day life and by surrendering to this desire have sunk to a drunkard's end. Now in order to solve this great problem it will not suffice that we remove the liquor; this does not answer the case. We must find a substitute. That is the remedy. Man's de- sires will not be changed; they will always wish to rise above the ordinary life and to meet this weakness we must find a substitute, one that will bring about this elevation to the larger life. And when this is attained there may be a barrel of liquor resting on every corner and they will remain there until the casks fall to pieces before being touched by the people. This would be the case were the minds of men trained rightly. In the education of the children if more emphasis were laid upon the strengthening of their will power and less time spent in the enactment of prohibition laws we would be much nearer the solution of the problem than we are at present. Let us see to it that in the homes, the mind and 6 Motive for Alcoholic Drink. will power to resist evil, be strengthened and built up and then we may feel that they can go out into the world with strength enough to resist temptations, and then the matter of prohibition will be forever laid aside. The learned rabbi has here put into words the same idea that I have repeatedly tried to express in these columns, except some matters of detail, and especially