Sarah: Harry Levine, The Committee of Fifty and the origins of alcohol control, Journal of Drug Issues 13:95-116, 1983. See also: Harry Gene Levine, The birth of American alcohol control: prohibition, the power elite, and the problem of lawlessness, Contemporary Drug Problems 12:63-115, 1985. The Committee of Fifty sponsored much that was innovative and imaginative -- e.g., John Billings' survey of alcohol use by "brain workers" -- but its most enduring product, in my view, was Raymond Caulkins' Substitutes for the Saloon. Anyone looking at this needs to look at both editions, since some stuff in the first edition was dropped in the second, and there's a new preface at least in the second. There are also byproducts from the various sociologists and social workers this product energized -- e.g., papers in the early American Journal of Sociology on the Chicago saloon by (if I remember right) Roy Melendy. Madelon Powers (Faces along the Bar: Lore and Order in the Workingman's Saloon, 1870-1920, PhD History, UC Berkeley, 1991) and others who have written on the turn-of-the-century saloon must use the Commitee of Fifty's work. -- Robin >>> Sarah Tracy <[log in to unmask]> 02/24/97 09:56am >>> Subject: committee of fifty ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dear ATHG: I am looking for any secondary literture on the Committee of Fifty, the panel of doctors, business people, clerics, social reformers, physiologists, etc. who studied the drink problem between 1893 and 1903. I was sure that at least one person had written an article about this group, but I can't find the reference to this (imagined?) piece. I am familiar with the series of publications written by various sub-committees of the COF, but would like to know if there's any secondary material out there. Thanks for any help you may be able to provide. Sarah Tracy ______ Sarah Tracy Research Associate Rutgers University Institute for Health 30 College Avenue New Brunswick, NJ 08903 and 89 East Park Place Newark, DE 19711 Tel. (302) 456-0335 [log in to unmask]