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Show y International Congress to Discuss m Great Problem of Alcoholism M LONDON", April 25. A great, international inter-national congress on alcoholism is to be held in Loudon in 'July. Tho congress will last a wool;, and tho general meetings meet-ings will bo hold at Kensington Town hall, tho others at the Imperial institute. insti-tute. The first, general meeting will bo held on July 10, and on July '24 there will be held a final session in the morning, followed by a great choral festival, at the Alexandra- palace, at which demonstrations of ..-juvenile temperance tem-perance work will be given. Tn tho evening there will be a closing banquet,' at which a farewell will be taken of tlio foreign guests. Tho reading of the papers will begin be-gin on Tuesday. July 20, when the following fol-lowing will be'prosonted to the congress nt the morning sitting: "Juvenile Temperance and the National Na-tional Life," by Miss Clara Stoddard, Boston. II. S. A." . ''Temperance Education in the School in Various Lands,' by Jlerr J. Cronsor, Berlin. "Temperance 13 f fort in Juvenile So ciotirs Throughout the World," by Mme. Alii Trygg-Hcle nius, llelsingfors. . At the afternoon sitting, papers dealing deal-ing with temperance teaching in iho higher schools will be read bv Miss A. W. Richardson, B. A.. London; Mr. 1 Tvar Timlin, Stockholm, and Hcrr J. Peterson, Kiel. Later, in the same af-ternoon. af-ternoon. there will ibe a reception at the London Temperance hospital, wlTen Dr. Uft Med. A. Uolitscher, Karlsbad, will rcadgS a paper on "Alcohol in Lobar Pncu-JiD ruonia and Enteric." At S o'clock in tho ijjj evening the Norman Kerr lecture on. SKi "Tlic Influence of Alcohol on Tmmu-JIfi njty" will bo delivered by Professor 4 Yaav Laitineu, Helsingfors. SC At Wednesday's sitting tho child will fW again lake the foremost plnco ou the Wfi programme. The papcr$ and the readers will be: I1 "Alcohol and its Effect on tho Jffi Child," by Drs. Eruo Detttsch and Tmri;4S Doczi, Rudappst. Ivin "Alcohol m its Relation to tho jfe Home,;' by Mrs. Brnmwcll Booth, of the M' Salvation Army. Jig "The Legal Protection of Child-' JS: hood;" by Professor Hereod. Lusanne. A series of papers on "Alcohol and tho Efficiency of the National Scr- wff vices'3 will be read at a special session 3$) in the afternoon by representatives of lEft the naval, military, postal, railway and if logal services. Jiti Professor Sims Woodhcad of Cam- Wt bridge will read a paper on "Alcohol 19, and Temperature," and Dr W. U. R. Jgsl K Ivors, also of Cambridge, one on "Tho Effects of Alcohol on Muscular and 4 Mental Fatigue" before the .scientific 'M. section. Sir Thomas Whittaker, M. P., ifS is to read a paper on Thursdav, deal- IS ing with "The Economic "A'ecrs of the 32d Production and Consumption of Al- W cohol." kip |