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The article offers information on the stock market performance of several commodities in the U.S. as of November 1921. Copper metal price has recovered to above the 13-cent level and is finding a better market than in the past several months. International Paper has increased operations to about 60 percent of capacity and continues to improve. The price of alcohol has increased from 26 to 35 and 40 cents a gallon.

The article presents the life story of Carry A. Nation, the woman well-remembered in America with the hatchet and as the campaigner to save men from the drunkard's fate. She was born in Kentucky on 1846, married briefly to a physician who later died from alcohol causes. She remarried David Nation. This paper describes her escapades of wrecking saloons.

Focuses on the results of a public opinion survey on various social problems in the U.S. Liberal vote on child labor and divorce; Questions of personal conscience posed by the problem with the social and medicinal use of intoxicants within the law; Difference between the opinions of different age groups on questions about written contracts between husband and wife; Vote by regions on general questions of social behavior consisting of dance, one-piece bathing suits, cards, Sunday movies and wheels of fortune.

Presents several letters to the editor. Issues related to ill-edited foreign language textbooks in the United States; Discussion on acetylene and alcohol.

The article reports on the affect of rearmament on the U.S. distilling industry. It states that despite the demand of rearmament on the distilling industry, there is ample stock of alcohol for the drinkers. It provides a chart which reveals that how many years the stock would last in the year 1950 in comparison to the previous years. However the distillers aren't certain as they are circumspect as to whether France will be able to provide the alcohol needed by the U.S.

The article focuses on the accusation that Agrol alcohol is not made from products of U.S. farms, but from imported blackstrap molasses. The issue is brought open by the Illinois Petroleum Marketers Association while petroleum partisans claim they have proof about the matter. Industrial Alcohol Co. supports the defense of executives from Agrol Co. that the product is made from Louisiana blackstrap. The accusation follows the failure to a bill that will subsidize alky-gas blends.

The article focuses on the daring fashion to smoke grass. Thirty years ago, virtually the only people who smoked tea, as it was then called, were outcasts jazz musicians, artists, blacks, Mexican-Americans. Even in the early 1960s, pot smoking was considered by most middle-class white people to be scandalous, dangerous, criminal. Nowadays it's not just the Longhairs of Cambridge and Berkeley who are into marijuana. It's also their little brothers and sisters. Finally, the article concludes that alcohol and tobacco are the most dangerous drugs used today.

At the Musee Social, of Paris, the International Anti-Alcohol Conference has closed its sessions. From the preceding conference of Brussels, Belgium, some good results have been obtained and there is every reason to hope for similar results again, since the work of the conference has been directly practical. Now that the United States is a country with colonies and protectorates, this should be of interest. Progress is being made, although local governments are hampered both by foreign antagonism and by political influence on the part of liquor sellers in their own central governments. England's policy towards opium in China and alcohol among inferior races has not set a good example in the past.

The article reports on plans of the U.S. government for the conversion of whisky industry into alcohol production.

Focuses on the symbolic and physical effects of marijuana. Argument that smoking marijuana is one of the rituals of the modern anti-culture, the central intention of which is political; Effects of the smoking of marijuana, including social suicide and withdrawal from the real world; Revelation that marijuana is less harmful than alcohol while LSD can damage the brain.