RAISING THE WET BLANKET

The interest shown last night at the meeting in the Union helps to emphasize the Union that undergraduates, whatever they may feel about most national issues are sincerely interested in the problems which have arisen in regard to prohibition. True, all such discussions must in the nature of the case be inconclusive, but no man who attends such gatherings can fail to come away without a deeper insight into the intricasies of the problem before them. Above all things, the need for concerted thought and action emerges clearly.

The fact that others have come to recognize the need for a crystalized opinion on prohibition is amply borne out by the editorial from the Cornell Daily Sun which appears in an adjoining column. Press dispatches also report the Yale News as willing to cooperate, though inclined to deprecate the effectiveness of collegiate participation. It may as well be granted at once that it is impossible to hope for anything like an immediate modification of existing conditions. But the drys know well that by patiently collecting grains of sand they have turned the United States into a legal desert. The modificationists might well copy their tactics and by abandoning their defeatist regrets, set patiently to work collecting drops of water with which to cultivate a more livable temperate zone.