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163 Annals Am. Acad. Pol. & Soc. Sci. i (1932)

handle is hein.cow/anamacp0163 and id is 1 raw text is: FOREWORD ALMOST a decade ago a volume of THE ANNALS (September 19923) was published on the subject of Prohibition and Its Enforcement. Since that time an occasional article has appeared in this journal dealing with some phase of this public question (The Profession of Bootleg- ging, by Joseph K. Willing, May 1926; Prohibition Enforcement as a Phase of Federal versus State Jurisdiction in American Life, by Lincoln C. Andrews, January 1927; A Challenge to Industry, by Whiting Williams, March 1931; and Notes on the Renewal of Amer- ica, by Glenn Frank, July 1932). We are now presenting a volume which attempts to give an evaluation of the effects of prohibition on American life in the last decade, in particular. No one is more conscious than we of the difficulty of such an undertaking. Prohibition is so closely bound up with emotional attitudes that dispassionate and scientific treatment of the question is difficult. The statistical data for a conclusive analysis of the effects of prohibition are only in part available. The lack of such data will be obvious to the clear-minded reader of these papers, who may take comfort in the fact that whatever his opinion on prohibition may be, his opponents have the same weak basis as his for their arguments. While the future of prohibition is not likely to be determined by science, we nevertheless hope that these papers will throw into relief some of the problems created by prohibition in the United States. We also hope that the experience of other nations which have found other an- swers to the same question may, as here presented and at this time, when prohibition is at the crossroads, furnish some workable plan for those who are looking towards the reorganization of our national experiment. JAMES H. S. BOSSARD THORSTEN SELLIN

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