28 lines of culture. The Committee of Fifty itself bears I cannot share Prof. Peabody's alarm concerning out this statement as applying even within the narrow any degree to a more rational and comprehensive union of abuse of alcoholic drinks has been for a long time of alcoholic drinks" or the "realization of a common lems of health and education, working for temperance I believe much can be done by rational, sane treat- free from the inclination to excess, not requiring con- No Cause for Alarm. of the Committee of Fifty will be accomplished if the facts growing less and continues to diminish owing to the the "menace to modern civilization through the abuse peril." I refer to what I said above, viz., that the in all things among adults, and bringing up children the progress along this line appear if we look back scious self-restraint To this should, of course, be the forces in American life which make for sobriety, self- general advance of the civilized nations along the tried to indicate, in connection with the general prob- ment of the question, especially taking it, as I have limits of a few generations. Incomparably greater will control, good citizenship, and social responsibility. centuries instead of generations. a common peril and a common responsibility. The purpose which they have collected and set forth may contribute in