A Dublin publichouse was found full of girls and soldiers, all drunk. Three drunken girls were taken away by six soldiers. _Facts in “Irish Times,” April 20, 1916_ In half an hour 367 girls entered Birmingham publichouses, scores under 18. Stout and beer were chiefly drunk, but whisky and water also, and some port wine. Ten young girls were quite drunk. _Facts in “Birmingham Daily Post”_ Will some Member of Parliament please ask, =in view of the fact that American soldiers are not to touch alcohol, what arrangements the Government proposes to make for them in this country?= ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Back to the Homeland Everywhere we hope and pray for peace, for the day when the men will come home; but we may dread the day if the men come home to drink and its temptations. The sudden release of millions of men, the certain reaction after the terrible stress of these three years, is fearful to contemplate with the door of the tap-room open. There would be an end of civilization itself for days and weeks and months, and for many a town at home the Peace would be worse than the War. We owe it to these men to listen to the warning of the Prison Commissioners who printed these words in their report last year: =When war is succeeded by peace there will come a time of trial for those who have never turned their backs to a bodily enemy. With the passing of military discipline our brave fellows will be tempted to forget the hardships and miseries of the trenches in a burst of uncontrolled pleasure and license, and, if trade be bad and work difficult to obtain, the lapse may, if not checked, become a step on a downward career.= It is not imagination merely. Judges, coroners, police, and all who face the crime and misery of life, know well the bitter things that happen when men come home without restraint. There are witnesses innumerable. Let us hear a few of them. A captain in the Royal Flying Corps drove a motor-car through London, knocked a man down, drove on, and ignored the police, who eventually mounted the footboard and found the officer drunk. _Bow Street Police Records, June 3, 1916_ A lance-corporal on Chesterfield station was so drunk that he walked off the platform and fell on the line as a passenger train came up. _Chesterfield Police Records, June 2, 1915_ A corporal of the Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry, leaving the Front with 150 rounds of ammunition and his service rifle, came out drunk into the streets of West Ham and began firing his rifle. _Facts in “Daily Chronicle,” July 10, 1915_ A soldier who had received a cartridge from his son at the Front, put it in his rifle, and while drunk fired it in the streets of Manchester.