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Show - Ciurck Deportment . THE DESERET PEWS, SATURDAY, , MAY 18, 1940 3- - - ...m,.,.. - of using al-- , coholic beverages forms a problem , solve on account of the to difficult large number of intelligent and prominent people of both sexes who still regard drinking essential to social life - -- THE widespread custom - L. By - 'Mervin U Maus Medical Corps , . Department Surgeon .' S . Array . 'situations in social- and business life. Alcoholic egotism is also noted among drinking men whose weakened Intel- lects and constitutions are apparent to every one but themselves. Unfortunately this condition frequently obtains among men holding positions of importance and trust In civil and , " " exertion, or a disinclination to nortnal effort. It IS not,a 'pleastant thought and good fellowship. .While nearly that we are dying daily through the influence of wine, beer, whisky and 9fficial life. everyone recognizes- the disgrace and HANDICAPPED Volt and Schaeffer found that alco--" , BRILLIANT what is hol increases danger of hard drinking, it is very brandy, but neither brain energy--or 0,, difficult to convince the average man Fe vkt observing men Will deny that taking place in every man and woman muscular power. kurz and Kraepelin that-th- e moderate use of alcohol is-- - - the tippler and wine bibber suffers regularly In intoxicants, have shown that less than three ounces of alcohol daily for 12 days lessen' and li'armful, that he must forego his from intellectual stagnation, lf not re- even in small quantities. ed s exworking capacity from 25 to rkper order cocktail and bottle of wine in A large number of interesting and time goes on. Common gression,-aer informs us that the mad- modto pr;serve normal health and prevent perience has taught us exhaustive experiments have been erate use alcohol affects memory of and physical Injury to his off erate drinkers equipped with brilliant made on man and the lower animals And ability to add figures. Einer has, to determine the effects of alcohol in proven that it decreases the rapidity 8Pring minds at the outset of their professionbeen have careers of al or commercial moderate quantities on the mind, body of 'receiving and sending-- telegraphic A generation ago the progeny our people was fairly sound because far outstripped in the race of life by and heredity. Many of these expert- ,- messages. Bayer has shown that chilments were performed with the assist- - dren who drink one or two glasses the mothers who gave them birth be- - the plodding but abstinent mediocre. of beer or wine daily stand lower in lieved in the higher standards of life For business reasons, if nothing else, ance of ,scientific - appasatus and have their classes than abstinent children, and rarely indulged in the use of al- - total abstinence should be regarded as been confirmed by other experiment- - and Stockard has proven that guinea ers. From them it has been conclu- - pigs fed on small quantities of alcocoholic beverages. But today the grow- - a paying proposition by everyone comor dea sexhis for brains use to of of both the living. pelled ing tendency youth sively proven that moderate drinking hol daily brought forth , progeny. generate A'S a result of their views on alcoes to ..the use of cocktails and other and not only lowers the mental phyMILITARY EXPERIMENTS, forms of moderate drinking is becom- - 4101 and its injurious effects teetotalers steal functions, but interferes with health; shortens longevity and affects ing the, greatest menace of the age and are frequently regarded by the Many of the greatest military and naval leaders have shown that alco, who heredity. class as conceltsk -From every quarter statistics are re- - imagine themselves mentally and mistakes and errors of hol lessens every mental and physical necessary for successful camceived showing the alarming increase sically superior to the drinking world. judgment are occurring , every day, quality and warfare.- More than 50 paigning of basanity and other phases of mental While the abstainer claims that his both in civil and official life, through years ago Prof. Parkes, of Netley, deJdegeneracy over,, that of twenty years limited mental and physical powers,, moderate drinking. Only those who termined by actual practice that ago. are imploved by total abstinence, he understand the effects of the moderate squads of soldiers confined to Water,- ..' . Multitudes of people of both sexes knows that the brilliancy and capacity use of alcohol on responsibility and as a beverage, could outznarch those amount of beer dur- vim hp ablo to seanzethe given a moderate and in all positions of life ent7iFIlieTICITiäfiy'lifoZeratedrinkers-would:be--- , has also been-th- e world with the hallmark of alcohol greatly increased and last longer if great army of confiding sick,- - whose experience of Lord Wolseley, Kitchelives have been sá&ifEedThrintem stamped upon them. It might be said they pursued a like, course. ner, Von Moltke, Howard and other or The soldiers. The Swedish. governfate is the surgeons. that child written great physicians perate of every A' , marked contrast In the physical ment has proven that marksmanship . direful effects of social drinking exon its forehead when it enters the condition of the moderate drinker and from 30 to 50 per cent unis reduced tends throughout civil and official world, because its fortune for good or the abstainer is Influences of alco- 1 moderate frequently noticeable der the Thousands of Innocent people - hol. A number of bad is settled in advance, by the char-- I at military expertfifty years, and, sklmost invariably, acter and habiti ofiltsiparentsllow---- - in favor of Ile abstainer, While there have been imprisoned or executed ments have also been made in signal-- from this cause, great commercial en- - ing, telegraphy, rapid firing, etc., all far this determining influence may are occasional exceptions on account terpriseswrecked, battles