1. Inspection to discover disease centers--"blind pigs," "blind
tigers," etc.

2. Compulsory notification by parents and landlords, and by police
and other officials.

3. Prompt investigation upon complaint from private citizens.

4. Prompt removal of the disease and disinfection of the center.

5. Segregation of individual units that disseminate disease,
whether bartender, saloon keeper, owner of premises, or
respectable wholesaler, none of whom should be permitted to shift
to another the responsibility for violating liquor laws.

6. Persistent publicity as to the facts regarding enforcement and
violation, so that no one, whether saloon leaguist or anti-saloon
leaguist, shall be uninformed as to the current results of "dry"
laws.

It is perfectly safe to assume that none of these things will be done
consistently unless funds are provided to pay one or more persons in
each populous locality to give their entire time to the enforcement of
laws, just as the improvement of other ills of municipal government
require the constant attention of trained investigators. Cogent
arguments for such funds have recently appeared in the _New York
Evening Post's_ symposium on "How to Give Wisely," by Mrs. Emma Garrett
Boyd, of Atlanta, and Miss Salmon, of Vassar College.

If the saloon is here to stay, we must all agree that it is a frightful
waste of human energy and of educational momentum to be appealing for
its abolition when we might be hastening its proper control. On the
other hand, if the saloon is destined to be abolished as a public
nuisance and a private wrong, as a menace to industry and social order,
is it not a frightful, unforgivable waste of energy to permit
prohibition laws to fail, and thus to discredit the principle of
prohibition? Philanthropists have provided millions for scientific
research, for medical research, for the study of tuberculosis, and for
the study of living conditions. It is to be hoped that a large
benefaction, or that an aggregation of small benefactions, will apply
to governmental attempts to regulate the sale of alcohol those methods
of scientific research which have released men from the thraldom of
ignorance and diseases less easily preventable than alcoholism.

CHAPTER XXXV

IS IT PRACTICABLE IN PRESENTING TO CHILDREN THE EVILS OF ALCOHOLISM TO
TELL THE TRUTH, THE WHOLE TRUTH, AND NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH?

If children are taught that the most ef