Education: Dry Statistics
"A godly, .moral America cannot be maintained if the young womanhood of the nation is to major in liquor and minor in education." The Rev. Dr. William Ward Ayer, pastor of Manhattan's Calvary Baptist Church, said he had discovered that the U.S. has twice as many barmaids* as coeds.
*Counting as a barmaid any waitress who serves intoxicating drinks.
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