so well under way, is establishing from fifty to one hundred readers in each of the barley growing counties. We hope to be able before the end of this ensuing year to double the circulation again, as we have done in 1915.

We have published the barley seed lists from all the barley centers, we have tested seeds for all applicants from all parts of the map, we have put buyers in touch with sellers, we have helped to establish one variety of barley in a neighborhood, and we are happy to report that we are receiving the hearty co-operation of all along the line.

A great many barley meetings and grain schools have been held and the committee has supplied the speakers with Barley Charts200 of them having been placed during the year with county agents, agricultural high schools, local committee men and officers of farmers' clubs, etc.

It is almost impossible to get an adequate moving picture of a year's campaign because it takes a year to make such a picture, therefore, some of the things which are prominent in our work have been necessarily omitted but we are sure that the moving picture we are showing you to-day will give you a much better comprehension of the work than you can possibly get from a printed or statistical report.

We wish to thank you for your enthusiastic support but as our friend said to Sempronius, ""Tis not in mortals to command success, but we'll do more,-we'll deserve it."

Respectfully submitted,

E. A. FAUST, Chairman

GUSTAVE PABST

AUGUST FITGER

THOMAS ALTON

HUGH F. Fox, Secretary

REPORT OF THE PUBLICATION COMMITTEE

The Trustees, in providing for the great extension of the work of the Publication Committee, have recognized the urgent importance of continuing to put the facts before the people of the United States. Until this work was started, there was no adequate means of exposing the sweeping assertions of prohibition agitators,

who beginning their campaign long before the brewing business was well established in this country, secured a widespread and persistent circulation for their plausible misrepresentations. The facts that the Publication Committee has already assembled from official reports, documents and investigations have been of the highest value in conclusively showing that the prohibitionist assertions that the legalized sale of drink is the prime cause of adversity, pauperism, crime, disease, insanity, industrial accidents, high taxation and other factors have been and are gross distortions utterly at variance with the carefully ascertained facts.

It can easily be understood, however, that once a series of misrepresentations get a long start without being effectively challenged, they travel far and wide, and among the uninformed their reiteration tends to make them be accepted without serious question. Understanding this, the Publication Committee aims above all things to gather and make public further facts. To put the facts especially on this subject effectively before the people is a very painstaking, large and costly undertaking, necessitating the utmost care in the assembling and verification of the facts. The work of getting the facts can best be done from one central point, but their dissemination depends largely upon the co-operation of State and local organizations. Inevitably there is much waste in such work, and large immediate results may not be apparent, but if the work is well systematized and persistently maintained, the cumulative effect is bound to tell eventually.

The competent persons employed in our investigations have been instructed to get the facts from authentic records and other such trustworthy sources, and nothing but the facts; and to conduct their work in a scientific spirit, avoiding entirely the tactics of the other side of prejudice and prejudgment, distortion and exaggeration. Our program is to let the facts tell their own tale.

The method of a social investigator is totally different from that of a newspaper reporter, who necessarily always has to work against time, and therefore must by the circumstances of the case take the news as it is given to him,-news embodying statements often purposely inaccurate or made so by certain parts of the context being omitted because of pressure of time or space. The newspaper reporter has not the time to compare statements with facts,

nor the time to inquire into fundamental conditions or basic facts. Moreover, a carefully-developed special faculty is necessary for the ability to do genuine research work. Fully alive to the fact that some newspapers make a specialty of sensationalism, fanatical reformers exploit this aim for their own ends by obtruding the lurid, spectacular, emotional and melodramatic.

But we believe that the great majority of newspaper, magazine, and press association editors are increasingly looking for the facts on every current question, and will gladly welcome them providing they are compactly presented and have a legitimate news value. Our Publication Committee seeks to do its share in supplying this need adequately by the continuance and enlargement of patient, deliberate and painstaking research work on all vital questions-work which not only faithfully portrays existing conditions. but which unfolds their underlying causes. This is the kind of work that must be constantly carried on if genuine educational work is to be done and any real and lasting remedy is to be found for existing evils. It is not generally known that the Committee of Fifty spent fully five years in their studies of the liquor question. (It is a pity that this highly efficient and representative body was not kept together after its investigations were finished, to take the lead in furthering the work of constructive licensing and temperance reforms.)

It is apparent to all thoughtful people that wise leadership is greatly needed in this important field of social endeavor. The prohibition organizations have utterly failed to furnish anything of constructive value. Their whole purpose and program is indeed destructive. They do not accept any responsibility for the enforcement or failure of the drastic laws they enact, or for the compensation of those whose business and occupation is destroyed by their action. Neither have they spent any of their means or energy in establishing other social centers which might possibly serve, in some degree, as substitutes for the saloon. The ruin which follows in their wake, the social disruption which ensues, the chaos which is wrought to the finances of the city and State are none of their

concern.

In a measure the publications issued by the United States Brewers' Association during the past year speak for themselves, but it