wise Smith and the W.C.T.U. are back on the warpath again with a whoop and a hatchet.

Crusader Smith found with horror that the 132,000,000 men, women & children in the U.S. drink per person per week an average of one quart and two gills of alcoholic beverages.

Concluded Mrs. Smith gloomily: "The efforts of the liquor trade to entice thousands of new persons into regular drinking are showing results. With the brewing industry openly declaring its intention to make customers of the boys in service camps, we can expect that the rate of alcohol consumption will increase."

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