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Show So Far, So Good r:E interview given by Henry C. Jorgensen, member of the state liquor commission, upon his return from a conference of state liquor commissioners at Mackinac Island, Mich., reveals re-veals that matters of the highest importance came up for discussion there. Of highest importance im-portance by far was the question of drinking by youth. This came before the conference in a report expertly prepared after searching inquiry by questionnaires replied to by 2379 young men and young women in colleges, settlement houses and business vocations. Valuable and interesting views were obtained from these young people, and the conference recommended their detailed tudy in all states and urged action in the form ef educational campaigns among youth as well as changes in law and regulations to meet existing ex-isting untoward situations in various states. Commissioner Jorgensen suggested the need for a survey here, when, he said, he would place the full report before Chairman James W. Funk and Herbert Taylor of the commission. Doubtless such a survey would yield significant signifi-cant information. Up to this point it would be case of "so far, so good." Fact finding is an essential thing before a problem may be studied and recommendations drawn. Up to that point, too, it remains a case of "so far, so good." Unless Un-less it all leads to remedial action, both time and money would be wasted. The commission, as would all forthright citizens, would feel thst the whole effort would be futile unless it effected effect-ed actual betterment of a situation crying out for widespread recognition and understanding-then understanding-then action. Gathering dust in millions of cubic feet of storage space in the nation are reports of investigations inves-tigations and surveys of every imaginable nature. na-ture. If they were laid end to end it would be a senseless thing to da It would be better to collect those which have even no historical value and those in which the data are out of date and no use, and those which should never have been undertaken, then to cremate the whole pile. If action were then to be taken on those retaining some value, it would be most surprising and would fly in the face of American tradition. |