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Show EFFECTS OF ALCOHOL The following is the continuation of the article started last week in the "E. S. A. Notes" relating to recent lessons on the subject given at the Academy: "Careful observations have shown i further that in work requiring accuracy I e. g. adding figures or sotting type, the I use of a very small amount of any kind ' of alcoholic drink impairs a person's'! efficiency, making it impossible for him ! either to do so rapid or so exact work I as usu-ii. These illustrations are sufii- ! ciont to show that even .'from the first j the use of alcohol acts as a narcotic up- 1 on brain functions and that its apparent ! stimulating action is misleading due to ! results which are the direct outcome of its narcotic action, e. g. dulling sensibility, sensibil-ity, relaxing the blood vessels and withdrawing with-drawing elf restraint. "The largest railroads exclude from j places of responsibility those addicted to it and banks will generally discharge an employee if they find him frequenting frequent-ing saloons. In. short, a person is not seriously handicapped in getting a good start in life, if he is accustomed to use alcohol in any form. He must cease to strive forgood responsible positions and be content with those below the grade he could otherwise reach. "It may seem a little strange to class disease germs and alcohol together as man's greatest foes but it is really stranger that while we all agree to fight the one persistently a considerable portion of man-kind prefers to play with or indulge the other. Everyone who understands the nature of disease recognizes rec-ognizes the need of fighting its agents or germs but. vast numbers of people welcome rather than struggle against the dangers of alcoholism. The reasons for this attitude are many, but one of them is that many fail to realize that the microscopic germs and the alcohol appetite are equally menaces to health and happiness. Yet anyone who will open his eyes to the conditions around him will see clearly enoughjthat alcoholism alcohol-ism is, in the majority of cases, associated associ-ated with disease, for the reason that it lowers ones power of resistance. Besides Be-sides shortening his own existance, the man who drinks much is living only in part of his normal life, for his mind is constantly in a state of partial stupe-i stupe-i faction brought on by the influence of ! this paralyzing drug. "Many a youth begins with a little beer or w ine in the desire to be sociable, to do as others are doing, and inadver-; inadver-; tently develops a habit which places him I upon a lower planne of possibility and action than he would otherwise have attained. at-tained. Probably there is no drunkard who in you th did not have his good intentions, in-tentions, his resolutions and ambitions ! to be and to do good but he trilled wiih I them. It is never possible to perdict whether r not one A'ill become a vic-i vic-i tim of this appetite for persons with apparently the strongest wills are often ! those who yield most readily. The desire de-sire for alcohol is an insidious one which grows slowly usually without the consciousness con-sciousness of the individual until it becomes be-comes too strong for him or until he ceases to care whether he masters it or not. Whole families are wiped out by the evils which come from its use and hundreds of individuals are deprived of one or more years of useful and enjoy-' enjoy-' able life by imprisonment for crime committed while under the influence of alcohol. j There are other foes with which we 1 have to contend in our efforts to make , life a success but none is greater than I these two. The person who does achieve j success both in his outer and in his in-! in-! ner life is he who learns to keep his ; body in health and his mind clean. T ;e i intellect is man's most precious posses-j posses-j sion and in weakening it alcohol is at-i at-i tacking him at the very point on which i he must place his dependance if he is to I carry on a successful "struggle for ex-! ex-! istence," I |