Show ANTIALCOHOL CONGRESS International Gathering in Berlin Hag Just Concluded Its Ninth Congress Berlin April 1OMvsl Mary JI Hunt of Boston representing the Womens Christian Temperance union at the International In-ternational AntiAlcohol congress at Berlin has sent the following communication commu-nication to the representative of the Associated Press here The International AntiAlcohol congress con-gress that meelB biennially on the continent con-tinent Is closing Its ninth cession today to-day It has been In the matter of attendance at-tendance arid wellknown persons present pres-ent the most remarkable of any session ses-sion of the congress This body of MOO delegates notable In science and In the service of humanity as university professors pro-fessors or for their heredity rank have come here from Ufteen different nations on two hemispheres Questions of religion and politics were wisely I ruled out of such a varied assemblage The subjects discussed were the teachings of science concerning concern-ing a moderate use of alcohol and the effect of Its use on every phase of human hu-man progress Two schools of thought were represented t the moderates who called themselves The Temperate School and the total abstainers who are called the Abstinence School By common consent the congress passed no resolutions but the applause for the testimony of science and experience on behalf of total abstinence showed the moderates to be in the minority The statement of Dr August Forel one of the foremost authorities In the world on brain and nerve diseases that neither science nor experience furnishes evidence to Justify calling alcohol a food called out prolonged acclamations acclama-tions The papers read by notable I members of the congress during these six days will fill two or three volumes and soon will be printed for wide distribution dis-tribution The paper on Alcohol and Art by Prof Berens director of the German school of art at Dussoldorf was a classic He said that alcohol by dullIng dull-Ing the spiritual aspirations essential to the greatest work Is an enemy of the highest attainment In art A paper on The Sclentlllc Temperance Temper-ance Education In the Public Schools In the United States by nn American representative Mrs Hunt led to a discussion dis-cussion in which twenty sneakers took part and nearly every one of them commended the extension of the American Amer-ican method for the prevention or Intemperance In-temperance t In compliment to the United States Mrs Hunt presided at Saturdays session ses-sion of the congress After the sightseeing sight-seeing excursions to take place tomorrow i to-morrow the delegates to the congress I will separate I |