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Show OSTRACISM IN THE EXTREME. (The Tidings, Los Angeles.) Since the platform of social ostracism has been i adopted by the AA-oman's organization ki.oAATi as r 1 10 Daughters of Faith, it .seems to have become popular popu-lar as an idea. The Daughters of Fuith who t t themselves up against the divorce evil are setting themsehes against one of the alarming evils ,, American social life; but- Avhether the idea of social so-cial ostracism, carried to extreme ends, is practicable, prac-ticable, is a problem. Some think, among them Cardinal Car-dinal Gibbons, according to quoted interviews, that carrying out the idea is playing iiu the hands of trouble. How much more likely is the Daughter-of Daughter-of Temperance, the latest oitracizing society. likely to run amuck of difficulties. Among its rules are these: It Avili bar from membership women addicted ad-dicted to the drink habit. The members are directed to instruct their families not to associate with neighbors who drink Avine at their meals. Such, a: least, is the infevriation of competent journals. It would be a relief .0 find that it is incorrect. The end of the organization is a A-orthv ot. r but imagine the child barred from the neighbor"- yard because the neighbors take Avine at meal.-. Or.e would be obliged to rise to the heights of fancy to imagine this an offense so heinous that its perpetrators perpe-trators must be cast out of society as the rule pro-rides. pro-rides. It is a fine thing to abstain and to lend one'-influence one'-influence to persuade others to obtain, but wher-Avould wher-Avould many of us be if Ave i-uddenly awoke to the virtue of snubbing our neighUrs Avho drank wine If this is to be a rule of conduct the Daughters of Temperance had best revise their constitution. - |