Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1918-05-26 | Page 51 | Craving for Drink due to Degeneracy

Craving for Drink Due to Degeneracy rr HE 1 modern races that have acI accomplished ac THE I the greatest things have havo been drinking even drunken races but this does not mean that their heir achievements were caused di directly directly dl- dl by drink Dr Charles W. W Burr of the University of or Pennsylvania In Inan Inan inan an address published in the Literary Digest says sas the explanation is that these races were inherently superior and that the only good alcohol did was to be the killer fool-killer and hence rid them of ot their weaklings The thought of Prohibitionists continued Dr Burr Is that alcohol Is the cause c. of degeneration the fact race il is that the craving for Cor alcohol not Its use Is a sign of degeneracy or a symptom symptom symptom tom of oC insanity which itself Is a disease of bad protoplasm No healthy youth uth craves alcohol no normal young man wants to be a drunkard nor does ho he ever become one But the degenerate degen degen- erate crate youth routh does crave drink does docs not care re whether he becomes a drunkard or not and gets a a. sensation from alcohol that the normal man does not get Prohibition has never been enforced enforced enforced en en- forced for any length of time and if it could the degenerate would continue to degenerate The wicked railroads and the other criminal employers of labor have by refusing to employ drinking men done dona and are doing more for temperance than all the laws on the statute books The he real evil of alcoholism is not that It kills its victims but tut ut that they drag down others w th them If It its effects could be confined to Its victims It would rid the world of useless people and the race would be Improved