THE AMERICAN ALCOHOL I EDUCATION SOCIETY I A now Association In tlio Hold of,i oducntlon has boon Quietly forming for a year anil Is now ready to bo announced. It la tlio American Alcohol Education Association,' tho origin, purpose and methods of which aro sot forth by Captain Richmond, P. Hobson, General Socrotary, and n loading spirit In tho movement. David Starr Jordan is President, and tho Hoard of Directors Includes Governor Allen and Senator Capper of Kansas, 'William Jennings Uryan, Luther Uurbank, Dqctor Hnrvoy W. Wlloy, Ulshop L, C. 8anford, 10. Q. I.owIs, Iton. P. P. CInxton, Kx-Com-mlsslonor of Education of tlio United Slate, and others equally well known. Its flold Is tho world, and It chose to locate Its headquarters In California as tho now conter.of tho world-activity, and to begin Its active Hold work In this Htato. Its ofllccs aro In Pasadena. Captain Hobson'o Statement. "For many years I liavo been trying try-ing to Jlnd thp way to bring nbout tho systematic education of society in tho truth about alcohol, knowing that the truth would prodnco In the individual in-dividual an abhorronco for the drug, and In society would arouse the doopest of social omotions eolf-pro-aorvntlon and protection of .tho offspring off-spring which would bo curatlvo ol tho Ills of alcohol In socloty, "My examination of tho results ol nclontltlc rosearch assembled for mo by tho government from all lands changed tho courso of my own life Put Into my speech 'Tho Oreat Do Btroyor' and distributed to millions those truths had n similar effect upon othora and hulped to form tho thought I of the wholo country upon iho organ- I Ic nature of tho dlsonso of alcoholism in society, and upon the necessity of organic treatment, if civilization Is ' to bo saved from disintegration under , tho antl-soclul and destructlvo forces , produced by tho nctlou at this drug : upon tho uppor brain of man. . i "Iho transforming and socially healing power of tho knowledge of thin truth cannot bo questioned. Tho dinlcult, constructive- problem Is how to Insuro that society shall bo iiystQinatlcatly lnoculatj.nl with this truth. New Organization Necessary. "My labor with cxlstfng tomper anco and prohibition organizations, and my work with special committees of 'Tho World Congress Against Alcohol,' hnvo culminated In tho full conviction that n now organization taking no part, ns such, In political or othor- strlfo over prohibition or other questions of policy Is absolutely absolute-ly necessary. It must bo created for and 0x1st solely for this work of HhUCATlON. To tho standard of this education treatment nil men can rally, regardless of other nlllllatlons. "Tho Amorlcnn Alcohol Kducatlon Association ,1s the outcome. It was ' organized In Lou Angolca last Mnrch with one hundred Chnrtor Mombora, ' drawn ..from a list of nbout two thou-1 thou-1 nand 'ouUstnndlm?;, public-spirited, ' pntifotlc citizens of tho country. It - undertakes to establish, authoritative ly, the truth about alcohol and to (lis- somlnnto that truth throughout - Hocloty, knowing that (whoro tho dlsoacio Is not too far advanced) this truth, proporly prosentod, will arouse in the Individual and In society motives doopbr and strongor than the alcohol appeals. " Findings of Modern Science. "The. two cardinal findings of modern mod-ern sclenco that huvo this power are; First,' that tho drug attacks tho uppor brnin of man nnd degenerates and dosoclhllros, In tho .Individual, tho ultimate social unit, thoraby un-dormlnlng un-dormlnlng tho foundations of social institutions, causing disintegration and paving thd wny for most of tho social Ills, Including crlmo, anarchy, War. Secondly, that alcohol Is n racial poison nnd Is tho primary cause ol vlco and the two other racial poisons, tho vlco diseases; Hint theso social poisons aro attacking tho gurm plasm of tho human species entailing ns tho genorntlons pass, tho decline of nations, nnd threatening, unless chocked, roverslon to barbarism oi tho extinction of the race. "Society la not nwaro of those truths or of theso Impending ovlls (letting thu knowledge of thoso truthi to society is tho first movo towan averting theso evils; ' they nuist b presented to all men In conylncinj proof nnd extonsivo oft-ropoatcd do tall. This the Amorlcan Alcohol Education Assoclaton undertakes to do, and this alone a world association with Its branches In all lands, it is to t become, as It were, a gland by vlrtup . of whoso secretions nnd dlsohargos ' all the curative activities of tho bod) j social may becorno effectlveand to . gother, bring about tho "euro of the dlscaso of alcoholism, thoroby romov i Ing tho primary causo of mosTsoclai 1111. ' t Specialization. ( "In tho mnttor dt FINDING Till: THUTI; n glanco at tho blbllograph of alcohol will roveai tho utter lack j ' of cooperation and directness of pur- pose In tho rosearch and uxporlmont utlon centors of tho world. Wo sharp undortako to aid and co-ordinate the9 activities, to differentiate und dlred thorn for groatqr elllcloncy, to con ' duct special Investigations whore ' needed, to nssoniblo results froni nl-sourcos nl-sourcos and to prepare them for- th-uso th-uso of society nnd all Its roform ugenclos. No other- organization does this; no other organization w)t other primary objectives can do, this. "In tho matter of DISSEMINATING THIfl TRUTH, tho educational .work of otjier agencies Is carried on incidentally in-cidentally or as n department or 'adjunct 'ad-junct to sonio other primary objective; objec-tive; or It is oporatcd With a special, limited constituency that least needs tho edu&atlon. It Is n patent fact that thu great mass of society Is not getting get-ting the truth nbout alcohol now,-ami if we rely upon agencies with other objectives, will have little hope ot being reached In tho future, ' Practical Results, "Hence, tho Amorlcnn Alcohol Kducatlon Association, both for get clng and disseminating, tho truth about v alcohol, Is a social necessity Wo hold, In practical results, that. To onforco tho Volstead Act, sustain tho Eighteenth Amendment, end the riot Of bootlegging, check tho growing grow-ing disregard for tho Constitution ol tho United Statos, prevent tho roturn of tho open salo ot alcoholic bever nge3, mnko pormnncnt tho results ot nil past work against nlcohollsm and release all mankind from tho doslre for strong drink tho power must como from within tlio Individual, not from without. ".Montavlllo Flowers ot Pasadena, author, lecturer and man of affairs, has boen appointed a Vice-President and Secretary of Promulgation. Wo aro now seeking among tho scientific iiMn ot tho .world for a Socrotary of Research, Tho Uxocutlvo Commltteo has authorized tho President and General -Socrotary to proceed with tho work ot rosoarch and promulgation promul-gation as fast as funds aro available. Will Hold Institutes. i "Our work In promulgation of tho truth will bo elaborate. In addition to tho distribution or phamplets, I books nnd letters, wo shall conduct . Educational institutes under corps ot distinguished scholars, Btatesmon and j lecturers whoso names carry authority and conviction. Wo shnll begin theso j Institutes In California In tho early I fall; following tho Institutes hero, wo j plan to carry this educational cam-, cam-, palgn to the forty-flvo largest cities ) ot tho country, organizing branches f to mnko tho Association permanent Wu tako tho largest cities first bo-cause bo-cause thoy are tho centors ot unrest and anti-soclnl forces conspiring against tho Constitution. In preparation prepar-ation for this wo hnvo already sent lottors and paniphl6ts to thirty thousand - lenders of the country. Thus wo shnll contlnuo this education process by Institutes nnd tho printed word until wo shall reach rogularlj ovory city and county-seat In America and, moantlmo, from this vantago-Kroiinil, vantago-Kroiinil, sunll spread tho truth to the peoples ot all nations.' '