PROHIBITION WILL RECEIVE DISCUSSION IN PRINCETONIAN

Princeton, N. J., March 10--The Princetonian, undergraduate organ for Princeton University, will commence tomorrow morning its organization of undergraduate opinion on the subject of prohibition. Tonight there are signs of activity in the preparation of statements and interviews with prominent leaders in the political world and representatives of public opinion without political affiliations.

The Princetonian editorial staff upholds the policy of modification but has not yet arrived at a solution. In an attempt to gather facts and opinions before holding a college poll on the question the news department has solicited statements from men closely connected with the question and has succeeded in finding a great deal of evidence on both sides of the question. Thus far the general sentiment is in favor of modification but not necessarily in favor of total abolition.

The first release of the material already gathered which will appear in the Princetonian's columns on Tuesday morning will be followed by expressions of opinion from other campus newspapers, some of whom have already signified their intention to join in the nationwide undergraduate survey of drinking conditions and student sentiment.

Some of the expressions of opinion already collected are as follows:

Andrew Volstead,--"In my opinion the prohibition movement is as satisfactory as possible. Agents have informed me that it is impossible for persons unacquainted with a city or town to purchase liquor from bootleggers of that locality."

Shirley Wynne, New York Health Commissioner,--"As a public health worker I am a strong believer in temperance, but our present method of achieving temperance by force of law is a failure."

Warden Lawes, of Sing-Sing,--"I am in favor of intelligent revision of prohibition."

Pierre DuPont,--"Ten years of experience show that the people of the United States are not ready to forego the use of intoxicants. Thinking men must bend their energies to develop a plan devised to meet the needs of the people and at the same time to prevent the abuse of alcohol. Diversity of opinion demands state control as the Federal law must be uniform and cannot meet the diverse needs of a scattered population."

Harry Emerson Fosdick,--"The church will fight to the last ditch any step that looks like a return to the saloon. While laws are on the books, we will stand by them."

Nicholas Murray Butler,--"The presence of the so-called amendment to the Constitution will prove to be but the beginning of a complete revolution in American form of government. The amendment has made liquor traffic the preferred means of gaining livelihood and has extended it over parts of the nation from which it had practically disappeared. It has enormously increased in profits and has ostentatiously freed it of all tax. There is no difficulty whatever in dealing with grave social problems which grow out of liquor traffic. The Scandinavian countries and Quebec have shown how this can be done wisely and reasonably. Supporters of the amendment care nothing about all this. What they want to do is to force upon everyone and make universal, their own peculiar, personal views concerning the use of alcohol."

Coach Roper of Princeton,--"Drinking has not decreased since the passage of the eighteenth amendment. It operates only for the poor man who has neither pull nor social position to get away from it