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2 people into being temperate. But I hate intemperance and always did and do not ever drink soft drinks, let alone hard ones. I think the 18th amendment has done worlds of harm, but I don't think things are going to be improved by repealing and selling the way it is being planned. Government ownership and distribution under strict supervision is the only way to prevent the return of the evils of the saloon. I have just finished reading André Siegfried's America Comes of Age, and it is one of the most enlightening books I've ever read. He starts in with the pioneering period, traces the streams of migration across the continent, the settlements of the different nationalities with their religious views, and shows how today the different parts of the U.S. still keep the religious and political as well as moral views that they have inherited from their old puritanical, Calvinistic forbears. In the first part - the Ethnic Situatión he tries to answer his own question Will America remain Protestant and Anglo Saxon, by discussing the melting pot, the religious aspect, puritan resistance to freedom of thought, the color problem, prohibition, race consciousness and eugenics, Ku Klux Klan, etc. Then he takes up the economic situation; the political situation and analyses the different parties, international relations, our antagonism to the yellow races, and our viewpoint as contrasted with that of Europe. I feel as tho I had spent some time in college, I've learned so much. I'd like now to read his analysis of the Depression, the failure of the financial system, etc if he ever writes one. He foretold

it all in one of his chapters.