Show I t iri A MODERATE DRINKER Several weeks weaks ago xe va we so far forgot our good manners as to explode about a moderate drinker whose wife had sent a pitiful appeal for advice to this department Yes we spoke very disparagingly disparagingly dis dis- dis about the be moderate drinker so so much uso so that the editors d found adash a adash adash dash n necessary between the letters d and n In our explosion Now some of our good friends are or or were were moderate moderate drinkers No we mean the they were our good friends most of them still continue to shorten their allotment of years moderately So the only apparent result of the explosion explosion explosion ex ex- was a shower of protests Out of the shower one letter from a school principal is worth quoting I was brought up in a home where liquor was always on tho the sideboard for any member of the family I never knew of any of us taking a drink to forget It I know my dear sir that alcohol Is too often a curse and often leads to sexual excesses and so on But I think your statement Is too sweeping when you place the whole array of moderate drinkers in the class of selfish cowards who are prone to try to evade the trials and troubles of life and their Just responsibilities However let us shake hands Perhaps we have different interpretations of the moderate drinker I am glad to have havo made your acquaintance if only by correspondence A good many other letters protested protest protest- ed in the same logical way This one Is sort of a composite of ot them alL We Ve therefore wish to revise our previous opinion Now we say D D- D the moderate drinker any any- I way He is neither drunk nor sober but Just indifferent indifferent and and the most il illogical iI ii- I logical cuss in the world For he admits admits ad ad- mits that alcohol is a treacherous agent yet he drinks It He knows I that it too often is a curse and often I leads to immorality and the disease I I essentially associated with sexual immorality immorality im im- morality yet jet he drinks it Now what sort of logic can lead a man to drink an unnecessary luxurious expensive beverage which he knows may do irreparable irreparable ir ir- reparable harm not only to himself but to his innocent wife and children Well We'll tell you Just what sort of ot logic it is the drinker Is hypnotized with egotism He imagines himself above the common rabble superior to temp capable of ot extraordinary self control The alcohol adds Just a a. little littleto I to his ifs self esteem It makes him blind to his folly It permits him to feel very important You know how howa I a a. man behaves what things he lie will dowhen do dowhen dowhen when he takes a drink or two to nerve himself up He Is a brave fellow indeed when alcohol puts his self command asleep You cant can't make him realize realise that be he Isn't stronger in every way way even even when you manhandle him though you wouldn't dare to I tackle him when he hasn't had a a. drink Mr Principal youre you're a sermon Not even the moderate drinkers drinker's favorite analogy smoking can smoking can rescue you from your our sorry predicament Your hand trembles as you write and you explain that it isn't alcohol but work That Is a trick work plays on a moderate moderate moderate mod mod- erate drinker It makes him a a. little shaky shake We Ve can understand why a a. man should smoke and why he be should sometimes desire to drown his woes in tn whisky but were we're blamed If Jf we can understand why wiry a man of sound souni reason and fair health should be bo a moderato moderate drinker QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Sober Second Thought QUESTION The QUESTION The dearest woman in inthe inthe inthe the world with one exception Just read the f foregoing outbreak She is well well she's a W. W C. C T. T U. U graduate Why Willie she observes look at Col XYZ XYZ XYZ-he he is always half halt full fuH y yet yeta t ta a kinder more thoughtful husband and parent never lived ANSWER Golly ANSWER Golly that's right But shucks a feller cant can't disagree with his mother The Tho colonel isn't a moderate moderate mod mod- erate drinker at all A C Case se for a Hurry Call QUESTION QUESTION Please Please tell me what a person should do after he has cut tho the side off a bunion in order to get shoe to fit and stop flow of blo blood l. l ANSWER ANSWER As As nearly as we can figure figure fig fig- ure it out he should summon a sur- sur gean or call an ambulance It would be safer mild end more satisfactory to cut the side off the shoe Dr Brad Brady will answer all signed letters letters let let- pertaining to health The names of writers are never printed Only inquiries In Inquiries in- in of general interest are answered in this column but all inquiries will be answered by mall mail if a a. stamped self addressed envelope Is Requests Requests Re Re- quests for diagnosis or treatment treatment-of of individual cases cages cannot be considered Address Dr William FUllam Brady care of I this newspaper |