lost and of which demonstrate beyond question extend it is impossible to say, but cer- of individual immunity to alcohol, we ships sent to the bottom of the- - sea. the superiority of the abstinent soldier tainly in many cases for generations. find as a rule, the mental and physi- - The numerous automobile accidents over , the moderate drinker. Following the general use of whiscal faculties of the abstainer superior occurring daily among the Recent studies of the vital statistics ky as a beverage fifty years ago, we to the moderate drinker at that age. "Joy riders" are principally- - due to a of the country have revealed an alarm-fd find that many of the prominent fain- - As a . ing increase In the diseases of degenresult of the direct injury of al-- ) ew drinksoftaken in road -- ---ili- es route travel. the orthe country !lave become ex- cOh.of to the cellular tissue the drink., eracy as a result of alcohol, which Dr. T. D. Crothers cites the case of makes it necessary to take an inven-- - tinct. The progeny of such families ing , man, at middle age, frequently a noted judge, whose dectslo and tory of the moral and physical stock became alcoholic addicts and died finds himself- suffering from arterial' - judgments became duller and harsher of the people. Among these ttrifOrt- - -childless or left children cursed wit... ' : hardening, disease of kidneys and liv. and were finally overruled Las a result unatee we find: some form of degeneracy which ren- T. 200,000 er and a general loss of resisting pow- -- of occasional drinking at banquets. He Insane C.. dered fertility impossible. It is Only - er to and epileptics .250,009 who the also r mistates that physicians of those diseases, especially .100,000 necessa o ds of th ktfigcasionalty drink to excess, become - Deaf and dumb crobic origin. rap Ica7100,000----,.. . . .. Blind more in more and careless diagnosis noted families of both north and south the tissues of a drinking man, after and treatment, less politic in their re- - Juvenile delinquents in Institu-- . to find thafilcohol has been the un- the moderate use of alcohol for 20 or lations to patients, and grow indiffer- . 50,000 tions ' . . ... .....100,000 deriving cause in the majority of those 30 years, may he compared to the t In neatness and personal appear- - Paupers which- have passed out of odstence. .150,000 dition of wood fibre in the Philippines, mice.-- On account of its effect-- oh .171Priioners and criminals . brilliant , but which has been permeated by-- white - judgment and the pleat necessity for Ocasionallywev find -. -Totals950,000 the government practically warped minds among the degenerates ants. --- - alertness, a million at an totalfrom abstinence degenerates Nearly army requiresof alcoholic families, many of whom- of at least cost annual $250,000,000. - and navy aviators. - live on the borderland between sanity 2 Many who have used alcohol for The child born of an Intoxicated The constant, use of alcohol, even ' and of an absence vigor and insanity Some of them. may be years nrce never equals the child born of parent T in and i lessenssellcontrol moderation, wonderful genruses, hrilliant orators freshness- ,- which --only returns after' mental poise, which are so neces:sary-- sober parentage and rarely rises above more or months of abstinence. One, of the for success in and writers , but they are a stranger- any walk of liTe. In mediocrity. While there is s there is to the addict, alcoholic poison--jof immunity manlesswe of o find h ratio Irritability people, W rapidly pass across , their place , none to the parental germ plasm or severe is reckless and and speech, permanent injury ner, hasty temper, the horizorrof life after leaving a daz- ing the maternal ovum, which is invari- on slight which frequently lead to embarrassing zling, but evanescent trail. They are fatigue arid breathlessness dilution ably injured by the slightest t the last members of a once Lam blood. the of gifted aleoholin Hy and like the flicker of a candle, The disorders of deveiopment - ill t children from parental intoxica a blaze full into among before extincvaist tion vary greatly in character. They -tion. range from moderate enfeeblement in ' The custom of taking 'a drink to . mental and physical growth to the stimulate intellect and facilitate speech - THE Rev. Sam Morris-o- f Del Rio, organizations have been issued a spe-- , lowest grade of idiocy and monstrosito attend, Pres. Cannon known as "The cial Invitation is logicallY unsound. -- No mind is capTex,- nationally ty. According to Dr. W. C. Sullivan, - said.55 per cent of the children of alcohol--iable of making its best effort when Voice of Temperance," will speak, at --- The ' Rev. Morris Is well known motherh are stillborn, or die)efore u'tid4r 'tt4 l'nfltieneel of 'ev61 a small 'a tertiPeiance meeting In the Taber throughout the country for his temper, their second . year, amount of alcohol. Helmholtz, the nacle Sunday, May 26, at 2 p.m. It has ance campaigns as associate editor of attaining those who survive are eptlepof many cultivated Physicist, declared that even been announced by Pres. Joseph J. "The National Voice" and as a daily tics, or idiots. .A1arge of the Temple Square Mission. speaker over Radio Station 'CERA. from of the number small.quantities alcohol served to Cannon remainderftuffer - Scheduled as the fegular Sunday Appropriate music for the program - a. peculiar - banish from his mind all possibility of brain and degenerarva afternoon service at the Tabernacle, will be furnished by the Temple nerve willeh places them in supply, creative effort or the solution of aiira- the meetinenefertheleswill feature Square Mission Choir, under direction large awl sad army of "erratics." bstract problem For such reasons temperance and leaders and members of H. Frederick Davis- - and by Alexan- - that - - thousands orthe of various Churches Schreiner at the Tabernacle Organ. 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