"Seemingly many people from top to the bottom of your social strata have fallen for the wiles of John Barleycorn and his side-kicks. At sumptuous social functions and at the parties of the poor, alcohol is freely consumed. It is served in the homes, cocktail lounges, night clubs, cafes, and the cheapest corner bars. No home of the well-to-do is fashionable unless it has the latest push wagon liquor service or a permanent, small, drinking mixing bar. Alcohol drinking seems to be the fad. The serving of alcoholic beverages is supposedly a sign of hospitality. "Afternoon and early evening cocktail hours are an important event to patronize cocktail lounges and bars. Both sexes guzzle liquor and make new acquaintances. Women and men companions of all ages, mothers who are neglecting their children and homes, mothers with their daughters, youths, businessmen, brokers, politicians, and clubmen mingle with idlers, gamblers, bookmakers, policy operators, and narcotic distributors, and other human vultures. All are fashionably attired with assumed social graces and smooth voices. The smoky and noisy atmosphere is drowned by music. "The same kinds of crowds frequent the night clubs with sensually contorted dancing and floor shows until early morning. That's where some of you take your daughters, sweethearts, and wives, and you think you are having a good time. That's where your daughters and sons from adolescence to maturity go with their dates or to pick up dates. They think it very smart. That's where they acquire pernicious habits. "Look or walk into any of the great numbers of night clubs, high class hotel cocktail lounges, or neighborhood saloons and you will see daughters, sweethearts, wives, mothers, or sisters, of your friends and perchance your own, sitting on stools around the bar or in booths, close to known or unknown male companions. A man may take a girl out for just a little moonlight spin in his waiting automobile and even perhaps in a call house, a wayside cabin or in his bachelor apartment. "In some of the sumptuous ladies' restrooms in the finest of these places brothel and call house madams sometimes recruit their new inmates. "These are the fathers and mothers of your future generations. Half of your population in the near future may be prison, insane asylum, or hospital inmates, and a great many of the rest may be atrocious supermen of Hitler's type of moron. "The best your federal, state, county and city governments can do is to tax alcohol and liquor to the limit, which they commendably do. "No wonder that "On December 10, 1945, at Miami Beach, Florida, Edgar Hoover, Chief of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, bluntly warned the nation's police chiefs that the United States is headed for a major crime wave, with juveniles taking the lead in an era of 'Bloody' postwar lawlessness.