Statement on Youths and Drinking, March 3, 1925 (summary)

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YOUTHS OUTGROW DRINKING
Jane Addams, Social Worker, Not Alarmed Over Present Condition

SAN ANTONIO, March 3. -- Jane Addams, famous as the founder of Hull House and Pioneer in Social Service and suffrage work, refuses to "view with alarm" present day social conditions.

She does not think surreptitious booze drinking by high school and college youngsters of today is much of a menace but merely a sort of youthful bravado that they all will outgrow. And prohibition today, poorly enforced, is a vast improvement over anti-prohibition days she said.

The enfranchised woman citizen is stepping right along into her political rights, and is making a better record than any great mass of suddenly enfranchised voters of the world ever did before.

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