Show r H H i HH K H K t tt f t TE T E MF M PER ERA A N NeE C CE CED ETI E DEPARTMENT D PART M E N TI T I I I CONDUCTED BY W C T U Uit I 1 it EDITORIAL COMMITTEE j jI r rf I f MISS FRIEDA DRESSEL MRS U WAY V AY c cLu Lu i In Freedoms cause My M country homo home so bloat blest Land that I 1 love tho the best host Home of the free Cree freeLong Ix Long ng was wan thy th freedom sought Brave were war tho the mon men who fought Who gave their lives and bought Our liberty Awake young men awake Too oo much is IB now DOW at stake c For dream tn by night Strike off oft the shackles now I Make Drinks great grent tyrant bow b w Thy prayer cr Includes a vow ow i To vote ote for right The Danger D of Beverages Containing Cont Alcohol In President Jeffersons administration tion the use uso of beverages containing alcohol had grown to an alarming ox tent Liquor was wa drunk as freely freol at ata ata a n funeral as It was waR at a social s Minis tern tem and clergymen men drinking as lS freely as any people After the tho war Wr of or 1512 the people became alarmed at t tho the extent extant of In Intemperance intemperance temperance and arid during President Mon Men Monroes I roes Toes term of office the first great temperance league was or organized organized at nt Boston 1824 and by br 1830 1810 thousands had Joined the fight for temperance tern pa rance The use uso of o alcohol Is Americas greatest curse curRO It the thc work worl tho the schools strive to build up It dc de degrades I grades mon men and robs rob the Ule nation of thousands of o Its us citizens It leaves I poverty Overt and ruin In the stead of wealth and happiness Alcohol enters the body the same sarno way war In which food does by means menns of or orthe the digestive tubo tube but Instead of o build building buildIng building ing up It destroys s It When we wo oat erst oata ersta a sufficient amount of food we arc are sat Silt satisfied satisfied but hut not oo ao with alcohol It builds bull s sup up an appetite which over Increases Alcohol beverages unite so o rapidly rapilly with water that they extract the fluids of the body from tho the healthy tissues and In this way become tissue destroy destroyers ers art and not tissue builders Thoy They dis disarrange disarrange disarrange arrange bodily functIons and cause I the brain to act While technically speaking It may be called I a n food practically It Is a poison and there Is always alays s danger d nger In Its use uso The I fullest effects of or alcoholic beverages upon the bod body have haye not been deter determined determined determined mined but enough Is known to justify tho the statement that at nil times Its effects are Injurious and not necessary to tho the highest alms aims of or life Man Many diseases are arc Incurred through the excessive use U O of alcoholic hover boer beverages ages some sarno of or them fatal such as a fatal disease of the tho liver and kidney as well as chronic Indigestion disease of the eye cje and of the arteries The best bost authorities say that there thore Is not nota a single kind of nervous disease known that cannot be caused by alcoholic ex ox excesses excesses The Tho fact that habitual use of or alcoholic beverages es causes so much mitch Insanity Is an Indication of the disturb disturbIng disturbIng disturbing Ing effects that It has on the brain and andIn andIn andin In more moderate use materially effects the tho rapidity and accuracy of f thought They Tiie make one incapable of study application and tend to make mako mal o otho tho th mind act more slowly One has only to listen to the talk of one under Its Influence to see Its deadly dead I power upon the brain brainIn In a worl norl the th use of oC alcohol in any form does not nol contribute to the health of the tho human body Think of the Joy jor of possessing a good g od bod body well built by tho the use of good food and pure water and well proportioned by Judi Judicious claus cious and regular exercise Strive to treat trent your body so so that It will be found rich In clean pure blood possess nerves neres that lint are steady stead and true In their actions a l brain clear cler as a hell bell belland helland helland and a mind that Is quick and accurate in its operations To Po accomplish all these no other stimulant Is needed but hut pure air proper exorcise wholesome food and healthful sunshine In using alcohol one runs the tho Ih risk of losing one ono or more moro of those priceless qualities so necessary to happy useful people Al AI Alcoholic coholic beverages In any form orm help to place on on the border line of danger and when whoa once the habit Is formed and anti there here Is 15 an awakening of tho ho Individual individual ual to his condition he must battle with all the strength of his weakened both body bod to regain that th which h ho has lost by b thoughtless or wilful negligence Signed RHEA BOYLE DOYLE DOYLES BOYLES S 8 A Lewis School The above essay essa was awarded tho the thoS S 5 prize offered by bj the Ogden W V r C T TU TU P PU U to the tim and antI grades ot of o our public schools |