(The Crimson invites all men in the University to submit signed communications of timely interest. It assumes no responsibility, however, for sentiments expressed under this head and reserves the right to exclude any whose publication would be palpably inappropriate.)

To the Editors of the CRIMSON:

How gratifying it is to see the noble ideas of the W. C. T. U. and of its ardent followers set forth in print for the promotion of their ideals and for the progress of the world! Gradually we have become enlightened concerning the evils which have held us in their yoke and which have surely brought us to the brink of ruin and destruction, while civilization and progress have been unknown. Indeed, it is high time to stay our backward course, and, by suppressing evils, start the world forward.

But the task is great, and well worth the efforts of out idealists, for the evils which surround us as many, and we are yet conscious of but few of them.

For the keen-sighted reformers will surely include in their program of elimination coffee and tea, which are deathly poisons, and candy, which deteriorates the nation. One by one will the products of the earth be blacklisted, since evil is evidently the essence of all things; and oh what happiness when men shall be delivered from the universe! What glory then for out pessimists, who alone can bring about reforms! They lead us wisely, for they see clearly that if men be allowed to retain their personal liberty to make use of, or to abstain from, alcohol, nicotine, and other curses from Heaven, they shall never come to perfection, but shall continue to retrogress and to die as in the past.

However, as we have seen in a communication in the CRIMSON of October 15, the reformers are already fighting one of the evils which must be uprooted to permit out quest of happiness. For the country is now learning that tobacco is a vile poison, a "rather unnecessary and not universally worshipped vegetable." The W. C. T. U. will therefore lose no time in plucking the "weed" from the garden of bliss which will be ours when the enterprise will have been successful.

Already the Demon Alcohol has been completely annihilated in our country. Had he been allowed to live, our population would have continued decreasing rapidly, our wealth would have continued dwindling; in short, the country, from the strong and glorious land of 1492, would have become a field of bones and ruins. But alcohol has passed and is forgotten; the country is completely dry. Never is a drunken man seen; in no street car or subway hovers a whiskey breath; no idiotic gaiety can be found in our cafes; every one is serious; no one drinks nor even desires a drink, for all realize now what a fearful poison alcohol is, and without exception the nation rejoices in the profound conviction that wine is neither a food nor an excellent beverage, that the pleasant hours and the comradeship which it gave us were but hallucinations.

We are now almost happy.

Only the luxury of nicotine (and a few other things) need yet to be eliminated.  H. ARNOLD QUIRIN, '2