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Barbara Ann Scott Skating Star ► Cause of Cerebral Palsy ► More Beer Cans About 10,000 new cases of cerebral palsy are born In the United States the 1953 beer-can production every year, says Dr. Cyril B. Courville, head of the reached an all-time record of 6,250,000 cans, a 23 per brain research laboratories, General Hospital, Los cent increase over 1952. Angeles. Two causes, though less frequent, involve ► Washington's Parties heavy smoking and addiction to alcohol by pregnant Washington, D.C., has 78,000 cocktail parties in mothers. one year, report hotel executives, at which a major ► Grape Facts part of the annual total of 4,000,000 gallons of hard California produces 94 per cent of the nation’s liquor is consumed. The taxes alone are more than grapes, 90 per cent of its wines, and 100 per cent of $40,000,000 on these drinks. its raisins. ► Crime Climbs ► Flooded With Liquor Every 14.9 seconds of 1953 saw a major crime com Hudson, New York, has an average of 44% liquor mitted in the United States, says J. Edgar Hoover, outlets for every square mile. In its area of forty-five FBI chief. The crime bill has reached an all-time square miles are 1,994 taverns, liquor stores, clubs, high of $20,000,000,000 a year, ten times the total and restaurants dispensing liquor. given each year to all U.S. churches. NARCOTICS NOTES • Only one twentieth of the illegal drugs flowing • Underworld revenue from the sale of narcotics into the United States is seized by narcotics of amounts to $275,000,000 a year, says the Federal ficers, reports the Senate subcommittee investigat Bureau of Narcotics. A pound of heroin purchased ing juvenile delinquency. for $500 to $1,000 can be sold to addicts for a total • Illicit production of narcotics in China includes of $384,000. 12,000 tons of opium. Legitimate world uses are • It takes at least $5,000 a year to keep an addict estimated at only 500 tons annually. supplied through criminals. To get that sum, the • Californians are more concerned about the nar addict, who rarely turns to honest toil, must steal cotics traffic than any other issue of state govern $20,000 worth of property or get the equivalent ment, including taxes, according to a public opinion through other crimes. poll sponsored by the state and reported by Gov • “The United States has the highest crime rate ernor Goodwin J. Knight. “It was surprising to of any civilized country in the world and the largest me,” he declares, “that there was far more interest black market in narcotic drugs,” says Dr. Hubert in narcotics than in liquor control.” S. Howe of Columbia University. Crime costs each • It is estimated that there are 60,000 opium users family in the United States $495 each year, accord in the United States. ing to the F B I. ALCOHOL AS AN ADDICTING DRUG “ Considerable testimony was presented to the be left out as a cause of juvenile delinquency, that Committee to the effect that, statistically, alcohol it is far more important in this respect than mari is the most important of all addicting drugs. juana, and produces far more crimes of violence “The Committee received ample medical and and is just as much a precursor of heroin as is mari other testimony attesting to the fact that alcohol is juana.’ ”—From the report of the Citizen’s Ad a narcotic drug; it was stated by Committee Mem visory Committee on Crime Prevention, to Ed ber Karl M. Bowman, M.D., that ‘alcohol cannot mund G. Brown, attorney general of California. O C T O B E R to DECEMBER, 1954 LISTEN V olum e 7 N u m b er 4 A Journal of Better Living ARTICLES Positive Proposal ............................................. E d itorial 4 Whose Business Is It if I Drink? H. O. Swartout 5 Facing the Issue C. C. Trillingham 10 OUR C O V ER "Spirits” in American Literature Upton Sinclair 11 Your "Problem” Wife . Harold Shryock 14 Small in stature, but unexcelled The Alcohol Problem in Europe . Archer Tongue 20 on ice, Barbara Ann Scott has Erskine Strikes Out Liquor Madeline Wertheim 24 blazed her name high in skating SPECIAL FEATURES achievement. From her trium Drugs—Destroyer of Y ou th ................................................9 phant Olympic sweep of 1948 she California Has Its Liquor Picture Taken 12 has skated her graceful way over School of Character . James H. Stirling 15 the North American continent as The Friendship Clubs . Madeline George 16 a professional. Her cover photo Winning in the Rose Bowl . Warren L. Johns 17 for Listen comes from Three Pearl Harbor in 3 D ................................Hoyt McAfee 26 Lions. Outstanding Young Men . 30 PERSONALITIES Barbara Webb, California’s Orange Queen 7 Josy Barthel, Track S ta r ........................... 8 Barbara Ann Scott, Princess of the Ice . 