Salt Lake Telegram | 1938-09-22 | Page 15 | Over-Indulgence in Alcohol is Escape Mechanism

Over Over Indulgence In Alcohol Is Escape Mechanism A study made in Boston of alcoholics who have received hospital hospital hospital hos hos- pital treatment during the last 10 years shows that the great majority majori majori- ty of them were trying to escape from something If the researchers had tallied what the alcoholics said they were were trying to get away from we would very likely be facing the sad fact that most of the men were trying to get away from women women and women and most of the women were trying to get getaway getaway getaway away from men Certainly there would have been beena a large group of men who swore their wives s drove them to drink by nagging by jealousy by having their relatives around all the time or by managing always to spend more than their husbands earned And there would have been a group of women who their blamed-their drinking on some mans man's taking to another nother woman Of course there would have been the alcoholic who d dated ted his heavy drinking from the time when he set out to drown the sorrow of los los- ing his girl or r wife wile to another man That should have accounted for a sized fair group Then a lot of women alcoholics alcoholics' would surely have laid the blame on their husbands who husbands who never had time for them them them- or never understood understood under tinder stood them Men and women women have a tendency to blame most of their faults and shortcomings and their fate on on members of the opposite sex And alcoholics certainly wouldn't be any exception Even though it if they weren't escaping from one particular particular particular par par- man manor or woman they would be escaping fr from something els else