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The Danish economist Jens Warming (1876-1939) was a professor at the 
University of Copenhagen.  In 1923 he went to US to investigate the impact 
of the Prohibition on the American society.   Warmings's official report 
recounts that he visited 16 Universities and Colleges and several Danish 
settlements.    At the universities he discussed the effects of the 
Prohibition with professors of economics. 
 
His final Danish report to the official Danish committee on temperance 
matters gives some general  insight in the attitude towards the prohibition 
among professors of economics. 
 
Warming refers to an inquiry among Universities and colleges carried out by 
the Intercollegiate Prohibition Association.  136 institutions out of 158 
were in favour of the Prohibition,  8 institutions were against and 14  were 
undetermined. The inquiry further showed that at 80 out of the 136  
institutions in favour, the attitude towards the  prohibition  was unanimous 
or supported by an overwhelming majority. 
 
Now, Warming points out that these findings were very much in accordance    
with his own interviews with the professors of  economics of which 75 
percent had been in favour and 25 percent against the Prohibition. 
 
Deciding the attitude of the individual professors is not possible, since 
Warmings references to the economists' statements are anonymous.  The only  
person mentioned by name is President NM. Butler, Columbia University.  The 
reference to NM. Butler due to his famous attack on the Prohibition in a 
speech in Ohio, January 1923. 
 
Turning to the students, Warming draws attention to a survey in the 
Scientific Temperance Journal, September 1922.    The drinking had decreased 
at 134 universities, at 8 universities there had never been drinking, and at 111
universities the drinking had increased.
 
Niels-Henrik Topp 
UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN 
 
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