18 Harvie Branscomb, University Chancellor 24 Carl Erskine, Pitcher, Brooklyn Dodgers 36 STORY Escape Into Prison .... Prisoner No. 63581 22 REGULAR FEATURES I t ’s a F ac t ................................................................... 2 World R eport ..............................................................................20 We R e p e a t ...............................................................................3 5 MISCELLANEOUS Ruth Golsner, author of the Why Not Try Nature? . E. B. Davidson 6 feature on Josy Barthel, “ Little Did Jesus Make and Use Intoxicating Wine? Guy From a Little Country,” Hannah Ericson 27 page 8, is a resident of Patchogue, How Am I Going to Vote? James R. Swedenburg 29 New York, attending Greater I Said Quits—and I Meant It! . Veritas 31 Boston Academy as a senior. She Saying "N o” Gracefully R. K. Squire 32 works her way through school Christmas Promise B. Coursin Black 33 as a nurse’s aid at the New Eng Stop! Think! Listen! James A. Davis 34 land Sanitarium close by. Her POEMS hobbies include choral music, Stubborn Determination Bonaro Overstreet 23 cooking, and writing. For her The Modern Christmas . Grace Noll Crowell 33 lifework she plans to be a nurse. LISTEN—quarterly journal of better living, pub lished in the interests of scientific education for the Editorial Office: 6840 Eastern Ave., X.W ., Washington 12, D.C. prevention of alcoholism and narcotic addiction, and Editor: Francis A. Soper Manager, Subscription Service: H. K. Christman official publication of the Narcotics Control Service. Editorial Assistant: Sue E. Taylor Assistant Manager: S. M. McCormick Copyright, 1954, by National Director, Narcotics Control Service: Henry F. Brown The American Temperance Society Editorial Consultants: W. A. Scharffenberg, Executive Secretary Winton H. Beaven, Ph.D., Director, Institute of Scientific Studies Wilton L. Halverson, M.D., D.P.H., Former Director of Public Health, Cali Entered as second-class matter July 16, 1948, at the fo rn ia post office at Mountain View, California, under the Matthew Hill, Washington State Supreme Court act of Congress of March 3, 1879. Acceptance for Grace Clifford Howard, Former Editor, Scientific Temperance Journal mailing at special rate of postage provided for in Andrew C. Ivy, Ph.D., M.D., D.Sc., LL.D., University of Illinois, Chairman Section 1103, Act of October 3, 1917, and authorized of the National Committee for the Prevention of Alcoholism September 18, 1918. C. S. Longacre, Author and Editor Yearly subscription, United States and Canada, William R. McKay, Superior Court, Los Angeles $1.25; single copy, $ .35. Foreign Countries, $1.50; Joseph T. Zottoli, Boston Municipal Court single copy, $ .40. When change of address is desired, notify the Publication Office: Pacific Press Publishing Association, Mountain View, California Pacific Press Publishing Association. Please send Office Editor: Charles D. Utt the old address as well as the new. Into the welter of talk in the United States Congress occasionally there is injected a suggestion of unique practical value. One such came out in a meeting of the Senate Agriculture Committee when Senator Clinton P. Anderson of New Mexico and Senator Milton R. Young of North Dakota urged that some of the tactics being used to sell beer successfully be applied to fluid milk as a solution to the surplus problem. There is great value to this idea. Brewers and distillers have found it profitable to spend millions to popularize their products. Their success is evident, not only in increased sales, but also in indirect costs to society as the result of those sales. A good omen for the future is that already advertising campaigns are getting under way to promote milk and other dairy products. It is unfortunate that such a commendable project, however, had to be initiated from the pressure of a surplus problem and not primarily from the initial desire of the industry to promote the health of the people. The dairy interests in the past have been remiss in allowing beverage alcohol, with its many elements of danger and actual harm, to outstrip them in promotion. If they had been as alert to their opportunities as Positive Proposai the producers and purveyors of beverage alcohol have been, there undoubtedly would now be no surplus, and America would not be struggling with its monstrous alcoholism problem. Led by Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson, and endorsed by President Eisenhower, a nationwide milk advertising program is rapidly developing. Putting words into practice, the Secretary has installed milk-vending machines in the Agriculture Building in Washington, D.C. “If 1 have my way, they’ll be in every department of the Government—even the White House,” he declares. The states are taking up the challenge. Governor Thomas E. Dewey appointed a special committee to direct an educational campaign in N ew York on the nutritional value of milk.