----------------- HES POSTING ----------------- 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 ------------ FOOTER TO HES POSTING ------------ For information, send the message "info HES" to [log in to unmask]