g authority enforce the law? Should it not be
independent of the police?

What should be the penalty for breach of the law? Do not severe
penalties miscarry?

On what plea, and under what conditions, should licenses be
transferred?

What has been the effect of limiting the number of saloons?

Should limitation be according to area or to population?

Is there any relation between the number of saloons and the volume
of consumption?

What should be the limit to the hours of selling?

Should saloons be allowed to become places of entertainment?

How can the sale of liquor by druggists be controlled?

How can spurious drinking clubs be prevented or controlled?

How can the operation of disreputable hotels be prevented? What
should be the definition of a hotel? Who should define it? By whom
should it be licensed? What special privileges should be given to
it?

How can the "back-room" evil be stopped? Is it legal (i.e.
constitutional) to prohibit the sale or serving of liquor to
women?

Has the removal of screens reduced the volume of consumption? Has
it improved the character of saloons? Has it solved the problem of
Sunday prohibition for any length of time? What has been the
general effect of it in the tenement districts?

Should the state undertake to regulate the liquor business or to
enforce liquor laws?

Is it possible to devise any working plan which will apply with
equal effectiveness and equity in communities of compact and of
scattered population?

Should, or should not, the principle of self-government be
carefully preserved in the whole scheme of legislation to regulate
the liquor business?

Whether the present prohibition wave shall wash away the legalized
saloon, as ocean waves have from time to time engulfed peninsulas,
islands, and whole continents, depends upon the power of American
educators and American officials to answer right such questions as the
foregoing. The great danger is that we shall, as usual, over-emphasize
lawmaking, underemphasize lawbreaking, and go to sleep during the next
two or three years when we should be wide-awake and constantly active
in seeing that the law is enforced. Unless exactly the same principles
of law enforcement are applied in "dry districts" as we have urged for
eradication of smallpox, typhoid, scarlet fever, and adenoids, local
and city prohibition are doomed to failure. There must be: