GERTRUDE H. BRITTAN, superintendent of the Chicago Juvenile Protective Association, is authority for this statement: "Of children in misery, parents' drink is to blame in at least three cases out of every four." In other words, seventy-five per cent of the burdens of childhood are due to alcohol. Her statement is based upon the study of 1,739 cases of adult delinquency, between January 1 and June 30, 1910.
"It is still the custom of wet communities to pave the streets and roads with fines from vice resorts, while these resorts pave the way to perdition for the young people of the communities."