Not Taken Seriously

In CONSIDERABLE CONTRAST to the preceding editorial is the following "Letter to the Editor" published in the Franklin (N. H.)Transcript on September 26, written by the New Hampshire president of the Anti-Saloon League:

Editor Journal-Transcript:If a thief publicly announced his sorrowat the general lack of honesty, those whoknew him would say "hypocrite."

This mornings Union quotes PresidentHopkins of Dartmouth as saying at theopening college year, that since the WorldWar "there has been an obvious retrogression...We have yielded with but feebleresistence to forces making for weakenedaspirations and for less worthy accomplishments...Amid the confusion resultingfrom unrest of the spirit, we have soughtsurcease from concern in new dissipationsand in more self indulgence."

Those who remember President Hopkins' constant efforts to have the government change from a policy of discouragingthe liquor business and consequently theliquor habit, to a policy of encouragingthat vice and that vicious business will nottake seriously his claim to be concerned bya general public yielding to dissipation andself-indulgence.

A really great teacher once said, "Firstcast out the beam out of thine own eye andthen sha.lt thou see clearly to cast out themote out of thy brother's eye."

Sincerely,Ernest L. Converse.

Concord, N. H., Sept. 20, 1935.