Show t is i Beer More Dangerous t Than Russian n Vodka f In the May lIay American Magazine l are the results of a number of scientific experiments with beer drinkers which seem 8 em to prove that this apparently v t r harmless beverage is fully as dangerous S. to mankind as pulque aqua agua agua hootch or any of the other strenuous beverages Dr Edwin F F. Bowers Bowers says fv t scientific research has r Modern shown that beer Is proportionately much more much more noxious than are wines or liquors The Bremen anti alcohol congress congress congress con con- gress a conclave of many of the most famous physicians In Europe concluded thus while liquor makes a man brutal and dulls his judgment an adequate amount mount of t beer makes him slow witted and abolishes Judgment While wine I or r brandy In sufficient quantity makes I a adman man crazy cra beer tends to make mak him I 1 stupid l The actual reason for this tendency foward toward and has been known for tor only a few tew years years- It Is even now generally understood The so called glands of the hops according to Professor of of the University of Graz secrete an ethereal oil consisting of various ter- ter substances substances similar to turpentine oil which oil which hold the other elements In solution Among these elements are the hop acids and resins f We used to thin think that we got all the rosin with which we varnish our kidney cells from the pitch lining of the beer barrels But now We ve know 3 that hat we get our kidney shellac from the the hops In the beer In addition to their deleterious effect upon the kidneys kid dd- these act powerfully and disastrously upon the nervous n system Now hashish contains exactly the I same lame elements as are found In the c glands of hops hops bitter bitter tasting resins t an ethereal oil and one or more alkaloids Therefore hops exert the same same effect on the human body as does hashish differing only In degree |