According to dispatches from Washington, D. C., young society girls of that city are drinking like sailors in the fashionable saloons and night clubs.

Temperance preachers are raging in vain against such disgraceful conditions, which will, of course, continue in one form or another, as long as we maintain a parasitic leisure class, whose chief aim in life is killing time and wasting money. That kind of existence is bound to demoralize its followers. The age-old adage, "Moderation in all things," expresses the ideal manner of life; too much or too little is ruinous to health, character and happiness.

It is the chief aim of socialism to extirpate the devastating extremes of wealth and poverty, and thus attain the greatest possible amount of happiness and well-being for the largest number of people.